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Apple teased that support for Pandora on HomePod would be arriving in “the coming months” during the HomePod mini unveiling. Now just a couple of short weeks after that announcement and ahead of the HomePod mini arriving, Pandora has launched support for HomePod that comes with handy Siri control. Pandora has a great track record of quickly implementing Apple’s latest features like Siri Shortcuts, streaming, and offline playback support on Apple Watch to name a few....

Paul Rudd is one of those actors who is impossible not to like. He is an effortlessly charming and hilarious performer who has shown a lot of different sides of himself in a variety of films over the years. He makes any movie better with his presence and has been in some of the biggest movies in recent memory. While some audiences might not know his work much beyond the MCU, there are plenty of great Paul Rudd films to check out....

As one of the managers in the Department of Defense’s electronic systems has revealed in an interview, many of the Pentagon’s top computers still function under outdated versions of Windows. Many of them work under Windows XP, a version that stopped having support in 2014, but it turns out that others work even with versions as old as Windows 98 (its official support ended in 2006) or Windows 95 (2001)....

Introduction ZAP is an open source tool designed to help security professionals as well as developers to find out the security vulnerabilities present in the web application. The only reason for not mentioning it in my previous article Free Web Application Scanners is that it deserves special attention. Unlike other tools in the market, ZAP helps security newbies to learn and apply the application security skills in an easy way....

Fans of the folio aesthetic may be excited to hear that Pad & Quill has released their Cartella Slim cases for the new 13 and 15-inch MacBook Pros. The Buckram Linen cover of the case gives your MacBook Pro a true book styling while keeping all ports, vents, and fans accessible. The Cartella Slim 2016 cases are made with similar techniques to book-binding, giving your MacBook Pro a subtle look. More like a large Moleskine notebook rather than a case, the handmade Cartella Slim attaches to your MacBook Pro using a “clean release” 3M adhesive....

Parallels just announced the availability of its next generation of virtualization software for the Mac. Although details are scant at this point, it is safe to assume it is optimized for Mountain Lion and Windows 8. Notable: If you purchase/purchased Parallels 7 after July 25 (Mountain Lion’s release date), you are eligible for a free copy of Parallels 8. Not too shabby. . More on the “TechGuarantee” here…or just download a free trial....

A Disney World family trip led to a developer coming up with Peek-a-View, a way to protect your photos from accidental deletion when your kids want to scroll through them. It can also be used when handing your iPhone to friends, colleagues, or clients to ensure they see only the photos you want to show them… Casey Liss explains. You can, of course, recover deleted photos from the Recently Deleted album on your iPhone, but only if you spot that they are missing within 30 days....

Drama TV show Outlander spans across centuries and all sorts of geographies. It was not an easy task to design costumes for such an ethereal show all the while doing justice to the books the series is based upon and keeping in touch with the designs and style of the era. But Terry Dresbach has done not only a commendable job but also gave wings to the imagination of designers all across the globe....

For Computer Forensics, this is a great method so that the computer’s configuration or any other data on it is not compromised and detailed analysis still can run on top of it. In this regard, both Linux and Windows based distributions can be utilized, and are further described as follows: List of Live Distributions for Computer Forensics ALT Linux Rescue: It is designed to help sysadmins fix and repair different kinds of problems such as resize partitions, recover files and partitions, optimize file system usage, etc....

It is considered the largest data leaks ever, the entire archive contains more than 11.5 Million files including 2.6 Terabytes of data related the activities of offshore shell companies used by the most powerful people around the world, including 72 current and former heads of state. Figure 1 – Data Leaked (Source: Süddeutsche Zeitung) To better scale the dimension of the data leaks, let’s compare the dimension of the stolen data to the size of archives disclosed after other incidents occurred in the past....

A lot can be said about Jerry Gergich from Parks & Recreation, but “cult leader” might not be one of those. However, a fan theory suggests that there was a dark side to Jerry, and that he was heavily involved in a well-known cult in Pawnee. Created by Greg Daniels and Michael Schur, Parks & Recreation followed the always-optimistic Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler) and her friends and coworkers from the Parks Department in the fictional town of Pawnee, Indiana....

Parks & Recreation added a subtle but awesome Guardians of the Galaxy Easter egg to its final episode. Parks & Recreation debuted on NBC in 2009 and came to an end in 2015 after seven seasons. The series followed the life of the always optimistic Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler) and her friends and coworkers from the Parks Department in Pawnee, Indiana. Over the course of seven seasons, viewers met some truly unforgettable characters, such as Ron Swanson (Nick Offerman), April Ludgate (Aubrey Plaza), and Andy Dwyer (Chris Pratt)....

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Ouch! Unfortunately for Apple, it was not just Path; and, unfortunately for iOS users, it is not just contacts. Tim Cook unloads $11 million in AAPL stock (9to5mac.com) Tim Cook: Post-PC devices made up 76 percent of our revenues (9to5mac.com) Tim Cook: iPad is the poster child of the post PC world (9to5mac.com) Tim Cook: 37 million iPhones, we had a ‘decent quarter’ (9to5mac.com) Tim Cook talks Facebook at Apple shareholders meeting (9to5mac....

The pcAnywhere source code leaked out onto the internet late January 2012 includes 47,021 files weighing in at 1.3GB. The October 2006 snapshot provides an insight into Symantec development practices, polices, and of course the code itself. Below is a brief assessment of the source code and what it all means for computer users, hackers, and Symantec. The leaked files are a single snapshot backup of Symantec’s working developer directory named depot....

Season 5 of British crime drama Peaky Blinders is almost over, and the show’s many fans – including celebrities like Snoop Dogg and Steven Spielberg – are already clamoring for Season 6. The show’s enduring popularity is a testament to the genius of its creator and lead writer Steven Knight, whose scripting strikes a perfect blend of fact and fiction. That said, Peaky Blinders’ “historical fiction” tag does beg the question: “Just how much of this stuff actually happened?...

Through penetration testing, security experts collaborate with clients to check an organization’s defenses to see if they are operating as intended. With the system owner’s permission to take full control of computers on the network, “white hat hackers” will be able to check for holes that could be exploited and discover potential security weaknesses for which the organization should establish safeguards that will protect devices and critical data before they become compromised and used illegally....

Phoenix; RootPipe Reborn from patrick wardle on Vimeo. A former NSA staffer says that the OS X 10.10.3 update which Apple claims fixed a significant security vulnerability has failed to do so, reports Forbes. Patrick Wardle, who now heads up research at security firm Synack, demonstrated the vulnerability in a video (without revealing exactly how it was done) to allow Apple time to issue a further fix. The Rootpipe vulnerability allows an attacker with local access to a Mac to escalate their privileges to root – allowing them full control of the machine – without further authentication....

A number of Mac users in an Apple Support Communities thread are reporting that Apple’s 10.9.2 update to Mavericks has broken AirPlay Mirroring to Apple TV and the ability to extend desktops to external monitors. There is as yet no obvious common denominator among those experiencing the problem, though as it works with fresh installs of OS X 10.9.2, it seems it may be a conflict with a setting from earlier versions of OS X....

Just as Apple appears to be readying its music streaming service and Google just announced its subscription music service, Pandora Radio has released a sturdy update to its iPhone app. Users can now publish Now Playing activity to Facebook as it updates, similar to Spotify or Rdio, allowing friends to interact with the music you enjoy. Sharing individual tracks and stations to Facebook, Twitter, and email is built right in now as well....