I'm Danial Payne I’ve been a freelance writer, video, and web person since 1988. My passion is technology, whether it’s the latest cameras or cutting edge ways the internet is used to improve medicine. I write for Internet News Flash and am helping with the online resurrection of Digital Content Creators Magazine Contact me: danielpaynetech@gmail.com
On August 27, 2019 The U.S. DoJ announced that a Grand Jury indicted eight people allegedly for running a pirate streaming service. The indictments say the eight, ran Jetflix and iStreamItAll out of Las Vegas. These services offer over 100,000 movies and TV episodes to customers and according to the DOJ claimedContinue Reading
The popular xkcd webcomic has taken its associated forum offline a after personal information of more than 562,000 members were determined to have been publicly leaked. According to Troy Hunt a security researcher, the breach occurred on July 1 2019. The breach is allegedly the result of flaws in theContinue Reading
CamScanner, the popular PDF creator app, with 100 million downloads in the Google Play Store, has been compromised. Researchers at Kaspersky announced finding a module within the app that acted as a Trojan Dropper. This potentially allows attackers to remotely download and install malicious programs without a users’ knowledge. The discovery ofContinue Reading
Researchers from Facebook and MIT are collaborating on an artificial intelligence assistant for the online video game “Minecraft”. The goal is to create an AI system that can perform a wide variety of tasks, rather than being “superhuman” at a narrow set of activities. Basically, what’s known as artificial generalContinue Reading
iPhone users were the victims of a “sustained” zero-day attack. The vulnerability lasted at least two years says a new report by Google’s Project Zero. Project Zero is a team of white hat hackers working for Google with the goal of finding vulnerabilities in popular software products. The researchers sayContinue Reading
Huawei Technologies received another 90-day stay of execution exempting the manufacturer from some U.S. technology sanctions. However, the latest smartphone releases from Huawei may not come with the licensed version of Google’s Android operating system. Reuters quotes executives at Google explaining that this reprieve will not extend to any new devices. Therefore HuaweiContinue Reading
Today Apple said it will overhaul its practice of listening in to Siri conversations, so as to provide users with “greater privacy”. This change comes after a July 2019 report by The Guardian revealing that contractors regularly heard sensitive information while listening to Siri conversations. Until recently the computing giantContinue Reading
The saying goes something like, when you’re in a gold rush sell shovels. Right now, video streaming is a gold rush for startups like FuboTV and TVersity and mega corporations including Netflix and soon Disney. However, some companies turning streaming into cash are not the content providers. Ralph Schackart, anContinue Reading
Chinese self-driving car startup Pony.ai announced they will team up with Toyota, to explore “safe” mobility services including fully autonomous vehicles. The companies say they will work jointly on a pilot program using Toyota’s Lexus RX line and Pony.ai’s self-driving technology on public roads in Beijing and Shanghai in September.Continue Reading
Security researchers from Sophos Group reported a phishing scam attempting to trick users of Instagram with fake two-factor authentication messages. The messages, claiming that someone has tried to access a user’s Instagram account, appear deceptively close to official Instagram messages. “Apart from a few punctuation errors and the missing space beforeContinue Reading