IntroductionHello everyone, I am Srikar - An engineering student, Developer, Podcaster, Writer, and Designer. I am an aspiring full-stack developer and learning the MERN stack currently. Would love to connect with amazing people out there and hope that my blog reaches out to all the people starting their coding journey! My entry to coding was through HTML, CSS and JS in high school and I left it a … [Read more...]
Dozens of Vulnerabilities Patched in Intel Products
Intel this week announced patches for dozens of vulnerabilities across its product portfolio, including critical- and high-severity issues. The most severe of these flaws is CVE-2021-39296 (CVSS score of 10), which impacts the Integrated Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) and OpenBMC firmware of several Intel platforms. The bug was identified in 2021 in the netipmid (IPMI lan+) interface and … [Read more...]
Set up NGINX with SSL on a Ubuntu server to serve static pages.
NGINX is an open-source software used in web serving. Some of its other uses include reverse proxying, caching, load balancing, media streaming and more. It is similar to Apache and the main difference is NGINX uses an event-driven architecture handling multiple requests within a single thread. Apache is process-driven creating a thread per each request. This allows NGINX to have generally better … [Read more...]
Xiaomi 13 Pro Confirmed to Be Sold in India Via Amazon From February 26
Xiaomi 13 Pro is scheduled to launch in India on February 26. This flagship handset has already made its debut in China alongside the vanilla Xiaomi 13. Both handsets are powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC. However, there is no confirmation regarding the global availability of the latter model. Xiaomi has now confirmed that the Xiaomi 13 Pro will be made available for purchase in India … [Read more...]
Financially Motivated Threat Actor Strikes with New Ransomware and Clipper Malware
Feb 15, 2023Ravie LakshmananCryptocurrency / Ransomware A new financially motivated campaign that commenced in December 2022 has seen the unidentified threat actor behind it deploying a novel ransomware strain dubbed MortalKombat and a clipper malware known as Laplas. Cisco Talos said it "observed the actor scanning the internet for victim machines with an exposed remote desktop protocol (RDP) … [Read more...]
React’s Virtual DOM: Headache or Painkiller for Developers? 🤒
There is something magical about the virtual DOM in React. ✨ However, a great deal of complexity and difficulty in understanding it.The virtual DOM is what makes React great; it’s neither a headache nor a painkiller for sure. I explain it in a detailed, yet easy-to-understand manner in this post. 🚀 You can read the actual post here: The Functioning Mechanisms of the Virtual … [Read more...]
The first trailer for Extrapolations features a cast only Apple money can buy
/ The first trailer for the upcoming Apple TV Plus series depicts a star-studded cast of characters surviving devastating climate change.Apple has released the first trailer for its upcoming limited drama Extrapolations, the latest anthology series from writer, director, and executive producer Scott Z. Burns (Contagion, The Bourne Ultimatum). The show is loaded with Hollywood A-listers, with … [Read more...]
Qualcomm unveils the Snapdragon X75 modem for "the next phase of 5G"
MWC is just around the corner, and Qualcomm is here to kick things off with the announcement of its new Snapdragon X75 modem. The company says that this chipset is ready to support 5G Advanced, "the next phase of 5G". The big step forward here is the inclusion of a hardware tensor accelerator for improved artificial intelligence performance, though that's not all. This modem also … [Read more...]
IFC leads $17M investment in South African insurtech Naked
Naked, a South African insurtech company that helps consumers to insure their cars, homes, and valuables, has raised $17 million in Series B funding led by the International Finance Corporation (IFC). The round welcomed participation from the German Development Finance Institution (DEG), and earlier investors, Yellowwoods and Hollard. The news follows the Naspers-led $11 million Series A round … [Read more...]
Here’s why you’re still waiting for Bing AI
/ Microsoft says it’s now testing the new Bing in 169 countries and that millions have signed up to the waitlist. a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray">Image: MicrosoftMicrosoft … [Read more...]
Smartrr bags $10M for its customer experience approach to e-commerce subscriptions
Getting a subscription service going and keeping it, complete with fulfillment and delivery, is complicated. Brands use technologies that can cause them to end up with double billing and delivery that the customer is then left to manage. Subscriptions are big business: The direct-to-consumer subscription market is forecasted to reach $478 billion by 2025. Companies like Upscribe and Rebill are … [Read more...]
Here are all the keyboard shortcuts for WhatsApp Web and desktop on Windows and Mac
Although messaging apps like Telegram and Signal have become quite popular lately, WhatsApp remains the most widely-used messaging platform globally. The messaging app has released many new features to keep up with the competition, and despite privacy concerns by some users, its user base has continued to rise. If you're a long-time WhatsApp user, chances are you already use the web or … [Read more...]
Passwordless authentication startup Descope lands whopping $53M seed round
Capital might be harder to come by than it once was in startup land, but some firms are bucking the trend — hard. Take Descope, for example, which today announced that it raised a whopping $53 million in seed funding for its “developer-first” authentication and user management platform. The money came from Lightspeed Venture Partners and GGV Capital with additional funds contributed by Dell … [Read more...]
Apple's MLS Season Pass will stream games in 1080p
Apple already announced a lot of the details on its MLS Season Pass, the company's biggest entry into live sports streaming yet. However, the company and the league still had a few details they hadn't yet revealed. As the start of the new season draws closer, the two collaborators announced more info today, including streaming and audio quality in addition to scheduling, the number of games and … [Read more...]
PlayStation DualSense Edge review: Sony's pricey but powerful sidekick for the PS5
The original Xbox Elite controller came out way back in 2015, so it's a wonder why Sony took so long to release its own take on a premium gamepad. But now that the PlayStation 5 is more widely available (kind of), the company is finally ready to show the world what it can do. While the $200 DualSense Edge costs a bit more than its rival, it offers a few nifty features you don't get on Microsoft's … [Read more...]
‘Father of Internet’ Warns Sinking Money Into Cool AI May Be Uncool
Vint Cerf, known as the father of the internet, raised a few eyebrows Monday when he urged investors to be cautious when investing in businesses built around conversational chatbots. The bots still make too many mistakes, asserted Cerf, who is a vice president at Google, which has an AI chatbot called Bard in development. When he asked ChatGPT, a bot developed by OpenAI, to write a bio of him, it … [Read more...]
Yext hops on the generative AI train with Yext Chat, an enterprise-focused chatbot
Looking to cash in on the generative AI craze, Yext, the platform for online brand management, today announced an AI-powered chatbot called Yext Chat. Taking inspiration from OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Yext Chat is designed for enterprise use cases — and differentiated, Yext claims, by a partly proprietary back end. “ChatGPT has shown the world that large language models can hold incredibly coherent, … [Read more...]
Descope Targets Customer Identity Market with Massive $53M Seed Round
Rishi Bhargava and the team of entrepreneurs behind Demisto’s $560 million exit are back at it with a new startup jostling for space in the red-hot customer identity market. The new company, called Descope, emerged from stealth Wednesday with an abnormally large $53 million seed-stage funding round and ambition plans to take on Okta’s Auth0 and a wave of rivals big and small in the customer … [Read more...]
Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra review: practically peerless
It’s big, expensive, and occasionally weird. But the S23 Ultra lives up to its name.If the Samsung S22 Ultra was the ultimate evolution of a slab-style smartphone, then the Galaxy S23 Ultra is a victory lap — everything that the S22 was and a little extra. The S23 Ultra offers a handful of updates and a new main camera sensor. There are no groundbreaking new features. It doesn’t fold in half. … [Read more...]
Less money and more fear: what’s going on with tech
/ Low interest rates fueled a tech boom. What happens now?a:hover]:text-black [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-e9 dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray-63 [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-13 dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63">The face of a man who will be increasing interest rates again. a:hover]:text-gray-63 … [Read more...]