OpenJS Foundation accepts Electron.js in its incubation program

Yesterday, at the Node+JS Interactive in Montreal, the OpenJS Foundation announced the acceptance of Electron into the Foundation’s incubation program.

The OpenJS Foundation provides vendor-neutral support for sustained growth within the open source JavaScript community. It’s supported by 30 corporate and end-user members, including GoDaddy, Google, IBM, Intel, Joyent, and Microsoft.

Electron is an open source framework created for building desktop apps using JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, it is based on Node.js and Chromium. Additionally, Electron is widely used on many well-known applications including Discord, Microsoft Teams, OpenFin, Skype, Slack, Trello, Visual Studio Code, etc.

“We’re heading into 2020 excited and honored by the trust the Electron project leaders have shown through this significant contribution to the new OpenJS Foundation,” said Robin Ginn, Executive Director of the OpenJS Foundation. He further added, “Electron is a powerful development tool used by some of the most well-known companies and applications. On behalf of the community, I look forward to working with Electron and seeing the amazing contributions they will make.”

What this means for developers

Electron joining the OpenJS Foundation does not change how Electron is made, released, or used — and does not directly affect developers building applications with Electron. Even though Electron was originally created at GitHub, it is currently maintained by a number of organizations and individuals. In 2019, Electron codified its governance structure and invested heavily into formalizing how decisions affecting the entire project are made. The Electron team believes that having multiple organizations and developers investing in and collaborating on Electron makes the project stronger.

Hence, lifting Electron up from being owned by a single corporate entity and moving it into a neutral foundation focused on supporting the web and JavaScript ecosystem is a natural next step as they mature in the open-source ecosystem.

To know more about this news, check out the official announcement from the OpenJS Foundation website.

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Highlight of First day of CES 2017

New for 2017, CES included two full Media Days where companies large and small introduced products to the global market. Setting the stage for a week filled with innovation, 28 companies hosted preshow news conferences, with a wide array of major product announcements:
 

• A&D Medical/Mobile Health – The MobileHelp Tablet Medical Alarm with MobileVitals Monitoring. 
• BMW – Prototype of BMW’s 7-fully automated sedan. 
• Bosch – Concept car featuring face recognition and intelligent personalization, gesture control with Ultra Haptics, a crystal-clear OLED display and digital exterior mirrors. 
• Carnival – Ocean Medallion, a highly personalized wearable concierge service, which enables elevated service through enhanced guest interactions during the entire cruise experience. 
• Casio – PRO TREK, a smart watch, which uses Android Wear 2.0 and is equipped with low-power GPS and new full-color map functionality. 
• Continental – High-Resolution 3D Lash Lidar, capable of 3D measurement of the environment in challenging conditions such as fog, dust, rain and light. 
• Faraday Future – The FF 91, a fully-electric, fully-connected, self-driving, keyless vehicle experience with a “driverless valet” function that allows the car to park itself from your smartphone. 
• FCA – Portal, a concept car, is battery electric, cloud connected and offers fully self-driving capabilities. 
• Hisense – The H10D 4K HDR TV, featuring proprietary ULED display technology, quantum dot wide color gamut and full array local dimming. 
• Huawei/Honor Brands – The Honor 6X dual-camera, dual-sensor smartphone, retailing for $250 USD. 
• Hyundai – IONIC Scooter, a "micro mobility" fold-up scooter aimed at those who live in urban environments with limited parking options.
• LG – LG Signature OLED TV W, or the “The Wallpaper TV.” The 65” model is 2.57 mm wide – 1/10th of an inch – with no gap between the TV and wall. 
• Lucaro – iRobotics 7 Medical Massage Chair, a full-body massage chair that also uses blood pressure and heart rate monitoring for added comfort and options. 
• Monster – Soundstage 2, to be integrated with Amazon Alexa.
• Panasonic – Lumix GH5 mirrorless camera that excels at shooting video and has 4K and 6K capabilities. 
• Qualcomm – Snapdragon 835, the first 10 nanometer mobile processor, with enhanced efficiency that helps to create thinner phones with longer battery life. 
• Royole – The Royole Moon, a 3D virtual mobile theater combining 1080p AMOLED displays at over 3000 ppi resolution that simulate a giant 800” curved screen, with stereoscopic 3D and noise-cancelling headphones for a completely immersive experience. 
• Samsung – The Wash and FlexDry IoT-enabled washer/dryer system featuring four separate compartments for washing and drying, letting you maximize efficiency and customize how you manage your laundry. 
• Sony – Crystal LED integrated structure display, with superfine LED structures serving as a light source, making it virtually impossible to see the pixels. 
• TCL – The Xess series – X2 and X3 models – which are edgeless, flat and curved proving ultimate picture quality. 
• Toyota – Concept-i, a self-driving car allowing passengers to interact with the car’s artificial intelligence agent named “Yui,” which anticipates drivers’ needs, measures emotions and responds automatically. 
• Valeo – The 360AEB Nearshield, an emergency braking system that eliminates drivers’ blind spots, bringing the vehicle to a stop in emergency situations. 
• VOXX – Terk delivers the strongest Wi-Fi signals throughout the home, as well as free HDTV. The soon-to-be released Terk Omni features circle beam technology, which will allow you to receive broadcast signals up to 65 miles away. 
• ZF – The ZF ProAI, a deep learning software and ZF’s first step into artificial intelligence that goes beyond automotive applications. 
• ZTE – The Hawkeye, the world's first crowdsourced phone.

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9 of the biggest trends to watch out at CES 2017

CES is the world’s biggest tech event. With nearly 200,000 attendees flooding into the Las Vegas strip for a week, the conference shines a light on much of gear we’ll be using over the years to come.
We’ll be on the field covering all the biggest announcements, weird gadgets and cool new tech at the event. Here are some of the trends you can expect – and some to ignore. That said, keep in mind some of the best thing about CES are the things none of us could predict.

TVs get colorful

Televisions are CES’ bread and butter – the event practically defines every model to be released over the coming year. While normally resolution and size have been the headline features, expect HDR playback to become standard on pretty much every new TV announced at the event.

HDR support helps TVs display a much wider range of colors and brightness than in years past, but few TVs in 2016 could really push the format’s potential. 2017 will bring color and brightness to the forefront on models in all price ranges. Rumors indicate Sony might begin producing OLED TVs, and Samsung might even have an all-new display technology in store.
That said, we’re likely to some 8K displays as well – we’re not complaining.

Virtual reality gets realer

Virtual reality is in a weird place right now; everyone knows what it is – that it’s the next big thing – but few have actually experienced it. That’s because experiences have been limited to cheap gimmicky headsets or expensive premium experiences requiring powerful PCs.



We’ll start to see more standalone VR experiences at CES – we’ve already been pitched a few. These might serve as personal home theaters so that you can watch movies on an IMAX sized screen from the comfort of your bedroom.
On the other hand, HTC is rumored to be unveiling its newest updates to its Vive headset, so expect the high boundaries to be pushed as well.

Headphones take on spatial audio

It’s pretty hard to find bad headphones nowadays, but the problem is that even the world’s best headphones still sound like headphones, with the sound mainly stuck inside your noggin.
In part thanks the advent of virtual reality, companies have been paying more attention to proper spatial audio (Dolby’s Atmos and Sennheiser’s AMBEO technology, for instance). These technologies are able to imitate cues your brain use for locating sounds, and can help headphones sound even more realistic than the best surround sound setups.
Similarly, we’ll see improvements in integrated digital signal processors and sound cards for processing spatial audio.

Wearables get more niche

Smartwatches haven’t done too well. The most successful smartwatch – the Apple Watch – often feels like an afterthought compared to our phones, laptops, and tablets. And Pebble, the Kickstarter darling, just sold to Fitbit.
But fitness trackers have survived because they serve a specific niche – and there are other niches to be filled. Baby monitors, pet trackers, and even new kinds of fitness trackers will likely all be on display.

Weird desktops

Microsoft showed the world desktops still have plenty of room to innovate with the Surface Studio, and with VR often demanding more powerful hardware than ever, desktops have the chance at something of a renaissance.

Credit: Google

PC manufacturers will likely be showing off all sorts of zany form factors. As we wrote back in November, the Surface Studio is likely a template for other companies to follow, and we’ll see other devices with similar stylus-ready form factors starting to show up, and maybe even their own take on the Microsoft Dial.
As for gaming systems, we’ve already seen a couple of backpack style rigs for VR. Companies may also try to fit VR-ready graphics into smaller form factors to make them a bit more palatable to users who would traditionally use a laptop. Speaking of….

VR ready laptops and styluses everywhere

With Nvidia’s Pascal and AMD’s Polaris architectures, laptops graphics are getting increasingly close to their desktop counterparts. That means more VR-ready laptops than ever, in slimmer form factors. We’ve seen this in laptops like Razer’s Blade series or Alienware’s newest trio, and more companies will be joining in on the fun.

Credit: Google

If we’re lucky, we might even see VR ready 2-in-1 convertibles too.
If not, look out for Thunderbolt 3 graphics enclosures. Like the Razer Blade Stealth and the Core accessory, pretty much any Thunderbolt 3 laptop can get a performance boost through an external graphics card dock. Given how many USB-C enabled laptops already feature Thunderbolt 3, expect this to become more common.
Microsoft has also slowly but surely convinced the world that 2-in-1 systems are the future for mainstream Windows laptops. We saw many more convertibles last year, but expect fewer ultraportables to feature a traditional fixed hinge.
At the very least, chances are it will flip over like a Lenovo Yoga; Dell’s already jumped on board with its newest XPS 13. In the same token Microsoft’s stylus push and upcoming Creators Update means most of these convertibles will come with stylus’.

USB-C and Bluetooth 5

USB-C is pretty much the best connector ever, superior to the larger USB-A and smaller Micro USB in pretty much every fashion.
And while not every USB-C port is made the same – the spec can vary in transfer speeds and power delivery – the potential to power almost any device using the same tiny connector could finally rid us of the mess of varying cables we’re all used to.
We’ll see USB-C support on PC, headphones, TVs, monitors and random accessories. It’s about time a reversible port became standard.
On the wireless front, Bluetooth 5 is a pretty big deal. It quadruples the range (enough to fill a entire home) and doubles the speed (up to 2 MBps), allowing accessories to be more powerful. That means headphones with better range and sound quality, and more powerful, faster wearables.

Few standout phones

For all the tech magic CES delivers, it’s usually fairly light on the most common gadget of all. That’s because most of the big smartphone makers reserve their announcements for their own events or next month’s Mobile World Congress.

That said, Chinese phone makers will likely have a bigger presence than in previous years. Xiaomi is slowly getting ready to enter the US market, and Huawei is looking to make a bigger mark as well. How exciting any announcements are, however, remains to be seen.

Smarter, more compact drones

How technology flies: We used to have remote-controlled cars – now we have remote-controlled flying machines. But while drones were zipping around everywhere CES last year, we’ll be seeing drones get a lot smarter now.
DJI showed off AI tracking systems for its Phantom 3, and GoPro showed similar abilities with its compact foldeing Karma. Now other brands will have to show off their AI chops.
One of the biggest obstacles to buying a drone is the difficulty of flying them; anytime that barrier is lowered, more people will be willing to pull out their wallets.

Expect the unexpected

There’s a ton more we can cover – electric vehicles, fancy washing machines, zany robots – but no amount of text will get through it all.
The cool thing about CES is that a lot of the best things aren’t the things you expect at all. Maybe there’s a cool display that catches our eye, or a clever accessory no one’s thought of.

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FBI Hacked!! Hacker Leaks Data Of FBI Officers Online

FBI Hacked!! Hacker Leaks Data Of FBI Officers Online

Recently, an old Anonymous member well known as CyberZeist claimed that he managed to hack FBI Website CMS and leaked all the Credentials of FBI Officers.

FBI Hacked!! Hacker Leaks Data Of FBI Officers Online

“Loyalty, courage and integrity” is the motto of the FBI but, in view of the events experienced in recent times, it seems that spends little of the latter. At least with respect to the integrity and security of their data, because the computer systems of this federal agency has again been violated or so it seems.
The story goes like this: A hacker named CyberZeist has boasted on Twitter have hacked the official website of the FBI (fbi.gov). The mysterious subject at least had the courtesy to announce the security hole on last December 22, allowing time for the FBI to patch the problems, before making public on Pastebin data of up to 155 agents of this organization. Information that included the names, email addresses and encrypted passwords online.

The attacker took advantage of a vulnerability in ‘zero-day’ in the CMS, an open source content management software used by the FBI to handle their website. Thanks to this hole, with the hacker CyberZeist managed to include files on the local server and manipulate some Python plugins.

The most worse thing is that some sources claim that the details of this vulnerability would be on sale in the Dark Internet, With which new cybercriminals could follow this line to discover new vectors of attack.

That despite the fact that CMS is considered one of the safest content managers today, used by the organizations like FBI, CIA even the tech giant Google also do the same. In fact, CyberZeist has already alerted organizations such as Amnesty International, the Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center or the European Union’s Network and Information Security Agency, which also use this system.

The controversy comes with the following: Plone CMS has already announced the launch of an urgent security patch for the next January 17. Of course, for the moment from the team of this system they claim that “there is no evidence that the problems solved by the patch are actively exploiting”.

However, the officials of FBI claimed that the holes are not related to the attack done by CyberZeist, and stated that the whole attack was done using “Photoshop” and the data that are likely to be public are false or fake.

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World’s Most Insane Laptop Has 3 Screens — “Razer’s Project Valerie”

 Gaming hardware maker Razer has unveiled its amazing Project Valerie. It’s a concept laptop that has three 4K displays. The two secondary displays slide out from both the sides of the primary display. Aimed at providing an immersive gaming, Project Valerie also seems like a perfect fit for artists, graphic designer, developers, etc. While there’s no release date deadline and price tag, Razer says that it’s committed to make it a reality.

CES is home to many crazy gadgets. In the past couple of days, we’ve already seen LG’s super thin Wallpaper TV, world’s thinnest Windows 10 laptop, world’s largest capacity USB drive, and whatnot. Now, Razer, the billion dollar gaming hardware startup, has decided to make things more interesting.

Razer has announced Project Valerie — a concept laptop that has three 17-inch 4K screens for gaming. The whole body of the machine is just 1.5-inches thick and weighs 12 pounds. Taking a look at its internals, you’re bound to think of Razer Blade Pro. Without a doubt, it’s one of the most insane laptop concepts I’ve ever seen.
After you open the laptop, you can slide the two screens out from both sides of the main display. These 4K displays are managed by Nvidia’s G-Sync monitor technology to make sure that the images are perfectly synced.

Project Valerie’s monitors also support full Adobe RGB color space and Nvidia Surround gaming with an 180-degree field of view.
According to Razer — It’s “the greatest amount of screen real estate ever assembled in a single computer.”

Apart from gamers, this device is also intended for engineers, artists, developers, or any other person who uses a powerful multi-monitor setup.
At the moment, Razer doesn’t have any deadline or price tag for the final release. It doesn’t even have a name for the final product. But, the company says that it’s committed to make it a real product and blow us away.

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BlackArch Linux: Penetration Testing Distro for Hackers & Security Researchers.

 

BlackArch Linux version 2016.12.20 has been released for Ethical Hackers and Penetration Testers & Security Researchers with +1600 Hacking Tools. 

The BlackArch Linux devs have released the new version ISO image of the Arch Linux-based operating system designed especially for hackers and security professionals.

Developers of the Arch Linux-based BlackArch Linux operating system have some news for ethical hackers and penetration testers. They have released the new ISO image of the Arch Linux-based operating system for 64-bit and 32-bit deployments, designed especially for ethical hackers and penetration testers.
The BlackArch version 2016.12.20 adds more than 100 new tools that can be used for ethical hacking needs and several other improvements. They also ship with a new kernel from the Linux 4.8 stable series, version 4.8.13.
“Today we released new BlackArch Linux ISOs (2016.12.20)! Over 1600 tools, newest kernel, over 6GB per ISO and more! We wish to thank all of BlackArch’s users, mirrors, and supporters. Thanks for your help.” Black Arch Linux Devs Said.

Download BlackArch Linux !

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This tiny 2 TB personal cloud could solve all your storage problems

We’re all used to using cloud services like Dropbox and Google Drive, but sometimes it would be nice if you could take your files with you, without messing with wires.

That’s what the Fasetto Link sets out to do.

What is it?

The Link is basically a wireless hard drive that can act as a personal cloud, a wireless hotspot, and backup device all in a square unit just 2 inches wide. It can integrate with your existing cloud services, and it boasts impressive specs for something so small:

• 256 GB/ 512 GB / 2 TB of V-Nand storage
• Up to 2,500 MBps write/ 1,500 MBps read
• Bluetooth 4.0
• 802.11ac Wi-Fi up to 1,900 Mbps
• 2 x 2 x 1 inches
• IP68 waterproofing
• Military standard Shockproof build
• 5 hours streaming battery life (2 weeks standby)
• Optional battery pack for 8 hours streaming/4 weeks standby
• USB-C port for charging and data
• 2048 bit encryption
• LTE Cellular option
• Connectivity for up to 30 devices, 15 of them streaming

I was consistently impressed with how well thought out the unit is while talking with Fasetto representatives.
I could shoot an image from a phone and have it uploaded to the drive in seconds, which can then be retrieved via an Android or iOS app, as well as a URL for other devices.

The USB-C port is housed behind the wrist strap

Connecting to the drive via Wi-Fi doesn’t cut off your internet connection either – the drive can simply reroute your home Wi-Fi to your device. Moreover, you can use an optional LTE SIM adapter to always be connected and use the drive as a personal hotspot for up to a ridiculous 30 devices.
The device’s 64-bit processor and 4 GB of RAM allows it to stream high quality video. I wasn’t able to check on quality restrictions, but it works up to at least 1080p video without a hitch. I don’t see why it wouldn’t be able to handle 4K video given the specs either.
You might be thinking that setting up a Link in addition to your existing cloud storage may be a bit messy, but it turns out the Link can automatically back up your files to your cloud services as well, if you’d prefer. In the process, it would clear itself out to make sure you can store the files you need most immediately.

When is it coming?

The device is expected to ship in April. Just be ready for some sticker shock if you want a lot of storage: the Link goes for $349 for the 256GB version, $499 for the 512 GB version, and $1,149 for the 2 TB unit.

However, it’s worth noting that you can actually connect an external hard drive via the USB-C port, should you already have a hard drive lying around and are interested in the Link mainly for its wireless capabilities.

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