Author: Adil

Stolen payment card data is fueling ghost tapping fraud worldwide Burner phones are turning identity theft into organized retail scams Luxury goods bought with ghost tapping are quickly resold online Digital payment services have long promised speed and ease, but the same systems are increasingly being manipulated for fraud. Recorded Future’s Insikt Group researchers are…

I’ve been testing the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 for close to a month, and I’m convinced it might just be the best phone on the planet. Before this, I relied on the Z Fold 7’s older sibling – Samsung’s Z Fold 6 – and I fell in love with that phone almost instantly thanks…

Introduction A lot of software that parses commands (such as git) or compilers, when you specify something that’s unknown, perhaps by having made a typo, offer “did you mean …?” suggestions to be helpful. For example, given the following C program: #include <stdio.h> int main() { print( “hello, world!n” ); } clang will print: oops.c:4:3:…

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) enables large language models (LLMs) to interact meaningfully with real-world devices through structured, schema‑based tools. Whether controlling home appliances or optimizing factory machinery, MCP translates natural language into action. This article explores practical use cases in both smart home and industrial IoT environments, supported by detailed code examples that demonstrate…

Adam Savage is geeking out over some seriously cool leak-finding tech. Using a Fluke acoustic imager—a camera packed with 64 microphones—and a special “Sound Beacon,” he’s able to pinpoint tiny, hidden leaks in containers around his workshop. The process is pretty slick. Instead of filling a vessel with water, he just places the sound beacon…

King of Meat launches on October 7, 2025, for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and Series S, and PC The four-player co-op platformer will have a Standard and Deluxe Edition, which are now available for pre-order A King of Meat Technical Test will also be available to play this weekend Amazon Games and Glowmade have…

Security researchers found that a popular free Chrome VPN extension has been stealthily taking screenshots of every website its users visit FreeVPN.One boasts over 100,000 downloads and Google’s “Verified” and “Featured” badges Once limited to VPN functionality, the extension’s later updates were designed not for privacy, but to evade detection A popular Chrome VPN extension…

The FBI has warned of Russian hackers abusing CVE-2018-0171 Configuration files from “thousands” of Cisco devices were already stolen The bug affects many outdated endpoints, so patch now Russian state-sponsored threat actors are abusing a years-old Cisco vulnerability to spy on organizations in the West, the FBI is warning. In a public service announcement posted…

The Waterfall Model in software engineering is one of the earliest approaches to software development. It follows a strict linear sequence where each stage must be completed before moving to the next. While it is simple and well-structured, it also has several limitations that modern methodologies attempt to solve. What Is the Waterfall Model? The…

Learning a new skill is never easy; and programming has proven to be one of the hardest challenges I’ve faced. I began my coding journey in 2024 when I joined ALX, knowing nothing but eager to write those magical lines of code that bring apps or games to life. But reality hit me very fast….