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Consumer Reports, a U.S. monthly influencing purchasing decisions with its reviews and comparisons of consumer products, announced today that it rated AT&T the worst among wireless operators in the United States. In a repeat of last year’s ratings, rival Verizon Wireless ranked highest. The nation’s remaining major wireless carriers – including Sprint (the only carrier offering unlimited data to iPhone customers in the U.S.) and T-Mobile USA – fared “significantly better” than beleaguered Ma Bell....

If you want quality, reliable tech support for your computer, get a Mac. That’s according to the results of a new Consumer Reports survey that ranked Apple top among PC manufacturers for technical support post-purchase for the ninth year running… Of the 3,200 participants that took part in the survey, Consumer Reports notes that “Mac users gave Apple’s phone and online support glowing reviews, and four out of five said tech support was able to resolve their problem....

This article will address the second most prevalent kind of attacks and a sleeping giant: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) and Cross-site Request Forgery (CSRF). While XSS by itself can be quite malicious, the combination of the two in an attack scenario can wreak havoc for any unsuspecting user, application, and organization. XSS is defined by the Open Web Application Security Projection (OWASP) as “a type of injection problem, in which malicious scripts are injected into the otherwise benign and trusted web sites....

There are many properties in CSS that are assigned a value such as length, size, width, or height. In CSS, you express these values using one of many types of units of measurement. CSS provides you with nine units with which to define the value of properties that require some sort of measurement. You should note that you can use each of these units to define the size of anything, even if the unit itself is derived from a font’s size....

Cybersecurity is a rapidly growing field with an ever-increasing demand for skilled cybersecurity experts. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) projects that between 2016 and 2026, the number of jobs in the cybersecurity field will grow by 28%. Statistics like this one are an excellent indicator that job opportunities will be plentiful for many years to come. Think about it this way: as long as there’s crime, you’ll have a job!...

Choreographer, dancer and professional partner on Dancing with the Stars Sharna Burgess is leaving the show in order to pursue new endeavors. She left an emotional message about how grateful she is for the opportunities the show has brought to her, but is ready to turn the page. Sharna, an American professional ballroom dancer, has been traveling the world for dance since she was 18. She first made her TV appearance on Australia’s Dancing with the Stars and then joined the American version of Dancing with the Stars for season 13 as a troupe member for another two seasons....

Maintaining its long-standing history of creating entertaining and memorable films, Disney Channel created yet another popular hit with the High School Musical franchise. First debuting in 2006 with High School Musical, the original movie was met with an overwhelming response. In fact, it was the most watched Disney Channel Original Movie (DCOM) ever made. Banking on the success of the first movie, Disney release additional sequels including High School Musical 2 and the first ever theatrically released Disney Channel Original Movie, High School Musical 3: Senior Year....

Although the future of the Justice League is currently unknown, we still hold the characters dear to our hearts and hopefully, the DCEU has good plans for them. From Wonder Woman’s inspiring confidence to Flash’s endearing awkwardness to Aquaman’s coolness, the members are unique and each likable in their own way. Fans are still hoping for the release of the Snyder Cut, something which would provide us with even more screentime of your favorite characters....

Former Lois and Clark star, Dean Cain, has put his full support behind the idea of casting Michael B. Jordan as Superman. Amid news of Henry Cavill’s departure from the DCEU, rumors began to swirl that the Black Panther star would be the next actor to don the Man of Steel’s red cape. Jordan recently debunked the rumors, saying that he had heard them as well. Although he was flattered, the actor explained he would prefer to portray Calvin Ellis, the black Superman of Earth 23....

In this tutorial, we will show you how to remove bloatware as well as ads from Xiaomi Mi 10T and Mi 10T Pro. Both the device comes out of the box with Android 10. Furthermore, these devices run on Xiaomi’s own customized OS skin dubbed as MIUI. This is highly regarded by many as among the most customizable and feature-rich skin. While all these are quite commendable, there are a few downsides to it as well....

Jersey Shore’s Ronnie is “doing the best he can” amid legal woes, says Deena Cortese. Ronnie has been fighting a losing battle against his ex-girlfriend up to now but it determined to turn his life around. On October 4, Ortiz-Magro and ex-girlfriend Jen Harley was involved in a physical altercation that led to the reality star being tased. The Los Angeles Police Department promptly issued an emergency protective order against Ortiz-Magro - which was effective until October 11th - following his arrest for the domestic violence incident against Harley....

Apple CEO Tim Cook set a goal last year for Apple to double its income from Services. He said in this week’s earnings call that the company was ahead of the game in this ambition. But important as it is for Apple to boost its Services income at a time when hardware sales are relatively flat, the company’s enthusiasm for this target could well have some unintended consequences … Many of us have complained long and loud about Apple’s ridiculously stingy free iCloud tier of just 5GB – which isn’t always enough to backup even a single iPhone, let alone all the iOS devices a customer may own....

Update: It’s now been confirmed that the change made to the keyboard design appears primarily intended to improve reliability, with quieter typing a side-effect. An Apple internal document provides definitive confirmation. One of the things Apple mentioned almost in passing in yesterday’s 2018 MacBook Pro announcement is that it had an improved keyboard. Apple had only seven words to say about it: But two things seem obvious … First, that Apple has quietly done something to improve the reliability of the keyboard....

Umidigi is a Chinese smartphone vendor which is based in Shenzhen City. This company was registered as a brand back in February 2012. Back in December 2019, the brand launched its new “A” series device which is the Umidigi A3X. The smartphone packs awesome specifications with a decent price tag. Thus, smartphones are amazing devices to be invested in and it needs utmost care when you use it in day to day life....

The concept of DNS forwarding is not a new feature in Windows Server 2003 but remains a very important one in your design. Forwarding can be used in instances where you do not want the Windows DNS server to use the root hints file for resolving hostnames that belong to domains that the DNS server is not authoritative for. Rather than using the root DNS servers on the internet, you can configure your DNS server to “forward” all-recursive requests to another DNS server, such as the one provided by your Internet Service Provider....

Improved backup experience One of the main reasons to have the app is for the ability to backup and restore your HomeKit base. As your device lineup expands, rebuilding it from scratch would be quite a chore. In version 5.4, Controller for HomeKit brings its hit generation backup tool to make it more powerful and more reliable. Table of contents Improved backup experience HomeKit code storage Archive scenes and automations Misc upgrades HomeKit code storage For devices that are outdoors or that don’t have the HomeKit code included on the device as a sticker, keeping a backup of the HomeKit code is required in case you ever needed to configure it again....

I press the power button and… nothing. The fans turn on, but the screen remains blank. Even the backlight refuses to turn on. At first, I thought that my display had gone, but even connecting an external one via HDMI didn’t work. To make matters worse, I learned the USB ports weren’t working either. My mouse and keyboard backlight wasn’t coming on. All this meant the worst of the worst—the motherboard was dead and I’d have to wait an eternity to get my laptop repaired....

This week’s release of the re-edited edition of The Current War has been able to shed the previous cut’s negative Rotten Tomatoes score. In 2017, an initial cut of the film was shown at the Toronto Film Festival and received scathing reviews. Only a month later, reports detailing sexual assault allegations against producer Harvey Weinstein surfaced and resulted in his downfall. The Current War was shelved along with the entirety of The Weinstein Company’s slate....

In this article, we will be analyzing another client server program in which we will be dealing with bad characters and using some different techniques to write the exploit. So, let’s look at the client server program. This program has the same functionality which we have already seen in previous article and the lab setup is the same. The following are the notable points from the previous articles: We will be using Windows XP Operating System as victim machine in which we will run server program; throughout this article, we will be using this machine as machine A....

An analysis of the entry nodes of Tor traffic with more traditional methods is almost always futile. Given that the entry guards are assigned randomly, a person who tries to hack Tor in this way should have to operate many Tor nodes to have a reasonable expectation of intercepting a targeted hidden traffic. On top of that, classifiers would be confused to a great extent if random padding is added to the travelling data....