Hackers Gather for Cyberwar in an Intense 48-Hour Sim

Locked Shields is in only its third year, but quickly established itself as the prime multinational cyber war-games event. The quality of competitors is high including, Locatelli says, the team that uncovered the Heartbleed virus. Luca Locatelli

Locked Shields is among the world’s preeminent cyber attack simulations. For two days, international teams of hackers and system admins play both sides of a war game, simultaneously attacking and defending critical infrastructure. The details are realistic, and the exercises reflect real-world geopolitics. It is a training ground for front-line operators in a rapidly evolving form of warfare in which network administrators at banks, electrical plants and government offices are as crucial to a country’s defense as uniformed troops.

Corel Painter 2015 review

 Digital art studio improves on its best features

At a Glance

• Corel Painter 2015

Price:$429.00

It's not a revolutionary update for the world's leading natural-media painting application, but key improvements keep Painter 2015 at the top of its class.

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NETFLIX COMES TO LINUX VIA UBUNTU INCLUDING TUTORIALS ON HOW TO USE IT

Finally LINUX users can breathe a sigh of relief as they no longer have to go through the stress of workarounds before enjoying the popular video on demand service NETFLIX  thanks to cooperations between Canonical(publishers of LINUX) and NETFLIX resulting in encrypted media extensions which is a necessity for streaming from NETFLIX. rather they can access it directly through GOOGLE CHROME to stream instead of having to edit the user agent string to con NETFLIX into believibg the browser is INTERNET EXPLORER and also using WINE (a popular WINDOWS simulator)

WINDOWS 10

Microsoft has recently released a new version of its operating system (OS)  which surprisingly was not the Windows 9 everyone was expecting including me as they skipped to Windows 10.This latest version would run on  devices such as smartphones,tablets,PC's(personal computers) and XBOX game consoles with applications for it sold from a single app store.The START menu which has been absent from the WINDOWS 8 interface also makes a return in apparent attempt by MICROSOFT  to bring users more familiar with WINDOWS 7,VISTA and XP on board to upgrade to WINDOWS 10. 

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MICROSOFT INTRODUCES NEW SHORTCUTS IN WINDOWS 10

The Windows 10 Technical Preview adds all sorts of cool new features designed to appeal to PC power users, but it also includes some nifty newcomers that you can’t actually see—fresh keyboard shortcuts!
The details come courtesy of Brandon LeBlanc of Microsoft’s Blogging Windows blog. If you install the Windows Tech Preview this weekend be sure to check these out.

• Snapping window: Windows key + Left or Right — LeBlanc says: "(Can be used with UP or DOWN to get into quadrants.)" Quadrants is the new Snap view mode that pins apps to the four quarters of the screen.
• Switch to recent window: Alt + Tab – LeBlanc says: "Hold shows new Task View window view, let go and switches to app."
• Task view: Windows + Tab – LeBlanc says: "New Task view opens up and stays open."
• Create new virtual desktop: Windows key + Ctrl + D
• Close current virtual desktop: Windows key + Ctrl + F4
• Switch virtual desktop : Windows key + Ctrl + Left or Right

REVIEW OF GNOME 3.14

GNOME 3.14, the latest version of GNOME 3, has been released. Announcing the new version, Matthias Clasen said: “This is another exciting release for GNOME, and brings many new features and improvements.”
The new release is the result of six months’ work by the GNOME project, and includes 28,859 changes by 871 contributors. Highlights for 3.14 include:

• New animations in the Activities Overview, along with new window animations.
• Automatic handling for Wi-Fi hotspots that require you to login (so called “captive portals”).
• A redesigned Weather application, which uses geolocation to show the weather for your current location.