Infosys Campus Connect Daily K10 : 2019/018

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Dear Professor, Greetings from Infosys Campus Connect Team!!! Please find below links for the information related to latest technology and trends. This could help your faculty members and/or your college students. Tech News for the Day Wow, fancy that. Web ad giant Google to block ad-blockers in Chrome. For safety, apparently How many ad blocks could an ad slinger block if an ad slinger could block blocks? 265 Researchers Take Down 100,000 Malware Distribution Websites Security researchers across the globe united in a project dedicated to sharing URLs used in malicious campaigns managed to take down close to 100,000 websites actively engaged in malware distribution. Remote Code Execution Flaw in APT Linux Package Manager allows man-in-the-middle attack An attacker can take advantage of this and perform a remote man-in-the-middle attack to inject malicious content, thus tricking the system to install certain altered packages. Programmer News for the Day IBM CEO Ginni Rometty said that if we don't fix the skills gap, there will be 'unrest' around the world The World Economic Forum likes to call this the "Fourth Industrial Revolution" Microsoft Research thinks VR can revolutionize the way we work at office They claim that VR office based on immersive head-mounted displays (HMDs) will enable immersive, flexible and fluid office work. Wine 4.0 released with Vulkan, Direct3D support among other features Wine 4.0 stable version has been released yesterday. It comes with four main features including support for Vulkan, Direct3D 12, Game controllers and High-DPI support on Android. Word for the Day yokel noun yo· kel | \ ˈyō-kəl  \ : a naive or gullible inhabitant of a rural area or small town a lame comedy about the misadventures of yokels in the big city More Puzzle for the Day Anagram for the Day Product Puzzle How quickly can you find the answer to: 5  x  4  x  3  x  ...  x  -3  x  -4  x  -5 Solution (Previous Puzzle): 0, zero, none, nothing. There is a least one person who has lost all of their fingers on one hand, and so has zero fingers on that hand. So the number we get would be 5 x 5 x 5 x 5 x 5 x 5 x ... x 5 x 0. And anything times zero is zero! An anagram is a word made by using letters of another word in a different order. Example: shot à host Find the anagram for the following: Pale Pear Pots Solution (Previous): MEAT : TAME, TEAM NUDE : DUNE OURS : SOUR Innovation of the Day In 1934, the first ski tow rope in the U.S., built by Robert Royce, was used for the first time in Woodstock, Vermont to enable snow skiers to easily reach the top of the mountain. In 1960, the first wire photograph transmitted by radio waves bounced off the moon was sent between Hawaii and Washington, D.C., by the U.S. Navy, using 84-ft diameter parabolic antennas. In 1998, Andy Nelson and navigator Bertrand Piccard, in the Breitling Orbiter II set the world record for endurance at nine days and 17 hours - or, to be exact, 233 hours and 55 minutes. Video for the Day Podcast for the Day Why is biodiversity so important? - Kim Preshoff Our planet’s diverse, thriving ecosystems may seem like permanent fixtures, but they’re actually vulnerable to collapse. Jungles can become deserts, and reefs can become lifeless rocks. What makes one ecosystem strong and another weak in the face of change? Kim Preshoff details why the answer, to a large extent, is biodiversity. Sleeping on the job : BBC 6 Mins English Is it right to sleep at work? Some experts think we work better if we can close our eyes and have a short rest in the office.  So, is it time for bosses to put beds in the workplace? Rob and Finn discuss the benefits of sleeping on the job. Idiom for the Day night owl someone who is active late at night My exams will be starting from next week and for me it’s the time to be a night owl to study and to score. More Quote for the Day “Unless you are willing to try, fail miserable, and try again, success won’t happen.” Philip Adams Thanks & Regards, Team Campus Connect, Infosys Limited