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The end of Game of Thrones is just around the corner, and star Kit Harington is satisfied with how Jon Snow’s story wraps up. The once-thought illegitimate son of Ned Stark has come a long way over the past seven seasons of HBO’s acclaimed adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s “A Song of Fire And Ice” novels. After setting out to join the Night’s Watch early on (and eventually dying and being brought back to life), Jon became the King of the North in season 7....

Warning: Spoilers Ahead For Game of Thrones Season 8, Episode 1 - Game of Thrones season 8 appears to be setting up a new romance between two character who haven’t seen each other in years: Arya and Gendry. The season 8 premiere was packed with big moments, from Jon Snow riding a dragon to Jon Snow finding out that he is really Aegon Targaryen. The Starks were reunited, Yara Greyjoy was rescued by Theon, the Army of the Dead has destroyed its first house in the North, and Euron finally got to bed Cersei - and those are just the most momentous scenes....

RaaS has arguably become one of the most prolific and dangerous threats to enterprise security today. Cybercriminals have worked out that they can make serious profits from leasing out their ransomware creations, and especially if it is used against large companies able to pay high ‘ransom’ payments to have their data decrypted after a successful infection. Furthermore, the industry has evolved over recent years to also include other roles – malware developers, native speakers of a language able to manage negotiations, and Initial Access Brokers (IABs) who offer network access to a target system, thereby speeding up RaaS operations....

Tech venture capitalist Fred Wilson – who invested in companies like Twitter, Tumblr, Kickstarter and Etsy – says that he is strongly opposed to the ‘monopolies’ Apple and Google have on the sale of mobile apps … Wilson wrote a blog post on the topic. Wilson is invested in crypto company Coinbase, and embeds in the blog a tweetstorm by CEO Brian Armstrong. This complains about Apple’s control over what apps are allowed to do....

Friends fans have been given major hope of a new series or episodes after HBO Max confirmed the Friends reunion special for later this year. The show will be ‘unscripted,’ but nothing else is known about it so far, which had got plenty of people speculating that more could be coming. With all the speculation about what may or may not be happening for the beloved series, it has certainly got people thinking about where the characters might be so many years later....

With the growing sales of Apple’s mobile devices and the ever-increasing popularity of smartphones (analysts projected 30+ million iPhones for today’s holiday quarter earnings call), it is no surprise that the Mac-maker is rising up the chip-purchasing ladder. According to research firm Gartner, Apple is now the world’s largest buyer of silicon parts, spending an astounding $17 billion on semiconductors in 2011 and accounting for a 5.7 percent share of total silicon buying....

It might be hard to picture Friends’s Phoebe and Chandler getting together romantically, but then again, maybe not. In season five, the series teased a potential romantic relationship between these two. Of course, this forced connection between Phoebe and Chandler was never real. It was only a way for the gang to get Chandler to come clean about his secret relationship with Monica. Phoebe and Chandler never gave a relationship a real shot, but if they did, they would have been great together....

The best thing about the beloved 90’s sitcom Friends is the fact that the main characters are so unique in personality that viewers can find themselves, and their real life friends, in any one of the six characters. Our personal favourite is the unique, quirky, and mysterious Phoebe. Though very little is known about her past (and what we do know is truly tragic,) Phoebe manages to consistently be one of the kindest, positive, and loyal friends of the bunch....

FX’s X-Men TV show Legion will end after the upcoming season 3, says CEO John Landgraf. Legion premiered on FX in 2017 as part of Fox’s deal with Marvel TV to bring certain X-Men comic book characters to the small screen. It was originally one of two series announced, with the other being a show based around the Hellfire Club from the X-Men comics, but that never made it to air....

In a few short weeks, Game of Thrones, one of the biggest show in television history, will come to an end. The series has continued to grow year after year in terms of scale and spectacle. But despite the dragons, the White Walkers and the massive battle sequences, in the end, the show comes down to the characters we have grown to love. The show has given us the likes of Jon Snow, Daenerys Targaryen, Tyrion Lannister, and Arya Stark, who will go down through history as some of television’s most iconic characters....

Now that the series has ended, fans of Game of Thrones are attempting to explain its entire plot in a single tweet. This gives them 280 characters to sum up eight years, eight seasons, seven kingdoms, and a massive cast of characters that are as beloved as the series finale was divisive. Based on the book series from George R. R. Martin titled A Song of Ice and Fire, Game of Thrones is a record-breaking series that stands alongside shows like The Sopranos, Deadwood, and The Wire as one of HBO’s best....

Is Drogon, the most powerful of Daenerys’ dragons, really the Prince That Was Promised in Game of Thrones season 8? When the show returns for its final season this spring, many fans expect it will reveal the identity of some long-prophesied savior figures, and one fan theory claims it’s not Jon Snow or Dany as long suspected. Like any fantasy series, HBO’s Game of Thrones includes legends and prophecies aplenty, all helping to further develop and enrich the world in which the story is set....

Above: A top-down view of the MacBook Air’s SSD chips connected via an mSATA connection to the logic board. Solid-state storage is all the rage these days. Tiny flash-based memory chips connected via a daughter card to the MacBook Air’s motherboard enable Apple’s ultra-thin notebook to boot and respond way faster than the flagship 27-inch iMac equipped with a hard drive. NEC Corporation, a Japanese IT company, has a new technology which promises to obsolete SSDs....

Please Note: For all of these machines, I have used Oracle Virtual Box to run the downloaded machine. I am using Kali Linux as an attacker machine for solving this CTF. The techniques used are solely for educational purposes, and I am not responsible if the listed techniques are used against any other targets. Summary Steps required to solve this CTF: Getting the target machine’s IP Address by running Netdiscover utility Scanning open ports by using the Nmap scanner Enumerating HTTP service with Dirb utility Identifying WordPress vulnerabilities Enumerating FTP service...

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lvMgMrNDlg&feature=g-all] The Computer History Museum announced today a new online exhibit dedicated entirely to Steve Jobs and his work. Apart from detailing Jobs’ life from the Homebrew Computer Club all the way up to the iPad, or as they put it, “From the Garage to the World’s Most Valuable Company”, the exhibit also includes a rare Steve Jobs presentation from 1980. The video is remarkable, if for no other reason, that Jobs continued to talk about some of the same concepts and principles thirty years later....

The Nikkei Asian Review reports the latest on the on-off-maybe acquisition of display maker Sharp by iPhone assembler Foxconn. Various potential deals appear to be under discussion with both Mizuho Bank and Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ. These include paying the banks less for the shares they hold, reducing the interest rate payable on a joint loan to Sharp and agreeing that the banks will provide financial support in the event that the feared liabilities do indeed materialize after the deal is done....

Need a few apps to keep you occupied this weekend? You’ll definitely want to check out the latest edition of Friday 5. Inside you’ll find a stylish new Pinball game, a writing app that’s great for putting together long-form projects, and a multi-platform podcast app that helps keep you up to date with all of your favorite shows. PinOut I don’t play many games on my iPhone, but every now and then I stumble upon a title that keeps me coming back again and again....

The NBC sitcom Friends will always be known as one of the best tv shows of all time. While it contained many of television’s most memorable moments, it wasn’t without its flaws. While there may have been awkward moments like Monica’s fat suit, Phoebe revealing herself to be a former mugger, or Tom Selleck appearing sans mustache, the show still made itself memorable by the chemistry between its wonderful cast. While most people tend to focus on the traditional couples of the show, like Monica and Chander, or Ross and Rachel, the unsung heroes of the show might just be Joey and Phoebe....

Arya’s new dragonglass weapon that she asked Gendry to make has been revealed in Game of Thrones season 8, episode 2. Last week’s episode, the Game of Thrones season 8 premiere, “Winterfell”, brought several characters together for the first time in many years - both in-universe and in real time. One of those pairings was Arya and Gendry, who left King’s Landing with each other several years before and haven’t seen each other since Gendry joined the Brotherhood Without Banners....

The final season of Game of Thrones will have its longest battle ever with a massive cast in its highly anticipated Battle of Winterfell. There are several plot threads left dangling in Game of Thrones that need to be wrapped up before the series finale. The most dire though is the army of dead, The White Walkers, and their invasion of the country of Westeros. When Game of Thrones season 7 ended, most of the major characters decided to set aside their bloody battle for the Iron Throne and band together to defeat the ice zombies from the North....