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Elon Mask accused one of Tesla's employees of being involved in a deliberate fire in one of its factories

Elon Mask, CEO and organizer of Tesla Electric Cars, sent an email to all organization representatives about a fire at one of its manufacturing plants, which implied at potential harm.

Elon Mask said in his letter that one of the organization representatives was in charge of the fire purposely and made broad harm crafted by the organization, including changing the generation codes and spilling tasks information to outside gatherings.

In 2016, after the SpaceX rocket detonated as it was being refueled before testing the motor, Elon Mask and Space X's chief, Goyn Schottwell, proposed the likelihood of treachery.

Tesla is as of now expanding creation to achieve its expressed objective of delivering 5,000 Model 3 autos seven days before the finish of the present quarter of 2018. Tesla declared a week ago the beginning of a substantial scale rebuilding, lessening no less than 9% Workforce. The organization said laborers who effectively take part in the generation of Model 3 autos won't be influenced.

Staff from different offices in Tesla affirmed that they had gotten this message by means of their email from Elon Mask, who showed that there was broad examination concerning the reason for the fire.

Tesla declined to remark on the email, which stated:

"I was confounded when I took in this end of the week that there was a representative in Tesla who had completed an aggregate and pulverizing harm of our tasks. This included rolling out direct improvements to the assembling framework by changing client names and releasing a lot of exceptionally touchy Tesla information to obscure outsiders.

It isn't yet clear what the worker did, yet what he has conceded so far is awful. His pronounced legitimization was that he merited an update he had not gotten.

Notwithstanding, the effect of this subversive activity might be far more noteworthy than what we have seen up until now, so the examination will proceed top to bottom this week. Since we have to know whether he is acting alone or with different accomplices inside Tesla and in the event that he works with any outside associations.

As you most likely are aware, there is a not insignificant rundown of associations that need Tesla to vanish out and out, including those on the Wall Street stock trade who have lost billions of dollars and lost to such an extent. At that point there are oil and gas organizations, the world's most extravagant industry - they don't care for Tesla's concept of providing sunlight based vitality and electric autos. At that point there are numerous contenders, for example, real organizations delivering gas or diesel-controlled vehicles. Who were ready to misdirect a ton as far as outflows might be associated with being willing to cheat in different courses or to hurt contenders.

If it's not too much trouble be extremely watchful, particularly finished the following couple of weeks, with the goal that we increment the generation rate to 5,000 autos every week. Notwithstanding when outside powers do their best to upset us.

"In the event that you know or suspect anything suspicious, it would be ideal if you send it in an email message with however much data as could reasonably be expected. You can do this with your name, which will be kept private or secretly.

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United States fights botnet attacks

The US Department of Commerce and the US Department of Homeland Security have issued a draft report on strengthening action against botnet networks and other automated threats to the White House. The draft states that the United States should continue to work closely with international partners on distributed and widespread electronic security attacks Botnet attacks as a global problem.

The report comes in response to the Presidential Executive Order of 11 May 2017 on Strengthening Cybersecurity for Federal Networks and Infrastructure, recommending increased Internet flexibility and environmental communication against these threats, many of which come from outside the United States.

The Executive Order instructed the Ministers of Trade and Internal Security to conduct an open and transparent process to identify and promote action by appropriate stakeholders with a view to significantly reducing the threat of automatic and distributed attacks.

As part of its research, departments collected a range of inputs and contributions from experts and stakeholders in the private sector, academia and civil society and worked in consultation with the Ministries of Defense, Justice, the State, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, sector-specific agencies, the Federal Communications Commission, the Federal Trade Commission and other interested agencies.

The report said there were effective tools against botnet networks, but they were not widely used, as the tools, processes and practices needed to significantly enhance the resilience of the Internet and the ecosystem for communications were widely available and routinely applied to selected market sectors.

These tools, processes and practices are not part of common product development and dissemination practices in many other sectors, due to a variety of reasons, including lack of awareness, cost avoidance, inadequate expertise and lack of market incentives.

One of the recommendations of the report is the need to secure products throughout the lifecycle, adding that machines that are at risk at the time of deployment or lack the necessary facilities to correct vulnerabilities after they are discovered or remain in service after vendor support has ended. The combination of automated and distributed threats is very easy .

There is also a need for greater awareness and awareness of threats. Companies often lack the knowledge of the role their devices can play in the botnet attack, and may not be fully aware of the advantages of the technical controls available. Developers of manufacturers, From situations to knowledge and skills to deploy tools, processes and practices that make the ecosystem more flexible.

"Cyber security may be one of the most serious threats we face," said Wilbur Ross, US Commerce Secretary. "President Trump recognizes the need to strengthen our networks, and this administration is doing everything in its power to prevent bad actors from infiltrating our vital electronic infrastructure."

The report lists five complementary objectives that will improve the resilience of the ecosystem is to identify a clear path towards a sustainable, sustainable and secure technological market, enhance innovation in dynamic adaptation infrastructure with evolving threats, and promote innovation to prevent, detect and mitigate bad behavior across networks and build alliances between security and infrastructure Local and worldwide technology communities, and awareness-raising and education across the ecosystem.

The report also pointed out that market incentives should be more effective, as they do not appear to be in line with the Executive Order's goal of significantly reducing the threat of automated and distributed attacks. Product developers, manufacturers and vendors are motivated to reduce the cost and time required for marketing, Instead of building securely or providing effective security updates, market incentives must be re-organized to promote the best balance between security and convenience when developing products.

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The United States is back on top of the giant computers

For the first time since 2012, the United States will return to China with the world's fastest supercomputers via the Summit computer. IBM and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), the US Department of Energy, A giant computer of the Ministry of Energy, so that IBM claims that this computer is the largest and most intelligent computer in the world.

Summit has an exceptional capacity of 200 petaflops or 200,000 trillion calculations per second, making it the fastest current supercomputer on the Sunway TaihuLight computer, designed by the China National Research Center for Parallel Computing and Technology (NRCPC) and located at the National Computing Center of Wuxi Which has a capacity of 125 petaflop.

The new computer offers more than the fastest supercomputer in the US Titan Cray XK7 by 5-10 times. Titan is the fastest supercomputer available at the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Up to 17.6 petaflop.

The capabilities of this computer, which has been under development for several years, help to place it at the top of the top 500 global supercomputer rating list, which ranks the most powerful supercomputer based on the Linpack standard and is released twice a year.

The Summit computer includes up to 4608 servers, each with two IBM Power9 chips, each of which includes 22 processing core, 6 Nvidia Tesla V100 graphics processing modules per server, 10 bytes of RAM, and Because of NVIDIA graphics processing units, it is not surprising that this computer is used for learning automation and deep learning applications, as well as the high-power computing functions of advanced research, advanced materials and nuclear science.
IBM is the primary developer of this computer, collaborating with Nvidia, RedHat and Mellanox, specialists in InfiniBand networks to deliver this new computer. "The advanced hardware on Summit's computer provides a great platform for researchers," says Jeff Nichols, director of the computer science and computing lab at ORNL. To analyze large data sets and create smart programs to speed up discovery. "

Rick Perry, US Secretary of Energy, Bill Haslam, and Thomas Zacharia, director of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, talked about how science and society could benefit from the new supercomputer. Summit has the ability to calculate 30 years Of data saved on a desktop computer in one hour.

The United States has a long history of advanced computing, but China has been able to outperform it in recent years. China now boasts its world's fastest supercomputer Sunway TaihuLight and Tianhe-2, together with the Swiss Piz Daint computer and the Japanese Gyoukou computer. China is currently developing a new Tianhe-3, which is expected to be unveiled in 2020, with a computing capacity of up to Xafloop or A-Petaflop.

The Summit computer is the latest generation of IBM's next-generation computers to be developed for the US Department of Energy. There is another computer called Sierra, which will be located at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The computer is scheduled to be unveiled. This year, with a capacity of up to 125 Bitaflop, but both systems are much stronger than any giant computer currently in the Department of Energy.

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The Chinese-Chinese trade site hit with malicious software for digital currency mining

It seems that malicious mining software will not stop working as it is increasingly employed starting last year 2017, because of the high price of digital currencies, where hackers steal the power of computing users to hide the processes of generating digital currencies encrypted through malicious mining software .

Security researcher Troy Morsh found on the Bad Packets Report that the USCAC site is infected with malicious code designed to steal the computing power of site visitors for Cryptocurrency operations.

According to the report, the malicious code on the USCAC website is based on the most common mining tool known as Coinhive used in Monero Monero digital mining.

For security reasons, we've decided not to link directly to the affected site. Morsch warns that the web page can direct users to "counterfeit tricks for technical support and other malware downloads."

The reason for this hacking is that the USCAC site is running an older version of the Drupal content management system. Morch asserts that the USCAC source code indicates that the last time the site was updated was in December 2011.
USCAC is a community of business and professionals with 300 Western and Chinese members and thousands of business organizations. Its purpose is to "promote friendship and understanding" between the US and Chinese governments.

"Web sites that use older versions of Drupal are very weak and can be exploited collectively. Unfortunately, there are 115,000 sites using an old version of Drupal - some of which have not been updated for several years. It has been discovered that hundreds of these sites have been affected by similar breakthroughs. "

In fact, this is not the first government Web site to be hacked by malicious mining software. Last month, Morsch revealed a list of 400 hacked Web sites because they were using outdated versions of Drupal's content management system. The list of affected sites includes government sites in countries such as the United States, Mexico, Turkey, Peru, South Africa and Italy. Other notable examples include Chinese giant Lenovo, Taiwan-based D-Link Network Appliance and University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).

It is of great concern that well-funded institutions such as those mentioned above have failed to adequately update their websites and protect their users from such attacks. But Morsh points out that Coinhive's Web site may take some responsibility for the spread of malware.

Morsch said he had not yet notified the USCAC about the hacking, saying it was pointless to contact the operators of all 115,000 sites affected. Instead, he is collaborating with the Drupal Security Team and the US-CERT to spread an alert about these breaches.

Morsch advises all Web site operators using the Drupal platform to update to the latest available version as soon as possible, to protect sites and users from hacking their devices with such software used in encrypted digital currency mining.

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Gmail allows you to customize the fast scrolling procedures in Android.

Gmail has supported the Android operating system with rapid gestures in the mobile application for some time but has so far been very limited in scope. Scrolling has become a normal feature of most e-mail applications these days. The general rule is to provide many different options such as the ability to quickly delete a message Or postponed for later viewing.
Finally, Gmail supports customizable scrolling on the Android system, which is part of the latest application update. It was first noticed on Friday, and users can now customize the scroll gesture to the left or right and choose either to delete a message or mark one as read or Do not read, move, defer, or archive.

To customize the option, go to Gmail, then Settings, then General Settings, then select Quick Scroll Actions and choose the action you want to scroll.

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Microsoft Acquires GitHub Platform for $ 7.5 Billion

Microsoft today declared that it has gained the

GitHub stage for sharing code and is well known with numerous product engineers for a $ 7.5 billion arrangement.

As per Microsoft, Nat Friedman, VP and organizer of Xamarin, will be GitHub's CEO after the procurement. Previous CEO of GitHub Chris Wanstrat will be the VP of Microsoft to take a shot at new programming advancement procedures, answering to Executive Vice President Scott Guthrie.

The way that Microsoft has selected another CEO of GitHub is a reasonable sign that the organization's way to deal with coordinating GitHub will be like its achievement in working with LinkedIn.

"The GitHub stage will hold the designer soul and will work freely to give an open stage to all engineers in all ventures. Engineers will keep on using the programming dialects, apparatuses and working frameworks they decide for their undertakings - will in any case have the capacity to distribute their code in any working framework Any capacity cloud and any gadget. "

"I am extremely pleased with what GitHub and our locale have done over the previous decade and I am exceptionally cheerful that I will join Microsoft to enable GitHub to accomplish additionally advance and improvement," said Wanstrat. "Microsoft's product apparatuses and worldwide cloud will enable us to make GitHub more significant to engineers all over the place."

Regardless of the ubiquity of the GitHub stage among corporate clients, singular designers and open source ventures, it has endured late budgetary misfortunes and the securing opportunity was superior to an IPO. GitHub wanted to pitch the organization to Microsoft in view of their esteem for CEO Satya Nadila.

The GitHub stage was established in 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco and its most recent evaluation came to $ 2 billion out of 2015.

GitHub is an approach to keep up the market as it has been striving for nine months to locate another CEO and presently can't seem to make a benefit from its popular administration that enables developers to take an interest and work together. The arrangement will encourage Microsoft, which is progressively subject to open-source programming, to include new programming instruments and connection them to a stage that has turned into a basic piece of Microsoft's method for composing its own product.

GitHub is an essential device for software engineers and is utilized by numerous open associations including Microsoft and Alpha to store their own particular code sources, and is additionally a focal network for a wide range of designers.

GitHub has as of late endured vast misfortunes, losing $ 66 million more than nine months in 2016.

Last August, GitHub reported it was searching for an official to supplant Chris Wanstrat, prime supporter of the organization. Then, GitHub's Head of Business Affairs, Julio Avalos, joined the organization's top managerial staff and went up against a considerable lot of the everyday initiative duties of the organization.

GitHub has up to 27 million programming engineers taking a shot at 80 million source code archives in various programming dialects. Microsoft, already contradicted to this sort of open source programming improvement, is presently one of GitHub's biggest investors, Microsoft Satya Nadella is pushing the organization far from full dependence on the Windows working framework with more Linux-based inward advancement, so the organization needs better approaches to associate with the designer network on a vast scale.

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Asus replaces the touchpad with a touch screen

Asus ZenBook Pro unveiled today new models of its Asus ZenBook Pro laptop, in conjunction with its participation in the computex 2018 exhibition in Taiwan. The computers in this category sought to balance price and performance, but maintained a less attractive appearance. The company has presented models that include a useful and clear feature that captures the attention of a screen touch screen of 5.5 inches in the size of the smart phone screen where the normal touchpad is located.

The Asus ScreenPad is very useful, and unlike Apple's limited and useless MacBook Pro Touch Bar, the new device does not spare any of the physical keyboard buttons, so the touch screenPad plug-in resides in the traditional touchpad of the laptop, It is similar to the normal touchpad, but is the world's first smart touchpad, as it is functional as a multi-function touchscreen display, making it closer to a smartphone built into a Windows PC.

The screen can be converted to a screen, calculator, calendar or digital keyboard. It can also play YouTube videos via the Chrome extension, or it can simply be an extension of the main screen in the ZenBook Pro. Display Extension, with its ability to quickly adapt between different modes by pressing the F6 key.

Asus worked with Microsoft to develop Office Office extensions for this ScreenPad, so that Word, Excel and PowerPoint shortcuts can be accessed and modified on those files. The panel can act as a controller for music and video playback. Asus says it will support spotify control through the screen, with Issued by the ScreenPad developer toolkit.

The Taiwanese company aims to provide a Web site with all the compatible applications, most of which can be found within the Windows Windows Store. Besides the touchpad, which is the next step in adaptive computing, Asus has many other goodies to boast with ZenBook Pro , A 15.6-inch touch-screen 4K touch screen with thin edges that makes it a traditional 14-inch laptop.
The 14-inch model, which has the same footprint for the MacBook Pro 13-inch MacBook Pro with a design that uses aluminum at the top and bottom, has built an audio system that produces high-pitched, high-pitched sound, with no noise typically from computer speakers Traditional notebook, besides having a detailed ErgoLift dedicated to upgrade the keyboard and get a more natural mode of typing.

The ZenBook Pro 15 features a 15.6-inch NanoEdge, 4K UHD with Intel Core i9 processor, 16GB RAM, 1 TB of internal storage space, and a Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti graphics card, while the Zenbook Pro 14 Intel Core i7 processors, 16 GB RAM, 1 TB of internal storage space, and Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 MAX-Q graphics card.

The ASUS Asus ZenBook Pro 15 costs $ 2,300 to be available by late July, and the 14-inch model, which offers a long battery life of up to 13 hours, is sold in the fourth quarter.

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