Sunday, 30 August 2015
Google Finally Launches YouTube Gaming, A YouTube Dedicated to Gamers
Google has finally rolled out its Twitch-killer website YouTube Gaming. It’s a website dedicated to gaming videos and live streaming that will feature more than 25,000 pages for different gaming titles.
Earlier this year, Google announced that it will be playing a bigger role in the gaming market. To complete with Amazon-owned Twitch, the company announced a new YouTube spinoff called YouTube Gaming. Today, on August 26, the company has launched the website that will feature more than 25,000 pages for different games.
This stand-alone website of YouTube Gaming was expected to make the official appearance this summer. However, in the US and UK, the website is now live. It should be noted that last year Google made failed attempts to buy Twitch.
YouTube’s head of gaming Ryan Wyatt said, “Gaming is so big now. We’re doing billions of hours of watch-time a month, with hundreds of millions of users. It’s astonishing.”
Even though Twitch has a complete dominance over the game live streaming for some time now, YouTube Gaming has the potential to become a serious threat to Twitch’s dominance. The service will also have iOS and Android apps.
As the website is dedicated to gaming, typing a phrase won’t give suggestion from movies and songs. About the new service, Wyatt said: “We want to make live simple. We’ll definitely explore other opportunities to see how we can make live easier for people on consoles and phones, both for streaming and capturing content.”
During live streams, the viewer can also chat with others and the creators can monitor the comments from the app. Each gaming stream will have a custom and easily-shareable URL and the videos will stream at 60fps.
Friday, 14 August 2015
Installing Kali Linux 2.0
There are couples of ways through which you can initiate the install of this OS.
(a) Download Kali Linux and burn it to DVD/USB drive and boot your system using this DVD/USB.
(b) Create Virtual machine on your current operating system using tools like Oracle Virtual Box and boot your Virtual machine using ISO of this operating system.
From here, click System >> “Install kali” option to start the installation process.
Select your preferred language for this operating system installation.
Choose your location from next step.
Specify your keyboard layout from this step.
Set the hostname for your this new installation.
Select “Yes” from here to confirm the write operations on hard disk.
That’s it, the new operating system installation is underway now. Sit tight, it should take little bit time to complete, depending on your system resources and your network speed.
Once the installation is over, reboot and start using new operating system.
Conclusion
Kali Linux is the advanced version for old BackTrack penetration testing operating system. This new 2.0 release is being considered a major and important one. Kali Linux has very rich internet community and you can find lot of help and internet articles on the topic.
Kali Linux 2.0 is Released, Download ISO and Torrent Files
Kali Linux 2.0 has been released with tons of new features and it’s now based on Debian Jessie. It comes with improved hardware and driver support along with support for more Desktop Environment. Download the Linux Kali 2.0 ISOs and Torrents now.
At the recent Black Hat and DEF CON conferences, Kali Linux Dojo was presented. There, Dojo rooms were set up for the common public where people generated their own Kali Linux 2.0 ISOs for the first time. And today, in the most significant release of Kali since 2013, Kali Linux 2.0 is officially released.
Kali Linux 2.0 comes with new 4.0 kernel and is now based on Debian Jessie. It comes with improved hardware and wireless driver coverage. The official Linux Kali 2.0 ISO and Torrent files are released and you can download them from the website (links given ahead). The new Linux Kali version supports a variety of Desktop Environments including gnome, kde, xfce, mate, e17, lxde and i3wm.
Linux Kali 2.0 release has made it an up-to-date OS in a global and continuous release and thus it has transformed into a rolling distribution. It means that Kali is pulling continuous packages from Debian Testing and upgrading the Kali core system. This enables Kali Linux 2.0 and other future versions to take advantage of the newer Debian packages.
Along with the Kali Linux 2.0, you get an upstream version checking system that alerts you about the new upstream versions of tools. With this new system, core tool updates will take place more quickly.
As I mentioned above, Kali Linux 2.0 now natively supports gnome, kde, xfce, mate, e17, lxde and i3wm. The move to gnome 2 has come at a price of the minimum RAM requirement that has been increased to 768MB for a full gnome 3 session.
The ARM image section of Kali Linux 2.0 now supports boards like Raspberry Pi, Chromebooks, Odroids etc.
The mobile penetration testing platform NetHunter too comes with an update and now includes Kali Linux 2.0. Also, versions for OnePlus One, Nexus 5,6,7,9 and 10 has been released. The company has also released new VMware and VirtualBox Kali 2.0 images including 32 and 64-bit flavors of the gnome 3 full Kali environment.
Download Link : https://www.kali.org/downloads/
Friday, 7 August 2015
Windows 10 Is Stealing Your Bandwidth 'By Default' — Disable It Immediately
After installing Windows 10, Feeling like your Internet Bandwidth is dropping away? Windows 10 is stealing your network bandwidth.
Along with the privacy features related to Wi-Fi Sense, Windows 10 users should check for another hidden by default feature that uses your network bandwidth to share updates with other Windows 10 users across the Internet.
Microsoft launched Windows 10 on July 29 and offered a free upgrade to Windows 7,8 and 8.1 users, and for anyone who wants to download it. But, handling millions of simultaneous 3.5GB downloads is quite difficult for the company.
So, in order to cope up with the issue, Microsoft has baked a new feature into its latest desktop operating system that uses the torrent-style approach to obtain software updates, allowing Windows 10 users to download updates from other users.
The feature, known as Windows Update Delivery Optimization (WUDO), is initially designed to help users get faster software updates, which is quite a good idea to handle massive internet traffic of up to 40 Terabits per second (TBps).
WUDO works a lot like torrents work. Your computer running Windows 10 is used as part of a peer-to-peer network to deliver software updates faster to others, each person distributing a little bit of the files across multiple computers and helping everyone download updates quickly.
But, this peer-to-peer sharing method offered by Windows 10 is using your precious Internet bandwidth, without hinting you about it, because the feature is enabled by default in Windows 10 Home and Pro edition. WUDO is also enabled in Windows 10 Enterprise and Education, but only for the local network.
Windows 10 is Stealing your Internet Bandwidth
The feature, known as Windows Update Delivery Optimization (WUDO), is initially designed to help users get faster software updates, which is quite a good idea to handle massive internet traffic of up to 40 Terabits per second (TBps).
WUDO works a lot like torrents work. Your computer running Windows 10 is used as part of a peer-to-peer network to deliver software updates faster to others, each person distributing a little bit of the files across multiple computers and helping everyone download updates quickly.
But, this peer-to-peer sharing method offered by Windows 10 is using your precious Internet bandwidth, without hinting you about it, because the feature is enabled by default in Windows 10 Home and Pro edition. WUDO is also enabled in Windows 10 Enterprise and Education, but only for the local network.
How to Disable Windows Update Delivery Optimization (WUDO)?
You can disable the feature, but the option is buried deep in the Settings menu for Windows Update.
To turn this feature OFF, follow these given steps:
- Go to Settings in the Start menu
- Search for Update & Security
- Under Windows Update, open Advanced Options
- Under Choose How Updates are Installed, select Choose how updates are delivered
- Disable the toggle under Updated from More than One Place
The feature is a good idea to speed up software updates, but enabling it by default without the knowledge of users is probably not at all a great idea.
In a statement, a Microsoft said that the feature "helps people get updates and apps more quickly if they have a limited or unreliable internet connection" and that it "doesn't slow down your internet connection" because it uses a "limited portion" of idle upload bandwidth.
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