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https://infytq.infosys.com 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 Plain wrong: Millions of utility customers’ passwords stored in plain text "It's ridiculous vendors are replying to researchers via general counsel, not bug bounty." New flaws in 4G, 5G allow attackers to intercept calls and track phone locations A group of academics have found three new security flaws in 4G and 5G, which they say can be used to intercept phone calls and track the locations of cell phone users. A 12-Year-Old Built a Fusion Reactor in His Playroom A 12-year-old kid from Tennessee created a nuclear reaction in his family's playroom in January 2018, according The Guardian. That makes him the youngest known person to have done so. Programmer News for the Day Microsoft SEAL open source homomorphic encryption library gets even better for .NET developers! Since its open-source release on December 3rd 2018, Microsoft SEAL has become one of the world’s most popular homomorphic encryption libraries and has been adopted by security and privacy professionals world-wide in both academia and industry. New browser attack lets hackers run bad code even after users leave a web page MarioNet attack lets hackers create botnets from users' browsers. ACM SIGSOFT Talk, "What Role for Programmers in the Age of AI?" with Tim Menzies One of the misleading myths about AI is that it will remove the need for programmers—that somehow, programmers will disappear since AI tools will build our software systems. Word for the Day mar verb \ ˈmär  \ : to ruin or diminish the perfection or wholeness of : SPOIL A large scar marred his face. More Puzzle for the Day Anagram for the Day Water Level Puzzle A person in a boat... ...drops a cannonball overboard... ...does the water level change? Solution (Previous Puzzle): 144 nuts. Frankie finds 4 every hour, Glen finds 5 every hour and Alex eats 3 every hour, so the total per hour is 6, which is 6 x 24 = 144 extra nuts in a day. 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: Hikes Hocks Hooks Solution (Previous): HALLS : SHALL HATED : DEATH HEIRS : HIRES Innovation of the Day In 1893, carborundum was patented by Edward G. Acheson of Monongahela, Penn. He had discovered it accidentally while trying to make artificial diamonds. In 1935, nylon was discovered by Dr. Wallace H. Carothers of DuPont.   Carborundum In 1951, their theoretical description of the structure of proteins was published by Linus Pauling and Robert Corey in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Video for the Day Podcast for the Day What are Meteors? What's the difference between a meteor, meteorite, and meteoroid ... and exactly how scared should we be? Crash Course explains exactly what happens when earth encounters debris as it plows its course around the sun. The three-parent baby : BBC 6 Mins English The UK has become the first country to approve legislation allowing the creation of babies using DNA from three people. The technique is designed to stop genetic diseases being passed from mother to child. Neil and Harry talk about this controversial proposal. Listen to their conversation and learn some new vocabulary. Idiom for the Day get act together get organized and on schedule With just two months left for his exams, he said he should be getting his act together if he wanted to do well. More Quote for the Day “Experience tells you what to do. Confidence allows you to do it.” Stan Smith