Lawyers for Malaysian poker player Wei Seng Phua, suspected by US authorities of organizing an underground betting operation, demanded that the court invalidate all the evidence collected against him. The athlete's representatives referred to the fact that FBI agents obtained a search warrant for their client's hotel room, illegally turning off the Internet in the room, and then getting inside under the guise of network cable repairmen.

A student at the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (KPI), based on a bug discovered on VKontakte, developed a utility that allows you to install the administrator of any of the social network communities. A link to the program on October 29 appeared in the “KPI live” group. The utility, which is called “ Tearer of Veils ,” works based on the VKontakte API.

A prolonged attack by unknown Russian hackers led to disruptions in the computer network used by employees of the American White House. reported this on October 29 Reuters . The administration of US President Barack Obama spoke about the discovery of suspicious activity in one of its closed computer networks. According to a cabinet representative, as a result of the activities of cybercriminals, problems arose with access to the network, and some of its services were temporarily unavailable.

The Joker service has appeared on the Internet, allowing you to watch movies from torrent trackers directly in your browser. It was first noticed on October 18 by the Dutch website Apparata , but the project only became known in the West now. service The Joker is primitively simple: the site has only one field for inserting a link to a torrent file and no other controls or navigation.

The general director of the Yotaphone manufacturing company Yota Devices, Vladislav Martynov, responded to the negative review of the smartphone by the advisor to the president of Rosneft, Mikhail Leontyev. Martynov’s appeal appeared on October 29 on a separate Facebook page , apparently created specifically for this occasion.

The world's largest travel site TripAdvisor has presented a top list of the twenty most famous cemeteries in the world, based on internal user reviews and site ratings. To determine the leaders, an algorithm was used that took into account the quality and quantity of reviews of cemeteries, mausoleums and catacombs on TripAdvisor, where they are included in the “Entertainment” category.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky took up the fight against “trolls” on his personal Twitter Mikhail Khodorkovsky was released at the end of December 2013, having spent about ten years in prison. Despite the fact that his arrest happened in a world that did not yet know Facebook and Twitter, the former oligarch began to quickly master the Internet and everything connected with it.

The first message transmitted over the ARPANET was sent on October 29, 1969. Originally a US military development, ARPANET became the prototype for the emergence of the Internet - a network connecting the computers of ordinary users around the world, reminds Gizmodo .

Jade Raymond's departure from Ubisoft, sequel to Outlast and Hearthstone on Android Author: Editor batya New modes in Titanfall, Hearthstone on Android and iPhone, Jade Raymond's departure from Ubisoft, the continuation of Outlast, ten years of GTA: San Andreas, Halloween in Valve shooters and other main gaming news and trailers of the past week from the batya project .

Backstage of Russian Fashion Week in pictures from Instagram At the end of October, the next Russian Fashion Week took place in Moscow. TJournal collected the most spectacular pictures from the Instagrams of spectators, designers and models who took part in it. Russian Fashion Week, also known as Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia since 2011, is held in Moscow twice a year: in early April and mid-October.

The author of the legendary board game Operation, John Spinello, and his friends turned to netizens for help: he needed to raise $25,000 for dental surgery. The idea for Operation, which brightened the childhoods of millions of children, came to John in 1964. He sold his invention to a toy manufacturer for $500, after which he did not receive another cent for it.

Users of the Google Hangouts service in Russia and 24 other countries around the world have the opportunity to make free international calls lasting less than one minute. on October 28 A message about this appeared in one of the official Google blogs. Free 60 seconds are available to both users of the Hangouts mobile applications for iOS and Android , as well as in the web version of the service.

Author: Nikita Demchenko On October 27, at the Code/Mobile conference hosted by Re/Code, popular reality TV star Kim Kardashian gave a half-hour interview in which she talked about her passions for social media, mobile games and confessed her love for BlackBerry. TJournal selected the most interesting statements Kim made that evening.

Hewlett Packard introduced a desktop computer called the Sprout PC, which uses a smart pad with a scanning and projection system instead of a keyboard and mouse. This was reported by The Verge . Externally, the Sprout resembles a regular desktop computer with a 23-inch touchscreen monitor, to which the usual controls seem not to be connected. What makes it special is the rug placed on the table and the projector mounted above the display, which looks like a built-in lamp.

Adobe officially distanced itself from the Gamergate movement on its blog after netizens accused it of having ties to Gawker Media, which allegedly condoned online aggression that has been going on for several months. The history of Adobe's relationship with the Gamergate movement began on October 16th.