Saturday, December 25, 2021

Best of 2021 - UCEPROTECT: When RBLs Go Bad - Security Boulevard

As we close out 2021, we at Security Boulevard wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the next in our series of the Best of 2021.

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Publisher: Security Boulevard
Date: 2021-12-25T08:00:51 00:00
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Big Sean Praises Black Women, Social Media Calls Out His Dating History [VIDEO]

* Big Sean is catching some serious heat online after his comments about Black women in a recent interview.

During a chat with ESSENCE, the hip-hop star spoke about his role in the BET dramedy, “ Twenties” and working with the all-female-lead show. The Detroit native said Black women "are magical" and that they're "the closest thing to God."

Publisher: EURweb
Date: 2021-12-23T15:30:46 00:00
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Debate: Is Kliff Kingsbury holding the Arizona Cardinals back?

GLENDALE, Ariz. — The Arizona Cardinals were embarrassed in Detroit on Sunday, losing to a one-win Lions team that was missing a multitude of starters on both sides of the ball including their top two playmakers in D'Andre Swift and T.J. Hockenson.

Over the last two seasons now, the Arizona Cardinals 0-3 now in games where a win would have clinched a playoff berth.

Publisher: 12news.com
Date: 11:51 AM MST December 22 2021
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DDoS Attack Prevention for Companies and Organizations - Daily Bayonet

One of the most common types of security breaches you have to be on the lookout for is DDoS attacks. They are extremely disruptive to online businesses, services, and all types of companies that use the internet to operate. Since 2020, these kinds of attacks have increased by more than 100%.

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Publisher: Daily Bayonet
Date: 2021-12-23T06:40:25 00:00
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10 Imperial moments that were out of this world in 2021 | Imperial News | Imperial College London

While most of us were excited   just   to get out of the house again, Imperial College London researchers were looking towards the skies. 

On 18 February, NASA’s latest rover Perseverance  touched down  safely on Mars in the 28-mile wide Jezero crater.

Publisher: Imperial News
Date: 2021-12-25T10:00:00 00:00
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Ten notable albums from Calgary-area artists in 2021 | Calgary Herald

While it would be nice to say that 2021 marked a return to normal in the Calgary music scene, that's not really the case. But, as with 2020, the uncertainty caused by the pandemic and its intermittent lockdowns seemed to spark the pent-up creativity in numerous acts.

Calgary singer Angela Wrigley is not a complete newbie to the scene.

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Anvil Receives Its First Update In Ealry Access

Developer Action Square has released a new update for Anvil this week as the game gets a boost in content while it's in Early Access. We have the notes below for most of the changes added to the game, sans some of the upgrades and modifications to specific armaments.

Publisher: Bleeding Cool News And Rumors
Date: 2021-12-23T18:52:10-06:00
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Arsenal 5-1 Sunderland: By the numbers - Arseblog News - the Arsenal news site

Overall it was a great night, with some fun stats but this will be a short and sweet post because it is late and after all this is just the League Cup.

19 – Shots by Arsenal, I hoped Arsenal could hit 20 because that would mean it was the third straight game of 20+ shots but I will still gladly take 19 shots and…

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Publisher: Arseblog News - the Arsenal news site
Date: 2021-12-22T05:24:38 00:00
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As India celebrates Ramanujan's contribution on National Mathematics Day, here's a look at his

Most kids have had Maths phobia and have seen siblings & friends go through the same dilemma. Here's why: it freaks us out when we cannot find the perfect value of X and Y. There seems to be just one way of doing these sums and if the final answer is off, the entire sum is wrong.

We often ran away from these problems (literally) because we could not, for the love of God, figure out the value of X and Y. And we could not care less if the lines on the graph were formed or not or if the point was on the X or Y axis or not.

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Exclusive: Miss Universe Harnaaz Sandhu REVEALS why she hid her first beauty pageant registration
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What does a moon sound like? : NPR

A NASA space probe captured some eerie sounds when it flew past Ganymede, one of Jupiter's moons. Ganymede is the largest moon in the solar system — it's even bigger than the planet Mercury!

Almost like those old dial-up modems, right? A NASA space probe called Juno captured this when it flew past Ganymede earlier this year. Ganymede is actually the largest moon in the solar system. It's even bigger than the planet Mercury.

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Date: 2021-12-24
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Today in history: Iconic ‘Earthrise’ photo taken from the moon | WFLA

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — On Christmas Eve, 1968, millions of people around the world tuned in to watch NASA’s Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders become the first humans to orbit another world. The moon.

While their command module orbited over the lunar surface, the astronauts beamed back now-iconic images of the moon and Earth.

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Publisher: WFLA
Date: 2021-12-25T01:12:27 00:00
Author: WFLA 8 On Your Side Staff
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Blue Moon lunar lander : Facts about Jeff Bezos' spacecraft | Space

In order to increase our knowledge of the moon and carry out experiments on its surface, people and machinery need to be delivered there by lunar landers. One of these currently being developed is the Blue Moon lander, created by the privately funded aerospace manufacturer, Blue Origin .

The Blue Moon lander, which began development work in 2016, uses autonomous technology to land with precision. Equipped with LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) sensors, Blue Origin claims that it is guaranteed to land within 23 metres of the pre-planned landing spot.

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Publisher: Space.com
Date: 2021-12-23T09:26:48Z
Author: Ailsa Harvey
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To the Moon and beyond: busy 2022 on horizon in space race

From launching the first Arab mission to the Moon to glimpsing the early universe using the world's most powerful telescope — 2022 is set to be a busy year for space exploration.

The UAE will send its Rashid rover to the lunar surface, marking the beginning of the country's ambitious long-term Moon exploration programme.

Publisher: The National
Date: 2021-12-25T03:30:00Z
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Shop the 'Moon' in downtown Texarkana

"This location fit us perfectly," she said. "Here we are, with the downtown entertainment district, the foot traffic now here, and the general vibe all fit us. It feels good, a happening place, positive energy, much better than downtown used to be."

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Publisher: Texarkana Gazette
Date: 2021-12-24 10:00
Author: Junius Stone
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Photos: Volunteer caravan feeds tamales to Half Moon Bay farmers

With the bilingual holiday anthem "Feliz Navidad' blaring from the stereo, the first truck in the Farmworker Caravan pulled into a Half Moon Bay Farm intent on a mission: Feed those during the holidays who feed the rest of us year-round.

It started Monday at the Moose Lodge in San Jose. There, about 40 volunteers in the holiday spirit, danced as they worked makeshift assembly lines and turned 200 pounds of masa, or cornbread dough, and 100 pounds of chicken and beef into tamales.

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Publisher: The Mercury News
Date: 2021-12-25T15:00:40 00:00
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Moon Tea opens in Downtown Lynchburg | WSET
Publisher: WSET
Date: 2021-12-25T08:02:34 00:00
Author: Kelsey Childress
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Why Scientists Waited 50 Years to Study This Moon Dust | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine

When NASA's historic Apollo program launched in the 1960s, it resulted in six space flights to Earth's natural satellite, the moon. These missions had grand results—from putting the first person on the moon in 1969 aboard Apollo 11 to 2,200 collected lunar samples in total.

Publisher: Smithsonian Magazine
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An asteroid the size of a bus will zoom past Earth next month

With the start of a new year, people are anxious about any new surprises. Luckily the first asteroid flyby of the year is a meager, bus-sized asteroid that poses little to no threat to Earth except for the chance to marvel at these flying rocks as they make their way close to the Sun.

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See NASA asteroid-bashing mission's star-studded first images from space - CNET

NASA's DART spacecraft captured this view of space and stars when it uncovered its camera on Dec. 7, 2021.

The images come from the spacecraft's Draco telescopic camera. DART opened the camera cover on Dec. 7 and -- much to the delight of scientists concerned about the camera getting jostled during launch -- the camera worked just fine.

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Author: Amanda Kooser
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NASA's Psyche Spacecraft to examine Uncharted World in the Asteroid Belt - Clarksville Online

By analyzing light reflected off the asteroid, scientists hypothesize that asteroid Psyche is unusually rich in metal. One possible explanation is that it formed early in our solar system, either as a core of a planetesimal – a piece of a planet – or as primordial material that never melted.

Elkins-Tanton led the group that proposed Psyche as a NASA Discovery-class mission; it was selected in 2017.

Publisher: Clarksville Online
Date: 2021-12-22T07:00:03 00:00
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Computer simulation models potential asteroid collisions: Results to provide data for NASA's

An asteroid impact can be enough to ruin anyone's day, but several small factors can make the difference between an out-of-this-world story and total annihilation.

The computer simulation initially sought to replicate model asteroid strikes performed in a laboratory.

"From these models, we learn generally a destructive impact process, and its crater formation," said Yang. "And from crater morphologies, we could learn impact environment temperatures and its velocity."

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Spacecraft in 2021 set their sights on Mars, asteroids and beyond | Science News

While a flurry of missions crowded around Mars this year, some lesser-explored parts of the solar system are about to get fresh eyes.

Three countries visited the Red Planet in 2021, sending orbiters, landers, rovers and even a helicopter. The United Arab Emirates successfully put its first interplanetary spacecraft, called Hope , into orbit in February, to study Mars' climate.

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Publisher: Science News
Date: 2021-12-22T14:00:00 00:00
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Brian Cox slammed by MP after warning asteroid could wipe out humanity | Metro News

The parallels between the president's reaction to an asteroid hitting the planet and many politicians actual reaction to the world being under threat from a pandemic is alarming, to say the least.

Discussing the struggle getting science to always be heard with the severity it needs, Cox said: 'We need to solve it because these things, as outlandish as they seem – an asteroid in this case – are a genuine threat and will happen at some point.'

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Publisher: Metro
Date: 2021-12-23T10:51:49 0000
Author: Adam Miller
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Fact check: Green meteorite over India shown in viral post online

Sky islands are "the tops of tall mountains that become environmentally isolated from each other," the magazine reported in August 2017. These islands are "separated by air rather than water."

The picture has no connection to the asteroids that passed by Earth in 2021 – including one on Dec. 11, two days before this post was shared.

Publisher: USA TODAY
Author: Sudiksha Kochi
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First full asteroid return sample confirms early Solar System origins

The sampling indicates Ryugu has a carbon-dominated composition similar to the Sun's photosphere (outer shell), much like certain meteorites. It's made of the most primitive materials in the Solar System, emerging from the dust disc that formed along with the Sun itself.

As it stands, the very existence of these studies represents an achievement. The first attempt to return a sample, from the astroid Itokawa in 2010, only netted a tiny amount of dust.

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Friday, December 24, 2021

Space Force moves closer to replacing aging DMSP weather sats - Breaking Defense Breaking Defense

Space Force moves closer to replacing aging DMSP weather sats - Breaking Defense Breaking Defense

WASHINGTON: With a recent second-stage award to Raytheon Intelligence & Space for prototype demonstration, the Space Force is one step closer to finally being able to replace its few remaining Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) weather satellites.

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-ES) on Nov. 29 announced its own EWS contract had been “up-scoped from a one year on orbit sensor demonstration to a three-to-five-year prototype spacecraft with residual operational capability.

Publisher: Breaking Defense
Date: 2021-12-22T14:16:17 00:00
Author: Theresa Hitchens
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Astronomers find record-breaking haul of starless 'rogue' planets | Space

Astronomers have discovered dozens of new "rogue" planets, roughly doubling the known number of these mysterious free-roaming worlds. 

A team of researchers found a collection of at least 70 exoplanets without parent stars — the largest single group of rogue planets ever found — in a patch of space about 420 light-years from Earth, a new study reports.

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Publisher: Space.com
Date: 2021-12-22T17:00:58Z
Author: Mike Wall
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The Orbiting Infrared Observatory is Designed to Be About 100 Times More Sensitive Than ...

The orbiting infrared observatory is designed to be about 100 times more sensitive than its Hubble predecessor. It seeks to succeed the Hubble in showing a different side of space🌌 2/5 pic.twitter.com/q2N6Hga3UA — Reuters (@Reuters) December 23, 2021

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Publisher: LatestLY
Date: 2021-12-23T21:00:54 05:30
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Photos of what Christmas looks like around the world

Glittering pine trees, Santa Claus and stockings are part of many people's ideas of Christmas, but the holiday can look vastly different around the globe.

From Europe to Asia to the depths of Antarctica, here's how Christmas is celebrated in nine places around the world — and one place orbiting around the world.

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Date: 2021-12-24T02:15:50 0000
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Tracking down the forces that shaped our Solar System’s evolution: Discovery answers

Meteorites are remnants of the building blocks that formed Earth and the other planets orbiting our Sun.

By studying a meteorite's chemistry and mineralogy, researchers like Nie and Carnegie's Anat Shahar can reveal details about the conditions these materials were exposed to during the Solar System's tumultuous early years.

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Crew Unpacks Cargo Dragon and Sets up New Space Research – Space Station

Less than two hours later, Dragon's hatch was opened as Chari and NASA Flight Engineer Kayla Barron entered the vehicle and began unloading critical research hardware and samples.

Astronauts Mark Vande Hei of NASA and Matthias Maurer of ESA (European Space Agency) also joined in the cargo activities beginning to unpack crew supplies, spacewalk gear, station hardware, and computer equipment to replenish the orbiting lab.

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Best Space Station Science Pictures of 2021 | NASA
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Date: 2021-12-17T16:34-05:00
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Astronomers discover largest group of ‘rogue planets’ yet - The Verge

Astronomers just discovered a treasure trove of "rogue planets" — free-floating planets that don't orbit a star but exist all by their lonesome in the depths of space.

Located within the Scorpius and Ophiuchus constellations, the planets were spotted using a suite of telescopes on both the ground and in space. Typically, rogue planets are difficult to image because they aren't close to any stars to make them visible.

Publisher: The Verge
Date: 2021-12-23T13:39:26-05:00
Author: Jasmine Hicks
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Astronomers discover dozens of rogue planets - Hawaii Tribune-Herald

Astronomers using Maunakea observatories have discovered at least 70 planets within our galaxy that do not orbit a star.

A team of astronomers from the Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Bordeaux in France and the University of Vienna, in Austria, used data collected from several telescopes around the world, including two on Maunakea, to locate the rogue planets throughout the Milky Way.

Publisher: Hawaii Tribune-Herald
Date: 2021-12-24T10:05:00 00:00
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Atmospheres of Small Planets Through a Big Telescope | astrobites

Title: Detecting Biosignatures in the Atmospheres of Gas Dwarf Planets with the James Webb Space Telescope

Authors: Caprice Phillips, Ji Wang, Sarah Kendrew, Thomas P. Greene, Renyu Hu, Jeff Valenti, Wendy R. Panero, Joseph Schulze

… because the latest “Great Observatory” is set to be launched into space this week! The space telescope known as JWST has become infamous amongst space professionals for long and frequent delays in its deployment since its conception in 1996 .

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Publisher: astrobites
Date: 2021-12-22T08:51:04-05:00
Author: Luna Zagorac
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The Vineyard Gazette - Martha's Vineyard News | Four Planets

Four of the visible planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Venus and Mercury, will appear together in the southwestern skies a short time after sunset.

We've been watching Venus, the brightest of them all for weeks. Jupiter is the second brightest and appears above and to the left of Venus. Look in between Venus and Jupiter for the bright planet Saturn.

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Lost In Space: Rocky Planets Formed From Missing Solar System Material – YubaNet

Rocky planets may have formed by two fundamentally different processes, but it is unclear which one built the terrestrial planets of our solar system.

In the new research, the team showed that the isotopic compositions of Earth and Mars predominantly result from the accretion of planetary bodies from the inner solar system, including material from the innermost disk unsampled by meteorites, with only a few percentages of a planet's mass coming

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Publisher: YubaNet
Date: 2021-12-23T16:24:07 00:00
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Skywatch: Planets, eclipses, and meteor showers in the New Year | Outdoors | magicvalley.com

Venus, the blazing "Evening Star," is poised to pass between the sun and earth, vanishing from view after Christmas, and becoming the "Morning Star" by mid-January.

Jupiter (currently in the south after sunset) has a twelve year orbit, so each year it slips about one zodiac sign to the east. That means it will be lost in the sun's glare about a month later than it was the previous year.

Publisher: Twin Falls Times-News
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Strange New Worlds: The Weirdest Planets Discovered in Our Universe - IGN

Scientists have been exploring the evolution of our universe for decades, trying to gain a better understanding of the cosmic phenomenon exhibited by the celestial bodies that occupy space.

With thousands of confirmed exoplanets and discoveries growing rapidly, it's safe to say the universe's planet portfolio is packed with some weird and wonderful entries.

Publisher: IGN
Date: 2021-11-01T20:25:42 00:00
Author: Adele Ankers
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Towards a Classification Scheme for the Rocky Planets based on Equilibrium Thermodynamic


Free energy as a function of the order parameter driven only by astronomical, geophysical and internal dynamics expressed in terms of the variable η = (A, G, I). The Earth-like Holocene stability is associated with the phase hψi = 0, for which η > 0.

Three major equilibrium states can be identified and the associated planetary states or phases are: Earth-like Holocene state; hot Venus-like state; cold Mars-like state.

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Why Superman's People Didn't Colonize Planets Beyond Krypton

Depictions of Superman's homeworld of Krypton have varied wildly over the years, and in one version, Kryptonians were kept from colonizing the rest of the galaxy thanks to a genetic alteration made to the species by a being called the Eradicato r , a being who would go on to a play a

Publisher: ScreenRant
Date: 2021-12-24T15:18:56Z
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