LONDON, July 12 (Reuters) - Hackers suspected of working for Russia's foreign intelligence agency targeted dozens of diplomats at embassies in Ukraine with a fake used car advert in a bid to break into their computers, according to a cybersecurity firm report published on Wednesday.
Friday, July 14, 2023
Russian hackers lured diplomats in Ukraine with cheap BMW ad | Reuters
Webb Celebrates First Year of Science With Close-up on Birth of Sun-like Stars
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory led the development and delivery of Webb's Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI).
From our cosmic backyard in the solar system to distant galaxies near the dawn of time, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has delivered on its promise of revealing the universe like never before in its first year of science operations.
What AI-powered robots have to say about their future with humanity - Nextgov/FCW
As a tech journalist covering both government IT and the video game industry for the past 20 years, I've been fortunate enough to be invited to attend some really interesting and unusual events.
The press conference was held at the AI For Good Global Summit last week in Geneva, Switzerland. It was sponsored by the International Telecommunication Union, which today is a United Nations agency.
Thursday, July 13, 2023
There's an entire solar system hiding inside Sweden - Big Think
It’s hard to miss when you walk around southern Stockholm: the giant white ball known officially as the Avicii Arena , which locals simply call Globen , or “the Globe.
The venue is used mainly for ice hockey games, concerts, and other mass events, including the Eurovision Song Contest (twice, once in 2000 and again in 2016). In 2018, Metallica drew a record crowd of 17,303 fans to the Globe.
Congressman Says People 'Deserve to Know' About Aliens
The comments by Burchett come amid ongoing discussion about UFOs, UAPs and aliens throughout the U.S. after Air Force veteran David Grusch, told NewsNation that the U.S. Military has a secret program that previously recovered wreckage of a UFO.
Chinese Hackers Targeted Commerce Secretary and Other U.S. Officials - The New York Times
Ms. Raimondo, who has been one of the most outspoken critics of Beijing in the administration, was among the targets, according to two U.S. officials. She has tightened export controls on China and threatened to cut off the country's supply of U.S.
The trip was critical for both Washington and Beijing: It was the first visit to China by a U.S. secretary of state in five years and was aimed at establishing high-level channels of communication and improving deteriorating relations. Since then, Treasury Secretary Janet L.
Wednesday, July 12, 2023
Avi Loeb, Harvard professor, says he found alien technology fragments from meteor off Papua New ...
Loeb and his team just brought the materials back to Harvard for analysis. The U.S. Space Command confirmed with almost near certainty, 99.999%, that the material came from another solar system. The government gave Loeb a 10 km (6.2 mile) radius of where it may have landed.
"That is where the fireball took place, and the government detected it from the Department of Defense. It's a very big area, the size of Boston, so we wanted to pin it down," said Loeb.
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Earth-like planets may be more common than we ever imagined • Earth.com
In a study led by Dr. Lujendra Ojha of Rutgers University , scientists report that Earth-like planets with potential to harbor liquid water could be about 100 times more common than previously believed.
"It was estimated that around one rocky planet around every 100 stars would have liquid water," Dr. Ojha said at the Goldschmidt geochemistry conference held in Lyon, France.
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Tuesday, July 11, 2023
DeFi platforms lost $228 mn to hackers in Q2: Report
SAN FRANCISCO: Decentralised Finance (DeFi) has lost $228 million in Q2 this year across 79 separate incidents to hackers, while centralised platforms lost $37 million across two incidents, a new report has shown.
Decentralized finance is an emerging model for organising and enabling cryptocurrency-based transactions, exchanges and financial services.
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Robots say they won't steal jobs, rebel against humans | Reuters
GENEVA, July 7 (Reuters) - Robots presented at an AI forum said on Friday they expected to increase in number and help solve global problems, and would not steal humans' jobs or rebel against us.
But, in the world's first human-robot press conference, they gave mixed responses on whether they should submit to stricter regulation.
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Monday, July 10, 2023
Ukrainian hackers claim cyberattack against Russian railway | SC Media
Researchers say the multifaceted ransomware strain is still evolving and presents "significant harm" once it becomes fully operational.
Attack against Belarusian State University admitted by hacktivist group The Belarusian State University had its systems claimed to be compromised by Belarusian hacktivist operation Cyber Partisans, who said that it was able to exfiltrate more than 3 TB of data from the university, reports The ...
What to stream this week: 'Asteroid City,' Lukas Nelson, 'Quarterback' and 'Secrets of Playboy'
Albums from Lukas Nelson and Kool & The Gang plus a Spanish-language spin-off of "Bird Box" are among the new television, movies, music and games headed to a device near you.
— Wes Anderson's stylish and star-studded "Asteroid City" is coming to premium video on demand (VOD) on Tuesday.
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17 states could see the aurora borealis this week | Popular Science
Residents of 17 states could catch a glimpse of the elusive aurora borealis , also known as the northern lights , this Thursday.
The Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks has forecast auroral activity on July 12 and 13 parts of in Alaska, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, New York, New Hampshire, Vermont, Indiana, Maine, and ...
A “Forbidden Planet” Might Have Been Born from the Ashes of Its Star
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this view of a solar eruption on April 21, 2015 Photo: NASA/SDO
Its star has already gobbled up the available hydrogen and is currently fusing helium. Models of the star suggest that this isn't its first blow up either. It has expanded to a distance of roughly 0.7 AU at least once before.
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Sunday, July 9, 2023
The bizarre new name for UFOs actually makes a lot of sense
UFOs are the talk of the internet in 2023 thanks to a strange sighting in Las Vegas, but did you know unidentified flying objects actually have a new name? As aliens continue to be a hot topic of conversation, it's time to get clued up on the new alien lingo.
UFOs are now often called UAPs instead, which stands for the strange but actually pretty simple phrase unidentified anomalous phenomena.
‘World acknowledges India's capabilities & potential in space technology’
With over 140 Space StartUps within a short span of time, India has gained a sound footing and the entire world has begun to acknowledge this country’s capabilities and its potential in space technology, Union Minister for Science & Technology Jitendra Singh said today.
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Centralized exchanges lost nearly $11B to hackers over the past decade
The crypto industry has lost slightly more than $30 billion to hackers since 2012, with over 30% of that ($10.95 billion) stolen from centralized exchanges, as revealed by research conducted by blockchain security firm SlowMist.
The security firm reported that between 2012 and 2023, these exchanges endured 118 hacks, with the two most significant ones occurring in 2021 and representing almost $5 billion of the overall losses.
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