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Suspected Chinese hackers tampered with widely used customer chat program -researchers | Reuters

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WASHINGTON, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Suspected Chinese hackers tampered with widely used software distributed by a small Canadian customer service company, another example of a "supply chain compromise" made infamous by the hack on U.S. networking company SolarWinds. The scope and scale of the hack was not immediately clear. In a message, Comm100 said it had fixed its software earlier Thursday and that more details would soon be forthcoming. The company did not immediately respond to follow-up requests for information. Publisher: Reuters Date: 2022-09-30T22:36:26Z Author: _____ Twitter: @Reuters Reference: (Read more) Visit Source Mystery hackers are "hyperjacking" targets for insidious spying | Ars Technica For decades, virtualization software has offered a way to vastly multiply computers' efficiency, hosting entire collections of computers as "virtual machines" on just one physical machine. Today, Google-...

NASA releases dramatic new photos of asteroid strike | FOX31 Denver

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NASA releases dramatic new photos of asteroid strike | FOX31 Denver CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The world now has stunning new photos of this week's asteroid strike, the first planetary defense test of its kind. NASA on Thursday released pictures of the dramatic event taken by the Hubble and Webb space telescopes. Telescopes on all seven continents watched as NASA's Dart spacecraft slammed Monday into the harmless space rock, 7 million miles (11 million kilometers) from Earth, in hopes of altering its orbit. Publisher: FOX31 Denver Date: 2022-09-30T11:43:17 00:00 Author: The Associated Press via Nexstar Media Wire Reference: (Read more) Visit Source The Largest Asteroid To Ever Hit Earth Was 25 Kilometers Wide | IFLScience Back before trees existed, when Earth was inhabited solely by single-celled organisms, the largest asteroid to ever hit our planet touched down near what we now know as Johannesburg, South Africa, forming...

How Yuri Milner Supports the Space Science Industry Through Philanthropic Giving | Nature World News

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"Yuri Milner is something of a visionary. He sees that while there are many good causes and pressing problems, ultimately our chances of thriving as a species depend on tending and feeding the precious flame of knowledge." - Stephen Hawking, TIME Magazine 2016 One of the 236 signatories of Warren Buffet and Bill and Melinda Gates' Giving Pledge, Yuri Milner has committed an unprecedented amount to science over the last decade. Publisher: Nature World News Date: 2022-09-30T17:47:08-04:00 Author: David Thompson Twitter: @natureworldnews Reference: (Read more) Visit Source ESA - Moon science generation Imagine landing your dream internship at the European Astronaut Centre (EAC), and then being unable to go into work. A group of excellent young professionals found themselves in this situation during the pandemic. This week, however, 23 of these interns finally got their opportunity to visit the home of Europe's Astronaut...

Mexican astronomers discover exoplanet 20 light-years away

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Three Mexican astronomers have discovered an exoplanet or extrasolar planet (not in our solar system) using observations gathered from the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), a system of ten radio telescopes with observing stations located across the continental United States (and Hawaii) that ... Publisher: Mexico News Daily Date: 2022-09-29T16:41:31-05:00 Author: Lydia Carey Twitter: @mexicond Reference: (Read more) Visit Source Happening on Twitter Last night, Julio Urías lowered his ERA to an NL-best 2.17. Urías, who is expected to make one more start this sea… https://t.co/b2nSmgDlBe ESPNStatsInfo (from Bristol, CT) Thu Sep 29 13:30:00 +0000 2022 And here's a picture of Trump embracing Mexican culture https://t.co/TR5ygUA0wT https://t.co/63rc2uodHC HugS86 (from Southern California) Thu Sep 29 20:50:49 +0000 2022 PUPDATE! 🐺 Mexican gray wolf Sonda is almost 5 months old!...

Run from robots at RoboBoston's Robot Block Party | Boston.com

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“These are definitely the droids you’re looking for,” insists MassRobotics about its Robot Block Party this weekend, in that way that people who make robots like to pretend they won’t eventually rise up and subjugate all of humanity. It’s adorable. Publisher: Boston.com Date: 2022-09-30T13:09:12 00:00 Twitter: @BostonDotCom Reference: (Read more) Visit Source Bioinspired robots walk, swim, slither and fly The Mini Cheetah, developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, can run at speeds of up to 3.9 metres per second. Credit: MIT CSAIL Nagpal was snorkelling in the Bahamas when she was approached by a school of colourful striped fish, moving as one. "They come straight at you and check you out and then move off," says Nagpal, now a mechanical engineer at Princeton University in New Jersey. Date: 2022-09-29 Twitter: @nature Reference: (Read more) Visit Source How Hotels are...