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What’s next for the largest observatory on Earth? The new observatory, which is the largest ever built space telescope, successfully unfurled its last primary mirror segment on Saturday, Jan. 8. This was the culmination of what NASA called one of the most difficult deployments in space history. Now, the Webb mission team will focus on directing the telescope towards its final destination and getting important parts of the observatory online to support its astronomy work. Webb will arrive at its “insertion spot” by Jan. 23. Once it is in place, Webb will fire its engines to glide towards Earth-sun Lagrange…
Some of the most innovative Tesla owners have used their electric vehicles to mine cryptocurrency or privacy tokens such as Monero. According to them the most lucrative method to mine crypto using the help of a Tesla is to employ hacking the firmware and connecting graphic processing devices directly into the motor. A Tesla Model 3 owner reveals that this is how could earn an average of $800 per month in Ethereum at a time when the cryptocurrency was trading at a record high. Teslas, or any other fully electric vehicle, in fact are basically a huge computer that can…
WordPress revealed high-level vulnerabilities that were introduced internally by its core development team WordPress reported that it had fixed four vulnerabilities that were rated as high at 8 on a scale from 1-10. These vulnerabilities exist in WordPress core and were introduced by WordPress developers. Four WordPress Vulnerabilities WordPress did not provide enough details about the severity of the vulnerabilities and was brief on details. The vulnerability ratings were rated by the United States Government National Vulnerability Database, which logs vulnerabilities and makes them public. These are the four vulnerabilities: SQL injection caused by a lack of data sanitization within…
BlackBerry devices with the original operating system and associated services will be no longer supported after January 4. This marks the end of an era in BlackBerry’s history, which catapulted work into mobile technology. BlackBerry Ltd. in Ontario, a company that was once Research In Motion, has announced that handsets running its proprietary software “will not be expected to reliably work” after Tuesday according to its end of life page. This move was first announced in 2020. It effectively ends a line-up that is still popular in some parts of the globe for its reliability, security, and popularity. BlackBerry keyboards…
Engineered Arts, Cornwall has unveiled an android that looks remarkably like a human named Ameca. The company released a short promo video showing Ameca “waking up”, looking at its hands, and then moving towards the camera. Since Engineered Arts uploaded the 40-second clip earlier this week, it has been viewed well over 10,000,000 times online. Ameca is a grey-coloured robot with gender- and race-neutral features. It is described by the company as “the world’s most advanced human-shaped robot” and the “avantgarde of human-robotics technology.” To interact with people, a robot should look like a human. Engineered Arts founder Will Jackson…
A recently developed AI algorithm has discovered over 300 previously unknown planets, which were revealed in the data gathered by the now-defunct exoplanet-hunting telescope. Data gathered by a now-defunct telescope that hunted for exoplanets was analyzed by an artificial intelligence algorithm to discover over 300 previously unknown exoplanets. Astronomers have observed hundreds of thousands of stars using the Kepler Space Telescope, NASA’s first dedicated mission to search for exoplanets outside our solar system. Even after the telescope’s demise, its catalogue of potential planets continues to yield new discoveries. The data is analyzed by human experts for signs of extraterrestrial life.…
The number of WordPress website attacks is on the rise, with more than a quarter coming from Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2 cloud instances. About 5,000 of the 77,000 IP addresses that have tried to log into WordPress installations originate from Amazon’s EC2 instances, according to WordPress security experts Wordfence. Ram Gall, QA engineer and threat analyst at Wordfence, said that the attackers began exhibiting malicious behavior only last week, and as a result their IP addresses have been blacklisted. “While AWS makes it easy for businesses to move to the cloud, attackers are also utilizing the scale provided by…
According to Google, cyber criminals have now started hacking Google cloud accounts to mine cryptocurrency. Google’s cybersecurity team published its first threat horizon report detailing details of the hack. According to the report, 86 percent of the compromised Google Cloud instances were used to mine cryptocurrencies, a resource-intensive for-profit activity utilizing cloud computing resources, adding that most cryptocurrency mining software was downloaded within 22 seconds of the account being compromised. The cloud service offered by Google is one of the industry’s most popular remote storage system and allows the company to store customers’ files and data on a remote server…
According to a press release, researchers at the University of Washington have developed a wearable device to detect and reverse opioid overdoses. The device is worn on the stomach and detects when the individual stops moving and breathing. Naloxone is injected to restore respication. Justin Chan, a UW doctoral student in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering stated “We have created algorithms that run on a wearable injector to detect when the wearer stops breathing and automatically inject naloxone,” An accelerometer on the pilot device measures respiration, and an onboard processor senses the halt of motion…
A security breach at domain registrar GoDaddy exposed the details of 1.2 million customers. On Nov. 17, suspicious activity was detected in the company’s Managed WordPress hosting environment which turned out to be a third-party gaining access with a compromised password. The details were revealed to the US Securities and Exchange Commission by Godaddy’s Chief Information Security Officer, Demetrius Comes. 1.2 Million Users A total of 1.2 million customers with active and inactive Managed WordPress accounts had their email addresses and customer numbers exposed. The hackers also had access to the WordPress Admin password, as well as the SFTP username…