In 1947, NASA’s predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), flew the Bell X-1 rocket plane at a rate faster than the speed of sound. Now, 75 years since the historic flight, NASA plans to do it again. Also: Artemis launch: NASA sets another date for its moon mission attempt The X-1 rocket’s flight was heard over the Mojave Desert in California when a sonic boom thundered across the high desert....
The images released by NASA include a “selfie” of JWST completing the “fine phasing” alignment of its 18 hexagonal mirrors to act as a single mirror, and images of a single star and the galaxies and stars behind it. “We have fully aligned and focused the telescope on a star, and the performance is beating specifications. We are excited about what this means for science,” NASA Goddard deputy optical telescope element manager for Webb said....
Arq Group, formerly Melbourne IT, was formed after it was sold for $35 million in February 2020, alongside the company’s Enterprise Services Division to an entity owned by Quadrant Private Equity and three members of the Enterprise Services Division management team, including its current Arq Group CEO Tristan Sternson. Under the acquisition plans, Arq will be bundled into NCS’ digital services arm, Next, which was set up internally two years ago to focus on digital, cloud, and platform services....
Possible Bug? “What happens on your iPhone stays on your iPhone” Apple advertised early this year. Security journalist Brian Krebs however, first discovered and reported a possible location tracking bug to Apple mid-November. Krebs noticed that his new iPhone continued to try and use location tracking while all Location Services toggles were switched off. Apple’s initial response was that this is “expected behavior” of the new iPhone and “there are no actual security implications”....
To find out whether it’s fit for P2P activities, I tested NordVPN myself. I analyzed the VPN’s security and privacy features and also took a look at its server network and speeds. Lastly, I tested its device and torrent client compatibility. Overall, I rate this VPN highly. It has a large server network with torrent-optimized servers and fast connections for easy downloads. Testing it is easy too – you can try NordVPN for free with its 30 day money-back guarantee....
Representative Ha Tae-keung of the People Power Party, South Korea’s main opposition party, claimed 13 unauthorised IP addresses accessed the internal network of Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) on May 14. Some of the addresses could be traced back to Kimsuky, a North Korean cyber espionage group, Ha claimed. “If the state’s key technologies on nuclear energy have been leaked to North Korea, it could be the country’s biggest security breach, almost the same level as a hacking attack by the North into the defense ministry in 2016,” the lawmaker said....
NSA’s report ‘Cybersecurity Technical Report (CTR): Network Infrastructure Security Guidance’ is available freely for all network admins and CIOs to bolster their networks from state-sponsored and criminal cyberattacks. The report covers network design, device passwords and password management, remote logging and administration, security updates, key exchange algorithms, and important protocols such as Network Time Protocol, SSH, HTTP, and Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). SEE: Cybersecurity: Let’s get tactical (ZDNet special report) The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is encouraging tech leaders to view the NSA document as part of its new push for all organizations in the US and elsewhere to raise defenses after the recent disk wiper malware targeting Ukrainian organizations....
In a press conference Wednesday, Huang told ZDNET that the two services will be “very long-term SaaS platforms for our company.” One service, Large Language Model Cloud Services, let’s a developer take a deep learning artificial intelligence program such as GPT-3 or Nvidia’s Megatron-Turing 530B, and tune it to particular applications, to make it specific for a task while reducing the effort a customer has to do. The second service, Omniverse Cloud Services, is an infrastructure-as-a-service offering by Nvidia that will let multiple parties collaborate on 3-D models and behavior....
Somehow, it’s invaded every form of behavior, in one way or another, and emerging from it seems an unlikely dream. I’ve been wondering, indeed, how the people who hold our systems together – IT professionals – managed to keep our systems together as everything seemed to crumble. This recurring thought invades my mind every time I hear of a new corporate hack – hullo, T-Mobile, your faces aren’t deep pink, they’re magenta, right?...
Olympus is a global company in the medical, life sciences, and industrial equipment industries with more than 31,000 employees. Olympus Mobilization of a Specialized Response Team Olympus is treating this incident with the highest priority, it said, having mobilized a specialized response team as soon as the suspicious activity was detected. To minimize further damage, Olympus suspended data transfers in the involved systems as part of the investigation. Olympus is in communication with all affected external partners, it said....
The Package Analysis Project is one of the software supply chain initiatives from the the Linux Foundation’s Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) that should help automate the process of identifying malicious packages distributed on popular package repositories, such as npm for JavaScript and PyPl for Python. It runs a dynamic analysis of all packages uploaded to popular open-source repositories. It aims to provide data about common types of malicious packages and inform those working on open-source software supply chain security about how best to improve it....
We’re not quite there yet, however. I’ve been playing with “GPT-2,” a program developed by the not-for-profit Silicon Valley company OpenAI. GPT-2 uses machine learning to automatically generate several paragraphs in a row of what seems like human writing. This is a fresh batch of code, released on Friday by OpenAI, and it’s more robust than what was first posted in February, when GPT-2 was announced. Unfortunately, this new code is not that much more impressive....
More specifically, the company is hiring computer programmers to create training data that will include lines of code, as well as explanations of the code written in natural language. Also: The best AI art generators: DALL-E 2 and alternatives OpenAI already has a ChatGPT model designed for translating natural language into code, called Codex. Before it was launched in 2021, Codex was trained on data scraped from GitHub, the code repository owned by Microsoft....
The report sent Opendoor shares surging by 21% in late trading. The report comes a week after competitor Zillow said it would close down its own operation of buying homes after failing to close sales with 90% of home buyers to whom it made offers. During a conference call Thursday evening, management was asked about Zillow’s highly publicized troubles, and whether Opendoor could have similar problems. CFO Carrie Ann Wheeler replied by stating, “We’re very good at this — this is core to what we do,” meaning, how to price homes and how to forecast trends in real estate....
In a recently published report, computer scientists at the University of Edinburgh and Trinity College Dublin said that this personally identifiable information (PII) is kicked back to various entities. This could be phone vendors, mobile networks, or even providers like Baidu, the company widely referred to as the “Google of China” with close government ties. Such personal data could be used to track individual users and determine their identities. China recently adopted a GDPR-style privacy regulation called the Personal Information Protection Law....
My wedding ring has been on for more than 28 years and rarely comes off my finger, so the option to wear a ring with amazing technology inside that will capture nearly all of the typical health and wellness data I want to see is exciting. We now have a review unit of the Oura Ring Generation 3 and will be putting it through its paces over the next month as we work on our review....
The new list features considerable changes, including the emergence of Broken Access Control, which moved from fifth on the list to number 1. The organization said 94% of applications have been tested for some form of broken access control, and “the 34 CWEs mapped to Broken Access Control had more occurrences in applications than any other category.” Cryptographic Failures also moved up the list to number 2 due to its connection to sensitive data exposure and system compromise....
Want to watch this cycling classic for free from anywhere in the world? You can use a VPN to connect to international websites that stream Paris-Nice 2023 for free. You’ll be able to coast right through this simple process: Last year’s champion, Primož Roglič, won the race in thrilling fashion, taking first place by just 29 seconds and surviving a last-ditch comeback from Simon Yates. But, due to injury, he isn’t in the Paris-Nice 2023 lineup....
That figure includes refugees and asylum seekers. The war in Ukraine played a sizable role. The UN reported more than 5.2 million refugees from Ukraine are present across Europe and estimated a total of 12.3 million people have been displaced to date. When people flee violence, poverty, and oppression, technology can help ease their resettlement and the new challenges of displacement. Language barriers are among those challenges. The ability to communicate in the local language can connect people in need with legal aid, education, and healthcare and help build trust and essential community connections....
Google last week started testing passkey support in Chrome and Android via the FIDO Alliance, the group behind passwordless sign-ins that use a smartphone’s sensors for biometric authentication. Apple in June announced passkey support for iOS and macOS using Face ID and Touch ID for logging into apps and websites. Passkeys are another step forwards. Google said passkeys are much safer than passwords since they can’t be reused and don’t leak in server breaches....
