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If you have received a password reset or "update your password" email from Adobe recently, you are not alone.

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While the release of GCC 13.1 as the first stable GCC 13 compiler is due out in the next few weeks, ahead of that milestone dozens of Rust "gccrs" patches were merged today for furthering along that new language support...

Security updates have been issued by Debian (cairosvg, ghostscript, grunt, tomcat9, and trafficserver), Fedora (golang, podman, xen, and zchunk), Red Hat (kpatch-patch), SUSE (systemd), and Ubuntu (apache-log4j1.2, liblouis, linux-aws, and linux-bluefield).

Following the Intel Meteor Lake VPU driver being added to the new accelerator "accel" subsystem in Linux 6.3 along with converting over the Habana Labs AI driver, coming in Linux 6.4 is now the Qualcomm QAIC Cloud AI driver to this subsystem that lives within the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) umbrella...

2022 was a harrowing year in a long line of harrowing years. A brutal war in Europe raised the prospect of nuclear war as the leaders behind the invasion rattled sabers and made thinly veiled threats to use weapons of mass destruction. And all this as were still working our way through the fallout of a global pandemic.

Those hot-headed threats raise an interesting question, however. Decades have passed since either Russia or the United States ran a live nuclear weapons test. Given that, would the nukes even work if they were fired in anger?

Check and Test

Ransomware gang Money Message claims to have hacked the Taiwanese multinational IT corporation MSI (Micro-Star International).

Ransomware gang Money Message announced to have hacked the Taiwanese multinational IT corporation MSI (Micro-Star International). Micro-Star International AKA MSI designs, manufactures, and sells motherboards and graphics cards for customers in the United States, Canada, and internationally. MSI is headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan.

The ransomware group added the company to the list of victims on its Tor leak site, it claims to have stolen the source code from the company, including a framework to develop bios, and private keys.

The group published a series of screenshots of the companys CTMS and ERP databases

The Money Message group threatens to publish the stolen files by Wednesday, April 12, 2023, if the company will not pay the ransom.

BleepingComputer reported that the ransomware gang has demanded a ransom payment of $4,000,000.

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Ansible Lint, a Python command-line tool, catches errors in Ansible playbooks and content.

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PipeWire 0.3.68 is out today as a significant update for this alternative to JACK and PulseAudio as well as managing both audio and video streams on the Linux desktop...

Intel today submitted their final batch of "drm-intel-gt-next" feature changes that they have planned for the upcoming Linux 6.4 kernel cycle...

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Intricate glass designs can be made with origami and cutting techniques, which can be combined with 3D printing to make more complex shapes:

The ancient art of origami is well known for transforming sheets of paper and other foldable materials into complex 3D shapes. But now, chemical engineers have extended the centuries-old practice to produce intricate shapes made of glass or other hard materials. Their thoroughly modern method, which can be combined with 3D printing, could have applications ranging from sculpture to catalysis and beyond.

[...] Typically, glass and ceramics are shaped in a mold or are 3D printed in the desired final structure. But a mold can't produce a complicated shape, Xie says. And although 3D printing can do so, it's slow, and an object can be flimsy and need extra support while it's being made. In addition, the printed item usually has a layered texture that might not be the ideal appearance. The team set out to see if they could overcome these shortcomings.

Yang Xu, a graduate student who works in Xie's lab at Zhejiang University, devised a technique in which she mixed nanoparticles of silica the main ingredient for making glass into a liquid containing several compounds. Curing the mixture with ultraviolet light produced a cross-linked polycaprolactone polymer with tiny beads of silica suspended in it, like raisins in raisin bread.

[...] Next, Xu cut, folded, twisted and pulled on sheets of this translucent polymer composite, which has mechanical properties similar to paper, to make a crane, a feather, a lacy vase and a sphere made of intertwined ribbons, among other objects. If she did this at room temperature, the composite retained its new shape fairly well throughout the remaining production steps. Xu discovered that's because the folding and stretching process irreversibly disrupts the interface between some of the silica particles and the polymer matrix. But if it's critical to fully retain the new shape during the subsequent steps, Xu found that the composite must be heated at about 265 F when it is folded and stretched. That permanently rearranges the links between the polymer chains, firmly fixing the new shape in place.

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Critical infrastructure attacks are a preferred target for cyber criminals. Here's why and what's being done to protect them. What is Critical Infrastructure and Why is It Attacked? Critical infrastructure is the physical and digital assets, systems and networks that are vital to national security, the economy, public health, or safety. It can be government- or privately-owned. According to Etay

Its interesting to contemplate the kind of missions we could fly if we develop lightweight smallsats coupled with solar sails, deploying them in Sundiver maneuvers to boost their acceleration. Getting past Voyager 1s 17.1 kilometers per second would itself be a headline accomplishment, demonstrating the feasibility of this kind of maneuver for boosting delta-v as the spacecraft closes to perhaps 0.2 AU of the Sun before adjusting sail attitude to get maximum acceleration from solar photons.

The economic case for smallsats and sails is apparent. Consider The Planetary Societys LightSail-2, a solar sail in low Earth orbit, which demonstrated its ability to operate and change its orbit in space for multiple years before reentering Earths atmosphere in November of 2022. Launched in 2018, LightSail-2 cost $7 million. NASAs Solar Cruiser, a much larger design still in development despite budging hiccups, weighs in at $65 million. Slava Turyshev and team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory independently verified a cost model, with the help of Aerospace Corporation, of $11 million for a one-year interplanetary flight based on their Technology Demonstrator design.

Those numbers go up with the complexity of the mission, but can be reduced if we take advantage of the fact that spacecraft like these can be repurposed. A string of smallsat sailcraft sent, for example, to Uranus to conduct flybys of the planet, its moons and rings, would benefit from economies of scale, with successive missions to other outer system targets costing less than the ones that preceded them. Here the contrast between dedicated flagship missions (think Cassini or the Decadal Sueveys projected Uranus Orbiter) could not be greater. Instead of a separately developed spacecraft for each destination, the modular smallsat/sail model creates a base platform allowing fast, low-cost missions throughout the Solar System.

To the objection that we need orbiters at places like Uranus to get the best science, the answer can only be that we need both kinds of mission if we are not to bog down in high-stakes financial commitments that preclude targets for decades at a time. Of course we need orbiters. But in between, the list of targets for fast flybys is long, and lets not forget the extraordinary range of data returned by New Horizons at Pluto/Charon and beyond. As the authors of the recent paper from the JPL team note, heliophysics can benefit from missions sent to various directions in the heliosphere:

The shape of the heliosphere and the extent of its tail are subject to debate and the new model of the heliosphereroughly spherical with a radius of 100 AUneeds confirmation. Of course, every mission out to >100 AU will tes...

Cancer is defined by cell cycle deregulation and uncontrolled growth. It is the second leading cause of death in the world. In the United States alone there were 1,658,370 new cancer cases diagnosed, 589,430 cancer deaths and an estimated 750,000 deaths in Europe.

We are fighting a losing battle?

IV Vitamin C for Cancer and Vitamin K3.

To some people, a court is just a political office and they conveniently disregard rulings from judges (since the beginning, in the EPOs case, as if obeying courts is optional)

Summary: The EPOs very own kangaroo court is said to be scheduled for June, but any sane person knows that its both illegal and unconstitutional, certainly in violation of several conventions (not that Benot Battistelli and Antnio Campinos ever let German law, the European Patent Convention etc. get in their way); the European Union (EU) will be a causality of such forceful introduction of an illegal court system (emboldening EU critics/sceptics) , which puts Battistelli and Campinos in the same class as Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin (Battistelli and Campinos also funded Belarus a fact they want to distract from)

We arent sure if it qualifies as fluidic logic, but [Steve Mould] was inspired by a simulation of water flowing through a maze and decided to build some actual mazes and watch water flowing through them. It turns out there are several physical effects in play, and you can see [Steve] discuss them in the video below.

The maze, of course, has to be oriented so that water flows into the top and flows out of the bottom. Without much thought, youd think that the water just goes to the bottom and then fills up. Eventually, the part that is open at the bottom will have water coming out, right? Turns out it isnt that simple.

A combination of air pressure and surface tension conspire to make the water do better than expected. Not that it perfectly solves it, but it doesnt just fill up the entire maze, either. Even more interesting is that once the water has found the bottom, changing the water color will clearly show the path through the maze since nearly all of the new colored water will follow the flow path.

Practical? We cant think of why. But it is a great think piece on how water flows and what sort of forces can affect it.

[Steve] is no stranger to making water work out algorithms, something called fluidic logic.

...

Google Play will be pushing Android app developers to allow users to delete their account and associated data from within the app. Users will also be given the option to only delete data where applicable, as some data needs to be retained for security, fraud prevention, or regulatory reasons. Googles new app account and data deletion requirements Google Play has introduced new app account deletion requirements and added Data deletion questions to developers Data safety More

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A digital identification tool provided by OCR Labs to major banks and government agencies leaked sensitive credentials, putting clients at severe risk.

• London-based OCR Labs is a major provider of digital ID verification tools. Its services are used by companies and financial institutions including BMW, Vodafone, the Australian government, Westpac, ANZ, HSBC, and Virgin Money.
• A misconfiguration of the companys systems exposed sensitive credentials to the public.
• Data leak affected QBANK, Defence Bank, Bloom Money, Admiral Money, MA Money, and Reed.
• Using leaked data, threat actors could potentially breach banks backend infrastructure and consequently the infrastructure of their clients.
• Financial services are the main target for cybercriminals, so the threat for the organizations and their customers is severe.
• Cybernews contacted OCR Labs, and the company fixed the issue.

The Cybernews research team discovered a misconfiguration in the OCR Labs system that exposed sensitive data.

The company is a leading provider of digital ID verification tools, with its IDkit tool being used by major banks, telecoms companies, and governmental agencies. IDKit verifies users by linking their faces to their identity documents.

The discovered data leak impacted financial institutions in Australia QBANK, mainly used by government agency workers, Defence Bank, catering to the Australian armed forces, and MA Money, a company that focuses on residential mortgages.

The leak also affected Bloom Money and Admiral Money two financial companies based in the UK, and Reed, which is the UKs top recruitment agency.

Using leaked data, threat actors could potentially breach companies backend infrastructure and consequently the infrastructure of their clients. While financial services are the main target for cybercriminals, the threat to the organizations and their customers is severe.

Cybernews reached out to the company, and it fixed the issue.

A treasure trove of credentials

On March 8, 2023, the Cybernews research team discovered a publicly accessible environment file (.env) belonging to idkit.com, owned by OCR Labs.

The file contained database credentials, including host, port, and username, Amazon Web Services (AWS) with Simple Queue Service (SQS) access credentials, application tokens, and various application programming interface (API) keys.

Among the leaked data, researchers found Google and Liveness API keys. Liveness is used in the digital identification process, determining whether the sample belongs to a live person or a fake, thereby preventing ...

While Chrome 112 just shipped this week and Chrome 113 only in beta, there is already a big reason to look forward to that next Chrome web browser release: Google is finally ready to ship WebGPU support! WebGPU provides the next-generation high performance 3D graphics API for the web...

Summary: SUEPOs new publication, A State Of Affairs, is a shocking reminder that the EPO can collapse some time soon due to not only misguided leadership but deeply corrupt officials who rely on nepotism and bribes to delay/stall accountability

Dear colleagues, the Staff Union of the EPO (SUEPO) wrote today. In this State of Affairs, we briefly reflect on what will happen, what our administration should be doing vs. what it is doing.

We hope that our administration will observe the facts and starts looking at the longer-term sustainability of the office.

For 13 years (almost) Benot Battistelli and Antnio Campinos turned the EPO into not just a laughing stock but a serial violator of laws, conventions (including the EPC), and constitutions. The emergence of European software patents is a result of patent bubbles imploding and many examiners wont tolerate it anymore. Many have left for years and a lot more will leave, creating a vacuum in required skills, enraging top applicants. Heres the paper from SUEPO:

INTERNATIONALE GEWERKSCHAFT IM EUROPISCHEN PATENTAMT
STAFF UNION OF THE EUROPEAN PATENT OFFICE
UNION SYNDICALE DE LOFFICE EUROPEEN DES BREVETS

6 April 2023
su23014cp 0.2.1/1.3.1/4.4

A state of affairs

What will happen

- EPO staff will grow older;
- A quick glance at our demographics pyramid¹ shows that soon enough we will see 200+, even 300+ colleagues the most experienced ones leave the EPO every year;
- There is no indication against the long-term trend in patent filings which has always been onwards and upwards², even if the short-term variations may seem random.

What should be happening...

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Huawei's Bolt project is a deep learning library focused on high performance and heterogeneous flexibility and supporting a variety of neural networks. Bolt claims to outperform other deep learning acceleration libraries while supporting models from TensorFlow, ONNX, Caffe, and more...

<h2 class="wp-block-heading">The Threat Report Portugal: H2 2022 compiles data collected on the malicious campaigns that occurred from July to December, H2, 2022.</h2> <p><strong>The Portuguese Abuse Open Feed</strong> <a href= "https://feed.seguranca-informatica.pt/"><strong><em>0xSI_f33d</em></strong></a> is an open-sharing database with the ability to collect indicators from multiple sources, developed and maintained by <a href= "https://seguranca-informatica.pt/"><strong><em>Segurana-Informtica</em></strong></a>. This feed is based on automatic searches and is supported by a healthy community of contributors.  This makes it a reliable, trustworthy, continuously updated source, focused on the threats targeting Portuguese citizens. <a href= "https://feed.seguranca-informatica.pt/"><strong>0xSI_f33d </strong></a>has been<strong> part of the official </strong><a href= "https://support.virustotal.com/hc/en-us/articles/115002146809-Contributors"><strong>VirusTotal ingestors</strong></a><strong> since July 2021</strong> allowing the community to verify threats worldwide provided by this feed.</p> <p>The <strong>Threat Report Portugal: Q3 & Q4 2022 compiles data collected on the malicious campaigns that occurred from Jully to December, Q3 and Q4, 2022. The submissions were classified as either phishing or malware. In addition, the report highlights the threats, trends, and key takeaways of threats observed and reported into <a href= "https://feed.seguranca-informatica.pt/"><strong><em>0xSI_f33d</em></strong></a>. This report provides intelligence and indicators of compromise (IOCs) that organizations can use to fight current attacks, anticipate emerging threats, and manage security awareness in a better way.</p> <p><strong>Phishing and Malware Q3 & Q4 2022

The results depicted in Figure 1 show that phishing campaigns (98,7%) were more prevalent than malware (1,3%) during Q3 and Q4 2022. A growing trend in phishing submissions was observed in Q3 and Q4 (25369), with malware having 1.3% of the total, <strong><a href= "https://seguranca-informatica.pt/threat-report-portugal-q2-2022/">in comparison with 31.1% in Q2 2022</a></strong>.</p> <figure class="wp-block-image"><a href= "https://i0.wp.com/seguranca-informatica.pt/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/t1.png?ssl=1"> <img alt="" class="wp-image-10800" src= "https://i0.wp.com/seguranca-informatica.pt/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/t1.png?ssl=1"></a></figure> <p>Regarding Q1 2022, the phishing campaigns increased in reference to 2021 as a result of the research focused on the <strong><a href= "https://seguranca-informatica.pt/shopping-trap-the-online-stores-scam-that-hit...

VVenC is an open-source project from the Fraunhofer Institute for providing H.266/VVC video encode/decode capabilities. Out today is VVenC 1.8 with the latest enhancements for speeding up CPU-based H.266 video coding...

Googles Threat Analysis Group (TAG) warns of a North Korea-linked cyberespionage group tracked as ARCHIPELAGO.

Googles Threat Analysis Group (TAG) is warning of the North Korea-linked ARCHIPELAGO group that is targeting government and military personnel, think tanks, policy makers, academics, and researchers in South Korea, the US and elsewhere.

Google experts are tracking ARCHIPELAGO since 2012 and have observed the group targeting individuals with expertise in North Korea policy issues.

TAG believes that the ARCHIPELAGO group is a subset of a threat actor tracked by Mandiant as APT43.

The attack chain associated with ARCHIPELAGO starts with phishing emails that embed malicious links. The messages pose as sent by a representative of a media outlet or think tank and ask North Korea experts to participate in a media interview or request for information (RFI). Upon clicking the link, the recipient is redirected to a phishing page that masquerades as a login prompt.

The credentials provided by the recipient are sent to an attacker-controlled URL, however, after the recipient enters their password, the phishing page redirects to a benign document that contains the interview questions, or an RFI that includes information of interest for the victims.

The experts pointed out that ARCHIPELAGO focuses on building a rapport with targets.

ARCHIPELAGO invests time and effort to build rapport with targets, often corresponding with them by email over several days or weeks before finally sending a malicious link or file. In one case, the group posed as a journalist for a South Korean news agency and sent benign emails with an interview request to North Korea experts. reads the analysis published by Google TAG. When recipients replied expressing interest in an interview, ARCHIPELAGO continued the correspondence over several emails before finally sending a OneDrive link to a password-protected file that contained malware.

The threat actor has also sent links that lead to browser-in-the-browser phishing pages. The phishing pages display users with a fake browser window rendered inside the actual browser window. The fake browser window displays a URL and a login prompt designed to trick recipients into providing their password to a legitimate login page.

upstart writes:

noyb will take immediate action to stop this illegal practice:

As the Wall Street Journal reports, Meta (Facebook and Instagram) is switching from an illegal contract to equally illegal basis "legitimate interests" for advertisement, after noyb won a series of complaints against them. noyb will take imminent action, as the clear case law and guidance does not allow a company to argue that its interests in profits overrides the users' right to privacy.

Background. The GDPR allows to process personal data if a company complies with at least one of six legal basis in Article 6 GDPR. Most of these six options are irrelevant for advertisement. While most companies require users to consent ("opt-in") for the use of personal data for advertisement, Meta (Facebook and Instagram) have tried to bypass this requirement by arguing that the use of personal data for ads is "necessary under the contract" when the GDPR became applicable in 2018. noyb has instantly filed a series of complaints and ultimately won them before the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) in December 2022. Meta got until April to stop the practice.

One illegal practice replaced by next illegal practice. Now Meta announces to give in against the pressure by noyb, but instead of switching to an "opt-in" system, like Google or Microsoft, they now try to argue the next unlawful option, by claiming that their "legitimate interest" to process user data would override the fundamental right to privacy and data protection of users. This was tried by other companies before, but rejected by the regulators multiple times (see e.g. the Italian DPA on TikTok or the Belgian DPA on the IAB TCF at para 441).

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Another thing Microsoft would rather not be mentioned (the press is bribed to talk about some worthless chaffbot 24/7)

Summary: As can be seen above (latest data), Windows has barely even a majority market share for desktops/laptops in its home country

New CryptoClippy malware steals cryptocurrency by replacing wallet addresses during transactions.

Google is enacting a new data deletion policy for Android apps that allow account creation to also offer users with a setting to delete their accounts in an attempt to provide more transparency and control over their data.

For apps that enable app account creation, developers will soon need to provide an option to initiate account and data deletion from within the app and online, Bethel Otuteye, senior director of product management for Android App Safety, said.

This web requirement, which you will link in your Data safety form, is especially important so that a user can request account and data deletion without having to reinstall an app.

Researchers uncover a new attack technique involving malicious SFX files! These files can hide hidden functionality, enabling persistent backdoor.

Besides incorporating more anti-analysis and anti-virtualization checks, Typhon Reborn V2 removes its persistence features, instead opting to terminate itself after exfiltrating the data.

The malware ultimately transmits the collected data in a compressed archive via HTTPS using the Telegram API, marking continued abuse of the messaging platform.

Once the data has been successfully transmitted to the attacker, the archive is then deleted from the infected system, Brumaghin said. The malware then calls to terminate execution.

Cybersecurity researchers have taken the wraps off a previously undocumented ransomware strain called Rorschach thats both sophisticated and fast.

What makes Rorschach stand out from other ransomware strains is its high level of customization and its technically unique features that have not been seen before in ransomware, Check Point Research said in a new report. In fact, Rorschach is one of the fastest ransomware strains ever observed, in terms of the speed of its encryption.

The cybersecurity firm said it observed the ransomware deployed against an unnamed U.S.-based company, adding it found no branding or overlaps that connect it to any previously known ransomware actors.

Antibiotic resistance is a major public health threat, ranked as one of the top 10 by the World Health Organization. Every year, in the United States alone, nearly 3 million people are infected by drug-resistant bacteria and fungi, resulting in the death of around 35,000. While antibiotics are crucial in treating infections, overuse has led to the development of antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria. These infections pose a significant challenge to treatment.

Now, Professor John E. Moses of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has developed a new weapon to combat drug-resistant superbugs an innovative antibiotic that has the ability to shape-shift by rearranging its atoms.

Moses came up with the idea of shape-shifting antibiotics while observing tanks in military training exercises. With rotating turrets and nimble movements, the tanks could respond quickly to possible threats.

The World Health Organization confirmed an outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus disease in the central African country of Equatorial Guinea on February 13, 2023. To date, there have been 11 deaths suspected to be caused by the virus, with one case confirmed. Authorities are currently monitoring 48 contacts, four of whom have developed symptoms and three of whom are hospitalized as of publication. The WHO and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are assisting Equatorial Guinea in its efforts to stop the spread of the outbreak.

Marburg virus and the closely related Ebola virus belong to the filovirus family and are structurally similar. Both viruses cause severe disease and death in people, with fatality rates ranging from 22% to 90% depending on the outbreak. Patients infected by these viruses exhibit a wide range of similar symptoms, including fever, body aches, severe gastrointestinal symptoms like diarrhea and vomiting, lethargy and sometimes bleeding.

We are virologists who study Marburg, Ebola, and related viruses. Our laboratory has a long-standing interest in researching the underlying mechanisms of how these viruses cause disease in people. Learning more about how Marburg virus is transmitted from animals to humans and how it spreads between people is essential to preventing and limiting future outbreaks.

Lead author Yurii Victorovich Kovtun, despite being forced to evacuate the Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology amid the current Russia-Ukraine war, has continued to work with Kyoto University to create stable plasmas using microwaves.

Getting plasma just right is one of the hurdles to harnessing the massive amounts of energy promised by nuclear fusion.

Plasmas soups of ions and electrons must be held at the right density, temperature, and duration for atomic nuclei to fuse together to achieve the desired release of energy.

A coordinated international law enforcement operation has dismantled Genesis Market, an illegal online marketplace that specialized in the sale of stolen credentials associated with email, bank accounts, and social media platforms. Coinciding with the infrastructure seizure, the major crackdown, which involved authorities from 17 countries, culminated in 119 arrests and 208 property searches in

For those who care to remember it, November 2016 was a dark month for communities with a penchant for sharing files. Two huge sites fell in a matter of days, both courtesy of French authorities.

When OiNK was shut down in 2007, the worlds largest dedicated music-sharing community fell with it. Few believed that a new site could fill the pig-shaped hole left behind; some insisted it would be wrong to even try.

What.cd not only filled that hole but did so by meeting and then surpassing all expectations. Then in November 2016, as French authorities swooped, What.cd self-destructed and disappeared into history, exactly as previously promised.

The cybercrime unit of the French military police didnt wait for the dust to settle. Following a two-year investigation into Zone-Telechargement, the most popular pirate download portal in France at the time, police shut down the site and arrested several people, including its alleged founders.

Operation Gervais

Local anti-piracy groups SACEM and ALPA filed a complaint against Zone-Telechargement in 2014. The goal was to identify financial accounts, assets, advertising agencies, and the sites hosting servers.

In the wake of the raid, it was claimed that Zone-Telechargement generated at least 1.5 million euros in sales per year, utilizing offshore accounts in Malta, Cyprus and Belize. The site caused an estimated 75 million euros in damages to rightsholders, rightsholders said.

The alleged founders of Zone-Telechargement were later identified as high-school buddies Thibault Ferreira and Wilfrid Duval. The pair founded the site in 2012 but had left France and were living in Andorra when the authorities shut down their site. That didnt prevent their arrest or the seizure of luxury cars, real estate, and at least 450,000 euros.

Fallout Zone

Ferreira and Duval were eventually charged with offenses related to intellectual property crime, money laundering, and operating as part of an organized criminal gang. They spent the next few months in prison before being released in March 2017 with conditions, electronic tagging included.

In the years that followed, sites claiming to be Zone-Telechargement regularly appeared to fill the vacuum, including one that was later confirmed...

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Yagi-Uda antennas, or simply Yagis, are directional antennas that focus radio waves to increase gain, meaning that the radio waves can travel further in that direction for a given transmitter power. Anyone might recognize an old TV antenna on a roof that uses this type of antenna, but they can be used to increase the gain of an antenna at any frequency. This one is designed to operate within the frequencies allotted to WiFi and as a result is so small that the entire antenna can be printed directly on a PCB.

The antenna consists of what is effectively a dipole antenna, sandwiched in between a reflector and three directors. The reflector and directors are passive elements in that they interact with the radio wave to focus it in a specific direction, but the only thing actually powered is the dipole in the middle. It looks almost like a short circuit at first but thanks to the high frequencies involved in this band, will still function like any other dipole antenna would. [IMSAI Guy], who created the video linked above which goes over these details also analyzed the performance of this antenna and found it to be fairly impressive as a WiFi antenna, but he did make a few changes to the board for some other minor improvements in performance.

The creator of these antennas,...