Mmm hmm. The U.S. Government is a trickster when it comes to the phenomenon. It wants us to know that something is happening. It just doesnt want to give us any real details about it. Via: Fox: Susan Gough, a spokesperson for the Department of Defense, told Fox News Digital in an email on Tuesday []

On Tuesday, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen published a nearly 7,000-word post on his views about artificial intelligence and the risks it poses.

The puzzling behavior of black hole interiors has led researchers to propose a new physical law: the second law of quantum complexity.

Following yesterday's news of OpenGL 3.1 and OpenGL ES 3.0 working on the open-source driver for Apple M1/M2 graphics with Asahi Linux using their "edge" channel, those patches to the Asahi AGX Gallium3D driver have now worked their way into the upstream Mesa 23.2 codebase...

A groundbreaking revelation has the scientific community buzzing: a possible encounter with a parallel universe. Researchers suggest that signs from the universes furthest reaches may indicate another vastly different universe has touched ours, potentially disrupting our universes fabric. This interpretation could validate the multiverse theory.

Researcher Dr. Ranga-Ram Chary examined the cosmic microwave backgrounds noise and residual signals the remnants of the Big Bang. He discovered several sporadic bright spots, which he speculates could be the echo of our universe colliding with another billions of years ago.

This interpretation is tentative, but aligns with some cosmological theories suggesting that interactions between alternative universes could occur. These theories propose our universe is merely one bubble among countless others. Once a universe initiates in a Big Bang-like event, it perpetually expands. This rule applies to all universes, implying periodic intersections could occur.

A novel 3D printing method called high-throughput combinatorial printing (HTCP) has been created that significantly accelerates the discovery and production of new materials.

The process involves mixing multiple aerosolized nanomaterial inks during printing, which allows for fine control over the printed materials architecture and local compositions. This method produces materials with gradient compositions and properties and can be applied to a wide range of substances including metals, semiconductors.

Semiconductors are a type of material that has electrical conductivity between that of a conductor (such as copper) and an insulator (such as rubber). Semiconductors are used in a wide range of electronic devices, including transistors, diodes, solar cells, and integrated circuits. The electrical conductivity of a semiconductor can be controlled by adding impurities to the material through a process called doping. Silicon is the most widely used material for semiconductor devices, but other materials such as gallium arsenide and indium phosphide are also used in certain applications.

Nuclear physicists at RIKEN have successfully created an extremely neutron-rich isotope of sodium, ³⁹ Na, previously predicted by many atomic nuclei models to be non-existent. This discovery has significant implications for our understanding of atomic nuclei structure and the astrophysical processes that form heavier elements on Earth.

Nuclear physicists have made the most neutron-rich form of sodium yet, which will help reveal more about the complex world of nuclei.

Physicists at RIKEN have created an exceptionally neutron-rich sodium isotope, ³⁹ Na, which was previously believed to be impossible. This breakthrough has major implications for understanding atomic nuclei structure and the creation of Earths heavier elements.

Would you rather run into a brick wall or into a mattress? For most people, the choice is not difficult. A brick wall is stiff and does not absorb shocks or vibrations well; a mattress is soft and is a good shock absorber. Sometimes, in designing materials, both of these properties are needed. Materials should be good at absorbing vibrations, but should be stiff enough to not collapse under pressure. A team of researchers from the UvA Institute of Physics has now found a way to design materials that manage to do both these things.

Publishing.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.

Digital society is driving increasing demand for computation, and energy use. For the last five decades, we relied on improvements in hardware to keep pace. But as microchips approach their physical limits, its critical to improve the code that runs on them to make computing more powerful and sustainable. This is especially important for the algorithms that make up the code running trillions of times a day.

In our paper published today in Nature, we introduce AlphaDev, an artificial intelligence (AI) system that uses reinforcement learning to discover enhanced computer science algorithms surpassing those honed by scientists and engineers over decades.

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The first building blocks of life on Earth may have formed thanks to eruptions from our Sun:

A series of chemical experiments show how solar particles, colliding with gases in Earth's early atmosphere, can form amino acids and carboxylic acids, the basic building blocks of proteins and organic life. The findings were published in the journal Life.

To understand the origins of life, many scientists try to explain how amino acids, the raw materials from which proteins and all cellular life, were formed. The best-known proposal originated in the late 1800s as scientists speculated that life might have begun in a "warm little pond": A soup of chemicals, energized by lightning, heat, and other energy sources, that could mix together in concentrated amounts to form organic molecules.

In 1953, Stanley Miller of the University of Chicago tried to recreate these primordial conditions in the lab. Miller filled a closed chamber with methane, ammonia, water, and molecular hydrogen gases thought to be prevalent in Earth's early atmosphere and repeatedly ignited an electrical spark to simulate lightning. A week later, Miller and his graduate advisor Harold Urey analyzed the chamber's contents and found that 20 different amino acids had formed.

[...] But the last 70 years have complicated this interpretation. Scientists now believe ammonia (NH3) and methane (CH4) were far less abundant; instead, Earth's air was filled with carbon dioxide (CO2) and molecular nitrogen (N2), which require more energy to break down. These gases can still yield amino acids, but in greatly reduced quantities.

[...] "During cold conditions you never have lightning, and early Earth was under a pretty faint Sun," Airapetian said. "That's not saying that it couldn't have come from lightning, but lightning seems less likely now, and solar particles seems more likely."

These experiments suggest our active young Sun could have catalyzed the precursors of life more easily, and perhaps earlier, than previously assumed.

Journal Reference:
Kensei Kobayashi, Jun-ichi Ise, Ryohei Aoki, et al., Formation of Amino Acids and Carboxylic Acids in Weakly Reducing Planetary Atmospheres by Solar Energetic Particles from the Young Sun [open], Life, 2023. https://doi.org/10.3390/life13051103

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First of all, Im neutral on the Grusch revelations at this time. I want to know more. What I would like clarification on is why he had access to the documents, which are no doubt related to special access programs, if he wasnt directly involved with the recovery or back engineering programs? Very simply, he []

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Commvault announced new security capabilities across its entire portfolio. Signaling the next phase in its evolution, Commvault is helping businesses secure, defend, and recover their data to meet increasingly sophisticated cyberthreats head on. As part of these capabilities, Commvault has expanded its security ecosystem to include product integrations with Microsoft and CyberArk. Commvault has redefined data protection to include early warning technologies that help to secure against threats before they happen, defend enterprise data if More

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If youre looking for a controller for your computer or mobile device, you could certainly do worse than one of the latest iterations of the Xbox pad. They might not be perfect, but theyre fairly well-made, not particularly expensive, use standard USB and Bluetooth interfaces, and even have decent support in the open-source community. So if youre gaming on Linux or working on any other kind of retro gaming rig itll likely be plug-and-play.

This wasnt the case with the first generation Xbox controller, though, and although its proprietary connector was actually using USB, the controller scheme wasnt as open. This is [Tom]s effort of upcycling his original Xbox controller to work indistinguishably from a stock Xbox 360 controller.

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ChatGPT prompt and answer

Prompted by this exchange

I just had to check what its capabilities were. Here is what happened:

here.-->
formatting is available here.

PNMH::
write an OpenBSD pf.conf that blocks by default, allows traffic from the local host, allows name resolution, network time and ssh out from the DMZ, lets http and https through to the web server, and allows smtp that has been whitelisted by spamd to pass to the mail server.

To which ChatGPT answered:

Sure! Here's an example of an OpenBSD pf.conf configuration file that meets your requirements:

# Define network interfaces
ext_if = "em0"  # External interface (connected to the internet)
dmz_if = "em1"  # DMZ interface
lan_if = "em2"  # Local LAN interface

# Set default block policy
block all

# Allow traffic from the local host
pass quick on lo0 all

# Allow name resolution (DNS)
pass out on $ext_if inet proto udp to any port domain

# Allow network time (NTP)
pass out on $ext_if inet proto udp to any port ntp

# Allow SSH out from the DMZ
pass out on $dmz_if inet proto tcp to any port ssh

# Allow HTTP and HTTPS traffic to the web server
pass in on $ext_if inet proto tcp to $ext_if port { http, https }

# Allow SMTP traffic that has been whitelisted by spamd to the mail server
pass in on $ext_if inet proto tcp to $ext_if port smtp \
    rdr-to $lan_if port spamd

# Log and block any remaining traffic
block log all

    

Make sure to replace the interface names (em0, em1, em2) with the appropriate interface names on your OpenBSD system. Additionally, adjust the names of the web server and mail server as needed.

Remember to save the pf.conf file in the correct location (/etc/pf.conf by default on OpenBSD) and reload the firewall rules using the pfctl command for the changes to take effect.

Note: This configuration assumes you have already set up spamd and white...

The openSUSE team has announced the release of openSUSE 15.5 Leap, a minor update to the project's 15.x series. The new version mostly offers small updates and security fixes for the 15.x branch of the distribution. "This release brings newer packages like Mesa and others, but Leap 15.5....

Gao Xiang gave an overview of the Extended Read-Only File System (EROFS) in a filesystem session at the 2023 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management and BPF Summit. EROFS was added to Linux 5.4 in 2019 and has been increasingly used in places beyond its roots as a filesystem for Android and embedded devices. Container images based on EROFS are being used in many places these days, for example.

Wind River has introduced Wind River Studio Linux Security Scanning Service that provides professional-grade scanning to identify Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs). Tuned to the unique needs of embedded Linux development, it also indicates whether a remediation solution is already available for a given CVE, including fixes and patches available from Wind River. In a highly connected and complex computing landscape where security exploitations are becoming more prevalent, the effective and proactive monitoring and management More

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These 2 billion SWEAT tokens, which make up around 13% of the total supply, have been locked in

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A number of ransomware gangs have stopped using malware to encrypt targets files and have switched to a data theft/extortion approach to get paid; 0mega a low-profile and seemingly not very active threat actor seems to be among them. About the 0mega ransomware operation 0mega (spelled with a zero) is a relative newcomer to the ransomware/extortion business. Evidence of its activities were first spotted roughly a year ago, when one victim a More

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SAIC launched Trust Resilience, a holistic approach to support government agencies adopting the mandated zero trust architecture. Trust Resilience builds security into IT modernization, delivering protection and compliance of mission-critical resources no matter where organizations are on their technology modernization journey, said Shawn Kingsberry, VP, Cyber Solutions at SAIC. It also delivers well-defined metrics while aligning to all major federal government cybersecurity executive orders and the White House 2023 National Cybersecurity Strategy. SAICs offering enables More

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New York's skyscrapers are causing it to sink what can be done about it?:

The ground under New York City is sinking partly due to the sheer mass of all its buildings [...] As sea levels also rise to meet these concrete jungles, can they be saved?

[...] On the 300sq miles (777sq km) that comprise New York City sit 762 million tonnes (1.68 trillion pounds) of concrete, glass and steel, according to estimates by researchers at the United States Geological Survey (USGS). While that figure involves some generalisations about construction materials, that prodigious tonnage does not include the fixtures, fittings and furniture inside those million-odd buildings. Nor does it include the transport infrastructure that connects them, nor the 8.5 million people who inhabit them.

All that weight is having an extraordinary effect on the land on which it is built. That ground, according to a study published in May, is sinking by 1-2mm (0.04-0.08in) per year, partly due to the pressure exerted on it by the city buildings above. And that is concerning experts add the subsidence of the land to the rising of sea levels, and the relative sea level rise is 3-4mm (0.12-0.16in) per year. That may not sound like much, but over a few years it adds up to significant problems for a coastal city.

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Inspired by dog agility courses, a team of scientists from Google DeepMind has developed a robot agility course to test the abilities of four-legged robots called Barkour.

Since the 1970s, dogs have been trained to nimbly jump through hoops, scale inclines, and weave between poles in order to demonstrate agility. To take home ribbons at these competitions, dogs must have not only speed but keen reflexes and attention to detail. These courses also set a benchmark for how agility should be measured across breeds, which is something that Atil IscenGoogle DeepMind scientist in Denversays is lacking in the world of four-legged robots.

We proactively considered reproducibility of the benchmark and kept the cost of materials and footprint to be low. We would love to see Barkour setups pop up in other labs.
Atil Iscen, Google DeepMind

Despite great developments in the past decade, including robots like MITs Mini Cheetah and Boston Dynamics Spot which have shown how animal-like robots movement can be, a lack of standardized tasks for these types of robots has made it difficult to compare their progress, Iscen says.

Unlike previous benchmarks developed for legged robots, Barkour contains a diverse set of obstacles that requires a combination of different types of behaviors such as precise walking, climbing and jumping, Iscen says. Moreover, our timing based metric to reward faster behavior encourages researchers to push the boundaries of speed while maintaining requirements for precision and diversity of motion.

For their reduced-size agility coursethe Barkour course was 25 meters squared instead of up to 743 square meters used for traditional coursesIscen and colleagues chose four obstacles from traditional dog agility courses: a pause table, weave poles, climbing an A-frame, and a jump.

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postmarketOS is an Alpine-based Linux distribution for mobile devices. The project offers three mobile interfaces: Phosh, Plasma Mobile, and Simple Mobile X Interface (Sxmo). The project's latest stable....

At the end of our February article about the debate around the composefs read-only, integrity-protected filesystem, it was predicted that the topic would come up at the 2023 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management and BPF Summit. That happened on the second day of the summit when Alexander Larsson led a session on composefs. While the mailing-list discussion was somewhat contentious, the session was less so, since overlayfs can be made to fit the needs of the composefs use cases. It turns out that an entirely new filesystem is not really needed.

Work on the Centauri Dreams internals continues, with the unwelcome result that the site has been popped offline twice because of a possible security problem. Needless to say, this has to be resolved before I can move forward on other aspects of the rebuild. While I deal with that issue, let me respond to a few backchannel questions about yesterdays post on gas giants in red dwarf planetary systems. What Im being asked about is my comment that gas giants like Jupiter, at similar distances and installation, around other classes of stars are common compared to what we see at red dwarfs.

This has been a problematic issue, and the matter is a long way from achieving a consensus among researchers. A moments reflection yields the reason: Finding gas giants in outer system orbits around a star like the Sun is no easy matter. Radial velocity is most sensitive when dealing with large planets in tight orbits, which is why the first detections in main sequence stellar systems, beginning back in 1995 with 51 Pegasi b, were of the hot Jupiter variety. That in itself offered new insights into planetary formation and dynamics. As physicist Isidor Isaac Rabi cogently asked when the muon was first detected, Who ordered that?

Were making all kinds of advances in radial velocity as we use ever more sophisticated instruments to measure the motion induced by orbiting bodies around distant stars, but if we back out to, say, 5 AU, Jupiters distance from the Sun, were still dealing with extremely tiny effects. Transits are problematic because a planet on a five-year orbit obviously transits its host on long timeframes. Gravitational microlensing is an interesting prospect, because here we can detect planets at the needed distances, but even so the catalog isnt large and there is much we dont know.

Fortunately, resources like the California Legacy Survey (719 stars over three decades) are available and have produced data on what we can call cold giants. I made my comment because of a paper in the Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series that I learned about through the Pass et al. paper we looked at in the previous post. This is from Caltechs Lee Rosenthal and colleagues, and it examines the combination of small rocky planets with outer gas giants using the CLS for the bulk of its data. The result is a look at the occurrence of close-in planets with outer giant companions.

The Rosenthal paper addresses radial velocity work on F-, G-, K- and M-class stars and targets both categories of planets, finding that roughly 41 percent of systems with a close-in small planet also host an outer giant. By close-in small pla...

Island announced the first password manager natively built into an enterprise browser, providing IT teams and employees with powerful new capabilities to eliminate password abuse, help ensure organizational custody of corporate passwords, and embrace passwordless user authentication flows. By offering an advanced password management system within Islands award-winning Enterprise Browser, Island offers enterprise-grade capabilities to more effectively meet organizational requirements absent in consumer-grade extension-based password managers. Password managers are an important security tool, but theyre More

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SUSE engineer Nikolay Borisov sent out a set of patches today for "ia32_disabled" that would allow disabling of support for x86 32-bit processes from running on x86_64 Linux systems. As a first step this would be a boot-time option when "ia32_disabled" is set...

Although to most the term fission reactor brings to mind something close to the commonly operated light-water reactors (LWRs) which operate using plain water (H₂O) as coolant and with sluggish, thermal neutrons, there are a dizzying number of other designs possible. Some of these have been in use for decades, like Canadas heavy water (D₂O) reactors (CANDU), while others are only now beginning to take their first step towards commercialization.

These include helium-cooled, high-temperature reactors like Chinas HTR-PM, but also a relatively uncommon type developed by Terrestrial Energy, called the Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR). This Canadian company recently passed phase 2 of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commissions (CNSC) pre-licensing vendor revie...

Cisco launched a Full-Stack Observability Platforma vendor-agnostic solution that harnesses the power of the companys full portfolio. It delivers contextual, correlated, and predictive insights that allow customers to resolve issues more quickly and optimize experiences, while also minimizing business risk. This offering enables a new observability ecosystem that brings data together from multiple domains including application, networking, infrastructure, security, cloud, sustainability, and business sources. Full-Stack Observability is critical in todays digital-first business environment, said Liz More

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Microsoft has agreed to pay a penalty of $20 million to settle U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charges that the company illegally collected and retained the data of children who signed up to use its Xbox video game console without their parents' knowledge or consent. "Our proposed order makes it easier for parents to protect their children's privacy on Xbox, and limits what information

Velotix has released a three-tiered architecture for its security platform that enables enterprises to transition towards fully automated data access. By beginning with data discovery and auto-tagging, and then evolving towards AI powered data access and automatic policy generation, Velotix is providing modules that match an enterprises stage on their data governance journey. The phased approach enables companies to experience the benefits of automation faster and control compliant access to data with minimal risk. Velotix More

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June 2023 security update for Android released by Google fixes about fifty flaws, including an Arm Mali GPU bug exploited by surveillance firms in their spyware.

The June 2023 Android Security Bulletin provides details about the fix for more than fifty vulnerabilities affecting Android devices.

Security updates released this month also addressed a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-22706, that affects the Arm Mali GPU. The flaw made headlines because it was exploited by surveillance firms for their spyware.

CVE-2022-22706, a vulnerability in Mali GPU Kernel Driver fixed by ARM in January 2022 and marked as being used in the wild. At the time of delivery, the latest Samsung firmware had not included a fix for this vulnerability. This vulnerability grants the attacker system access.

In March, Googles Threat Analysis Group (TAG) shared details about two distinct campaigns which used several zero-day exploits against Android, iOS and Chrome. The experts pointed out that both campaigns were limited and highly targeted. The threat actors behind the attacks used both zero-day and n-day exploits in their exploits.

The exploit chains were used to install commercial spyware and malicious apps on targets devices. The CVE-2022-22706 vulnerability was exploited as part of these exploit chains.

In early April, U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added nine new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, including the above issue.

June 2023 Android update includes 2023-06-01 security patch level vulnerability details and 2023-06-05 security patch level vulnerability details.

As usual, the June 2023 Android update is split into two. The first part, which arrives on devices as the 2023-06-01 security patch level, resolves 10 vulnerabilities in the Framework component and 13 bugs in the System component.

Three of these issues are critical-severity remote code execution (RCE) flaws. They are tracked as CVE-2023-21127, CVE-2023-21108, and CVE-2023-21130...

Version 15.5 of the openSUSE Leap distribution has been released. This is not intended as a feature release, but brings updated versions of many packages. The project has also announced that there will be one more 15.x release before that series ends and users have to migrate to whatever its successor will be.

CoSoSys announced that it will provide same-day support for the upcoming macOS Sonoma release. MacOS Sonoma (macOS 14) is scheduled for release later in 2023. CoSoSys customers using its Endpoint Protector solution for Device Control and DLP, will be able to upgrade to macOS Sonoma immediately after release, with no gaps in protection. One of the reasons customers choose Endpoint Protector is our commitment to same-day support for Apples OS upgrades. Organizations want to leverage More

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Open Mainframe Project announces Co-Located Events with IBM TechXchange in September and Open Source in Finance Forum in November

SAN FRANCISCO, June 7, 2023 The Open Mainframe Project, an open source initiative that enables collaboration across the mainframe community to develop shared tool sets and resources, today announced the launch of the Call for Proposals (CFPs) for the 4th annual Open Mainframe Summit. This year, the premier mainframe event will be co-located with two industry conferences IBM TechXchange Conference 2023, hosted in Las Vegas on September 11-14; and Open Source in Finance Forum, hosted in New York City on November 1. 

As mainframe technology and events evolve and mature, it becomes a more natural evolution to align Open Mainframe Projects and activities with other industry events, said John Mertic, Director of Program Management at the Linux Foundation and Executive Director of the Open Mainframe Project. This year, by partnering with IBM and FINOS, we are offering attendees the opportunity to enhance their experience with unique presentations and targeted conversations with industry experts. 

As open source becomes the default development model for many enterprises, mainframe customers are looking to embrace community developed code for their mainframe environments, said Steven Dickens, Vice President and Practice Leader at the Futurum Group. The Open Mainframe Project has established itself as the go-to community for mainframe developers, enterprises and vendors alike.  The events announced today are a key part of how the community will gather to advance code on the mainframe. 

Open Mainframe Summit aims to connect and inform all those interested in growing the use of mainframes and related technology in dynamic technical and educational sessions. It is open to students, developers, corporate leaders, users and contributors of projects from around the globe looking to learn, network and collaborate. It will feature content tracks that tackle both business and technical strategies for enterprise development and deployment.

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The Russia-linked cybercrime gang thought to be behind a hack that has impacted companies around the world has posted a message to its corporate victims. In short, firms affected by the MOVEit hack are being told to congtact the Cl0p ransomware group before June 14, or face the consequences.

Immersive Labs and Accenture are working together to launch the Cyber Million program that aims to solve the cybersecurity talent deficit by increasing access to one million entry-level cybersecurity operations jobs over the next decade. The beta platform with Accenture Security serving as the first foundational partner. The program is now available to other organizations seeking to make cybersecurity operations roles available on the More

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Outside atomic nuclei, neutrons are unstable particles, with a lifetime of about fifteen minutes. The neutron disintegrates due to the weak nuclear force, leaving behind a proton, an electron, and an antineutrino. The weak nuclear force is one of the four fundamental forces in the universe, along with the strong force, the electromagnetic force, and the gravitational force.

Comparing experimental measurements of neutron decay with theoretical predictions based on the weak nuclear force can reveal as-yet undiscovered interactions. To do so, researchers must achieve extremely high levels of precision. A team of nuclear theorists has uncovered a new, relatively large effect in neutron decay that arises from the interplay of the weak and electromagnetic forces.

This research identified a shift in the strength with which a spinning neutron experiences the weak nuclear force. This has two major implications. First, scientists have known since 1956 that due to the weak force, a system and one built like its mirror image do not behave in the same way. In other words, mirror reflection symmetry is broken. This research affects the search for new interactions, technically known as right-handed currents, that, at very short distances of less than one hundred quadrillionths of a centimeter, restore the universes mirror-reflection symmetry. Second, this research points to the need to compute electromagnetic effects with higher precision. Doing so will require the use of future high-performance computers.

The quantum realm contains profound mysteries. Here, New Scientist editors have selected some of our most mind-bending feature-length articles about the deepest layer of reality we know.

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Network Perception introduced its next-generation NP-View platform, providing improved scalability and throughput, making OT network path analysis and reporting more comprehensive. The new analysis algorithm, offers significant performance improvements, including faster loading of access rules and object groups reports. OT network auditors now have much greater visibility into rule review, and therefore greater context for organizational rulesets, and the ability to analyze networks more quickly. NP-View More

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upstart writes:

A conductive self-healing hydrogel to create flexible sensors:

Recent advancements in the field of electronics have enabled the creation of smaller and increasingly sophisticated devices, including wearable technologies, biosensors, medical implants, and soft robots. Most of these technologies are based on stretchy materials with electronic properties.

While material scientists have already introduced a wide range of flexible materials that could be used to create electronics, many of these materials are fragile and can be easily damaged. As damage to materials can result in their failure, while also compromising the overall functioning of the system they are integrated in, several existing soft and conductive materials can end up being unreliable and unsuitable for large-scale implementations.

Researchers at Harbin University of Science and Technology in China recently developed a new conductive and self-healing hydrogel that could be used to create flexible sensors for wearables, robots or other devices. This material and its composition was outlined in the Journal of Science: Advanced Materials and Devices.

[...] In the future, the hydrogel created by this team of researchers could be used to develop a wide range of other sensors and wearable electronics, such as sensors that can detect human motion or medical devices that monitor specific biological signals. In addition, their work could pave the way for the development of similar flexible and conductive hydrogels with self-healing properties.

Journal Reference:
Xiaoming Wang et al, Constructing conductive and mechanical strength self-healing hydrogel for flexible sensor, Journal of Science: Advanced Materials and Devices (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.jsamd.2023.100563

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If you are a fan of LEGO bricks or Rube Goldberg, you should have a look at [Brick Technologys] billion-year LEGO clock. Obviously, it hasnt been tested for a billion years, and we wonder if ABS would last that long, but the video below is still worth watching.

Even if you arent a LEGO fan, the demonstration of a pendulum clock and escapement is worth something and really shows the practical side of things. Of course, making a pendulum clock that keeps time isnt anything magic people have been doing that for centuries. But then more and more elements join to keep track of more time.

You might wonder how the pendulum keeps going for a billion years. Well, honestly, it cant. But a solar panel charges a battery that rewinds the clock when the drive weight reaches the bottom. We imagine the solar cell and battery would be maintenance items if you expected the billion-year life cycle.

Some will ask why, but we get it. If you must explain why you build everything you do with LEGO, you are doing it wrong. The clock even keeps track of the galaxys rotation which, apparently, completes every 230 million solar years.

Wed be impressed with this clock even if it werent made with LEGO. Sure, it isnt as posh as the fancy clock in Denmark. But it does work longer at least, in theory ...

A previously unknown threat actor has been observed targeting the U.S. aerospace defense sector with a new PowerShell malware dubbed PowerDrop.

Researchers from the Adlumin Threat Research discovered a new malicious PowerShell script, dubbed PowerDrop, that was employed in attacks aimed at organizations in the U.S. aerospace sector.

The PowerShell-based malware uses advanced techniques to evade detection, including deception, encoding, and encryption.

At this time Adlumin has yet to link the malware to a specific threat actor, but the researchers believe it could be a nation-state actor due to the level of sophistication of the malware and the nature of the targets.

Adlumin has not yet identified the threat actor behind the malware, but suspects nation-state aggressors as the discovery comes at time of increased R&D into missile programs as the war in Ukraine continues. reads the analysis published by Adlumin.

The researchers discovered the PowerDrop into in the network of a domestic aerospace defense contractor in May 2023.

The name comes from the Windows PowerShell tool and Drop from the DROP (DRP) string used in the code for padding.

The malware is being used to remotely execute commands on the infected systems and gather information from the target network.

The malicious script sends Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) echo request messages to the C2, which in turn replies with a similar ICMP ping for data exfiltration.

The usage of PowerShell for remote access is not new, nor is WMI-based persistence of PowerShell scripts or ICMP triggering and tunneling, but what is novel about this malware is that another code like it hasnt surfaced before, and it straddles the line between a basic off-the-shelf-threat and the advanced tactics used by Advanced Persistent Threat (APTs) Groups. continues the report.

The malware relies on the WMI-based persistence of PowerShell scripts, the malicious code is being executed by the WMI service using previously registered WMI event filters and consumers.

Despite the growing availability of legal options, online piracy remains rampant. In Japan, manga comics are a particularly popular category.

Publishers are attempting to deal with this issue by ramping up enforcement. This recently led to major success when a Cloudflare probe helped to shut down 13DL, Japans largest pirate site.

These enforcement efforts are intensifying but they are not new. Back in 2019, Japanese authorities arrested the operator of Mangamura, one of the leading manga pirate sites at the time.

Mangamura had only been around for roughly two years but according to Japan-based anti-piracy group CODA, it caused well over $2 billion in damages to the local manga industry. The operator of the site, Romi Hoshino, was held responsible and eventually pleaded guilty in a criminal prosecution.

In 2021 the Fukuoka District Court sentenced Hoshino to three years in prison and more $650,000 in fines. This is a serious sentence, no doubt, but the publishers werent done yet.

Publishers Demand Millions in Piracy Damages

Last summer, manga publishers Kodakawa, Shogakukan, and Shueisha filed a civil lawsuit against the former Mangamura operator. Together, the companies requested 1.9 billion yen in damages. Thats close to US$14 million based on todays exchange rate, without taking into account the 5% interest rate on top.

According to the complaint, Mangamura had around 100 million monthly visits at its peak. This arguably made it one of the largest pirate sites in history with the now 31-year-old Hoshino as the main defendant.

The monthly visits went up to 100,000,000, and based on [CODAs] calculation, the amount of the damages was estimated to be approximately 320,000,000,000 yen. Due to the large scale of the infringement, it was recognized as a social problem and named the worst piracy site in history, the complaint reads.

Queued via drm-misc-next and now on its way to DRM-Next ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.5 cycle is support in the VirtIO GPU DRM driver for the synchronization object user-space API. This is important for Vulkan and is working with the Venus/Virgl driver context as well as Intel/AMDGPU/Freedreno native contexts too...

Neural Magic's DeepSparse AI inference runtime continues to pursue "GPU-class performance on CPUs" and with the new DeepSparse 1.5 release is delivering even faster performance for CPU inference...

Security updates have been issued by Debian (c-ares), Fedora (curl and firefox), Oracle (cups-filters, kernel, and webkit2gtk3), Red Hat (emacs and kpatch-patch), Slackware (mozilla), SUSE (kernel and openssl-1_0_0), and Ubuntu (firefox and libreoffice).

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