Physical Addresses of 270K Ledger Owners Leaked On Hacker Forum

A threat actor has leaked the stolen email and mailing addresses for Ledger cryptocurrency wallet users on a hacker forum for free. BleepingComputer reports: Ledger is a hardware cryptocurrency wallet that is used to store, manage, and sell cryptocurrency. The funds held in these wallets are secured using a 24-word recovery phrase and an optional secret passphrase that only the owner…

Hackers Are Selling More Than 85,000 MySQL Databases On a Dark Web Portal

An anonymous Slashdot reader writes:
For the past year, hackers have been breaking into MySQL databases, downloading tables, deleting the originals, and leaving ransom notes behind, telling server owners to contact the attackers to get their data back. If database owners don’t respond and ransom their data back in nine days, the databases are then put up on auction on a dark…

US, Israel in contact with ET, claims former chief

A retired Israeli security chief has claimed that we’ve been in contact with the ‘Galactic Federation’ for years. According to Haim Eshed, who spent 3… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/341636/us-israel-in-contact-with-et-claims-former-chief…

California Partners With Apple and Google For COVID-19 Contact Tracing On Phones

California is partnering with Apple and Google on an app to let people use their phones to track potential exposure to COVID-19. CNET reports: The digital system uses Bluetooth signals from people’s phones to alert them if they’ve been in contact with someone who’s tested positive for the novel coronavirus. The project takes advantage of two of the world’s most popular…

Most Popular Courses by Country 2020

Course Partner The Science of Well-Being  Yale University COVID-19 Contact Tracing  Johns Hopkins University Technical Support Fundamentals Google Machine Learning Stanford University Learning How to Learn: Powerful mental tools to help you master tough subjects McMaster University UC San Diego   Programming for Everybody (Getting Started with Python) University of Michigan Financial Markets Yale University Measuring and […]
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Most Popular Courses of 2020: A Year of Mental Health, Contract Tracing, and Job-Relevant Skills

By Betty Vandenbosch, Chief Content Officer, Coursera In 2020, a record number of people turned to online learning as a source of hope, growth, and resilience amid economic uncertainty, and campus and workplace disruptions. Since March, there were more than 69 million enrollments on Coursera—a roughly 430% increase compared to the same period last year. […]
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UK Becomes the First Country To Approve Pfizer/BioNTech Coronavirus Vaccine, Roll Out To Start Next Week

Hope Thelps shares a report: The UK has become the first country in the world to approve the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, paving the way for mass vaccination. Britain’s medicines regulator, the MHRA, says the jab, which offers up to 95% protection against Covid-19 illness, is safe to be rolled out. The first doses are already on their way to the UK,…

How to land a good letter of recommendation: Advice from an admissions expert

by Mary Beth Carroll, Assistant Director of Student Affairs in the Office of Student Engagement and Practice at the University of Michigan School of Public Health Most graduate school applications require two to three letters of recommendation, which provide another dimension to your application and, when viewed alongside other factors such as your GPA, professional experience and […]
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Arecibo telescope receiver platform crashes onto dish

The telescope has been inoperable since mid-November, when multiple engineering companies reported that safety in and around it could not be guaranteed. Now their fears have come to pass. No one was injured. Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/arecibo-telescope-receiver-platform-crashes-onto-dish…