Tag: Czech Republic

Microsoft, SolarWinds Face New Criticism Over Russian Breach of US Networks

After Russia’s massive breach of both government and private networks in the U.S., American intelligence officials “have expressed anger that Microsoft did not detect the attack earlier But new criticisms are also falling on SolarWinds: Some of the compromised SolarWinds software was engineered in Eastern Europe, and American investigators are now examining whether the incursion originated there, where Russian intelligence operatives…

Google Search Rivals Urge EU To Revisit Android Antitrust Case

A group of search engines from around the world are banding together to demand European Union regulators address Google’s dominance in the online search market. They are also urging the EU to take a closer look at Google’s controversial auction process. From a report: The news comes hot on the heels of the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) antitrust case, which…

‘Guilty’ Verdict for Russian Who Stole 117M Dropbox and LinkedIn Login Codes in 2012

In 2012 “Russian hacker” Yevgeniy Nikulin breached the internal networks of LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring, and then sold their user databases on the black market, reports ZDNet. (He stole 117 million login codes, according to Bloomberg.) Nikulin was arrested in 2016 (while on vacation in the Czech Republic), and after an extradition battle spent years in U.S. prisons while awaiting his…

Vietnam: How a Country So Close To China Managed To Control COVID-19

New submitter AleRunner writes: Considering Vietnam’s proximity to China, where coronavirus was first reported, it might be expected that the Southeast Asian country would be affected by Covid-19 in a similar manner,” reports inews.co.uk. “China has more than 84,000 cases of coronavirus and more than 4,600 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center. Painting a strikingly different picture, Vietnam,…

New closest-known black hole lies in a visible star system

Only 1,000 light-years away, the star system can be seen with the unaided eye. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/closest-black-hole-hr-6819-eso-telescopium…

IBM is Deploying Its Watson AI to Help Governments Answer People’s Covid-19 Questions

Digital Trends reports:
IBM’s question-answering Watson A.I. is most famous for whooping the butt of human champions on quiz show Jeopardy. Now, IBM has repurposed its famous creation to help government agencies, health care organizations, and academic institutions around the world cope with the massive overload of questions that citizens have about the COVID-19 pandemic. This is the first time that Watson…

Mysterious Iron Age site may have been a retreat for religious hermits

Shards of pottery that was likely used for transporting food suggest a mountain site in the Czech Republic may have been a nature retreat for Iron Age religious hermits Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2238307-mysterious-iron-age-site-may-have-been-a-retreat-for-religious-hermits/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…

Realizing kagome spin ice in a frustrated intermetallic compound

Exotic phases of matter known as spin ices are defined by frustrated spins that obey local “ice rules”—similar to electric dipoles in water ice. Physicists can define ice rules in two-dimensions for in-plane Ising-like spins arranged on a kagome lattice. The ice rules can lead to diverse orders and excitations. In a new report on Science, Kan Zhao and a team…

Data Protection Authority Investigates Avast for Selling Users’ Browsing History

The Czech data protection authority has announced an investigation into antivirus company Avast, which was harvesting the browsing history of over 100 million users and then selling products based on that data to a slew of different companies including Google, Microsoft, and Home Depot. From a report: “On the basis of the information revealed describing the practices of Avast Software s.r.o.,…