Reuters reports:
Google and Apple have sought to build public trust by emphasizing that the changes they are making to Bluetooth to allow the tracing apps to work will not tap phones’ GPS sensors, which privacy activists see as too intrusive. But the states pioneering the apps — North and South Dakota, and Utah — say allowing public health authorities to use…
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Ubuntu Linux 20.04 LTS ‘Focal Fossa’, Featuring Linux 5.4 Kernel and WireGuard VPN, Now Available For Download
Canonical has released the newest version of its Ubuntu Linux distribution, Ubuntu 20.04. This long-term-support (LTS) version is more than just the latest version of one of the most popular Linux distributions; it’s a major update for desktop, server, and cloud users. From a news story: Called “Focal Fossa,” it is an LTS version, meaning “Long Term Support.” Just how long…
Supernova remnant N132D investigated in detail
Researchers from Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) have conducted detailed spectroscopy of N132D—an X-ray bright supernova remnant (SNR) in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Results of the study, presented in a paper published April 15 on the arXiv pre-print server, provide important information about the chemical composition of this SNR and shed more light on its origin. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-04-supernova-remnant-n132d.html…
NordVPN Unveils First Mainstream WireGuard Virtual Private Network
One of the largest VPN companies, NordVPN, is rolling out NordLynx — it’s first mainstream WireGuard virtual private network for its Windows, Mac, Android and iOS client-software applications. ZDNet reports: NordVPN’s own tests have shown NordLynx easily outperforms the other protocols, IKEv2/IPsec and OpenVPN. How much faster? According to NordVPN’s 256,886 speed tests, “When a user connects to a nearby VPN…
Team Fortress 2 Source Code Leak Raises Security Fears
“The source code for Team Fortress 2 has apparently been leaked, leading to hackers reportedly able to deliver malware through Remote Code Execution to other players,” reports TechRadar. However, Valve assures users that playing on official servers is perfectly safe. From the report: This leak was initially reported by @SteamDB on Twitter, with the source code in question dating back to…
267 Million Facebook Profiles Being Sold For $600 On Dark Web
An anonymous reader shares a report: Threat actors are selling over 267 million Facebook profiles for $623 on dark web sites and hacker forums. While none of these records include passwords, they do contain information that could allow attackers to perform spear phishing or SMS attacks to steal credentials. Last month, security researcher Bob Diachenko discovered an open Elasticsearch database that…
Detached double-lined eclipsing binary detected in the star forming region NGC 2264
Astronomers have performed a photometric and spectroscopic monitoring campaign of the star-forming region NGC 2264. As a result, they found that this region hosts a detached double-lined eclipsing binary, which comprises two pre-main sequence M dwarfs. The finding is reported in a paper published April 9 on the arXiv pre-print server. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-04-detached-double-lined-eclipsing-binary-star.html…
Hacking the Pandemic: Global Research Community Gathers Online Against COVID-19
Long-time Slashdot reader DrYak writes: Over 500 scientists, software developers and clinicians joined forces in the COVID-19 virtual Biohackathon to develop new tools for working with the COVID-19 data. The outcomes of the event improved the accessibility of data, protocols, analysis pipelines and provided dedicated compute resources to execute demanding data analysis tasks. The COVID-19 Biohackathon was an online event from…
Programmer’s Real-Time Deepfake Lets Him Impersonate Elon Musk on Zoom
Motherboard reports on a new open source program “that superimposes someone else’s face onto yours in real-time, during video meetings.”
Programmer Ali Aliev used the open-source code from the “First Order Motion Model for Image Animation,” published on the arxiv preprint server earlier this year [and developed by researchers at the University of Trento in Italy as well as Snap]… With other…
DHS CISA: Companies Are Getting Hacked Even After Patching Pulse Secure VPNs
According to the DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), companies that run Pulse Secure VPN servers are still at risk of getting hacked, despite patching vulnerable systems. ZDNet reports: Pulse Secure VPN servers are enterprise-grade VPN gateways that companies use to let workers connect to internal company networks from across the internet. Last year, a major vulnerability was disclosed in…