Using NASA’s TESS spacecraft and the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT), astronomers from Canada and Ukraine have conducted observations of the magnetic chemically peculiar star HD 63401. Results of the study, presented in a paper published March 5 on the arXiv pre-print server, provide more insights into the puzzling nature of this object. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-03-unveil-nature-chemically-peculiar-star.html…
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Have the first proteins been found in meteorites?
Researchers say they’ve discovered the first complete proteins inside 2 meteorites. It’s tantalizing, since proteins play a key role in the cells of living creatures. But will the results hold up to scrutiny? Source: https://earthsky.org/space/proteins-amino-acids-meteorites-acfer-086-and-allende-origin-of-life…
Group Builds Massive New Library of Censored Articles Inside Minecraft
In countries where websites, blogs and a free press are strictly limited, Minecraft “is still accessible by everyone,” notes the official official web site for Reporters Without Borders (an international nonprofit defending freedom of information):
Reporters Without Borders used this backdoor to build “The Uncensored Library”: A library that is now accessible on an open server for Minecraft players around the globe….
Microsoft Patches SMBv3 Wormable Bug That Leaked Earlier this Week
Microsoft today released a patch for a vulnerability in the SMBv3 protocol that accidentally leaked online earlier this week during the March 2020 Patch Tuesday preamble. From a report: The fix is available as KB4551762, an update for Windows 10, versions 1903 and 1909, and Windows Server 2019, versions 1903 and 1909. The update fixes CVE-2020-0796, a vulnerability in Server Message…
Windows Has a New Wormable Vulnerability With No Patch Available
A vulnerability in version 3.1.1 of the Server Message Block (SMB) — the service that’s used to share files, printers, and other resources on local networks and over the internet — can allow attacks to execute code of their choice on both servers and end-user computers that use the vulnerable protocol, Microsoft said in an advisory. Ars Technica reports: The flaw,…
Microsoft Orchestrates Coordinated Takedown of Necurs Botnet
Microsoft announced today a coordinated takedown of Necurs, one of the largest spam and malware botnets known to date, believed to have infected more than nine million computers worldwide. From a report: The takedown effort came after Microsoft and industry partners broke the Necurs DGA — the botnet’s domain generation algorithm, the component that generates random domain names. Necurs authors register…
Astronomers identify nearly 3,000 candidate stars of a nearby star-forming galaxy
Using the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) and NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have conducted photometric observations of a nearby star-forming galaxy known as NGC 6822. They have identified nearly 3,000 candidate stars of this galaxy, which is reported in a paper published February 27 on the arXiv pre-print server. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-03-astronomers-candidate-stars-nearby-star-forming.html…
US Homeland Security Official Charged with Stealing Confidential Government Software, Databases
An anonymous reader quotes ZDNet: In a press release Friday, the U.S. Department of Justice charged a former Acting Inspector General for the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with the theft of proprietary software and confidential government databases. The indictment named Charles K. Edwards, a former DHS Acting Inspector General between 2011 to 2013, but also his former aid, 54-year-old…
AMD Discloses RDNA 2 Graphics, CDNA Data Center GPUs, Next-Gen Zen
“At its Financial Analyst Day, AMD disclosed additional details regarding its next generation CPU and GPU architectures,” writes Slashdot reader MojoKid:
– While the company isn’t ready to disclose concrete details yet, AMD is promising that Navi 2X will arrive this year and deliver “enthusiast-class” performance, excellent power efficiency, and “top-of-stack” GPUs with “uncompromising 4K gaming”. – While AMD has RDNA for…
Copyright Lobby Calls Out Plex For Not Doing Enough To Stop Piracy
An anonymous reader shares a report: For those who don’t want to dive fully into torrents, Plex is a great alternative for streaming television shows and movies for free. Officially, Plex is a “neutral” media player, and it first became popular with people looking to stream content between devices at home, like from their desktop in the study to their laptop…