Did One GuyJust Stop a Huge Cyberattack?
Jon Han, The New York Times, April 3, 2024
"A Microsoft engineer noticed something was off on a piece of software he
worked on. He soon discovered someone was probably trying to gain access
to computers all over the world."
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‘Alarming’ Ocean Temperatures Suggest This
Hurricane Season Will Be a Daunting One
An early forecast from one set of experts sees
an above-average hurricane season that may
rival the busiest years on record.
Judson Jones, New York Times, April 4, 2024
Forecasters: "Extremely active" Atlantic hurricane season ahead
Andrew Freedman, Axios, April 4, 2024
El Niño, La Niña
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Thousands of strange white rocks found on Mars.
Will they ever be brought to Earth?
SpaceCom, Sharmila Kuthunur, April 3, 2024
"These are very unusual rocks and we're trying
to Figure out what's been going on."
Rock Sampled by NASA's Perseverance Embodies
Why Rover Came to Mars, NASA Science, , April 3, 2024
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Paul H.
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Jammer asked:
"IF such a piece should hit private property, a house, car, person; who is liable?
The country that launched? The country it fell on? Your personal homeowners insurance?"
I found this:
If a satellite falls on your house, space law protects you
– but there are no legal penalties for leaving junk in orbit
The conversation, May 17, 2021
Cohen, A.F., 1984. C
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Chinese space junk falls to Earth over Southern
California, creating spectacular fireball (photos, video)
Mike Wall, SpaceCom, April 7, 2024
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Paul H.
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Powerful X-class solar flare slams Earth, triggering radio blackout over the Pacific Ocean
Jennifer Nalewicki, SPaceCom, March 28, 2024
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Paul H.
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Linux could have been brought down by backdoor found in widely used utility
The malicious code modifies functions within a data compression library that
is a foundational part of several Linux distributions, by Erika Morphy and Julio
Franco, Stechspot, March 31, 2024
Technical discussion on Openwall Messageboard
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Paul H.
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Survey Maps Biggest Volcano Eruption In The Past 11,700 Years
David Bessen, Forbes Magazine, March 31, 2024
Shimizu, S., Nakaoka, R., Seama, N., Suzuki-Kamata, K.,
Kaneko, K., Kiyosugi, K., Iwamaru, H., Sano, M., Matsuno,
T., Sugioka, H. and Tatsumi, Y., 2024. Submarine pyroclastic
deposits from 7.3 ka caldera-forming Kikai-Akahoya
eruption. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Re
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How many ancient Egyptian pyramids are there?
Owen Jarus, LIveScienceFebruary 29, 2024
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Paul H.
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Recently, I can across a picture and post of a partially articulated fossil dugung that
was found "at the base" of the Great pyramid" in:
Unknown Fossil at base of Great Pyramid
James1234, The Fossil Forum, May 26, 2022
Dugong -
Does anyone have more specific information about its location?
I am also interested if anyone has either documented it or published anythi
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Scientific drilling unravels historical mystery
surrounding Santorini volcanic archipelago
by Ilka Thomsen, Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres
The sea 'began to boil': Freak volcanic eruption
of Santorini 1,300 years ago indicates huge
blasts can occur during time of quiet
By Sascha Pare, LiveScience, March 25, 2024
The open access paper is:
Preine, J.
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New hack clones fingerprints just by listening to fingers swipe screens
PrintListener hacking technique can steal people’s fingerprints through
a smartphone’s microphone. by Anthony Cuthbertson, The Telegraph
PrintListener: Uncovering the Vulnerability of Fingerprint Authentication
via the Finger Friction Sound, Network and Distributed System Security
(NDSS) Symposium, 26 February–1 Mar
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Ancient campsite may show how humans survived volcanic supereruption.
Evidence from an archaeological site in Ethiopia suggests ancient humans
adapted their diet during a dry spell after the Toba volcano eruption 74,000
years ago By Michae Le Page, New Scientist, March 20, 2024
Massive Eruption Set Human Migration in Motion
Archaeology, Archaeological Institute of America, March 22, 2024
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21.03.24 Drone footage from the new volcano eruption in Iceland (lava flow on day 6)
Isak Finnbogason - ICELAND FPV
23.03.24 Day 8 New volcano eruption in Iceland drone live stream
Isak Finnbogason - ICELAND FPV
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Paul H.
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New Zealand's 10th meteorite discovered by
couple sitting in Queenstown spa
by Juliet Speedy, NewsHub, March 22, 2024
Newshub video
Meteorite falls and finds in New Zealand
Aotearoa's 10th meteorite discovered
RNZ, March 21, 2024
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Paul H.
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Open access:
RETRACTED: Geo-archaeological prospecting of Gunung
Padang buried prehistoric pyramid in West Java, Indonesia
Earlier articles about Gunung Padang:
There is no new evidence that Gunung Padang is a 24000
year old pyramid, ArcheoThoughts, Nov. 2023
A Challenge for the Gunung Padang Theory
Laila Afifa, TEMP.CO, February 1, 2024
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Paul H.
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Hodgson, S.E., McKenzie, C., May, T.W. and Greene, S.L., 2023.
A comparison of the accuracy of mushroom identification applications
using digital photographs. Clinical Toxicology, 61(3), pp.166-172.
The paywalled article by the Washington Post is:
Using AI to spot edible mushrooms could kill you
AI tools are good for some things, but don’t trust your
health to apps that make frequen
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The Sea Creatures That Opened a New Mystery About MH370.
Could freaky barnacles do what advanced technology couldn’t — find the missing plane?
By Jeff Wise, the Intelligencer, March 7, 2024
More informed and uninformed discussion at:
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Iceland violent volcanic flare-up triggers state of emergency
By Kathryn Armstrong, BBC News, March 17, 2024
Iceland volcanic eruption: barriers reinforced as lava flows
towards town. Flows pose danger to infrastructure in
Grindavik, and hundreds of people are evacuated from nearby
Blue Lagoon the Guardian, March 17, 2024
Reykjanes multiview - Live from Iceland. Live from Iceland
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10 shipwrecks dating from 3000 BC to the World War II era found of the coast of Greece
By Stephen Smith, CBS News, March 15, 2024
The press release is at:
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Paul H.
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Drowned island the size of Iceland found off Brazil
News By Eos.org, Erin Martin-Jones published 19 hours ago
An undersea volcanic plateau in the southwestern Atlantic
was a tropical island 45 million years ago.
The open access paper is:
Srivastava, P., J. Murton, B., Sant’Anna, L.G., Florindo, F.,
Hassan, M.B., Taciro Mandacaru Guerra, J., de Assis Janasi,
V. and Jovane, L., 2023. R
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Giant volcano discovered on Mars
Rebecca McDonald, SETI Institute, PhysOrg, March 13, 2024
55th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
Planetary Scientists Discover Giant Shield Volcano on Mars
SciNews, March 13, 2024
The talk's abstract is at:
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Recently, a preprint has been posted to the arXiv site that
disputes proposal that Be, La, U-rich spherules recovered form
Pacific Ocean Site CNEOS 2014-01-0 are from an extrasolar,
even "alien" origin.
Instead, they argued to be microtektites of terrestrial
lateritic sandstone.
The preprint is:
Desch, S., 2024. Be, La, U-rich spherules as
microtektites of terrestrial late
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Superconductivity scandal: the inside story of deception in a rising star’s physics lab
Ranga Dias claimed to have discovered the first room-temperature superconductors,
but the work was later retracted. By Dan Garisto, Nature, March 8, 2024
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Paul H.
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Almost 500 Years Later, Scientists Confirm
What Killed The Aztecs
By Katie Serena, AllThat'Interesting, March 6, 2024
Almost 500 years after the society crumbled,
researchers have finally discovered what
happened to the Aztecs
The paper is:
Vågene, Å.J., Herbig, A., Campana, M.G., Robles
García, N.M., Warinner, C., Sabin, S., Spyrou, M.A.,
Andrades Valtueña, A., Huson,
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Tiny Worms Living Near Chernobyl Have
Evolved a Remarkable New Talent
Nature, ScienceAlert, March 7, 2024
The paywalled paper is:
Tintori, S.C., Caglar, D., Ortiz, P., Chyzhevskyi, I.,
Mousseau, T.A. and Rockman, M.V., 2024.
Environmental radiation exposure at Chornobyl
has not systematically affected the genomes or
chemical mutagen tolerance phenotypes of local
worms. Procee
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One of the more interesting message boards that I have found is the Professional Pilots Rumor Network message board. It is a message board where professional and private pilots get together and chat about the latest news and rumors in aviation. Although they Geek Out as only as practicing pilot can, it is all quite informative and fascinating. It is also scary in terms of how complicated aircraft
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These scientists built their own Stone Age tools to figure out how they were used.
Telltale fractures and microscopic wear marks should be applicable to real artifacts.
By Jenneifer Quellette, Ars Techinca, March 9, 2024
The open accesspaper is:
Iwase, A., Sano, K., Nagasaki, J., Otake, N. and Yamada, M., 2024.
Experiments with replicas of Early Upper Paleolithic edge-ground
stone a
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Pentagon UFO office finds 'no empirical evidence' for alien technology in new report
SpaceCom, March 8, 2024
The true believers are, as expected, not impressed
(in the background of their comments, hear:
Staring At The Stars - Dan Marfisi and Glenn Jordan (The X-Files)
)
The report is:
Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement
with Unidentif
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Interstellar Signal Linked to Aliens was Actually Just a Truck
The findings from a Johns Hopkins University-led team raise
doubts that materials pulled last year from the ocean are alien
materials from a 2014 meteor fireball
John Hopkins University, HUB, March 7, 2024
Seismic Rumble From an 'Alien Technology' Meteor Was
Actually a Passing Truck, Scientists Say The rumblings
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