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The Python package repository PyPI was the target of a sophisticated supply chain attack in which at least two legitimate software packages were successfully implanted with credential-stealing malware, researchers from security firms SentinelOne and Checkmarx report . The attackers launched a phishing attack on Python developers, tricking them into revealing their login credentials, and then […]

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) annual State of the Climate report ( PDF) says that both greenhouse gas concentrations in Earth’s atmosphere and sea levels hit record highs in 2021, showing that despite efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions, climate The trend of change has not slowed down. NOAA said the concentration of

Faruk Fatih Ozer, founder and CEO of the defunct cryptocurrency exchange Thodex, has been arrested in the Albanian city of Vlore . Thodex, the Turkish exchange, faces up to 40,564 years in prison after Turkey issued a global warrant for Ozer after he ran off with the money in April 2021. Research by Chainanalysis shows

Japan’s digital minister Taro Kono, who has vowed to rid government agencies of outdated tools, announced a war on floppy disks on Twitter. Floppy disks have been used as a storage medium for fifty years and have long since been phased out in most countries, but in Japan there are about 1900 government processes that

The average life expectancy in the United States has continued to decline : in 2019, the life expectancy in the United States was 78.8 years, in 2020 it fell to 77 years, in 2021 to 76 years, a decrease of 2.8 years in three years, which is the largest decline in the United States in

Art created by AI beats art created by humans. Artist Jason Allen’s submission “Théåtre D’opéra Spatial” won first place in the Digital Arts/Digitally Manipulated Photography category in an art competition in Colorado, USA. Allen used the commercial image compositing model Midjourney to generate a series of images, which were then enlarged and printed on canvas

ARM is suing its heavyweight customer Qualcomm over a CPU of the same name developed by Nuvia, a startup Qualcomm acquired. Founded by industry veterans like the former chief architect of Apple’s iPhone chips to design server chips, Nuvia has a special architectural license from ARM that allows the design of custom high-end AMR-compatible cores.

Mozhe Lab wrote , ” Download or watch the launch video now Ink Dry is a next-generation structured editor that supports editing mathematical formulas, BibTeX entries, and more in a structured way. Ink Dry V1.1.0 has been released, with two major changes: ①The document format supports serializing Chinese into Unicode, and no longer uses Cork

Reuters reports , U.S. regulators notified Chinese companies listed in the U.S., including Alibaba, JD.com and Yum, to begin audit inspections in September, becoming the first companies to be audited in Hong Kong by the PCAOB (Public Company Accounting Oversight Board). PricewaterhouseCoopers will assist in the inspection of the relevant audit work. Last week, China

Earlier this year, NASA’s Voyager 1 engineering team discovered a problem : The spacecraft was functioning properly, receiving and executing commands from Earth while collecting and sending back scientific data. But the spacecraft Attitude Articulation and Control System (AACS) read incorrectly. AACS controls the direction of the spacecraft, ensuring that the antenna is pointed precisely

The National Bureau of Statistics, the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Finance released the “Statistical Bulletin of National Science and Technology Funding Investment in 2021”. The data shows that the total investment in research and experimental development (R&D) in China in 2021 will be 2.8 trillion yuan, an increase of 14.6%

Caixin reported that Macau allows mainland tourists to receive the Fubitai vaccine at their own expense, and the vaccination point is the Macau University of Science and Technology Hospital. The Macau University of Science and Technology Hospital announced that it will provide non-Macao residents with self-funded vaccination services for the mRNA new crown vaccine of

Both heatwaves and air pollution affect human health, what if they happen at the same time ? The researchers looked at more than 1.5 million deaths in California between 2014 and 2020 — summers in the golden state often coincide with heatwaves and wildfire-induced air pollution. The results showed that the number of deaths rose