According to the World Health Organization, as of the 21st, 12 non-monkeypox-endemic countries have reported 92 confirmed cases of monkeypox and 28 suspected cases. WHO predicts that global monkeypox cases may increase further . Monkeypox is mainly endemic in West and Central Africa, with the first monkeypox outbreak outside the African continent in the United […]
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The U.S. Department of Justice has filed its first lawsuit against the use of cryptocurrencies to evade sanctions. A federal judge has approved criminal charges against an American accused of transferring more than $10 million worth of bitcoin to cryptocurrency exchanges in sanctioned countries. This country could be Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria or Russia.
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About the same time humans invented writing 5,400 years ago, a cypress tree (Fitzroya cupressoides) grew in coastal canyons in what is now Chile. It avoided fire and felling and grew into a giant with a diameter of more than four meters. Known today as Alerce Milenario or Gran Abuelo, it is probably the oldest
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The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), founded in 1947, is celebrating its 75th anniversary, and as part of the celebration, the ACM Digital Library opens access to articles published in the first fifty years. Published from 1951 to 2000, the number of documents exceeds 117,500, and users can download directly without logging in. Articles published
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The U.S. Department of Justice announced a policy change to no longer prosecute good-faith security research that violates the U.S. federal hacking statute, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). The move is significant because the CFAA often poses a threat to security researchers who may probe or hack systems in order to find security
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Marcel Bokhorst, the developer of the open-source mail client FairEmail , announced it was halting development and shutting down all of its projects, including the popular open-source firewall app Netguard , after it was erroneously flagged as spyware by Google. As we all know, if your account is closed by Google, or your app is
jQuery is a set of cross-browser JavaScript libraries for simplifying operations between HTML and JavaScript. jQuery is one of the most widely used JS libraries, with data showing that over 80% of mobile web pages will use it in 2021. jQuery was born 15 years ago, and today’s JS can do everything jQuery can, so
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Silicon Valley startup incubator and venture capital firm Y Combinator advises startup founders to prepare for the worst . Notable startups funded by Y Combinator include Dropbox, Coinbase, Airbnb, and Reddit. It advises startups to save money, make sure they have enough cash flow to get through the recession, and if they don’t, they should
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Canada said on Thursday it would ban equipment made by Huawei and ZTE from its 5G mobile network. Canada has become the last member of the Five Eyes alliance to scrutinize the use of Chinese-made 5G communications equipment. The Five Eyes alliance is an intelligence-sharing network of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and
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Tencent posted its biggest quarterly profit drop since listing in Hong Kong in 2004, with net profit plummeting 51% and revenue up just 0.1% year-on-year. A year of regulatory overhauls in China have hit the social media and gaming giant, compounded by a new wave of outbreaks. Tencent said it will take time for the
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For the first time, researchers from the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have directly observed the dead-cone effect of quantum chromodynamics. The research report was published in the journal Nature. Particle collisions produce quarks and gluons, which are called partons in particle physics. After being created, they go through a chain of
According to a paper published in Physical Review Letters, researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China and others have achieved experimental verification of side-channel independent quantum key distribution (QKD) for the first time . Based on the fundamental principles of quantum mechanics, QKD can theoretically provide unconditionally secure key exchange for remote
Russia’s Digital Development Minister Maksut Shadaev said on Tuesday that the country does not plan to block YouTube because the move would affect Russian users. YouTube has 90 million monthly active users in Russia, and while there are many alternatives to popular Western social media in Russia, there is no alternative on a scale close
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