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EUROPEAN SCIENTISTS CLAIM NUCLEAR FUSION BREAKTHROUGH (BBC.COM)

Posted by msmash on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @11:45AM from the how-about-that
dept.
European scientists say they have made a major breakthrough in their quest to
develop practical nuclear fusion -- the energy process that powers the stars.
tomhath writes: The UK-based JET laboratory has smashed its own world record for
the amount of energy it can extract by squeezing together two forms of hydrogen.
If nuclear fusion can be successfully recreated on Earth it holds out the
potential of virtually unlimited supplies of low-carbon, low-radiation energy.
The experiments produced 59 megajoules of energy over five seconds (11 megawatts
of power). This is more than double what was achieved in similar tests back in
1997. It's not a massive energy output - only enough to boil about 60 kettles'
worth of water. But the significance is that it validates design choices that
have been made for an even bigger fusion reactor now being constructed in
France. "The JET experiments put us a step closer to fusion power," said Dr Joe
Milnes, the head of operations at the reactor lab. "We've demonstrated that we
can create a mini star inside of our machine and hold it there for five seconds
and get high performance, which really takes us into a new realm."



158505711 story


FACEBOOK FREEZES NOVI DIGITAL WALLET PROJECT (GLOBES.CO.IL) 2

Posted by msmash on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @11:15AM from the how-about-that
dept.
Meta has frozen development of its Novi digital wallet project, Israeli media
Globes reported this week, citing sources familiar with the matter. From the
report: The project was originally planned for trading in Facebook's
cryptocurrency -- an activity that has been halted. Following this latest step,
Facebook will disband several teams in the US and at the company's development
center in Israel, new tasks are being sought for the risk management technology
division, which was set up to provide services for the digital wallet. This
latest step comes as Meta has begun 2022 by cleaning its desk. While suspending
the Novi digital wallet project, Meta is examining the possibility of
transferring more financial services to Facebook Pay -- another wallet
infrastructure that the company has already opened -- thus leaving Novi as an
NFT trading platform for creating digital art or animated games accessories. Due
to the fact that Novi activities are at the expense of the Facebook Pay
infrastructure, which is already used on platforms like Facebook Stores and
Facebook Marketplace, the company is grappling with the question of if there is
any point in continuing Novi's development. Despite the freezing of most of
Novi's financial development activities, the project's pilot in the US and
Guatemala, which began last October, will continue.



158505513 story


BEIJING'S DIGITAL CURRENCY PUSH AT WINTER OLYMPICS PUTS VISA IN A BIND (WSJ.COM)
2

Posted by msmash on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @10:26AM from the how-about-that
dept.
The Beijing Winter Olympics is giving Visa a run for its money. From a report:
For decades, America's largest card network has been the exclusive
electronic-payments provider at the world's largest sporting event. At this
year's Beijing Games, however, Visa finds itself having to share the spotlight
with China's new digital currency, the e-CNY. China has been at the forefront of
digitizing payments, thanks in large part to the popular mobile networks Alipay
and WeChat Pay, operated by Chinese internet giants Ant Group and Tencent
Holdings, respectively. The mass adoption of digital payments in the world's
most populous nation has made the use of physical cash virtually obsolete -- a
trend that has alarmed China's central bank, which has been conducting
small-scale rollout trials for its digitized legal tender since late 2019. At
previous Olympics, cash and Visa cards were the only two permitted forms of
payment, though the former diminished in usage at the sporting venues after the
2004 Olympics in Athens, according to people familiar with the matter, with
nearly all payments having moved to Visa. That has generally held true at the
Beijing 2022 Olympics, with Alipay, WeChat Pay and other electronic-payment
methods barred as part of the exclusivity guaranteed by Visa's sponsorship.



158503743 story


US HEADING OUT OF 'FULL-BLOWN PANDEMIC PHASE', FAUCI SAYS (AXIOS.COM) 100

Posted by msmash on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @09:43AM from the
promising-feedback dept.
COVID-19 pandemic restrictions could end "soon," even as early as this year,
NIAID director Anthony Fauci told the Financial Times in an interview published
Tuesday. From a report: Fauci explained that he does not believe "we are going
to eradicate this virus," but said that it will instead reach an "equilibrium."
He said, "I hope we are looking at a time when we have enough people vaccinated
and enough people with protection from previous infection that the COVID
restrictions will soon be a thing of the past." Fauci added that he hoped
restrictions would end "soon," agreeing with a suggestion that they could
largely end this year. Fauci also said that as the U.S. is "certainly heading
out" of a particularly difficult phase of the pandemic driven largely by
Omicron, local health departments will be the ones to make virus-related
decisions instead of the Biden administration.



158502911 story


TWITTER TELLS US SENATOR IT'S CUTTING TIES TO SWISS TECH FIRM (BLOOMBERG.COM) 2

Posted by msmash on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @09:02AM from the closer-look
dept.
Twitter told a U.S. senator it is cutting ties with a European technology
company that helped it send sensitive passcodes to its users via text message.
From a report: The social media firm said in a disclosure to U.S. Senator Ron
Wyden, a Democrat from Oregon, that it is "transitioning" its service away from
working with Mitto AG, according to a Wyden aide. A co-founder of Mitto operated
a service that helped governments secretly surveil and track mobile phones,
according to former employees and clients, as Bloomberg News and London-based
Bureau of Investigative Journalism reported in December. Twitter cited media
reports as the motivating factor behind its decision, the Wyden aide said.
Several other companies have allegedly already cut ties with Mitto. In recent
weeks, messaging companies Kaleyra and MessageBird have both ceased commercial
relationships with Mitto, according to three people familiar with the matter.



158477691 story


FED DESIGNS DIGITAL DOLLAR THAT HANDLES 1.7 MILLION TRANSACTIONS PER SECOND
(FORBES.COM) 83

Posted by BeauHD on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @08:00AM from the
built-on-open-source-software dept.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Forbes: As the race against China's
development of its central bank digital currency (CBDC) known as the digital
yuan continues, the U.S. Federal Reserve accomplished a feat in testing a design
for a U.S. digital dollar that in one of two tests, managed to handle 1.7
million transactions per second. A report released last Thursday provided the
initial findings of research conducted as a collaboration between the Boston Fed
and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Dubbed 'Project Hamilton,'
the report describes a theoretical high-performance and resilient transaction
processor for a CBDC that was developed using open-source research software
called 'OpenCBDC'.

According to the Fed's Report, a core processing engine for a hypothetical
general purpose CBDC was created that produced one code base capable of handling
1.7 million transactions per second. According to the Fed, the vast majority of
transactions reached settlement finality in under two seconds. The Fed revealed
the design of the CBDC transaction processor was also released on GitHub.
According to the Boston Fed, the second phase of Project Hamilton will
demonstrate how OpenCBDC will build upon the initial model to allow flexibility
in design that will incorporate how policymakers may implement an actual CBDC.



158477645 story


RESEARCHERS USE TINY MAGNETIC SWIRLS TO GENERATE TRUE RANDOM NUMBERS (PHYS.ORG)
37

Posted by BeauHD on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @05:00AM from the
drawing-on-the-natural-world dept.
A group of Brown University physicists has developed a technique that can
potentially generate millions of random digits per second by harnessing the
behavior of skyrmions -- tiny magnetic anomalies that arise in certain
two-dimensional materials. Phys.Org reports: Their research, published in Nature
Communications, reveals previously unexplored dynamics of single skyrmions, the
researchers say. Discovered around a half-decade ago, skyrmions have sparked
interest in physics as a path toward next-generation computing devices that take
advantage of the magnetic properties of particles -- a field known as
spintronics. [...] Skyrmions arise from the "spin" of electrons in ultra-thin
materials. Spin can be thought of as the tiny magnetic moment of each electron,
which points up, down or somewhere in between. Some two-dimensional materials,
in their lowest energy states, have a property called perpendicular magnetic
anisotropy -- meaning the spins of electrons all point in a direction
perpendicular to the film. When these materials are excited with electricity or
a magnetic field, some of the electron spins flip as the energy of the system
rises. When that happens, the spins of surrounding electrons are perturbed to
some extent, forming a magnetic whirlpool surrounding the flipped electron -- a
skyrmion.

Skyrmions, which are generally about 1 micrometer (a millionth of a meter) or
smaller in diameter, behave a bit like a kind of particle, zipping across the
material from side to side. And once they're formed, they're very difficult to
get rid of. Because they're so robust, researchers are interested in using their
movement to perform computations and to store data. This new study shows that in
addition to the global movement of skyrmions across a material, the local
behavior of individual skyrmions can also be useful. For the study, which was
led by Brown postdoctoral fellow Kang Wang, the researchers fabricated magnetic
thin films using a technique that produced subtle defects in the material's
atomic lattice. When skyrmions form in the material, these defects, which the
researchers call pinning centers, hold the skyrmions firmly in place rather than
allowing them to move as they normally would.

The researchers found that when a skyrmion is held in place, they fluctuate
randomly in size. With one section of the skyrmion held tightly to one pinning
center, the rest of the skyrmion jumps back and forth, wrapping around two
nearby pinning centers, one closer and one farther away. The change in skyrmion
size is measured through what's known as the anomalous Hall effect, which is a
voltage that propagates across the material. This voltage is sensitive to the
perpendicular component of electron spins. When the skyrmion size changes, the
voltage changes to an extent that is easily measured. Those random voltage
changes can be used to produce a string of random digits. The researchers
estimate that by optimizing the defect-spacing in their device, they can produce
as many as 10 million random digits per second, providing a new and highly
efficient method of producing true random numbers.



158477495 story


NASA PICKS LOCKHEED MARTIN TO BUILD ROCKET TO CARRY MARS SAMPLES BACK TO EARTH
(SPACE.COM) 57

Posted by BeauHD on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @02:00AM from the
ambitious-projects dept.
NASA on Monday announced that it has selected the aerospace company Lockheed
Martin to build the Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV), a small rocket that will launch
pristine Red Planet samples back toward Earth a decade or so from now. Space.com
reports: Mars Sample Return is a joint effort of NASA and the European Space
Agency (ESA). The project is already well underway, thanks to NASA's
Perseverance rover, which landed on the Red Planet in February 2021.The
six-wheeled robot has collected a handful of samples thus far and will
eventually snag several dozen more, if all goes according to plan. The next big
steps are scheduled to come in the mid-2020s, with the launch of two additional
missions -- the NASA-led Sample Retrieval Lander (SRL) and ESA's Earth Return
Orbiter (ERO).

SRL will deliver an ESA "fetch rover" and the MAV to the Martian surface. The
fetch rover will carry the collected samples from Perseverance -- or the spot(s)
where Perseverance has cached them -- to the MAV, which will then launch them
into orbit around the Red Planet. A container holding the samples will then meet
up with the ERO, which will haul it home to Earth, perhaps as early as 2031.
Once the samples are down on the ground, scientists in well-equipped labs around
the world will study them for signs of ancient Mars life, clues about the
planet's evolutionary history and other topics of interest, NASA officials have
said. [...] The newly announced MAV contract has a potential value of $194
million, NASA officials said in today's statement. The contracted work will
begin on Feb. 25 and run for six years. During this time, Lockheed Martin will
build multiple MAV test units as well as the flight unit. "Committing to the
Mars Ascent Vehicle represents an early and concrete step to hammer out the
details of this ambitious project not just to land on Mars, but to take off from
it," Thomas Zurbuchen, the associate administrator for science at NASA
Headquarters, said in a statement. "We are nearing the end of the conceptual
phase for this Mars Sample Return mission, and the pieces are coming together to
bring home the first samples from another planet," Zurbuchen added. "Once on
Earth, they can be studied by state-of-the-art tools too complex to transport
into space."



158477443 story


NSO GROUP GAVE PEGASUS SPYWARE DEMO TO THE NYPD (VICE.COM) 12

Posted by BeauHD on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @10:30PM from the
are-we-really-surprised? dept.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: A section of the New York
Police Department (NYPD) focused on intelligence gathering received a demo of
NSO Group's controversial Pegasus spyware product, according to an email
obtained by Motherboard. The news provides more insight into Israeli company NSO
Group's push into the surveillance market in the United States, and specifically
its pitching of the company's technology to American police forces. The findings
come after the New York Times reported that the FBI bought a Pegasus license in
2019 for evaluation purposes.

"There will be a demo of the attached investigative software at the Rutgers
School of Criminal Justice," James Sheehan, a program manager from the Northern
New Jersey-Newark/Jersey City UASI, wrote in the August 2015 email. The UASI is
the Urban Area Security Initiative, a program administered by the Department of
Homeland Security which brings together bodies from law enforcement, fire
service, public health, and more to address threats of terrorism and other
issues. "The audience is the UASI/CorrStat region and NYPD intel," Sheehan
continued. Recipients on Sheehan's email inviting people to attend included
representatives from the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office, Jersey City's public
safety agency, and the Paterson Police Department, a city of just over 150,000.

Attached to Sheehan's email was a brochure for Pegasus, NSO Group's hacking
product, which advertised the tool's ability to obtain a target's calls,
contacts, emails, WhatsApp messages, track their location, and more. The
brochure contains a logo for WestBridge, NSO Group's North American branch.
"Turn Your Target's Smartphone into an Intelligence Gold Mine," the Pegasus
brochure reads. "NYPD intel" likely refers to the NYPD's Intelligence Bureau.
Its mission is to "detect and disrupt criminal and terrorist activity through
the use of intelligence-led policing. In combination with traditional policing
methods, uniformed officers and civilian analysts in the Intelligence Bureau
collect and analyze information from a variety of sources in order to advance
criminal and terrorist investigations," according to the NYPD's website.



158477345 story


EXPRESSVPN OFFERING $100,000 TO FIRST PERSON WHO HACKS ITS SERVERS
(BLEEPINGCOMPUTER.COM) 23

Posted by BeauHD on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @08:25PM from the
tough-nut-to-crack dept.
ExpressVPN has updated its bug bounty program to make it more inviting to
ethical hackers, now offering a one-time $100,000 bug bounty to whoever can
compromise its systems. Bleeping Computer reports: Today, ExpressVPN announced
that they are now offering a $100,000 bug bounty for critical vulnerabilities in
their in-house technology, TrustedServer. "This is the highest single bounty
offered on the Bugcrowd platform and 10 times higher than the top reward
previously offered by ExpressVPN," the company shared in an email to
BleepingComputer. The new $100,000 one-time bounty is offered with the following
conditions:

- The first person to submit a valid vulnerability, granting unauthorized access
or exposing customer data, will receive the $100,000 bounty. This one-time bonus
is valid until the prize has been claimed.
- The one-time $100,000 bounty is only eligible for vulnerabilities in
ExpressVPN's VPN Server.
- Activities should remain in scope to the TrustedServer platform. If unsure
that your testing is considered in-scope, please reach out to
support@bugcrowd.com to confirm first.

ExpressVPN also invites security researchers to uncover possible ways to leak
the actual IP address of clients and monitor user traffic. The bug bounty
program is run through BugCrowd, which offers a safe harbor for researchers who
attempt to breach ExpressVPN's servers as part of the program.



158477257 story


DOUGLAS TRUMBULL, VFX WHIZ FOR 'BLADE RUNNER', '2001' AND OTHERS, DIES AT 79
(ENGADGET.COM) 13

Posted by BeauHD on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @07:45PM from the rest-in-peace
dept.
Douglas Trumbull, the visual effects mastermind behind Blade Runner, Close
Encounter of the Third Kind, 2001: A Space Odyssey and numerous others, died on
Monday at age 79. His daughter Amy Trumbull announced the news on Facebook,
writing that her father's death followed a "two-year battle" with cancer, a
brain tumor and stroke. Engadget reports: Trumbull was born on April 8, 1942 in
Los Angeles, the son of a mechanical engineer and artist. His father worked on
the special effects for films including The Wizard of Oz and Star Wars: A New
Hope. The younger Trumbull worked as an illustrator and airbrush artist in
Hollywood for many years. His career really took off after he cold-called
Stanley Kubrick, a conversation which led to a job working on 2001: A Space
Odyssey.

One of his most significant contributions to 2001 was creating the film's Star
Gate, a ground-breaking scene where astronaut Dave Bowman hurtles through an
illuminated tunnel transcending space and time. In order to meet Kubrick's high
aesthetic standards for the shot, Trumbull essentially designed a way to turn
the film camera inside-out. Trumbull's ad hoc technique "was completely breaking
the concept of what a camera is supposed to do," he said during a lecture at
TIFF. Trumbull earned visual effects Oscar nominations for his work on Close
Encounters, Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Blade Runner. He also received the
President's Award from the American Society of Cinematographers in 1996.

Later in his career, Trumbull voiced distaste over the impact of computers on
visual effects, decrying the cheapening and flattening impact of the new era of
CGI. [...] He spent the last years of his life working on a new super-immersive
film format he dubbed MAGI, which he believed would improve the experience of
watching a film in theaters. But Trumbull struggled to draw the interest of
today's film industry.



158477117 story


EVERY M1 MAC IS DUE FOR A 2022 REFRESH WITH FASTER M2 CHIP, NEW DESIGNS
(MACWORLD.COM) 77

Posted by BeauHD on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @07:02PM from the what-to-expect
dept.
According to tech reporter and Apple leaker Mark Gurman, Apple is preparing to
launch four M2 Macs throughout 2022. MacWorld reports: The first models will
likely arrive later in the year, with the redesigned MacBook Air leading the
way, followed by a new 13-inch MacBook Pro, 24-inch iMac, and entry-level Mac
mini. A DigiTimes report on Tuesday said the 13-inch MacBook Pro may launch at
Apple's spring event to usher in the new chip. Like 2021, Apple will be
releasing Macs with several different chips in 2022. The M2 will be a successor
to the M1, likely with the same 8-core design (four performance cores and four
efficiency cores), and the M1 Pro and M1 Max will make their way into more
high-end Macs. The first of those, the 27-inch iMac, could arrive at Apple's
spring event, with a Mac mini coming later in the year. [...] There's also a new
Mac Pro due in 2022 as the culmination of the Apple silicon transition. That
would mean every Mac line is due for a refresh this year and nearly every model,
with only the recently released 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro escaping without
a refresh.



158476995 story


RASPBERRY PI BOOTLOADER ENABLES OS INSTALLS WITH NO SEPARATE PC REQUIRED
(ARSTECHNICA.COM) 50

Posted by BeauHD on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @06:20PM from the
simplified-installations dept.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Setting up a Raspberry Pi
board has always required a second computer, which is used to flash your
operating system of choice to an SD card so your Pi can boot. But the Pi
Foundation is working on a new version of its bootloader that could connect an
OS-less Pi board directly to the Internet, allowing it to download and install
the official Raspberry Pi OS to a blank SD card without requiring another
computer. To test the networked booting feature, you'll need to use the Pi
Imager on a separate computer to copy an updater for the bootloader over to an
SD card -- Pi firmware updates are normally installed along with new OS updates
rather than separately, but since this is still in testing, it requires extra
steps.

Once it's installed, there are a number of conditions that have to be met for
network booting to work. It only works on Pi 4 boards (and Pi 4-derived devices,
like the Pi 400 computer) that have both a keyboard and an Ethernet cable
connected. If you already have an SD card or USB drive with a bootable OS
connected, the Pi will boot from those as it normally does so it doesn't slow
down the regular boot process. And you'll be limited to the OS image selection
in the official Pi imager, though this covers a wide range of popular
distributions, including Ubuntu, LibreELEC, a couple of retro-gaming emulation
OSes, and Homebridge. For other OSes, downloading the image on a separate PC and
installing it to an SD card manually is still the best way to go. To learn more
about installing the bootloader or download the Pi OS over a network, you can
view the Raspberry Pi Foundation's documentation here.



158476821 story


KDE PLASMA 5.24 RELEASED (KDE.ORG) 31

Posted by BeauHD on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @05:40PM from the new-and-improved
dept.
jrepin writes: Plasma is a popular desktop environment, which will also be
powering the desktop mode on the Steam Deck hand-held gaming console. Today, KDE
Community announced release of KDE Plasma 5.24, a Long Term Support (LTS)
release that will receive updates and bug fixes until the final Plasma 5
version, before transition to Plasma 6.

This new Plasma release focuses on smoothing out wrinkles, evolving the design,
and improving the overall feel and usability of the environment. Highlights
include: Overview effect for managing all your desktops and application windows,
easy discovery of KRunner features with the help assistant, and unlocking screen
and authentication using fingerprint reader. You will also notice a new
Honeywave wallpaper, the ability to pick any color for accent, and critically
important Plasma notifications now come with an orange strip on the side to
visually distinguish them from less urgent messages.



158476755 story


SEARCH ENGINES IN RUSSIA WILL DEINDEX ALL DOMAINS THAT HAVE 100+ LINKS TO
PIRATED CONTENT (TORRENTFREAK.COM) 45

Posted by BeauHD on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @05:02PM from the
copyright-holders-vs-pirates dept.
Major rightsholders and internet companies in Russia have signed a new
memorandum of cooperation designed to make pirated movies, TV shows and other
content harder to find. In addition to automatically removing reported
infringing links within hours, search engines have agreed to completely deindex
all domains that carry 100 or more links to infringing content. TorrentFreak
reports: Signed in 2018, a memorandum of cooperation signed by major
rightsholders and internet companies including Yandex changed the way infringing
content is handled. Following the creation of a centralized database of pirated
content, the Internet companies agreed to query it every few minutes in order to
remove corresponding content from their platforms within six hours. Over a
period of three years, more than 40 million infringing links have now been
removed from search results. Since its introduction, the memorandum has been
renewed several times alongside calls for the system to be opened up to a wider
range of rightsholders, such as those operating in the publishing sector. While
that is yet to happen, a new memorandum has just been signed by the original
signatories containing an even more powerful anti-piracy tool.

Under the current agreement (which is set to expire early September 2022),
rightsholders must submit specific URLs to infringing content to the centralized
database controlled by the Media Communications Union (ISS). These specific URLs
are then delisted by search engines but rightsholders complain that the same
content can reappear under a new URL, meaning that the process must be repeated.
To deal with this type of 'pirate' countermeasure, the new memorandum requires
search companies to take more stringent action. Any domain that has 100 or more
'pirate' links reported to the database will be deindexed entirely by search
engines, meaning that they essentially become invisible to anyone using a search
engine. This must be carried out quickly too, within 24 hours according to ISS.
Given the number of links to infringing content posted to non-pirate sites,
safeguards will also be introduced to protect legitimate resources from
deindexing. These include media sites, government projects, search engines
themselves, social networks, and official content providers. "Alongside the
development of the memorandum a new law is being drafted, with the aim of
enshrining its voluntary terms into local law," adds TorrentFreak. "That should
allow other rightsholders that aren't current signatories to obtain similar
benefits. At the time of writing, however, progress on the legal front is taking
its time and might still take a few more months."



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