📢 Security Advisory : Two major security flaws in the Curl data transfer library exposed. CVE-2023–38545, the worst of them, could lead to code execution.
Learn more about them here: https://thehackernews.com/2023/10/two-high-risk-security-flaws-discovered.html.
Patch your systems and software immediately.
Cybersecurity experts uncover an ongoing threat to government and telecom entities in Asia. Learn how a campaign named “Stayin’ Alive” is deploying #malware.
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After his traumatic spinal cord injury in 2010, Drew Clayborn was motivated by the question, “How do I get back to doing life?” Since then, Clayborn finished high school, graduated college and started a nonprofit dedicated to providing resources and guidance to individuals and families affected by spinal cord injury. Resilience, exemplified by Drew, is a key factor to flourishing after spinal cord injury, according to recent Michigan Medicine research.
To learn more about Drew’s story and resilience research, visit: https://healthblog.uofmhealth.org/brain-health/my-life-matte…ord-injury.
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⚡ Beware of the HTTP/2 Rapid Reset attack!
A novel zero-day flaw is being exploited to launch record-breaking distributed #DDoS attacks.
Find out more here: https://thehackernews.com/2023/10/http2-rapid-reset-zero-day.html.
Researchers at the University of Auckland identify platelet factor 4 (PF4) in young blood as a key player in reversing age-related cognitive decline in mice. The study offers a promising avenue for treating dementia-related conditions and enhancing brain function in aging populations.
Amnesty International’s Predator Files investigation traces the widespread abuse of spyware by some nations against their own citizens. The ops are “industrial scale.” @jaivijayan explains:
The Intellexa alliance has been using a range of tools for intercepting and subverting mobile and Wi-Fi technologies to deploy its surveillance tools, according to an investigation by Amnesty International and others.
With the successful development of the Jiuzhang 3.0 quantum computer prototype, which makes use of 255 detected photons, China continues to hold a world-leading position in the field of quantum computer research and development, lead scientists for the program told the Global Times on Wednesday.
The research team, composed of renowned quantum physicists Pan Jianwei and Lu Chaoyang from the University of Science and Technology of China in collaboration with the Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the National Parallel Computer Engineering Technology Research Center, announced the successful construction of a 255-photon-based prototype quantum computer named Jiuzhang 3.0 early Wednesday morning.
The quantum computing feat accomplished by the team of talents achieves a speed that is 10 quadrillion times faster in solving Gaussian boson sampling (GBS) problems compared with the world’s fastest supercomputers.
The world’s massive human population is leveling off.
Most projections show we’ll hit peak humanity in the 21st century, as people choose to have smaller families and women gain power over their own reproduction. This is great news for the future of our species.
And yet alarms are sounding. While environmentalists have long warned of a planet with too many people, now some economists are warning of a future with too few. For example, economist Dean Spears from the University of Texas has written that an “unprecedented decline” in population will lead to a bleak future of slower economic growth and less innovation.
Experts used to believe that stress, sleep problems, and substance use contributed to chronic mental health issues in a cause-and-effect type of way. What we now know is that the relationship between these factors is more complicated, and circular in nature. Join a panel of University of Michigan Health experts to discuss the complex interplay between stress, sleep, and substance use. Learn about the multidisciplinary approach U-M experts are taking in response to the mental health crisis in America and how emerging technologies can play a role in managing these risk factors.
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Now, Dr. Melvin Vopson, a physicist, is following up on such a theory and investigating a new law of physics to support the idea that our reality might be a computer simulation, according to a statement by the University of Portsmouth.
