Artificial intelligence is quickly advancing in the field of video generation. That could have a profound effect on our social media feeds one day.
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Humans Can Track But Fail to Predict Accelerating Objects
Objects in our visual environment often move unpredictably and can suddenly speed up or slow down. The ability to account for acceleration when interacting with moving objects can be critical for survival. Here, we investigate how human observers track an accelerating target with their eyes and predict its time of reappearance after a temporal occlusion by making an interceptive hand movement. Before occlusion, observers smoothly tracked the accelerating target with their eyes. At the time of occlusion, observers made a predictive saccade to the location where they subsequently intercepted the target with a quick pointing movement.
Energean announces new Israel gas discovery, estimated at 7–15 billion cubic meters
The Energean company announced to the Tel Aviv and London stock exchanges Thursday that its Hermes exploration well in Israeli maritime waters has yielded a new commercial gas discovery of 7–15 billion cubic meters, according to estimates.
Hermes is located southeast of the Karish field, to which the UK-Greek company holds the production rights.
The Stena IceMax drilling rig has now moved to the so-called Olympus area, located between Energean’s Karish and Tanin fields. The company hopes that exploration will enable it to further refine estimates of natural gas there, which currently stand at a theoretical 58 billion cubic meters, according to Energean’s notice.
Discovery of a New Rare Blood Type Could Save The Lives of Future Newborns
The devastating loss of a pair of newborns has provided critical insights into a rare set of blood types spotted for the first time in humans 40 years ago.
By unravelling the molecular identity of the relatively new blood type known as the Er system, a new study could hopefully prevent such tragedies in the future.
“This work demonstrates that even after all the research conducted to date, the simple red blood cell can still surprise us,” says University of Bristol cell biologist Ash Toye.
Mitigation for Exchange Zero-Days Bypassed! Microsoft Issues New Workarounds
Microsoft has revised its mitigation measures for the newly disclosed and actively exploited zero-day flaws in Exchange Server after it was found that they could be trivially bypassed.
The two vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2022–41040 and CVE-2022–41082, have been codenamed ProxyNotShell due to similarities to another set of flaws called ProxyShell, which the tech giant resolved last year.
In-the-wild attacks abusing the shortcomings have chained the two flaws to gain remote code execution on compromised servers with elevated privileges, leading to the deployment of web shells.
Microsoft updates mitigation for ProxyNotShell Exchange zero days
Microsoft has updated the mitigations for the latest Exchange zero-day vulnerabilities tracked as CVE-2022–41040 and CVE-2022–41082, also referred to ProxyNotShell.
The initial recommendations were insufficient as researchers showed that they can be easily bypassed to allow new attacks exploiting the two bugs.
Unfortunately, the current recommendations are still not enough and the proposed mitigation can still allow ProxyNotShell attacks.