The precise understanding of shear banding emergence in amorphous solids is still a mystery, due to the intrinsic entangling of three elementary local atomic motions: shear, dilatation and rotation.

Recently, researchers from the Institute of Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IMCAS) have unveiled the spatiotemporal sequence of shear band in amorphous solids through decoupling and quantitatively characterizing the highly entangled shear, dilatation and rotation flow units.

The results were published in Physical Review Research.

A team of academic researchers has warned of a novel cache-based side-channel deanonymization attack that could be used to defeat anonymity protection.

This is a minefield, but these tips will help you get the best cable for you.

Soundspear offers Formula, a FREE and open-source effects development environment. Formula works as a plugin inside your DAW or as a standalone application. It utilizes the C programming language to create effects. The Formula effects editor has a few use cases that might interest different users. First, as the developer states, it offers a simple way to test and debug audio effects, which might interest anyone who already creates custom effects.

The agency’s former employee says he’s been made a scapegoat for a massive WikiLeaks exposé.

A former CIA software engineer has been convicted on all nine counts in a New York court, with jurors pronouncing him guilty of leaking sensitive data to Wikileaks in what is believed to be the largest breach in the agency’s history to date. A sentencing date is still pending, with another unrelated trial against the man ahead.

On Wednesday, Joshua Schulte heard district judge Jesse M. Furman read out a guilty verdict in a federal court in New York, with charges including stealing and transmitting classified information as well as obstruction of justice.

Circa 2021

With the help of safe-haven laws, which allow parents to anonymously surrender their babies, Monica Kelsey has installed more than ninety baby boxes—mailbox-like receptacles for infants—in five states.

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Onur Aksoy allegedly imported thousands of fake Cisco networking devices from China.