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NordVPN denies breach claims, says attackers have “dummy data”

NordVPN denied allegations that its internal Salesforce development servers were breached, saying that cybercriminals obtained “dummy data” from a trial account on a third-party automated testing platform.

The company’s statement comes after a threat actor (using the 1,011 handle) claimed on a hacking forum over the weekend that they stole more than 10 databases containing sensitive information like Salesforce API keys and Jira tokens, following a brute-force attack against a NordVPN development server.

“Today i am leaking +10 DB’s source codes from a nordvpn development server. This information was acquired by bruteforcing a misconfigured server of Nordypn, which has salesforce and jira information stored. Compromissed information: SalesForce api keys, jira tokens and more,” the threat actor said.

NVIDIA Reportedly Plans to Bring Back RTX 3060 Due to DRAM Shortages

With the AI industry effectively crippling PC gaming – and, to a lesser extent, gaming overall – by driving hardware prices to some absurd levels, it appears that NVIDIA, undeniably one of, if not the biggest beneficiary of the AI boom, is looking to ease a crisis it itself has inadvertently helped create by rewinding the clock half a decade and bringing back the GeForce RTX 3,060 GPU, discontinued in August 2024.

Inside the world’s first fully automated mixed waste processing facility

When fully automated waste and recycling facilities were just a concept in the industry, Norwegian municipal solid waste (MSW) hauling company Romerike Avfallsforedling (RoAF) turned the concept into a reality.

Powered by a sorting system installed by Germany-based Stadler Anlagenbau GmbH, RoAF opened the world’s first fully automated mixed waste processing facility in 2016 in the village of Skedsmokorset, just outside of Oslo, to help meet the needs of Norwegian municipalities that were facing high labor costs. While the concept was three years in the making, Stadler needed just three months to complete construction of the facility.

RoAF collects household and food waste from 10 municipalities in Norway, including Skedsmo, which boasts a population of roughly 53,000 people. When waste arrives at the automated plant, it’s first fed onto a conveyor, which delivers the waste into the sorting plant.

Introducing the Fully-Automated 24-Hour City

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Final Thoughts

The photos above are intended to open your mind to the possibilities of living in a 24-hour city.

There are many side effects to automation and not all of them are positive. But one aspect of our automated future will be 24-hour access to most goods and services, many of which are only available during normal business hours today.

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