Cochin International in southern India is the world’s first airport to be run solely on power from the sun. It became totally energy self-sufficient in August. How’s it holding up? Read more…
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Here’s the First Airport to Run on 100% Solar Power
An anonymous reader writes: The old Conficker worm was found on new police body cameras that were taken out of the box by security researchers from iPower Technologies. The worm is detected by almost all security vendors, but it seems that it is still being used because modern day IoT devices can’t yet run security products. This allows the worm to spread, and propagate to computers when connected to an unprotected workstation. One police computer is enough to allow attackers to steal government data. The source of the infection is yet unknown. It is highly unlikely that the manufacturer would do this. Middleman involved in the shipping are probably the cause. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Police Body Cameras Come With Pre-Installed Malware
itwbennett writes: Researchers from Kaspersky Lab and the Dutch Public Prosecution Service have obtained the last set of encryption keys from command-and-control servers that were used by CoinVault and Bitcryptor, ‘ writes Lucian Constantin. ‘Those keys have been uploaded to Kaspersky’s ransomware decrypt or service that was originally set up in April with a set of around 750 keys recovered from servers hosted in the Netherlands. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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AmiMoJo writes: In a blog post Jake Conte, CEO and co-founder of Patreon, writes: “There was unauthorized access to registered names, email addresses, posts, and some shipping addresses. Additionally, some billing addresses that were added prior to 2014 were also accessed. We do not store full credit card numbers on our servers and no credit card numbers were compromised. Although accessed, all passwords, social security numbers and tax form information remain safely encrypted with a 2048-bit RSA key.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Patreon Hacked, Personal Data Accessed
If you ever spend a humid night walking around the American prairie, you might run into one of these. It’s a prairie crayfish, and it and all of its friends have been living under your feet. Read more…
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Huge Communities of Crayfish Are Living Right Underneath The Prairies
One day we might be able to make home refrigerators without any chemicals or industrial coolants. The main hope for this comes from a special property of metal and a quirk of entropy. Read more…
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Magnetic Refrigeration is a Real Thing. Here’s How it Works.
Yesterday, we learned that Disney is adding some absolutely massive Star Wars expansions to their Florida and California parks . Now here’s a video showing the highlights of Bob Iger’s keynote speech—along with more concept art that wasn’t officially released. Read more…
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"We’re Creating A Jaw-Dropping New World": More Details About Disney’s Star Wars Land
The arrest, trial and conviction of Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht — and his sentence of life in prison — was a stark reminder that 21st century policing is a different game. And judging by the shitshow that was the Silk Road investigation, it’s one that the police need to get better at. Read more…
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Interpol Is Now Training Police to Fight Crime on "The Darknet"
Earlier today, during the announcement of the most Earth-like planet ever discovered , researchers working on the Kepler mission released an updated catalog—which now includes 521 new candidate planets. Add that to the 4, 175 already discovered by the space-based telescope. Read more…
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Updated Kepler Catalog Includes 521 New Possible Exoplanets
After nine years and over 3.26 billion miles, the New Horizons spacecraft made its closest approach to Pluto earlier today. Assuming it survived the encounter, the probe is now drifting away from the dwarf planet as it heads deeper into the Kuiper Belt. Read more…
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New Horizons Has Made its Closest Approach to Pluto! [updating]