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Low-latency satellite broadband gets approval to serve US residents

UK Cops Say Visiting the Dark Web Is a Potential Sign of Terrorism

• Dark web was mentioned in a leaflet amongst other items to watch

• Police in the capital (London) have reportedly been handing out leaflets listing what authorities deem as suspicious activity, in the hope that vigilant community members can continue to provide helpful information to law enforcement.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/06/got-robocalled-dont-get-mad-get-busy/

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• Black and white print tracking dots: document forgery and counterfitting is not limited to cash, nor is the desire to track. – Joe

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• Windows 10 Lock Screen Leaks Clipboard Contents

• The Elgin rectangle: why couldn’t people lock their cars in Carlton?

• How to use BeyondCorp to ditch your VPN, improve security and go to the cloud

• Australia advocates weakening strong crypto at upcoming “Five Eyes” meeting FIve eyes? What’s that?

• 25 Microchips That Shook the World

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Microsoft is in hot water with authorities in China and it could be worse than your being told. Plus Mozilla has a new CEO & then we cover a series of tech stories from down under that you’ve just got to hear!

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China Investigates Microsoft – WSJ

Two people familiar with the inquiry said Chinese corporate regulatory officials made surprise visits to Microsoft’s offices in four Chinese cities.

According to Reuters and the South China Morning Post, the company is being investigated by the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, which raided Microsoft offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Chengdu on Monday.

China’s State Administration for Industry and Commerce acts as the nation’s corporate registry and has some marketing and antitrust responsibilities. It couldn’t be reached for comment late Monday.

AIC officials sometimes pay visits to industries under official scrutiny that don’t result in formal probes.

Microsoft had been in the Chinese government’s cross hairs before this week. China’s powerful state-run television broadcaster ran a report in June that questioned the security of the company’s new Windows 8 computer operating system.

The broadcast quoted Chinese experts who argued that Microsoft cooperated with the U.S. government to carry out cyberspying.

Other U.S. companies have also been under scrutiny in the country. China’s state broadcaster also raised questions about the security of the iPhone in July, allegations that Apple Inc.

In late May, the Chinese authorities banned government institutions from using Windows 8

• Microsoft targeted in apparent Chinese antitrust probe | Reuters
• Microsoft’s Chinese burn riddle: Antitrust g-men swoop on offices • The Register
• Chinese regulators drop in on Microsoft | ZDNet
• Microsoft Faces Mysterious Inquiry by Chinese Government | Paul Thurrotts WinInfo content from Windows IT Pro

Chris Beard Named CEO of Mozilla

Chris Beard has been appointed CEO of Mozilla Corp. The Mozilla board has reviewed many internal and external candidates — and no one we met was a better fit.

Chris first joined Mozilla in 2004, just before we shipped Firefox 1.0 – and he’s been deeply involved in every aspect of Mozilla ever since. During his many years here, he at various times has had responsibility for almost every part of the business, including product, marketing, innovation, communications, community and user engagement.

Leaked discussion paper reveals Australian online piracy crackdown in full swing

The federal government is proposing that internet service providers (ISPs), such as Telstra, Optus and iiNet, take measures to discourage or reduce online copyright infringement, according to a leaked copy of its discussion paper.

According to the document, first obtained by news website Crikey, the government also wants to give itself the power to prescribe specific measures that would see internet providers discourage online copyright infringement. This is in the cases where the industry does not develop effective schemes or commercial arrangements.

It is also proposing that universities be “captured” by the safe harbour scheme that currently governs internet service providers. This stipulates financial damages can be levied against carriage service providers who breach four categories, including providing connections to copyright material and referring users to an online location where it exists via a link.

In the document, signed by Attorney-General George Brandis and Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull, the government cited its unratified trade obligations with the US – known as the** “Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement”** – to pursue its reforms.

It essentially overrules a decision by the High Court in 2012, which found that internet service providers could not be found liable for authorising an act by a subscriber that infringes copyright.

Although the discussion paper hasn’t been released yet, a speedy response from industry and the public is expected, with submissions closing on August 25.

Aussie hackers get Doom working on an ATM- The Inquirer

HACKERS IN AUSTRALIA have succeeded in running classic first person shooter game Doom on a bank cash machine.

The ATM, which runs Windows XP Embedded, can be controlled using the device’s buttons, with the game appearing on the screen in place of the message telling you the size of your overdraft.

At the moment, weapons selection is done through the arrow buttons to the side of the screen, and the group already has plans to get the number keys up and running.

• Playing Doom on an ATM – YouTube

Close Encounters Of The Radio Kind? Mystery Bursts Baffle Astronomers : NPR

Back in 2007, astronomers detected an incredibly brief, incredibly strong radio wave burst in Australia. And now, on the opposite side of the world, astronomers have detected a second blast of similar proportions. Meaning that A) the first one wasn’t a fluke, and B) we have absolutely no idea what’s causing them.

This second ultrafast flash of radio waves was discovered by the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico, which had been putting out its feelers in hopes of discovering neutron stars. Instead, it got the second instance of so-called fast radio bursts (FRBs), which finally allowed astronomers to rule out cosmic noise and formally report them. Because unlike the radio signals we usually detect, these radio waves “show every sign of having come from far outside our galaxy.”

• Arecibo captures its first ‘fast radio burst’ | Cornell Chronicle
• No One Knows What’s Causing These Mysterious Radio Bursts From Space

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We take a look at a strange exo-planet, SpaceX rocket testing, an Australian ‘lost world’, simulating dinosaurs walk, viewer feedback about human regeneration, Curiosity news, and as always take a peek back into history and up in the sky this week.

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Hot Exoplanet is NOT a \’New Earth\’

• A team of astronomers have discovered an earth-like blazing hot planet that shouldn\’t exist
• No matter what the headlines say, just because an exoplanet has somewhat like Earth in density or size, it doesn\’t mean it\’s habitable.
• The Star Kepler 78
• A sun-like G-type star
• It is located 400 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus
• Discovered using data from NASA\’s Kepler Space Telescope with follow up observations were made using W.M. Keck Observatory atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii
• Kepler 78-b
• First known Earth-sized planet with an Earth-like density
• Diameter of 9,200 miles, 1.2 times the size of Earth
• Mass is 1.7 times more than Earth
• Composed of iron and rock
• Orbit Length | 8.5 hours
• Distance from star | 1.6 km / 1 mi
• Kepler 78-b Mass Measurements
• Two independent research teams have now confirmed the planet’s mass and density by measuring “wobbles” of its sun-like host star, seen as the exoplanet orbits around it
• Generally it is difficult to measure the mass of planets that Kepler finds because it is hard for ground-based telescopes to spot the subtle wobble of the star
• In the case of Kepler 78-b since it orbits so close to its star, the planet exerts a greater gravitational pull on the star that it would if it were as far as Earth is from our sun
• Breaking The Rules
• When this planetary system was forming, the young star was larger than it is now meaning that it would have been inside the swollen star
• The planet couldn’t have formed farther out and migrated inward, because it should have been drawn straight into the star
• One of the more exotic possibilities is that it is the remnant core of a disrupted gas giant
• The extreme gravitational pull from its star will draw it ever closer in, ripping the entire planet apart in about three billion years
• Multimedia
• YouTube | Earth-like planet Kepler 78b | Nature Newsteam
• Further Reading / In the News
  +New Earth-Like Blazing Hot Planet ‘Kepler-78b’ Discovered | ScienceWorld.com
• New-found Earth-size Exoplanet Doomed – News Watch | Newswatch.NationalGeographic.com
  +Kepler Discovers Earth-Sized Mystery Planet – Popular Mechanics

— NEWS BYTE —

SpaceX Will Be Renting Test Space From NASA

• SpaceX has signed a contract to research, develop and test Raptor methane rocket engines at the NASA Stennis Space Center in southern Mississippi
• Testing
• SpaceX currently does most of its rocket testing in Texas
• Now the plan is to use the E-2 test stand at Stennis, which is able to support both vertical and horizontal rocket engine tests
• The E-2 stand is big enough for components, but SpaceX would need a bigger stand for the whole Raptor
• Reportedly SpaceX is working out a Space Act agreement to establish user fees, amongst other things, once an agreement is finalized the testing can begin as early as next year
• Used For?
• There is little information on SpaceX’s website about what the Raptor engine is or specific development plans
• Space News reports that it would be used for deep-space missions
• There are multiple reports that SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has mentioned the engine previously when talking about Mars missions
• Raptor Rocket Engine, What We Know
• Intended to power a higher performance upper stage for SpaceX launch vehicles, powered by methane and liquid oxygen (LOX)
• Designed to produce more than 661,000 lbf (2,940 kN) thrust in vacuum, which is the space environment that the Raptor second-stage engine is designed for.
• Multimedia
• YouTube | Methane Rocket | Christopher Martinez
• Further Reading / In the News
• Stennis Space Center
• SpaceX Signs Pact To Start Rocket Testing At NASA Stennis | UniverseToday.com

— TWO-BYTE NEWS —

Australian \’Lost World\’

• An expedition to a remote part of northern Australia has uncovered three new vertebrate species isolated for millions of years
• The Discovery
• James Cook University and a National Geographic film crew were dropped by helicopter onto the rugged Cape Melville mountain range on Cape York Peninsula
• Cape Melville, a plateau of boulder-strewn rainforest on top
• The virtually impassable mountain range is home to millions of black granite boulders the size of cars and houses piled hundreds of metres high
• National Geographic, the team plans to return to Cape Melville within months to search for more new species, including snails, spiders, and perhaps even small mammals
• What Was Found
• Leaf-tail gecko, a gold-coloured skink-a type of lizard-and a brown-spotted, yellow boulder-dwelling frog, none of them ever seen before
• The Cape Melville Leaf-tailed Gecko, which has huge eyes and a long, slender body, is highly distinct from its relatives
• A small boulder-dwelling frog, the Blotched Boulder-frog, which during the dry season lives deep in the labyrinth of the boulder-field where conditions are cool and moist. The tadpoles even develop within the egg and a fully formed frog hatches out in the absence of water
• Further Reading / In the News
• \’Lost world\’ discovered in remote Australia | Phys.org
• Leaf-tailed gecko, golden-coloured skink and boulder-dwelling frog: New species found in Australia\’s lost world | independent.co.uk
• Spectacular New Species Found in \”Lost World\” | news.nationalgeographic.com

How Dinosaurs Walked

• Researchers have managed to use an advanced computer model to recreate the walking and running movements of the vast Cretaceous Argentinosaurus dinosaur
• Argentinosaurus
• The dinosaur lived on the then-island continent of South America somewhere between 97 and 94 million years ago, during the Late Cretaceous
• Not much of Argentinosaurus has been recovered, but the proportions of the bones found and comparisons with other sauropod relatives allow paleontologists to estimate the its size
• The dinosaur weighed about 80 tons, making it one of the largest known dinosaurs, and the model showed that it would have reached about 5 mph when it walked across the Earth
• The Computer Model
• To create this computer model, the researchers laser scanned a 40 meter-long skeleton of Argentinosaurus
• The simulation used the equivalent of 30,000 desktop computers to allow the dinosaur to take its first steps in over 94 million years
• The digitization of such vast dinosaur skeletons using laser scanners brings Walking with Dinosaurs to life…this is science not just animation
• Currently, the researchers plan to use this same computer technique in order to model the steps of other dinosaurs, such as the Triceratops, Brachiosaurus and T. rex.
• Multimedia
• YouTube | Argentinosaurus dinosaur digital reconstruction The University of Manchester: Dr Bill Sellers | Alison Barbuti
• YouTube | Argentinosaurus – Planet Dinosaur – Episode 5 | BBC
• Further Reading / In the News
• Scientists Digitally Reconstruct Movements of Largest Dinosaur in the World (Video) | Phys.org
• Argentinosaurus | Wikipedia

— VIEWER FEEDBACK —

Human Regeneration … Soon-ish?

• Michael Thalleen ‏@ThalleenM
• Regrowing human body parts: The dream comes within reach | nbcnews.com
• Sometime in the next few decades, humans may be able to regrow a finger, toe, or among the most promising targets, maybe even fresh patches of beating heart tissue
• Research
• A decade ago scientists demonstrated that zebrafish have the ability to repair a badly damaged heart, thanks to a particular protein that regulates the regenerative process
• Young mice are able to regenerate toes, and the salamander can regrow a whole arm below the joint
• In 2010, one lab showed it was possible to enhance that same regenerative response in adult mice
• Researchers have been studying mouse toes to understand how a similar regrowth mechanism can be reactivated or imitated in adult humans
• In Humans
• Humans already have demonstrated some ability to regenerate body parts, very young children can fill out the tips of chopped off fingers and toes
• In August researchers from the Gladstone Institutes showed that they could turn human scar tissue into electrically conductive tissue in a lab dish by fiddling with just a few key genes
• Among the hurdles that lie ahead: taking that technique out of the lab and applying it to living human hearts
• Researchers are still cautious about predicting how studies of animal regeneration will be applied to humans and it\’s dangerous to say, \’Yes, we expect to regenerate a limb\’ although the field is reaching a turning point

— CURIOSITY UPDATE —

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+ NASA\’s Mars rover Curiosity completed its first two-day autonomous drive Monday, Oct 28
+ During an autonomous drive the rover chooses a safe route to designated waypoints by using its onboard computer to analyze stereo images that it takes during pauses in the drive
+ The autonomous drive brought Curiosity to about 80m (262 ft) from \”Cooperstown,\” an outcrop bearing candidate targets for examination with instruments on the rover\’s arm.
+ Cooperstown is about one-third of the way along the route to Mount Sharp
+ Improvements
+ A key activity planned for this week, week of Nov. 4, is uploading a new version of onboard software the third such upgrade since landing
+ Include what information the rover can store overnight to resume autonomous driving the next day.
+ It also expands capabilities for using the robotic arm while parked on slopes
+ Multimedia
+ Image Galleries at JPL and Curiosity Mulimedia
+ Social Media
+ Curiosity Rover @MarsCuriosity
+ Further Reading / In the News
+ Mars Science Laboratory: NASA\’s Curiosity Mars Rover Approaches \’Cooperstown\’ | mars.jlp.nasa.gov

SCIENCE CALENDAR

Looking back

• November 11, 1572 : 441 years ago : Tycho\’s Supernova / SN1572 : Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe began his meticulous observations of the supernova discovered in the W-shaped constellation of Cassiopeia. (Brahe was at the beginning of his career in 1572, and it was this supernova that inspired him to devote his lifetime to making accurate measurements of the positions of the stars and planets.) First noted by Wolfgang Schuler*of Wittenberg, for two weeks it was brighter than any other star in the sky and visible in daytime. By month\’s end, it began to fade but it remained visible to the naked eye for about 16 months until Mar 1574. Thus 16th-century astronomers learned that the heavens were not immutable, as had been believed. Brahe\’s book on his observations, De Nova Stella, originated the word “nova.”
• SN 1572 | Wikipedia

Looking up this week

• Keep an eye out for …
• Wed, Nov 6 | Evening | Venus and the crescent Moon are close in the SW sky
• Sat, Nov 9 | First-quarter Moon to the SW
• Planets
• Venus | dusk | Is in the SW around dusk moving to set in the E-NE near the stars Castor and Pollux of the constellation Gemini
• Mars | Rises around 1-2am standard | Moves E, opposite to the stars, moving farther away from Regulus (blue-white star) and by dawn both are high in the S sky
• Comet ISON | Just before dawn | Below mars, but still only a telescopic object

• Jupiter | 9-10am standard | Rises in the E-NE moving to the high Southern sky by dawn

• Further Reading and Resources

• Sky&Telescope
• SpaceWeather.com
• StarDate.org
• For the Southern hemisphere: SpaceInfo.com.au
• Constellations of the Southern Hemisphere : astronomyonline.org
• Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand : rasnz.org.nz
• AstronomyNow
• HeavensAbove

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In this week’s MMOrgue, we cover the biggest MMO news to have scurried out from beneath the latex masks of San Diego Comic Con. Of course, the only real news on everyone’s mind has been the release of Star Wars: The Old Republic’s pre-orders, and the resulting DRAMA that unfolded from various distribution issues and a lack of product availability.

Before we get into the meat of that subject, we’ll also briefly cover NCSoft’s presence at SDCC, and DCUO’s Green Lantern “Power Ring” powerset announcements.

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