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SQUIRRELMAIL REMOTE CODE EXECUTION VULNERABILITY

• improperly santized parameters

• Invoking sendmail binary from with PHP

• Dawid Golunski disclosed the vulnerability

• FreeBSD version is newer than articles states is latest release

Anonymous domain purchases

• Anonymity has long been practiced for activism. Many famous authors have published under a pseudonym.

• Domain name is from Laos, but company is based in St Kitts.

• What are the risks with trusting this group?

Net Neutrality Alive and Well in Canada: CRTC Crafts Full Code With Zero Rating Decision

• Very strong decision and very postive for Canadian consumers.

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• Advice on a virtualization server

• Short oveview of DNS – phone book analogy

Round Up:

• reverse engineer of the Apple File System

• How Swat.io migrated from MySQL to PostgreSQL in 2 yearsPosted

• And this is why you secure ssh on web facing servers…

• Dan’s switch replacement turned into a rewire

• Used this for WIFI until things worked

• Nearly done

• Cable Comb

• The Cuckoo’s Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage

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Microsoft goes all in on Android & we breakdown the big questions behind the apps. Intel announces wireless docking at the chipset level & Canada’s covert operation of tracking downloads and uploads all over the world is revealed.

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Microsoft Launches Outlook For iOS And Android Based On Its Acompli Acquisition

Microsoft today launched Outlook for Android and iOS phones and tablets, based on the application it acquired when it bought Acomplilast December. These new applications will go live in their respective app stores over the course of the next few hours.

• Microsoft Office now available for Android tablets – Liliputing

Microsoft says its mobile Office apps should run on devices with Android 4.4 or later, 1GB of RAM or more, and ARM-based processors. Support for Intel chips is in the works and Microsoft says it plans to add support for Intel-based tablets within the next few months.

Peeing My Way Around New York City With Airpnp, The App For Bathroom Emergencies – BuzzFeed News

Airpnp is the worst-designed app I’ve ever used. It’s also the most profound.

• Vacation Rentals, Homes, Apartments & Rooms for Rent – Airbnb

AnandTech | Intel Announces Broadwell vPro Processors: Wireless Docking and More

ntel Wireless Docking could be the most exciting new feature. Using four channels of 802.11ad at 60 GHz radio frequency, Intel claims a total bandwidth of 7 Gbps. All data passed between the dock and device is protected with 128-bit AES hardware encryption, and two monitors plus USB 3.0 are supported. Intel has not yet provided information yet about supported resolutions, however they do provide an impressive video demonstrating a video file streaming from a USB stick to a laptop from the wireless dock, then back to the wireless dock for display.

This docking implementation is particularly interesting as it is implemented at the chipset level instead of the OS level. Intel’s low level control of peripherals allows them to enable no-brainer functionality such as closing the laptop lid and not entering sleep mode after establishing the dock connection.

Canada Casts Global Surveillance Dragnet Over File Downloads – The Intercept

The covert operation, revealed Wednesday by CBC News in collaboration with The Intercept, taps into Internet cables and analyzes records of up to 15 million downloads daily from popular websites commonly used to share videos, photographs, music, and other files.

Drone Maker Enforces No-Fly Zone Over DC, Hijacking Malware Demonstrated – Slashdot

A recent incident at the White House showed that small aerial vehicles (drones) present a specific security problem. Rahul Sasi, a security engineer at Citrix R&D, created MalDrone, the first backdoor malware for the AR drone ARM Linux system to target Parrot AR Drones, but says it can be modified to target others as well. The malware can be silently installed on a drone, and be used to control the drone remotely and to conduct remote surveillance. Meanwhile, the Chinese company that created the drone that crashed on the White House grounds has announced a software update for its “Phantom” series that will prohibit flight within 25 kilometers of the capital.

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The NSA chilling effect is in full force, and you can probably guess where many companies are feeling too.

Then hidden problem facing IT security and why users expect magic.

Plus it’s a great batch of your questions, and our answers.

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Companies start moving data and jobs to Canada to avoid the NSA

• “U.S. industry stands to lose billions as companies spooked by security leaks seek to store banks of personal data outside U.S.”
• “It’s also a question of perception. The Europeans want to say to their clients that their information is not in the United States even though it stays in North America.”
• Canada is also attractive due to the availability of skilled labour, the cooler climate (requiring less air conditioning) and cheap electricity
• Compared to moving data to Europe, the latency to Canada is much lower because of its proximity and diversity of fibre paths
• “No one will say which companies have decided to flee the U.S., but they are said to vary from European banking and insurance firms with operations in the U.S. to American oil and gas companies and retail outlets, according to Canadian industry representatives interviewed by the Star”
• Cisco has chosen Ontario as the destination of a $4 billion investment that will create 1700 engineering and tech jobs
• The 10 year deal will see more than half of the $4 billion spent on salaries
• The number of jobs could grow as high as 5000

• FreeNAS Mini on Amazon

Some speakers quit RSA conference and call for boycott

• After the revelation that RSA received $10 million from the NSA to make a flawed algorithm the default in their BSafe product, a number of speakers and panel participants have pulled our of the yearly conference run by RSA
• RSA denies it entered into a contract for the purpose of weaking its products
• RSA issued a warning against using the flawed algorithm in September when NIST issued a similar warning after the Snowden documents were leaked
• Researchers who have pulled out of the conference include:
• Mikko Hypponen – F-Secure’s Chief Researcher – Talk: Governments as Malware Authors
• Adam Langley – Google Security Expert
• Chris Palmer – Google Chrome security engineer
  • Christopher Soghoian – researcher with the American Civil Liberties Union
  • Marcia Hoffman – privacy attorney and former Electronic Frontier Foundation lawyer
    
  • Alex Fowler – Mozilla privacy and public policy expert
  • Josh Thomas – “Chief Breaking Officer” at security firm Atredis
  • Jeffrey Carr – Taia Global
• Taia Global is developing a product called Chimera, a commercial database of “rival state research and development projects” on the basis that knowing what the attackers are working on, lets you know which of your assets they may be out to steal
• “Organisers have said that next month’s conference in San Francisco will host 560 speakers, and that they expect more participants than the 24,000 who showed up last year”
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The hidden threat to network security? Management

• A survey and study by Stroz Friedberg called Information Security Risk in American Business was recently released
• The study shows much what you would expect, few people take security seriously, although everyone claims to care about it
• Most people expect the IT experts to somehow magically keep everything security, while end users go around sprinkling sensitive files all over the Internet and clicking the link in every spam email they get, and opening every attachment
• “Insiders are by far the biggest risk to the security of a company’s sensitive information, whether it’s a careless executive or a disgruntled employee”
• The horrible stats:
  • 87% of senior managers frequently or occasionally send work materials to a personal email or cloud account in order to work remotely
  • 58% of Senior management have accidentally sent sensitive information to the wrong person (compared to 25% of workers overall)
  • 51% of Senior management, and 37% of mid-level management have taken files with them after leave a job
    +45% of senior management say that C-level leadership are responsible for protecting companies against cyber-attacks
  • “Yet, 52% of this same group indicated they are falling down on the job, rating corporate America’s ability to respond to cyber-threats at a “C” grade or lower.”
  • Employees disagree, 54% say IT professionals should be responsible for cyber security
  • 73% of Employees fears their personal details such as Social Security numbers, birth date, banking information and home address could be stolen
  • “Only 35% of respondents reported receiving regular training and communications on mobile device security from their employers”
• “BYOD and the use of personal online accounts have become prevalent in American businesses, as workers use their personal smartphones, tablets, and preferred cloud providers to stay productive while at work and out of the office. This is opening the door for businesses to encounter new and emerging threats from hackers, malware, and viruses.”
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• Nginx Client side SSL limiting
• Hows my SSL?
• Low-end server hardware prices

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• Yahoo malware turned European computers into bitcoin slaves
• Humourous USENIX article about password security
• openSUSE forums defaced, emails leaked
• Poem about hacking the truth machine
• Zimbra 8 remote exploit
• How a simple screwup lead to a compromise and a $500 amazon bill
• Intel renames its ‘tainted’ McAfee brand to ‘Intel Security’
• Reading this May Harm Your Computer: The Psychology of Malware Warnings
• Not Cool: MPAA Joins The W3C
• OpenSSL site defaced – Official Statement
• The US Federal Election Commission is highly vulnerable to intrusions and data breaches
• Asprox botnet pushes KrebsOnSecurity themed malware

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The funding methods around Bitcoin are under attack, and we chat with TheGenesisBlock.com’s managing editor about what this means for the future of Bitcoin, and more.

Plus picking the right wallet for offline cold storage, a look at BitAngels the distributed Bitcoin angel fund, our concerns with Ripple, your emails, and much more!

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• OKPAY takes Bitcoin hiatus

Although OKPAY themselves provided no rationale for their decision, OKPAY’s trust in the viability of bitcoin in their system may have been shaken after an OKPAY user reported on bitcointalk.org that they had successfully double-spent over 211 BTC to OKPAY and a seperate address controlled by the user during the block chain fork of 12 March 2013. The same user also reported that an approximately 65 BTC he had sent separately to OKPAY was not successfully credited to the appropriate account. Somewhat of a standoff ensued, but was resolved with OKPAY refunding the 65 BTC only after the customer returned the double-spent 211 BTC. OKPAY support staff confirmed the situation on a bitcointalk.org forum thread started by the double-spender.

• Canada becomes bitcoin-friendly

We now have our first answer from FinTRAC. Generally, it views bitcoin exchanges as entities that do not have to register, identify clients, and report under the money services business rules.

• Next Generation Bitcoins with Ripple – YouTube

Primer Interest Producer Bob English and Perianne traveled to the Bitcoin conference in San Jose, California over the weekend. They got a chance to speak to many of the movers and shakers in the up and coming crypto-currency realm. Bob interviewed Chris Larsen, CEO and co-founder of OpenCoin, which is developing Ripple.

• 60+ Investors Band Together To Form BitAngels, The First Multi-City Angel Network & Incubator For Bitcoin Startups | TechCrunch

BitAngels is launching (what it believes to be) the first multi-city angel network and incubator created to invest exclusively in cryptocurrency startups. Fittingly, in the spirit of Bitcoin, it\’s a distributed network of angels and entrepreneurs and one that was hacked together in a few days after the Bitcoin 2013 Conference.

BitAngels brings together a posse of angel investors who are looking to help entrepreneurs turn their Bitcoin side projects into full-time jobs. To do that, the angel network pooled together about $6.7 million in Bitcoin, which it will invest in approximately $20K chunks.

BitAngels is not a formal fund, so the Bitcoins are soft-circled, not in escrow, but all 60 angels that have joined thus far (the number of angels has almost doubled in the past week) are all accredited investors with extensive experience investing and, naturally, have a lot of Bitcoin.

• Why Bitcoin Won’t Probably be a Reserve Currency in our Lifetime

Trace Mayer on Prime Interest May 24, 2013.

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• DHS Inquiry Leads to Lowest USD/Bitcoin Trading Volume In Months
  > Bitcoin trading volume has plummeted since news broke that the Department of Homeland Security issued a seizure warrant that stopped all activity between Dwolla and the Mt. Gox exchange. As of today, the 5-Day moving average of USD trading volume is at the lowest level in at least a year and a half (the data is a bit spotty beyond that), other than the last week in December 2012.

In addition to total market volume declining, Mt. Gox is losing footing as the dominant player in the space. As of May 17, Gox was doing roughly 81% of total USD bitcoin volume. Today they did just 59%.

• Bitcoin Trading: Are We Primed For A Major Move Higher? – The Genesis Block

Yesterday we wrote about the low volatility after Mt. Gox\’s accounts were seized. The following graph from that article illustrates how we haven\’t seen volatility this low on Mt. Gox since December of 2012.

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We take a look at sad news for the Kepler space telescope, wireless brain imaging, remote ancient water, cancer genes, sound imaging, viewer feedback, spacecraft updates, Curiosity news, and as always take a peek back into history and up in the sky this week.

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Kepler\’s Last Dance?

• NASA’s Kepler telescope lost its ability to precisely point toward stars when one of the reaction wheels –devices which enable the spacecraft to aim in different directions without firing thrusters – has failed
• Launched in 2009, the Kepler mission completed its 3.5-year planned run last year.it monitors some 150,000 sunlike stars in search of transiting planets
• Reaction Wheels
• Reaction wheels try to balance the forces from the solar pressure, that’s what forces a wheel to run
• Last year reaction wheel #2 failed, and now #4 has failed
• In July 2012 reaction wheel #2 failed, then earlier this year elevated friction was detected in reaction wheel #4, they saw some movement on the wheel but it went back quickly
• Extending Fuel Supplies
• They are currently using thrusters to stabilize the spacecraft, and in its current mode, the onboard fuel will last for several months
• They could extend the fuel to last a period of several years in a “Point Rest State,” where we can park the vehicle
• Point Rest State is a loosely-pointed, thruster-controlled state that minimizes fuels usage while providing a continuous X-band communication downlink
• The software to execute that state was loaded to the spacecraft last week
• There is the possibility of the wheel running in the opposite direction, but running the wheel backward would mean they would need to use more thruster fuel
• What Lies Ahead
• The spacecraft needs at least three reaction wheels to be able to point precisely enough to hunt for planets orbiting distant stars, but it might be possible to use the telescope for another purpose that does not require such precise pointing abilities
• They will continue to analyze the situation to try and get the telescope back online
• Even if the Kepler spacecraft is unable to make more observations, there are still terabytes of data to pore over with two years of data that has yet to be searched through
• Multimedia
• YouTube | Kepler Update on This Week @NASA | NASATelevision
• Further Reading / In the News
• Kepler mission may be over | Atom & Cosmos | Science News
• Planet-Hunting Kepler Spacecraft Suffers Major Failure, NASA Says | Space.com
• Kepler spacecraft\’s planet-hunting days may be over | Phys.org
• Malfunction Could Mark the End of NASA\’s Kepler Mission – ScienceInsider | ScienceMag.org
• Kepler Planet-Hunting Mission in Jeopardy | UniverseToday.com

— NEWS BYTE —

Wireless Brain Imaging

• A new technology is using wireless signals to provide real-time, non-invasive diagnosis of brain swelling or bleeding.
• The device analyzes data from low energy, electromagnetic waves, similar to the kind used to transmit radio and mobile signals
• It could potentially become a cost-effective tool for medical diagnostics and to triage injuries in areas where access to medical care, especially medical imaging, is limited
• The Prototype
• Engineers fashioned two coils into a helmet-like device, fitted over the heads of the study participants
• One coil acts as a radio emitter and the other serves as the receiver. Electromagnetic signals are broadcast through the brain from the emitter to the receiver
• The waves are extremely weak, and are comparable to standing in a room with the radio or television turned on
• The device\’s diagnoses for the brain trauma patients in the study matched the results obtained from conventional computerized tomography (CT) scans
• Researchers take advantage of the characteristic changes in tissue composition and structure in brain injuries
• For brain edema, swelling results from an increase in fluid in the tissue and for brain hematomas, internal bleeding causes the buildup of blood in certain regions of the brain.
• Because fluid conducts electricity differently than brain tissue, it is possible to measure changes in electromagnetic properties.
• Then computer algorithms interpret the changes to determine the likelihood of injury.
• Prototype Testing
• The researchers tested a prototype in a small-scale pilot study of healthy adults and brain trauma patients admitted to a military hospital for the Mexican Army
• The study involved 46 healthy adults, ages 18 to 48, and eight patients with brain damage, ages 27 to 70.
• The results from the healthy patients were clearly distinguishable from those with brain damage, and data for bleeding was distinct from those for swelling
• Why is it Important?
• Symptoms of serious head injuries and brain damage are not always immediately obvious, and for treatment, time is of the essence.
• Further Reading / In the News
• Wireless signals could transform brain trauma diagnostics | MedicalXPress.com

— TWO-BYTE NEWS —

Ancient Water Story

• A UK-Canadian team of scientists has discovered ancient pockets of water, which have been isolated deep underground for billions of years and contain abundant chemicals known to support life
• Before this finding, the only water of this age was found trapped in tiny bubbles in rock and is incapable of supporting life
• The Water
• The crystalline rocks surrounding the water are thought to be around 2.7 billion years old. But no-one thought the water could be the same age, until now
• Using ground-breaking techniques researchers show that the fluid is at least 1.5 billion years old, but could be significantly older.
• The interconnected fluid system in the deep Canadian crystalline basement that is billions of years old, and capable of supporting life
• Scientists say the water found in the Canadian mine pours from the rock at a rate of nearly two litres per minute yet don\’t yet know if the underground system in Canada sustains life
• Hydrogen, Methane, and Life
• Researchers have analysed water pouring out of boreholes from a mine 2.4 kilometres beneath Ontario, Canada
• They have found that the water is rich in dissolved gases like hydrogen, methane and different forms – called isotopes – of noble gases such as helium, neon, argon and xenon
• The amount of hydrogen in the water is similar to that around hydrothermal vents in the deep ocean, where microbial life has been found
• The hydrogen and methane come from the interaction between the rock and water, as well as natural radioactive elements in the rock reacting with the water
• These gases could provide energy for microbes that may not have been exposed to the sun for billions of years.
• What This Means On a Larger Scale
• The similarity between the rocks that trapped it and those on Mars raises the hope that comparable life-sustaining water could lie buried beneath the red planet\’s surface
• Further Reading / In the News
• Billion-year-old water could hold clues to life on Earth and Mars | Phys.org

Flipping Genes for Cancer

• Researchers at Johns Hopkins have identified a gene that, when repressed in tumor cells, puts a halt to cell growth and a range of processes needed for tumors to enlarge and spread to distant sites
• The work shows for the first time that switching this gene off in aggressive cancer cells dramatically changes their appearance and behavior
• The team applied the same techniques to several strains of human breast cancer cells in the laboratory, including the so-called triple negative cells
• Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
• Triple-negative breast cancer cells tend to behave aggressively and do not respond to many of our most effective breast cancer therapies
• Cells with suppressed HMGA1 grow very slowly and fail to migrate or invade new territory
• The team then implanted tumor cells into mice, the tumors with HMGA1 grew and spread to other areas, such as the lungs, while those with blocked HMGA1 did not grow well in the breast tissue or spread to distant sites.
• Further Reading / In the News
• Making cancer less cancerous: Blocking a single gene renders tumors less aggressive | MedicalXpress.com

Sound Pictures of Your Car

• Researchers have created a camera that creates a heat map-like view of machinery, or anything else
• 30 digital microphones and a high-res camera pick up on what\’s making noise, and an image shows the different levels of noise, organized by a color gradient with blue meaning a little noise, and red is the most extreme level.
• While this is not the first sound camera, at about 4 pounds it is one of the most portable
• Further Reading / In the News
• This Sound Camera Could Help You Fix Your Car | Popular Science

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Space Station Patch

• Peter Daintree / \”Korlus\” – Check This Out!
• Space Station ammonia Leak and Fix
• Answer
• Expedition 35 Flight Engineers inspected and replaced a pump controller box on the International Space Station’s far port truss (P6) leaking ammonia coolant
• Coolant Pump
• The device contains the mechanical systems that drive the cooling functions for the port truss.
• The ammonia cools the 2B power channel, one of eight power channels that control the all the various power-using systems at the ISS
• While the coolant is vital to the operation of the ISS for the electricity-supplying systems, the crew was not in any danger
• The Fix
• The spacewalk is the 168th in support of the assembly and maintenance of the space
• While astronauts on the station prepared in space, Astronauts at NASA’s Johnson Space Center used the Neutral Buoyancy lab – a 12- meter (40 ft.) deep swimming pool with mockups of the space station that simulates the zero-gravity conditions in space – going through the entire expected EVA
• A little more than 2 1/2 hours into the spacewalk removed the 260-pound pump controller box from the P6 truss and replaced it with a spare that had been stowed nearby
• What Happened in the \”Down Time\”
• All the systems that use power from the 2B channel, the problem area, were transferred throughout the day to another channel
• The 2B channel will eventually shut down when the coolant is depleted, and the power is being diverted in order to keep everything up and running on the station
• Multimedia
• YouTube | Station Ammonia Leak Prompts Spacewalk Preps | ReelNASA
• Further Reading / In the News
• NASA – Astronauts Complete Spacewalk to Repair Ammonia Leak, Station Changes Command | NASA.gov
• Emergency Spacewalk Likely for ‘Serious’ ISS Coolant Leak | UniverseToday.com

— SPACECRAFT UPDATE—

Opportunity’s Driving Marathon

• Last Time on SciByte
• SciByte 79 | Multitasking & Tractor Beams – Opportunity rover still on the move [29 Jan, 2013]
• Marathon Driving
• Over the course of three days in December 1972 Apollo 17 astronauts drove their mission\’s Lunar Roving Vehicle 22.21 mi [19 nautical mi / 35.74 kilometers] holding the record for the farthest travelled NASA vehicle until recently
• Opportunity rover drove 263 feet (80 meters) on May 15, bringing its total odometry on the Red Planet to 22.22 miles [35.768 km], beating Apollo 17\’s record
• The Mission
• The golf-cart-sized Opportunity and it\’s twin Spirit landed on Mars in January 2004 on three-month missions to search for signs of past water activity on the Red Planet
• Spirit stopped communicating with Earth in 2010 and was declared dead a year later
• In the meantime Opportunity has been working at a section of the rim dubbed \”Cape York\” since the middle of 2011
• Now it has began trekking toward an area called Solander Point, which lies 1.4 miles (2.2 km) away
• The Future
• Opportunity still trails another robot for the international distance record, the Soviet Union\’s remote-controlled Lunokhod 2 rover traveled 23 miles (37 km) on the moon in 1973.
• Although Opportunity\’s handlers have said they\’d like to add this milestone to the rover\’s resume as well, though science remains the mission\’s top priority
• Multimedia
• IMAGE | Comparisons among the distances driven by various wheeled vehicles on the surface of Earth\’s moon and Mars | Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech
• Further Reading / In the News
• Nine-Year-Old Mars Rover Passes 40-Year-Old Record – NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory | JPL.NASA.gov
• Mars Rover Breaks U.S. Record for Off-Planet Driving | Scientific American
• Mars Rover Opportunity Breaks US Record for Off-Planet Driving | Space.com

— CURIOSITY UPDATE —

• Second Drilling Location
• The first drilling location was at a target called \”John Klein\” three months ago
• The new target Cumberland resembles John Klein and lies about nine feet (2.75 meters) farther west
• On May 19th Curiosity drilled a hole into Cumberland about an 0.6 inch (1.6 centimeters) in diameter and about 2.6 inches (6.6 centimeters) deep
• Preliminary findings from analysis of the first site, \”John Klein,\” indicate that the location long ago had environmental conditions favorable for microbial life
• The science team expects to use analysis of the new material from Cumberland to check against those results
• ”Blinking Image”
• Before-and-After Blink of \’Cumberland\’ Drilling | NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
• This pair of images from the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) on NASA\’s Mars rover Curiosity shows the rock target \”Cumberland\” before and after Curiosity drilled into it to collect a sample for analysis
• The \”before\” image was taken during the 275th Martian day, or sol, of Curiosity\’s work on Mars (May 15, 2013).
• Curiosity drilled into Cumberland on Sol 279 (May 19, 2013) and took the second image later that same sol.
• Multimedia
• YouTube | Curiosity Rover Report (May 16, 2013): Rover Readies for Second Drilling | JPLNews
• Image Galleries at JPL and Curiosity Mulimedia
• Social Media
• Curiosity Rover @MarsCuriosity
• Further Reading / In the News
• Mars Science Laboratory: NASA Mars Rover Curiosity Drills Second Rock Target | mars.jpl.nasa.gov

SCIENCE CALENDAR

Looking back

• May 27, 1931 : 82 years ago : Balloon Record : In 1931, Auguste Piccard and Charles Knipfer took man\’s first trip into the stratosphere when they rode their balloon to an altitude of 51,800 feet (nearly 10 miles above the earth). This required the use of a pressurized cabin, which Piccard had designed. On-board experiments included the use of an electroscope to investigate cosmic rays

Looking up this week

• Keep an eye out for …
• Saturn | Twilight | In the SE with the blue giant star Spica to it\’s upper right
• Venus | Twilight | In the W-NW to the lower right of Jupiter
• Jupiter | Twilight | In the W-NW it is appearing lower and lower each day
• The Conjunction | When objects in the sky appear to be close from our perspective | As seen in the video, Jupiter and Venus are getting closer and closer in the W-NW about 40 min after sunset. They will be at their closest point May 28th, when they will only be 1 degree apart, or about the width of your pinky finger held at arms length

• YouTube | Conjunction Video | SkyandTelescope

• 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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Since announcing that Champions online was going free to play, tons of you have written in asking for the LOTSO take on this superhero MMO! In this week’s episode the guys play through the early missions and share their thoughts as the game unfolds!

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As the eastern and midwest USA get pounded with some of the heaviest snowfall they’ve seen in ages, we’re sitting tight nice and cozy (and even a little sunny – SUCK IT) in the northwest.

Tonight, we’re gonna dig through some of the top news stories regarding this snowpocalypse, as well as share a bunch of user-submitted snow pictures. Be prepared for a lot of white in your face.

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