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Submission + - Garmin reportedly held hostage by WastedLocker ransomware

Submitted by decaffeinated
decaffeinated writes: Both TechCrunch and Forbes are reporting that Garmin's network is down and held hostage by WastedLocker ransomware.

Forbes states: "The navigation company was hit by a ransomware attack on Thursday [7/23], leaving customers unable to log fitness sessions in Garmin apps and pilots unable to download flight plans for aircraft navigation systems, among other problems. The company’s communication systems have also been taken offline, leaving it unable to respond to disgruntled customers. Garmin is reportedly being asked to pay a $10 million ransom to free its systems."

Submission + - Intel's 7nm is Broken, Company Announces Delay Until 2022, 2023 (tomshardware.com) 1

Submitted by bsharma
bsharma writes: Intel's press release says that yields for its 7nm process are now twelve months behind the company's internal targets, meaning the company isn't currently on track to produce its 7nm process in an economically viable way. On the earnings call, Intel CEO Bob Swan said the company had identified a "defect mode" in its 7nm process that caused yield degradation issues. As a result, Intel has invested in "contingency plans," which Swan later defined as including using third-party foundries.

Submission + - Meow ...and it's gone! 1

Submitted by PuceBaboon
PuceBaboon writes: Ars Technica is reporting a new attack on unprotected databases which, to date, has deleted all content from over 1,000 ElasticSearch and MongoDB databases across the 'net, leaving the calling-card "meow" in its place.
Most people are likely to find this a lot less amusing than a kitty video, so if you have a database instance on a cloud machine, now would be a good time to verify that it is password protected by something other than the default, install password..

Comment Attitude of those in Power--I'll be dead (shrug) (Score 2) 478

The current generation of leaders is going to leave an absolute garbage dump of a planet to the next generation--the Millennials.

Think I'm exaggerating? Australia just recently gave up on its effort to meet its Paris climate agreement carbon reduction targets.

Lots of folks gonna' be packing up and moving to escape rising seas and suffocating heat (e.g., S. Arizona).

Submission + - Scientists Accidentally Blow Up Their Lab With Strongest Indoor Magnetic Field (vice.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Earlier this year, researchers at the University of Tokyo accidentally created the strongest controllable magnetic field in history and blew the doors of their lab in the process. As detailed in a paper recently published in the Review of Scientific Instruments, the researchers produced the magnetic field to test the material properties of a new generator system. They were expecting to reach peak magnetic field intensities of around 700 Teslas, but the machine instead produced a peak of 1,200 Teslas. (For the sake of comparison, a refrigerator magnet has about 0.01 Tesla)

In both the Japanese and Russian experiments, the magnetic fields were generated using a technique called electromagnetic flux-compression. This technique causes a brief spike in the strength of the magnetic field by rapidly “squeezing” it to a smaller size. [...] Instead of using TNT to generate their magnetic field, the Japanese researchers dumped a massive amount of energy—3.2 megajoules—into the generator to cause a weak magnetic field produced by a small coil to rapidly compress at a speed of about 20,000 miles per hour. This involves feeding 4 million amps of current through the generator, which is several thousand times more than a lightning bolt. When this coil is compressed as small as it will go, it bounces back. This produces a powerful shockwave that destroyed the coil and much of the generator. To protect themselves from the shockwave, the Japanese researchers built an iron cage for the generator. However they only built it to withstand about 700 Teslas, so the shockwave from the 1,200 Teslas ended up blowing out the door to the enclosure.

Submission + - Firefox 57 To Be Released on Tuesday. Bye Bye Legacy Add-Ons! (bleepingcomputer.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: On Tuesday, Mozilla will flip the switch on a completely new browser with the release of Firefox 57, a version that's been rebuilt with a new browser engine core, a new user interface, revamped settings panel, and with a new add-ons API.

While the new browser engine seems to be the most important feature, it's actually not. With the release of Firefox 57, Mozilla will remove support for legacy add-ons, leaving a large chunk of its userbase without working add-ons. Currently, only about 6,000 of Firefox's estimated 20,000 add-ons have been ported to the new API, meaning some hardcore users will be left out in the cold without an alternative for their current add-ons. These users will be put in the unfortunate situation of having to choose between running Firefox without their favorite add-ons or finding a new browser where similar add-ons exist. You can sift through a list of WebExtensions add-ons and look for alternatives right now by accessing the Firefox57 tag on the Mozilla Add-ons portal.

Submission + - SPAM: TSA fails most tests in latest undercover operation at US airports 1

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes:

When ABC News asked the source if the failure rate was 80 percent, the response was, “You are in the ballpark.”

In a public hearing after a private classified briefing to the House Committee on Homeland Security, members of Congress called the failures by the Transportation Security Administration disturbing.

Rep. Mike Rogers went as far as to tell TSA Administrator David Pekoske, “This agency that you run is broken badly, and it needs your attention.”

It isn’t broken. TSA is doing exactly what it was designed to do: Create the illusion that Washington is Doing Something.
Link to Original Source

Submission + - Astronaut Dick Gordon has died (astronautscholarship.org)

Submitted by sconeu
sconeu writes: Dick Gordon, Pilot of Gemini 11 and Command Module Pilot of Apollo 12 has died at the age of 88. Gordon was also slated to command the cancelled Apollo 18 mission.

Submission + - H1-B Administrators Challenging an Unusually Large Number of Applications

Submitted by decaffeinated
decaffeinated writes: Bloomberg reports that starting this summer, employers began noticing that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services was challenging an unusually large number of H-1B applications. Cases that would have sailed through the approval process in earlier years ground to a halt under requests for new paperwork.

“We’re entering a new era,” said Emily Neumann, an immigration lawyer in Houston who has been practicing for 12 years. “There’s a lot more questioning, it’s very burdensome.” She said in past years she's counted on 90 percent of her petitions being approved by Oct. 1 in years past. This year, only 20 percent of the applications have been processed. Neumann predicts she’ll still have many unresolved cases by the time next year’s lottery happens in April 2018.

Submission + - Adblock Plus author calls ABP 3.0 changes "unfortunate but sadly unavoidable"

Submitted by Antiocheian
Antiocheian writes: Adblock Plus 3.0 for Firefox 57 has been released today. This is the first version based on the Web Extensions framework. Wladimir Palant, author of the popular extension, has stated that "The significant changes introduced here are unfortunate but sadly unavoidable." The update is also forced on Firefox 52 ESR users.

Submission + - The First Climate Model Turns 50, And Predicted Global Warming Almost Perfectly (forbes.com) 2

Submitted by Layzej
Layzej writes: Astrophysicist Ethan Siegel looks at a climate model (MW67) published in 1967 and finds "50 years after their groundbreaking 1967 paper, the science can be robustly evaluated, and they got almost everything exactly right."

An analysis on the "Climate Graphs" blog shows exactly how close the prediction has proven to be: "The slope of the CO2-vs-temperature regression line in the 50 years of actual observations is 2.57, only slightly higher than MW67’s prediction of 2.36" They also note that "This is even more impressive when one considers that at the time MW67 was published, there had been no detectable warming in over two decades. Their predicted warming appeared to mark a radical change with the recent past:"

Comment Re:Anyone tried Firefox on Android recently? (Score 1) 317

by decaffeinated (#55131305) Attached to: TechRepublic: Mozilla 'Is Desperately Needed to Save the Web'
Okay...so I installed FF on Android and tried it (platform is a Note 4). Not nearly as sluggish as I remember it from the past. The scrolling of long, graphics-intensive web pages is still a problem. The simplest example is to load news.google.com in both Chrome and Firefox and scroll the content with your finger. Chrome is smooth as silk. FF is noticeably choppy...and slow. Still, if I didn't want Google snooping my browsing habits, I could live with FF.

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