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Submission + - Unprecedented - Cyber attackers release secret key to save Irish health system (bbc.com)

Submitted by Lanodonal
Lanodonal writes: The Conti ransomware group was reportedly asking the Irish health service for $20m to restore services after the "catastrophic hack". But, unprecedently, the criminals have handed over the software tool for free.The Irish government is now testing the handed-over tool and insists it did not pay anything to the hackers.

Comment This is same Martin Hairer that created Amadeus (Score 5, Interesting) 21

Hairer grew up in Geneva where his entry for a school science competition became Amadeus – “the Swiss army knife of sound editing” – now used in updated form by music producers and games designers. He still maintains the software as a side-line to his academic work.

Submission + - SPAM: Creator of Amadeus sound editor wins 2021 Breakthrough prize for

Submitted by Lanodonal
Lanodonal writes: Martin Hairer, a researcher at Imperial College London, is the winner of the 2021 Breakthrough prize for mathematics, an annual $3m award that rivals the Nobels in terms of prestige. See: [spam URL stripped]...
Hairer is being awarded the prize for work on stochastic analysis, a field that describes how random effects turn the maths of things like stirring a cup of tea, the growth of a forest fire, or the spread of a water droplet that has fallen on a tissue into a fiendishly complex problem.
His major work, a 180-page treatise that introduced the world to “regularity structures”.
The award is one of several Breakthrough prizes announced each year by a foundation set up by the Israeli-Russian investor Yuri Milner and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg.
Hairer grew up in Geneva where his entry for a school science competition became Amadeus – “the Swiss army knife of sound editing” – now used in updated form by music producers and games designers. He still maintains the software as a side-line to his academic work.
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Submission + - A cat in a box can be in an uncertain predicament (nature.com)

Submitted by Lanodonal
Lanodonal writes: The famous thought experiment by physicist Erwin Schrödinger described how a cat in a box could be in an uncertain predicament; it could be both dead and alive, according to the rules of quantum theory. However, the cat’s state can be tested when the box is opened.
Now, two physicists Daniela Frauchiger and Renato Renner of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, have published a paper in Nature Communications, on 18th. September, 2018, https://www.nature.com/article..., that has some shocking implications. The authors replace the cat with a physicist and then show that different experimenters can reach opposite conclusions about what the physicist in the box has measured. This means that quantum theory contradicts itself.

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