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Comment It's all free press. They achieved their aim. (Score 3, Insightful) 83

by baabaa (#64957317) Attached to: Coca-Cola Faces Creative Backlash Over AI Christmas Campaign
They made a generic Coca Cola christmas advert with AI and got a huge amount of free press coverage for their brand in the run up to Christmas - that was their aim, and they achieved it. No stories about Pepsi in the media for the next couple of weeks - it'll all be Coca Cola and their advert.

Submission + - James Webb Mirror Deployment Complete

Submitted by cusco
cusco writes: For years naysayers have confidently declared that the numerous automated operations necessary to fully deploy the James Webb Space Telescope were going to guarantee its failure. Today they've been proven wrong.

https://www.nasa.gov/press-rel...
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope team fully deployed its 21-foot, gold-coated primary mirror, successfully completing the final stage of all major spacecraft deployments to prepare for science operations. . .

The two wings of Webb’s primary mirror had been folded to fit inside the nose cone of an Arianespace Ariane 5 rocket prior to launch. After more than a week of other critical spacecraft deployments, the Webb team began remotely unfolding the hexagonal segments of the primary mirror, the largest ever launched into space. This was a multi-day process, with the first side deployed Jan. 7 and the second Jan. 8.

Mission Operations Center ground control at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore began deploying the second side panel of the mirror at 8:53 a.m. EST. Once it extended and latched into position at 1:17 p.m. EST, the team declared all major deployments successfully completed.

The world’s largest and most complex space science telescope will now begin moving its 18 primary mirror segments to align the telescope optics. The ground team will command 126 actuators on the backsides of the segments to flex each mirror – an alignment that will take months to complete. Then the team will calibrate the science instruments prior to delivering Webb’s first images this summer.

“I am so proud of the team – spanning continents and decades – that delivered this first-of-its kind achievement,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate in NASA Headquarters in Washington. “Webb’s successful deployment exemplifies the best of what NASA has to offer: the willingness to attempt bold and challenging things in the name of discoveries still unknown.”

Submission + - Threat actors can simulate iPhone reboots and keep iOS malware on a device (therecord.media)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: In a piece of groundbreaking research published on Tuesday night, security firm ZecOps said that it found a way to block and then simulate an iOS restart operation, a technique that they believe could be extremely useful to attackers who may want to trick users into thinking they rebooted their device and as a result, maintain access for their malware on that infected system.

The technique is of extreme importance and gravity because of the way the iPhone malware landscape has evolved in recent years, where, due to advances in the security of the iOS operating system, malware can’t achieve boot persistence as easily as it once did. As a result, many security experts have recommended over the past year that users who might be the target of malicious threat actors regularly reboot devices in order to remove backdoors or other implants. But in a blog post on Tuesday, ZecOps said that the iOS restart process isn’t immune to being hijacked once an attacker has gained access to a device, in a way to perform a fake restart where the user's device only has its UI turned off, instead of the entire OS.

Comment Been in the UK for ages (Score 3, Interesting) 74

by baabaa (#61462228) Attached to: Sidewalk Robots are Now Delivering Food in Miami
Similar robots from Starship have been operating in Milton Keynes, UK, for a couple of years and have sucessfully completed tens of thousands of deliveries. I can't remeber the last time I took a walk and didn't see one of them pootling around. Seeing them is a non-event now and everyone seems to ignore them and let them get on their way. They are basically never vandalized, or cause issues. In fact, they are so reliable them when they do go wrong they end up in the local news.

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