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It's been over 3.5 months since NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft dropped off its precious sample of asteroid dust, and scientists have finally managed to get the lid off the sample container.Now, the team can finally complete the steps needed to disassemble the Touch-and-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism (TAGSAM) container, and access the rocks and dirt collected from asteroid Bennu. Once retrieved, the sample can be divvied up and distributed to science teams around the world."Finally having the TAGSAM head open and full…

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Analysis: the Clop ransomware group has breached 122 organizations and obtained the data of ~15M people to date by exploiting a critical zero-day flaw in MOVEit — The dramatic fallout continues, with as many as 122 organizations now breached. — The dramatic fallout continues … Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Analysis: the Clop ransomware group has breached 122 organizations and obtained the data of ~15M people to date by exploiting a critical…

The New York City Department of Education has become the latest organization to disclose it had private data stolen as part of the far-reaching MOVEit file transfer software hack. In an email sent to parents on Sunday, the agency said the personal information of approximately 45,000 students, including in some cases social security numbers and birth dates, had recently been compromised. The Education Department said the personal information of staff was also accessed but did not share how many teachers and other personnel…

Geek is playing a video game that contains N monsters having varying power denoted by power. Geek will play total Q rounds and for each round, the power of Geek is Q. He can kill all monsters having power ≤ Q. All the monsters which were dead in the previous round will be reborn, such that for each round there will be N monsters. Since Geek wants to win each round, he wants to count the number of monsters he can kill in each round and the total sum of their powers. Can you help him?Examples:Input: N = 7, powers = {1, 2,…

The image captured with a high-speed camera shows several lightning rods trying to connect to the downward discharge. Credit: Diego Rhamon/INPE With a high-speed camera and the luck of being in the right place at the right time, physicist Marcelo Saba, a researcher at Brazil's National Space Research Institute (INPE), and Ph.D. candidate Diego Rhamon obtained a unique image of lightning strikes showing details of the…

The extinction hygroscopic growth factor of different sources aerosol under polluted and clean background in Qingdao from Sept. 2019 to Aug. 2020. Credit: Liu Nana In order to study the extinction hygroscopic growth characteristics of aerosol in coastal areas, researchers have analyzed the local aerosol characteristics of Qingdao, a typical coastal city in China. …

A Dutch hacker obtained and offered for sale the full name, address and date of birth of virtually everyone in Austria… A Dutch hacker arrested in November obtained and offered for sale the full name, address and date of birth of virtually everyone in Austria, the Alpine nation's police said on Wednesday. A user believed to be the hacker offered the data for sale in an online forum in May 2020, presenting it as "the full name, gender, complete address and date of birth of presumably every citizen" in Austria, police…

ByteDance, the Chinese-parent company of popular video app TikTok, said Thursday some employees this summer improperly accessed TikTok user data of two U.S. journalists and were no longer employed by the company, an email seen by Reuters shows. ByteDance employees accessed the data as part of an unsuccessful effort to attempt to investigate leaks of company information and were aiming to identify potential connections between two journalists and company employees, said the email. The disclosure, reported earlier by the…

ByteDance employees accessed the data as part of an unsuccessful effort to investigate leaks of company information earlier this year, the company said. US Congress is pushing legislation to ban the popular Chinese-owned social media app from most government devices.…

WASHINGTON—The Securities and Exchange Commission obtained record monetary sanctions in the latest fiscal year, as Chairman Gary Gensler focuses the agency’s enforcement strategy on high-profile cases and steep penalties for misconduct. Mr. Gensler said Wednesday the agency raked in $6.4 billion in the 12 months ended Sept. 30, his first complete fiscal year on the job. That beat the previous record, set in fiscal 2020, by nearly 40%. While the…