Month: April 2022

Weibo says it will publish the locations of users based on IP addresses on their account pages and posts to combat “bad behaviour”; users cannot opt-out (Reuters)

Reuters: Weibo says it will publish the locations of users based on IP addresses on their account pages and posts to combat “bad behaviour”; users cannot opt-out  —  Weibo , China’s equivalent of Twitter, told users on Thursday it would start to publish their IP locations on their account pages …

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‘E-nose’ Can Detect Fine Whiskey, Counterfeit Perfume

(Photo: Adam Jaime/Unsplash)Some high-end whiskeys and perfumes are able to command astronomical prices, which creates a perfect “business opportunity” for scam artists. Shoppers, whether individual or wholesale, have to be careful not to purchase fakes of either product. But how do you tell them apart? Enter the electronic nose, or “e-nose,” developed by the researchers

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Cloudflare says it mitigated a 15.3M rps HTTPS DDoS attack earlier this month, one of the largest of its kind, targeting a customer in the crypto industry (Jonathan Greig/The Record)

Jonathan Greig / The Record: Cloudflare says it mitigated a 15.3M rps HTTPS DDoS attack earlier this month, one of the largest of its kind, targeting a customer in the crypto industry  —  Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare said today that it mitigated one of the largest volumetric distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that has

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Partially Destroying Tumors With Sound Allows the Immune System to Finish the Job

The team’s 700kHz, 260-element histotripsy ultrasound array transducer. (Photo: Marcin Szczepanski, Michigan Engineering)New research reveals we may be able to assist organisms’ immune systems in clearing away tumors by first destroying part of the tumor with sound. Researchers from the University of Michigan have developed a form of noninvasive sound technology that destroys a significant

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Berlin-based Taxfix, which offers a mobile app for filing taxes, raises a $200M Series D led by Teachers’ Venture Growth at a $1B+ valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Berlin-based Taxfix, which offers a mobile app for filing taxes, raises a $200M Series D led by Teachers’ Venture Growth at a $1B+ valuation  —  Ben Franklin once famously said that in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.  But that doesn’t make dealing with

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