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On Thursday and Friday, 6th and 7th November, the COP30 Climate Summit will be held in Parque Cidade, the capital of Pará state. The COP30 conference brings together heads of state, government, ministers, and leaders of international organizations to discuss pressing climate change challenges and initiatives, including forests and the energy transition. The themes will be forests and oceans on the afternoon of November 6th, energy transition on the morning of November 7th, and the 10th anniversary of the Paris Agreement, NDC, and financing on the afternoon of November 7th. protect the amazon Brazil chose the Amazon to host COP30…
Europe has successfully launched its newest Copernicus satellite, Sentinel 1D, marking a major milestone in Earth observation and space autonomy. The satellite was launched on November 4, 2025 at 22:02 CET (21:02 UTC) aboard an Ariane 6 rocket from the European spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. After 34 minutes, Sentinel 1D was released into orbit and at 23:22 CET the first signal was received at the Troll ground station in Antarctica, confirming the successful deployment of the Copernicus satellite. This launch ensures the continuation of Europe’s world-leading radar-based Earth observation system, which continues to monitor the Earth at all times,…
November 6, 2025Ravi LakshmananMalware/Network Security An attacker known as Curly COMrades has been observed exploiting virtualization technology as a way to bypass security solutions and execute custom malware. According to a new report from Bitdefender, the attackers allegedly enabled the Hyper-V role on selected victim systems and deployed minimal Alpine Linux-based virtual machines. “This hidden environment had a lightweight footprint (only 120MB of disk space and 256MB of memory) and hosted a custom reverse shell, CurlyShell, and a reverse proxy, CurlCat,” security researchers Victor Vrabie, Adrian Schipor, and Martin Zugec wrote in a technical report. Curly COMrades was first documented…
November 6, 2025Ravi LakshmananIncident response/cloud security SonicWall has officially suggested that state-sponsored attackers were behind a September security breach that led to the unauthorized release of firewall configuration backup files. “The malicious activity carried out by state-sponsored threat actors was limited to unauthorized access to cloud backup files from specific cloud environments using API calls,” the company said in a statement this week. “This incident is unrelated to the ongoing global Akira ransomware attack on firewalls and other edge devices.” However, SonicWall did not reveal which countries were behind the incident, nor did it provide any indication of a link…
Lucid Motors Chief Engineer Eric Buck will retire from the company after more than 10 years, the company announced. Bach, who also served as senior vice president of products at Lucid Motors, has been with the company since 2015. He joins Lucid after three years as Director of Engineering at Tesla, working alongside Peter Rawlinson, former CEO and CTO of Lucid Motors. Before joining Tesla, Bach worked for Volkswagen for more than a decade. TechCrunch has learned that Lucid’s vice president of engineering, James Hawkins, has also left the company after 10 years with the company. Lucid Motors declined to…
Scientists have created the first three-dimensional map of a distant planet’s atmosphere.Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and a technique known as eclipse mapping, researchers discovered that there are different temperature zones in the atmosphere of exoplanet WASP-18b, a gas giant planet located about 400 light-years from Earth. The same process could soon help scientists map temperature changes and cloud structure on other distant planets, according to a study published Oct. 28 in the journal Nature Astronomy.”Eclipse mapping allows us to image exoplanets whose host stars are too bright to see directly,” study co-author Ryan Challenor, a…
Researchers say the 3,000-year-old Mayan ruins are actually giant city-sized maps depicting the “order of the universe.” A new study suggests that this ruin in what is now southeastern Mexico was a cosmogram of how ancient people there saw the universe.The site, known as Aguada Fénix, is “the oldest and largest monumental structure in the Maya region” and larger than many ancient cities in Mesoamerica, researchers said in their study. Although its construction was a major undertaking, the researchers suggested that its cultural significance likely motivated people to help with its construction, meaning the builders were likely not forced to…
After Zoran Mamdani won the New York mayoral race on Tuesday night, his campaign announced that former FTC Chair Lina Khan would be one of four co-chairs of his transition team. Mr. Khan is an ally of Mr. Mamdani and praised his work helping small business owners in an op-ed in the New York Times. But her appointment to a formal role on the transition team sends a message to Wall Street and the tech industry. The most powerful industry players have already criticized Mamdani, a Democratic Socialist who has angered tech elites by criticizing billionaires and proposing a 2%…
A new study could help reveal why some vaccines, such as those for COVID-19 and influenza, are less effective in older people than in younger people, potentially fundamentally changing our understanding of aging.Scientists have traditionally assumed that the decreased vaccine response seen in older adults is due to age-related weakening of the immune system. Many have pointed to sustained, low-grade immune activation (a process called “inflammation”) as one factor in this decline.However, a new study comparing the immune systems of older and younger people did not find that biological markers of inflammation consistently increased with age. Instead, aging appears to…
Three Chinese astronauts were temporarily stranded in space after their return capsule was hit by debris believed to be “space junk” hours before they were scheduled to depart. Officials are investigating exactly what happened, but so far there is no indication of the extent of damage to the spacecraft or when the crew will return to Earth.The trio of Tyco astronauts Wang Jie, Chen Zhongrui, and Chen Dong, collectively known as the Shenzhou 20 crew, have been living at China’s Tiangong Space Station since April 24. They successfully completed a handover period with the Shenzhou 21 crew, which arrived at…