Map showing the different positions of the reference station from which OPS-SAT received radio broadcasts. Credit: Tom Mladenov / JSatTrak Between September 1982 and December 2020, at least 51,512 people were rescued on land and at sea by a network of Earth-orbiting satellites capable of detecting and locating disaster alarms. ESA’s OPS-SAT Space Laboratory recently […]

The Apache Software Foundation hastened to patch several vulnerabilities in an HTTP web server, at least one of which is already in active use. Apache’s HTTP server is widely used and vulnerabilities CVE-2021-41524 and CVE-2021-41773, are not great. The latter, road crawling and file discovery flaw, is particularly problematic. The first was reported to the

Google has decided not to run ads with content that “contradicts the established scientific consensus on the existence and causes of climate change.” The solution affects YouTube, advertisers and publishers. This seems to be primarily a matter of trade, not conscience: adtech suffocating vine there is in a frame the decision as a change in

Mozilla is testing a personalized ad in Firefox Suggest, along with sponsored search results, with users saying it “helps fund Firefox development.” Firefox Suggest was first introduced last month in Firefox 92, charged as “a new detection feature that is built directly into the browser.” The feature provides links as custom types in the search

AN / USC-61 (C) is the first software-defined radio to become a standard communication system for the US military. (Photo: General Dynamics) The US Navy is seeking a subsequent contract from General Dynamics to provide digital modular radio systems. The US Navy is seeking a proposal from General Dynamics for a five – year period