Discovered The Zero

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  Google Project Zero Finds Unpatched Security Flaws in Android Phones by Multiple Vendors

  Google Project Zero has discovered security flaws in Android devices by vendors like Google, Samsung, Xiaomi, and Oppo. Notably, the team had initially discovered these issues earlier this year in June and July.

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  Study Shows New and Simple Method for Complex Sculpting of Matter

  A team of researchers at the University of Strathclyde have discovered a method to mould matter into complex shapes that involves the usage of “twisted” light. The new technique builds on the temperature-sensitive property of atoms. When atoms are cooled till, or close to, the absolute zero temperatures (-273 degrees Celsius), they stop behavi...

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  Google's AI Firm DeepMind Helps Mathematicians Develop New Theorem in Potential Breakthrough

  A team of researchers used DeepMind's AI to discover a surprising connection between algebraic and geometric invariant knots, establishing a completely new theorem in the field.

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  WD NAS Devices Vulnerable to Attacks Due to a Zero-Day Flaw That's Yet to Be Officially Fixed

  Western Digital (WD) devices running My Cloud OS 3 are found to be affected by a zero-day vulnerability that has been discovered and detailed by two security researchers on the Web. The new issue comes just days after a serious vulnerability resulted in data wiping on WD My Book Live.

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  iOS 14 Carries ‘BlastDoor’ Sandbox Security System to Protect iMessage, Google Researcher Discovers

  Apple’s iOS 14 carries a new security system called BlastDoor that is meant to protect data transmitted via iMessage. The new system separates data processing on iMessage from other elements of the operating system.

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  Google Chrome Update for Windows, Mac, Linux Fixes Critical Zero-Day Bug

  This new zero-day vulnerability is reported to be a memory bug in the FreeType font rendering library. This was spotted being abused by a threat actor by the Project Zero team. Project Zero team lead Ben Hawkes advises other app vendors of Freetype to also adopt the emergency fix released on the FreeType website.

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  Meticulous Data Analysis Brought My Eureka Moment: Shanmuga Subramanian

  It was meticulous data analysis for about eight hours everyday that helped him zero in on the crash site, says Chennai based software engineer Shanmuga Subramanian credited for helping NASA discover Chandrayaan-2's Vikram lander's debris on the lunar surface.

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  Valve Patches Zero Day Vulnerabilities in Steam After Banning Researcher Who Discovered Them, Changes Bug Bounty Rules

  Valve has patched a couple of LPE vulnerabilities in Steam and has changed the rules of its bug bounty programme.

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  Google Project Zero Researchers Disclose 5 ‘Zero Interaction’ iMessage Flaws, 4 Fixed in iOS 12.4

  Google Project Zero team has yet again found a number of security vulnerabilities in Apple’s iOS operating system. Two members of the Project Zero team discovered five new “zero interaction” flaws in iMessage.

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  Meltdown, Spectre Chip Flaws: Who's Affected

  Researchers at Google's Project Zero and academic institutions including the Graz University of Technology in Austria discovered the problem last year.

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  Meltdown, Spectre Security Flaws Found in Intel, AMD, ARM CPUs Put Virtually All Computers, Phones at Risk

  Meltdown is specific to Intel but Spectre affects laptops, desktop computers, smartphones, tablets, and Internet servers alike.

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  Oxford Scientists Discover Earliest Use Of 'Zero' 500 Years Earlier Than First Thought

  Using Carbon Dating, Scientists from University of Oxford's Bodleian Libraries have found that 'Zero' originated at least 500 years before than what scholars earlier thought. The findings came into light after scientists from Oxford examined famous ancient Indian scroll, the Bakhshali manuscript.

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  Samsung's Tizen OS Said to Be Riddled With as Many as 40 Zero-Day Vulnerabilities

  An Israeli researcher, Amihai Neiderman, claims to have discovered as many as 40 unknown zero-day vulnerabilities in Tizen.

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  Indians Are Convinced They Discovered The Zero. Can They Prove It?

  Indian students are taught very early in school that India's contribution to the world of mathematics is zero.

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  Google Goes Public With 'High Severity' Bug in Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer

  The new vulnerability could let an attacker execute code on the affected machine, and take over a device.