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Check out this weeks headlines across the planet:
Digital twins could lead to more proactive, personalized medicine, researchers say
What if you had a twin who doctors could work with to predict your future health care needs or how a particular virus might affect you? Obviously, we can't experiment on a real clone of ourselves, but we can research different scenarios with a digital twin. Source: Medicalxpress.
Microsoft Exchange - the top of the iceberg
On top of the Exchange exploit, Microsoft released software updates to plug more than 82 security flaws in Windows and other supported software today. Ten of these earned Microsoft’s “critical” rating, meaning they can be exploited by malware or miscreants with little or no help from users. Source: Krebs on Security.
Lab-supply shortages strike amid global pandemic
Border closures, quarantines and a drastic decline in shipping by sea and air has slowed the delivery of many types of supply and equipment, including some that aren’t directly related to COVID-19 treatment or testing. Source: Nature.
With This CAD for Genomes, You Can Design New Organisms
The CAD program will be freely available to academics, as well as GP-write’s industry partners and companies that are selected to participate in its new incubator. Other companies will be able to access it for a fee, Schwartz says. The platform will also include order forms so users can send their CAD files to companies that manufacture synthetic DNA; the designed constructs can then be shipped to users so they can see how their design turn out in real life. Source: IEEE Spectrum.
Russia, China agree to build lunar station together
Russia and China are reaching for the moon, with plans to construct a "complex of experimental research facilities" there as they strive to expand their presence in space. Source: DW.
NORTHCOM Developing, Testing AI Tools To Implement JADC2
The GIDE 2 exercise will use that software to pull in live data from each one of NORTHCOM’s homeland defense airfields. “We’re gonna have real threats that we’re representing via bombers, and when those threats are actually flying against North America, the system is going to be recommending the best course of action to launch fighters or other assets to that threat.” Source: Breaking Defense.
Whispers from wargames about the gray zone
Since the end of the Cold War, the world has gradually become aware of gray zone operations. These consist of actions that are hostile but do not cross potential redlines that would trigger armed conflict, especially among major powers. Widely known examples include Russia’s use of “little green men” to seize Crimea and to foment rebellion and separatism in Ukraine, and China’s construction of artificial islands in the South China Sea. The advent of such operations seems to have caught the U.S. security community by surprise, but in retrospect, wargames conducted throughout the U.S. armed forces were providing advanced warning at least as early as the 1980s. We simply failed to perceive or heed them. Source: War on the rocks.
First Peter Diamandis held a superspreader event. Then he recommended fake cures.
After dozens of people caught the coronavirus at his expensive conference, tech mogul Peter Diamandis offered fraudulent covid-19 treatments to them, from injectable peptides to amniotic fluid. Source: MIT Tech Review.
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