RESTON, Va., Sept. 30, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) ASCEND, the interdisciplinary community focused on building humanity’s off-world future faster, today unveiled its six-day agenda packed with hundreds of visionary sessions and inspiring speakers. Powered by AIAA, ASCEND was launched in 2020 to Accelerate Space Commerce, Exploration, and New Discovery. Scheduled for 8-10 and 15-17 November, the 2021 ASCEND centerpiece event will…
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On the morning of June 27, 2017, it seemed as if Ukraine had slipped back in time and into the wrong century â almost nothing worked. Not the ATMs, the trains, the airports, the television stations. Even the radiation monitors at the old Chernobyl nuclear plant were down.
Ukraine, in the midst of a long and undeclared war with Russia, had been hit by mysterious blackouts before but this was eating through computer networks at a terrifying pace, turning screens dark across the country. And it seemed to be spreading further than intended, out through Europe and around the globe, paralysing hospitals and companies from London to Denver, even the Cadbury chocolate factory in Tasmania, and bringing swathes of the worldâs shipping to a halt. By the time the culprit â a wild variant of malicious computer code (or worm) known as NotPetya â was stopped hours later, it had looped back into Russia, where it originated, and racked up a
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