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Washington (AFP) - NASA said Monday it was looking for ways to bring Martian rocks collected by the Perseverance rover back to Earth earlier and at a lower cost than planned after facing criticism for going massively over budget. The effort comes as China is making progress towards a simpler "grab-and-go" sample return mission to the red planet "around 2030," according to state media, which would make it the first nation to achieve the feat. "The bottom line is that $11 billion is too expensive, and not returning samples until 2040 is unacceptably too long," the US space agency's chief Bill Ne...
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Seoul (AFP) - An international law enforcement operation has taken down dozens of servers and disrupted LockBit, "the world's most harmful cyber crime group" according to British authorities. LockBit and its affiliates caused billions of dollars in damage and extracted tens of millions in ransom from their victims. Their targets have included banks, mail services and even a children's hospital. How does LockBit operate? Rather than conduct an entire criminal operation itself, LockBit developed the malicious software -- "ransomware" -- that enables attackers to lock victims out of their compute...
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Granada (Spain) (AFP) - Europe's quest to build a common geopolitical purpose suffered a new blow on Thursday when Turkey and Azerbaijan skipped a major summit, as tensions mounted over the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Four dozen European leaders -- from European Union and NATO member states, as well as their neighbours -- have gathered in Granada for the third summit of the European Political Community (EPC). But two invitees, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his ally, Azerbaijan's leader Ilham Aliyev, failed to turn up, torpedoing efforts to address Europe's latest security crisis. ...
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Paris (AFP) - Airbus and Boeing both stepped up deliveries of commercial aircraft in the first half of this year, boosting revenue as they strive to ramp up production to meet demand from airlines. Both aircraft manufacturers released results on Wednesday, with Airbus reporting a net profit of 1.06 billion euros ($1.17 billion) in the second quarter while Boeing suffered a $149 million loss following delays and cost issues in its defence and space programme. Both saw revenues jump as they delivered more aircraft to clients. Boeing boosted revenue by 18 percent during the quarter to $19.8 billi...
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Paris (AFP) - Blistering heat that has baked swathes of North America and Europe this month would have been "virtually impossible" without human-caused climate change, researchers said Tuesday, as intense temperatures spark health alerts and stoke ferocious wildfires. With tens of million people affected in the northern hemisphere and July on track to be the hottest month globally since records began, experts warn that worse is to come unless we reduce planet-heating emissions. Severe heatwaves have gripped southern Europe, parts of the United States, Mexico and China this month, with tempera...
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Kennedy Space Center (United States) (AFP) - Europe's Euclid space telescope blasted off Saturday, kicking off a first-ever mission to shed light on two of the universe's greatest mysteries: dark energy and dark matter. "I can tell you, I'm so thrilled, I'm so excited to see this mission up in space," European Space Agency (ESA) Director General Josef Aschbacher said after the launch. The telescope successfully took off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 11:12 am local time (1512 GMT) on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Shortly after, once separated from the rocket, it emitted its first signal, as sche...
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Paris (AFP) - The European Union's central data regulator said on Thursday it was forming a task force to help countries deal with wildly popular AI chatbot ChatGPT, ramping up the pressure on its US maker OpenAI. Italy temporarily banned the program last month over allegations its data-gathering broke privacy laws, and France's regulator said on Thursday it had opened a formal procedure after receiving five complaints. ChatGPT can generate essays, poems and conversations from the briefest of prompts, and has proved itself capable of passing some tough exams. But it has been dogged by concern...
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Washington (AFP) - The US Justice Department's shutdown Thursday of the Hive ransomware operation -- which extorted some $100 million from more than 1,500 victims worldwide -- highlights how hacking has become an ultra-efficient, specialized industry that can allow anyone to become a cyber-shakedown artist. Modern business modelHive operated in what cybersecurity experts call a "ransomware as a service" style, or RaaS -- a business that leases its software and methods to others to use in extorting a target. The model is central to the larger ransomware ecosystem, in which actors specialize in ...
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Madrid (AFP) - Europe stepped up vaccinations of children aged five to 11 against Covid-19 Wednesday, as the EU's health agency warned immunisation alone would not stop the rapid rise of the Omicron variant. Croatia, Germany, Greece, Hungary and Spain were among those opening up their inoculation drives to younger kids, with other nations still weighing their approach. South Africa -- where Omicron was first detected -- and Britain recorded their highest daily coronavirus case numbers Wednesday as Washington's top diplomat curtailed a tour of Southeast Asia after a delegate caught the virus. A...
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Paris (AFP) - While many US and European shoppers went on a spree on Black Friday, some groups hit out with boycotts and campaigns against what they deem unfair business practices and the unbridled consumerism of the end-of-year holidays. In the United States, the day after Thanksgiving -- celebrated the fourth Thursday in November -- is marked by frenzied deal-snagging as retailers offer sales to kick off holiday shopping in earnest, with European companies jumping on the bandwagon in recent years. Adobe's holiday season shopping forecast expects $910 billion in global online spending in Nove...
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