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Data protection provider Commvault Systems Inc. today announced a new partnership with identity and access security company BeyondTrust Corp. that sees the strategic integration between the Commvault Cloud cyber resilience platform and BeyondTrust Password Safe privileged access management solution. The collaboration is designed for customers to further mitigate risks, improve security posture and enhance data recovery efficiency. The teaming up of the products seeks to address the reality that, as cyberthreats continue to evolve, organizations are working overtime to ensure only authorized users with the right level of privilege have access to their data. Added into the mix is a proliferation of…

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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri House voted Thursday to ban entities from China and four other perceived adversarial countries from purchasing land in the state, citing a need to protect farms from the possibility of falling under hostile control.The Missouri legislation, which now heads to the Senate, is one of several similar bills moving through state capitols this year amid international tensions that were peaked by the trek of a Chinese balloon across the U.S.“The balloon was just over this Capitol” in February, Missouri House Speaker Dean Plocher said Thursday. “We have to protect Missouri sovereignty, and we…

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Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story:Technosignatures are theoretical signs of technologically advanced alien civilizations, but so far, none of those civilizations have phoned home.Researchers from the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Post-Detection Hub have now come up with suggestions for NASA to level up its detection methods.By taking an interdisciplinary approach and using the most advanced technology possible, NASA may finally catch sight of a sign that someone else is out there. In the endless search for technosignatures—signs from some technologically advanced intelligent alien civilization—we’ve done everything from monitoring radio arrays to hypothesizing about whether space rocks…

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This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. While the dangerous effects of climate change continue to worsen, legal efforts to address a range of environmental issues are also on the rise.Headlines across the globe tout many of these legal actions: South Korea’s Climate Law Violates Rights of Future Generations; Ukraine is Ground Zero in Battle for Ecocide Law; Paris Wants to Grant the River Seine Legal Personhood; and Montana Court Rules Children Have the Right to a Healthy Environment, to name a few recent examples. You may…

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An installation view of Hannah Woo’s “POOMSAE” at G Gallery in Seoul. Courtesy of G Gallery Hannah Woo’s sculptures are bodies in motion, animated figures of a personal mythology that inhabit a generative hybridity between human and non-human, artificial and biological. Her extravagant, chameleonic assemblages stage the co-presence of heterogeneous forces that produce new symbolic entities, capable of prefiguring alternatives for horizontal, fluid ecologies and symbiotic environments. Year after year, Woo’s practice has drawn increasing attention; she broke onto the international stage after winning Frieze Seoul’s Bulgari Prize. In her soon-to-close exhibition at G Gallery in Seoul, she heightens the…

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One of the bloodiest conflicts between India and Pakistan drew to an end on September 23, 1965. The war, which went on for 17 days, followed a United Nations-brokered ceasefire. On this day in 1889, Fusajiro Yamauchi founded the Nintendo company, one of the biggest video gaming companies in the worldOne of the first and bloodiest conflicts between India and Pakistan came to an end on September 23, 1965. The war, which went on for 17 days, followed a United Nations-brokered ceasefire.If you are a history geek who loves to learn about important events from the past, Firstpost Explainers’ ongoing…

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Noah Hawley’s FX series, Alien: Earth, is all set to conclude its first season soon with a premiere ready to be streamed on Hulu. The show began as a prequel to Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi film, Alien, which centered around a spaceship crew attacked by an alien entity. It introduced Sigourney Weaver’s iconic character, Ellen Ripley. Hawley’s show follows a story set in 2120, where five corporations govern the operations on Earth. Its official plot synopsis, as per FX, reads: “When a mysterious space vessel crash-lands on Earth, Wendy and a ragtag group of tactical soldiers make a fateful discovery…

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The Department of Defense has deepened the mystery over the drones over New Jersey — and poured cold water on a claim that they came from Iran. Defense officials do not believe the unidentified flying objects are coming from “a foreign entity or adversary,” deputy Pentagon press secretary Sabrina Singh told reporters Wednesday. Do you have footage of drones over the skies of New Jersey or New York? Send it to The Post at drones@nypost.com. “There is no Iranian ship off the coast of the United States, and there’s no so-called mothership launching drones towards the United States.” The drones spotted…

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google has fired the engineer who claimed an unreleased AI system had become sentient, the company confirmed, saying he violated employment and data security policies, CNN reported.Blake Lemoine, a software engineer for Google, claimed that a conversation technology called LaMDA had reached a level of consciousness after exchanging thousands of messages with it.Google confirmed it had first put the engineer on leave in June. The company said it dismissed Lemoine’s “wholly unfounded” claims only after reviewing them extensively. He had reportedly been at Alphabet for seven years. In a statement, Google said it takes the development…

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