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This 6.25 Gigabyte Photo of Pluto Took 15 Months to Send

This 6.25 Gigabyte Photo of Pluto Took 15 Months to Send

This spectacular image of Pluto, taken on July 14, 2015, is the most accurate depiction of Pluto’s color. | NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/Alex Parker It has been a decade since NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft made its historic flyby of Pluto, delivering humanity’s first close-up look at the solar system’s distant dwarf planet. Launched on January 19, …

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Gigabyte motherboards vulnerable to UEFI malware bypassing Secure Boot

Gigabyte motherboards vulnerable to UEFI malware bypassing Secure Boot

Dozens of Gigabyte motherboard models run on UEFI firmware vulnerable to security issues that allow planting bootkit malware that is invisible to the operating system and can survive reinstalls. The vulnerabilities could allow attackers with local or remote admin permissions to execute arbitrary code in System Management Mode (SMM), an environment isolated from the operating system (OS) and with more …

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