A plane bigger than a football pitch has been spotted carrying a jet capable of firing hypersonic weapons. The Stratolaunch aircraft, which has a mega 117-metre wingspan, carried a 28-foot-long Talon A hypersonic test aircraft capable of shooting payloads at five times the speed of sound. The plane took over the Mojave desert in California and flew for five hours and six minutes, reaching altitudes of 7,000 metres. A test flight proved that it is capable of launching hypersonic aircraft in mid-air and even into outer space, pending further tests. Dr Zachary Krevor, CEO of space company Stratolaunch, said: “Testing and production are accelerating as we push forward to meet our commitment of providing hypersonic flight test service to our customers next year. Teenagers… Source link

CVE Number Description Base Score Reference CVE-2017-16544 In the add_match function in libbb/lineedit.c in BusyBox through 1.27.2, the tab autocomplete feature of the shell, used to get a list of filenames in a directory, does not sanitize filenames and results in executing any escape sequence in the terminal. This could potentially result in code execution, arbitrary file writes, or other attacks. 8.8 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16544 CVE-2019-0542 A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Xterm.js when the component mishandles special characters, aka “Xterm Remote Code Execution Vulnerability.” This affects… Source link

Tomasz Witkowski is a Polish psychologist and skeptic (founder of the Polish Skeptics Club) who is well known for pointing out the lack of scientific evidence behind most of what psychologists do. I have reviewed three of his previous books Psychology Gone Wrong: The Dark Sides of Science and Therapy, Psychology Led Astray: Cargo Cult in Science and Therapy,  and  Shaping Psychology: Perspectives on Legacy, Controversy and the Future of the Field. He has done it again, and this time he extends his mythbustimg to topics outside psychology. His new book Fads, Fakes, and Frauds fulfills the promise of its subtitle, exploding myths in culture, science, and psychology. He shows that many of our popular beliefs are false and explains how they are biased by history and evolution…. Source link