Earth has a “limited willingness” to “rapidly conduct” the necessary space missions to defend itself against a devastating asteroid impact, even with fourteen years’ notice. During an exercise involving multiple U.S. government agencies in April 2024, NASA conducted a so-called “tabletop” game in which participants plotted their response to a 72 percent chance that an … Read more
Earth has a “limited willingness” to “rapidly conduct” the necessary space missions to defend itself against a devastating asteroid impact, even with fourteen years’ notice. During an exercise involving multiple U.S. government agencies in April 2024, NASA conducted a so-called “tabletop” game in which participants plotted their response to a 72 percent chance that an … Read more
In 2018, chip designer Arm introduced a hardware security feature called Memory Tagging Extensions (MTE) as a defense against memory safety bugs. But it may not be as effective as initially hoped. MTE was implemented and supported last year in Google’s Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro phones and previously in Linux. The goal is … Read more