File photo. Remembering some of the notable people who died in 2024. Rob Atwood A hole was ripped into the peninsula’s music scene with the sudden death of Rob Atwood at just 53 years old on Aug. 15. Atwood was one of the county’s most relentless musicians, putting all of his voice into shows big … Read more
Security researchers have identified a vulnerability in AMD processors that they have dubbed badRAM and which could allow threat actors with physical access to cloud computing environments to bypass encryption protections, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future. The flaw circumvents AMD’s Secure Encrypted Virtualization, which encrypts virtual machine memory to … Read more
Reports of a possible Russia-Ukraine peace agreement continue to bubble and churn. The latest is an apparent Russian rejection of a peace plan floated by the Trump transition team. Uncertainty over the specifics of an agreement is likely to continue at least until the new administration takes office. But potential provisions are almost certainly being … Read more
A recent poll of insurers in the United States, undertaken by broker Aon’s Capital Advisory division, found that within those carriers’ capital management plans for 2025, insurance-linked securities (ILS) and third-party reinsurance capital solutions are a significant feature.With the market having been challenging for a number of years, but insurers responding with a growth mindset … Read more
In an interview with Maayan Arad, Jill Stuart discusses the role of private companies in space, the future of the International Space Station and why we might soon see a base established on the moon. Private companies like SpaceX have invested huge amounts of money in their space programmes recently. How do you see their influence evolving … Read more
