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security flaw could have existed for as long as 18 years, yet it remained undetected by developers until recently. The issue was uncovered by researchers from the Israeli cybersecurity firm Oligo, leading it to be labeled as a "zero-day vulnerability" due to the lack of prior awareness and immediate patching.The exploit, dubbed the "0.0.0.0-day attack" by Oligo AI security researcher Avi Lumelsky, involves malicious websites potentially sending harmful requests through the 0.0.0.0 IP address.

IIT Delhi's Abu Dhabi campus will offer two undergraduate courses from the new academic session commencing in September, Director Rangan Banerjee announced on Thursday. The offshore campus, established in 2023, currently offers only postgraduate courses. The two new undergraduate (UG) courses are Computer Science Engineering and Energy Engineering. A total of 60 students will be admitted to the two courses. This will include 20 students who have qualified JEE (Advanced) 2024 and 40 picked through a new entrance test called the Combined Admission Entrance Test (CAET), Banerjee said at a press conference.

Tapping home equity through a line of credit can make sense for many reasons, but following a report that HELOC balances are increasing, new research reveals some risky uses by some borrowers.

heatwaves have become more frequent and intense, emerging as a significant contributor to heat-related deaths. Researchers said that this underscores the urgency of recognising their impact and severity. In the study, published in the journal Nexus, the researchers from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University analysed six available heat wave indices, including the Wet Bulb Globe Temperature (WBGT) index and Canada's humidex. WBGT index was first developed in the 1950s by the US military to prevent heat-related illnesses in training camps.

Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee will be handed over to state government-run NRS Medical College and Hospital here on Friday for research work, a CPI(M) official. The body of Bhattacharjee, wrapped with the CPI(M)'s red flag, was taken out of his frugal two-room residence at Palm Avenue in south Kolkata on way to mortuary Peace World on Thursday. Earlier, Governor C V Ananda Bose, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Left Front chairman Biman Bose, CPI(M) state secretary Md Salim visited the Bhattacharjee residence. Bhattacharjee's wife Mira, in tears, walked along with the hearse carrying the mortal remains along with party leaders and hundreds of admirers cutting across political lines and members of the general public, before boarding a car.

2024 OR1, measuring approximately 110 feet in diameter, is on a trajectory that will bring it close to Earth on August 6, 2024, at 6:41 PM IST. NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) issued a warning about this near-Earth object (NEO), which is traveling at a speed of 30,381 kilometers per hour. However, it is predicted to pass safely away from Earth. 2024 OR1 belongs to the Apollo group, a category of asteroids with orbits that intersect Earth’s orbit, making them subjects of intense study. The asteroid's dimensions and rapid speed place it under NASA's close observation regime, part of a broader effort to track potentially hazardous asteroids. The size of 2024 OR1 is roughly comparable to that of a blue whale, and it moves at velocities similar to other fast-moving NEOs. Radar observations and optical telescopes have been employed to determine its trajectory and physical characteristics. NASA's initial detection of 2024 OR1 happened at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California. The detection is part of the agency’s ongoing mission to monitor NEOs that could pose a danger to Earth. These efforts are managed by NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO), which is tasked with detecting, tracking, and characterizing hazardous asteroids and comets.

₹560 at 11:15 IST, a dip of 1.03% from the market opening price, ahead of the unaudited financial Q1 results today for 2024-25. According to stock market experts, the railway sector company is expected to declare strong Q1 results in 2024 on Thursday, as infrastructure sector companies are expected to deliver solid quarterly numbers.

«The Nifty saw a relief rally today, but volatility cannot be ruled out. All eyes will be on RBI policy outcome on Thursday where the committee is expected to maintain the interest rate. Hence, interest-sensitive sectors and stocks would be in focus,» said Siddhartha Khemka, Head — Retail Research, Motilal Oswal.

Citadel Securities has got some big aspirations.Bloomberg reported earlier this month that the electronic trading firm would like to offer a white labelled trading service to banks that presumably would no longer run trading operations of their own. In return for a fee, the vision seems to be that Citadel Securities would manage technology, order analytics and execution. Banks would just need to plug in the clients.

Canadians who “work from home” may not actually be working from their homes — and many of them are not exactly forthcoming about it, a recent survey suggests.

₹52,300 per tonne in July, the lowest since December 2020, according to data from market research and consulting firm BigMint. The prices continue to fall and are trading at around ₹51,000 per tonne currently, the analysts said. “A significant slowdown in China's economy has led to a correction in global steel prices, with Chinese export prices hitting a four-year low," according to Dhruv Goel, the chief executive of BigMint.

Americans who want to tap the rising equity of their homes without giving up their low mortgage rates are increasingly turning to home equity lines of credit.

As volatility gripped global markets to start the week, hedge funds stepped in to buy the big dip in technology shares, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s prime brokerage data.

The Uniswap Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting Uniswap’s growth, has unveiled its financial summary for the second quarter, revealing a lot of cash and stablecoins and not so many UNI tokens.

In a significant relief for beleaguered investment advisors, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has proposed relaxing existing regulations on qualifications for registered investment advisors (RIAs) and research analysts. This comes after years of tightening rules that have strained the industry.

Anti-theft software upgrades provided for Hyundai and Kia vehicles regularly targeted by thieves has cut theft rates by more than half, according to new research from the Highway Loss Data Institute

U.S. stocks are bouncing back after the market experienced its worst day in two years on Monday, but the average investor may still be understandably spooked

In a stock exchange notice today (7 August), the trust said Caffrey will work alongside Simon on the value stocks in the large cap portfolio, while Ghernati will join existing co-manager Felise Agranoff on the growth stocks in the large cap portfolio. Caffrey has over 32 years of experience in the industry and joined JPMorgan Asset Management in 2002. He is a member of the firm's value team supported by over 20 career research analysts. JP Morgan American portfolio manager retires after 44 years With over 24 years' experience, Ghernati started working with JPMorgan in 2020 and curr...

Nitin Gadkari highlighted in Rajya Sabha on Wednesday that within the next five years, India's aviation industry will use 20 per cent of Bio-aviation fuel. «Within five years our aviation industry will use 20 per cent of bio-aviation fuel, sustainable aviation fuel and that is to be starting it from parali (Stubble) and the farmer will get the rate of Rs 2500 per ton for it» said Gadkari during a reply in Rajya Sabha. The minister also highlighted that now the highway ministry is using bio-bitumen in the construction of roads which is helping India in reducing the imports of the Bitumen. Bio-bitumen is a bio-based binder derived from renewable sources like crop stubble and is used to bind the surfaces of paved roads.

Big Tech is following a crafty playbook to hoover up AI talent: Instead of buying the hottest AI startups, the giants hire their leadership and license their intellectual property, essentially sucking the life out of them. So long as they leave behind the shell of a company, antitrust scrutiny can be avoided. Alphabet’s Google [which just had bad news in the form of a court ruling against it for its search market monopoly], is the latest to follow this template by hiring the co-founders of Character.ai, Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, along with a few other employees.