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Dune sandworms: How do they move so fast? We asked scientists.
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Dune sandworms: How do they move so fast? We asked scientists.

Slate  

The sandworms of Dune have more than earned their spot atop the pantheon of iconic sci-fi creatures. Dune author Frank Herbert’s gargantuan autotrophs have served as the blueprint for generations of other monster designs, like Beetlejuice’s sandworm, the tunneling graboids from Tremors, and at least two Star Wars creatures. Though the sandworm is inspired, plotwise, by dragons, part of its …

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Russian hackers were inside Ukraine telecoms giant Kyivstar's system for months: Cyber spy chief
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Russian hackers were inside Ukraine telecoms giant Kyivstar's system for months: Cyber spy chief

Firstpost  

Russian hackers infiltrated the system of the Ukrainian telecoms giant Kyivstar from at least May last year, Ukraine’s cyber spy chief told Reuters. A Kyivstar spokesperson said the company was working closely with the SBU to investigate the attack and would take all necessary steps to eliminate future risks, adding: “No facts of leakage of personal and subscriber data have …

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Ukraine says Russian hackers were inside their telecom network since May last year
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Ukraine says Russian hackers were inside their telecom network since May last year

Firstpost  

Ukraine’s head of cyber spying has revealed that Russian hackers had gained access to the system of the country’s largest telecom company, Kyivstar, at least since May of last year. The attack wiped “almost everything”, including thousands of virtual servers and PCs, he said, describing it as probably the first example of a destructive cyberattack that “completely destroyed the core …

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‘Dune: Part Two’ trailer: Paul’s revenge, Dune’s rise
1 year, 7 months ago

‘Dune: Part Two’ trailer: Paul’s revenge, Dune’s rise

The Hindu  

Riding fan expectations like the back of a giant sandworm, the trailer of Denis Villeneuve’s hotly anticipated Dune: Part Two was released on Wednesday night. Adapted from Frank Herbert’s 1965 sci-fi novel, Dune: Part Two catches up with Paul after the violent erasure of house Atreides in the first film. A visual surprise of Dune: Part Two is the black-and-white …

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Ukraine says potent Russian hack against power grid thwarted
2 years, 8 months ago

Ukraine says potent Russian hack against power grid thwarted

Associated Press  

BOSTON — Russian military hackers attempted to knock out power to millions of Ukrainians last week in a long-planned attack but were foiled, Ukrainian government officials said Tuesday. “It looks that we were very lucky.” The hackers from Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency used an upgraded version of malware first seen in its successful 2016 attack that caused blackouts in …

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Russia’s Sandworm Hackers Have Built a Botnet of Firewalls
54 years, 11 months ago

Russia’s Sandworm Hackers Have Built a Botnet of Firewalls

Wired  

This story was originally published on February 24, and was updated on March 16 to include new information about affected devices and the number of victims. Any appearance of a new tool used by Russia's notorious, disruptive Sandworm hackers will raise the eyebrows of cybersecurity professionals braced for high-impact cyberattacks. On Wednesday, both the UK National Cybersecurity Center and the …

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‘Dune’ melds story and image on an epic scale
3 years, 1 month ago

‘Dune’ melds story and image on an epic scale

LA Times  

This scene from “Dune” pits the lives of Paul Atreides and his mother, Lady Jessica, against a gigantic sandworm. Denis Villeneuve’s epic journey “Dune” is rife with interstellar war and slithering monsters. For this sequence, cinematographer Greig Fraser captured the scale and growling undercurrent of the untouched sand dunes of Jordan using IMAX and later finessed by visual effects. Visual …

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Dune Is a Ponderous Striptease With a Very Impressive Sandworm
3 years, 2 months ago

Dune Is a Ponderous Striptease With a Very Impressive Sandworm

Slate  

“This is only the beginning,” says the desert nomad Chani near the end of Dune, the long-awaited adaptation of Frank Herbert’s influential sci-fi novel from the French Canadian writer-director Denis Villeneuve. As explored in the 2013 documentary Jodorowsky’s Dune, the mystical Chilean-born filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky spent much of the 1970s trying to mount an impossibly vast production that was to …

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