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  A former  engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud arm of retail giant Amazon, hacked into a cloud storage system for more than 100 million customers and stole data related to a 2019-related Capital One breach. I was convicted of the crime.   Paige Thompson, a 36-year-old former high-tech employee, has seven people by the US District Court in Seattle in connection with plans to hack  cloud computer data storage accounts and steal data and computer power for her own benefit. Was convicted of a federal felony.    She was arrested in July 2019 after Capital One warned the FBI about Thompson's hacking activities.   Thompson will be sentenced to her sentence by US District Judge Robert S. Rasnick on September 15, the US Department of Justice said in a statement.   "Thompson used her hacking skills to steal the personal information of more than 100 million people and hijack computer servers to mine cryptocurrencies," said US lawyer Nick Brown.   "Instead of becom

  Microsoft is finally unplugging the iconic Internet Explorer. The web browser was first released in 1995 as part of Plus. For this year's Windows 95. Versions and above were offered as free downloads or service packs and were included in OEM service releases for Windows 95 and later versions.    The browser reportedly peaked in 2003 with a usage rate of about 95%. However, with the release of new browsers from other competitors, the user base has shrunk over the next few years. Development of new features in         Internet Explorer was discontinued in 2016 in favor of the new browser Microsoft Edge. This was the first time Microsoft had planned to slowly phase out Internet Explorer. Microsoft 365 ended support for Internet Explorer on August 17, 2021, and Microsoft Teams ended support for IE on November 30, 2020. Internet Explorer will be deprecated on June 15, 2022.   "The future of Internet Explorer on Windows 10 lies in Microsoft Edge," said Sean Lyndersay, Program

  Parliament in apan passed a law on Monday to imprison "online insults."   A national criminal law amendment that goes into effect later this summer could impose up to a year's imprisonment or  a fine of up to 300,000 yen (about $ 2,200) for criminals convicted of online insults.   This is significantly higher than the existing penalties for detention for less than 30 days and fines of up to JPY 10,000 (US $ 75). The 4,444 bill was controversial at home, arguing that opposition could hinder free speech and criticism of those in power. But advocates said stricter legislation was needed to tackle cyberbullying and online harassment.   Only passed after adding a clause ordering the law to be reviewed three years after its entry into force to assess its impact on freedom of speech. According to a Ministry of Justice spokesman, insults are defined in Japanese criminal law as publicly degrading a person's social status, regardless of certain facts  or actions. Crime, unlik

According to a report recently released by Chinese scientists and subsequently deleted, China claims that its giant "skyeye" telescope may have picked up trace signals from  distant extraterrestrial civilizations. .. 4,444 astronomers from Beijing Normal University reported on Tuesday (June 14th) in Science and Technology Daily, the official newspaper of the Ministry of Science of China, that "technology and extraterrestrial civilization from beyond the earth" We have found some examples of possible traces of. technology. The   signal was received by China's 500-meter Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), nicknamed "Sky Eye,"  the world's largest radio telescope. Sky Eye was used to search space for radio signals that could indicate extraterrestrial life in 2019. When reviewing this data in 2020,  researchers said they discovered two suspicious narrowbands, perhaps artificial radio signals. Then, in 2022, a focused study of known exoplanets found anoth