Anonymous, the global hacking collective, believes that alien life exists—and it thinks that NASA is about to confirm it. The shadowy group made the claim in a 12-and-a-half-minute video published on an unofficial YouTube channel on Tuesday. The video centers around recent findings by the American space organization, including the discovery of 219 new planet candidates—10 of which present similar conditions to Earth—by NASA’s Kepler space telescope team in June, as well as comments made by a senior NASA official in a U.S. government hearing. But while Anonymous is right to point out that NASA is probably closer than ever in human history to discovering extraterrestrial life, it is a big jump to say that there’s already concrete evidence for it. NASA has made statements recently that point to an optimism that the discovery of aliens is a matter of when, rather than if. “Taking into account all of the different activities and missions that are specifically searching for evidence of alien life, we are on the verge of making one of the most profound, unprecedented discoveries in history,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, the associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, before the House Committee on Science, Space in April. But while Zurbuchen and others at NASA are undoubtedly enthusiastic about the prospect of finding aliens, they have never claimed evidence to have actually done so already. Space exploration has made massive advances in recent years. The Kepler Space Telescope cited by Anonymous in its video, and which launched in 2009, has already discovered more than 4,000 planet candidates, including 30 planets of a similar size to Earth and could be amenable to life, located within the solar system that Earth inhabits. NASA has even found evidence of another potential solar system—a collection of planets orbiting around a single orbiting around a star—located just 39 light years from Earth. In February, NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope team said it had found the first known system of seven planets orbiting a single star, known as Trappist-1; the planets were all of a similar size to Earth, and three were located within the so-called habitable zone of the star—i.e. not so far away that water would freeze, nor too close that the planet would burn up, but the zone most likely to be conducive to liquid water. Researchers have even been able to identify the specific location where life might be most likely to exist outside Earth. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, in the final months of a 20-year mission earlier in 2017, pinpointed Enceladus, an icy moon of Saturn, as a key place for further exploration. The surface of the moon is covered by a liquid water ocean, which is encased by a thick shell of ice. But the Cassini observed that plumes of gas, including hydrogen, were spewing out of a geyser and into space. Hydrogen is vital building block for life for microorganisms, suggesting that such forms of life could inhabit Enceladus. But despite all these advances, extraterrestrial life remains a mystery. The director of NASA, Charles Bolden, told British schoolchildren in 2015 that he did believe that “we will someday find other forms of life or a form of life, if not in our solar system then in some of the other solar systems.” But Bolden declined to put a date on it and other experts—including popular astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson—have put the discovery of complex organisms at least 50 years away. And while space researchers are close to being able to identify extraterrestrial life, current telescopes do not allow them to spot the chemical fingerprints—traces of water and gases that indicate life, known as biosignatures—on planets outside the solar system (known as exoplanets). That will soon change: in 2018, NASA will launch the James Webb Space Telescope, an ultra-sensitive device that means they will be able to see these traces of extraterrestrial life, should they exist. But even then, biosignatures do not provide 100 percent proof: for final confirmation, a spacecraft would need to travel to the exoplanet in question and collect samples. Finally, were NASA to have found evidence of alien life, it’s unlikely that they would be sitting on their hands. The discovery would be a momentous political win for the United States, akin to winning the so-called space race against the USSR when Neil Armstrong stepped onto the Moon in July 1969. So if the evidence was there, it’s likely that NASA would share it at the earliest opportunity.

THE WORLD IS becoming one big clinical trial. Humanity is generating streams of data from different sources every second. And this information, continuously flowing from social media, mobile GPS and wifi locations, search history, drugstore rewards cards, wearable devices, and much more, can provide insights into a person's health and well-being. It’s now entirely conceivable that Facebook or Google—two of the biggest data platforms and predictive engines of our behavior—could tell someone they might have cancer before they even suspect it. Someone complaining about night sweats and weight loss on social media might not know these can be signs of lymphoma, or that their morning joint stiffness and propensity to sunburn could herald lupus. But it’s entirely feasible that bots trolling social network posts could pick up on these clues. Sharing these insights and predictions could save lives and improve health, but there are good reasons why data platforms aren’t doing this today. The question is, then, do the risks outweigh the benefits? A Thought Experiment Although social media platforms get press for being useful in predicting, and possibly preventing, suicide, the possibility that those platforms could see into the future before a patient has even visited the doctor is, for now, hypothetical. But it’s not far-fetched. Let’s say Facebook released a large set of de-identified data, such as members’ location, travel, likes and dislikes, post frequency, sentiment, browsing, and search habits. Based on these data, a researcher could build models that predict physical and emotional states. For instance, a data set consisting of social media posts from tens of thousands of people will likely chronicle the journey that some had on their way to a diagnosis of cancer, depression, or inflammatory bowel disease. Using machine-learning techniques, a researcher could take those data and study the language, style, and content of those posts both before and after the diagnosis. They could devise models that, when fed new sets of users’ data, could predict who will likely go on to develop similar conditions. And such a system would not need to look only for hard and fast symptoms like fevers or weight loss. Seemingly unimportant and unrelated data—like purchasing anti-nausea medicine or watching a documentary on insomnia—could end up fueling a set of predictive rules that indicate that a user might have a certain medical condition. The point is that our digital trail leaves many clues, both subtle and overt, to our overall health and well-being. How we use those data for good is another issue. As a clinician, I support integrating data and putting the troves of information to use for society’s benefit. One of the reasons I cofounded Litmus Health, a data science company, was to help researchers better collect, organize, and analyze data from clinical trials, and in turn, use those data to improve health outcomes for society writ large. However, significant regulatory, ethical, technical, and societal considerations require caution. From a regulatory perspective, all companies bear some responsibility to care for their users’ data, as defined in their terms of service. Unfortunately, what has been exposed in cases like a 2014 Facebook study and in research from Carnegie Mellon is that terms of service and/or privacy policies are overly complicated, no one reads them anyway, and users just blindly sign them. Companies can demonstrate an ethical “do no harm” obligation to their users by having a straightforward and easy-to-understand data policy, and by not using personal data in inappropriate ways. An ethical framework for big data must consider identity, privacy, data ownership, and reputation. For most firms today, releasing users’ data to build predictive models without their consent would go against their established value systems. But obtaining consent may be as trivial as someone mindlessly clicking through an exorbitantly long terms-of-service agreement. If companies are going to ask users to share their data and participate in an experiment, they should be more transparent about how the data are collected, used, and shared. Let’s say a social network has an algorithm that analyzes a user’s activities— things they complain about, articles they share, friends’ posts they like, among other things. The AI could potentially identify a pattern suggesting the presence of a medical condition. Now imagine being able to link across social networks and also to other available data streams from wearables, sensors, and mobile devices. All of a sudden, the predictive value of these disparate data streams could become very high. For example, posts about headaches and nausea, combined with a gradually decreasing step count on a Fitbit, cell phone GPS data indicating trips to the pharmacy, and typing accuracy demonstrating a slow, almost imperceptible loss of coordination could all portend an ominous condition. A perfect predictive system might be heralded as a medical breakthrough, but sometimes a typo is just a typo, and most people with headaches and nausea do not have brain tumors. Using social media cues to help someone recognize that they may have the flu could prompt users to seek testing or treatment, both relatively benign and inexpensive interventions. But a cancer scare suggested under similar circumstances could carry more serious consequences, ranging from emotional trauma to expensive and potentially harmful tests and treatments. When amortized over millions of users, the potential logistical and financial implications for the healthcare system could be enormous. While algorithm-based predictions can be useful and are widely applied in many areas of our lives now, these examples show why these same predictions carry more weight in the realm of health and health care, and therefore their use should be closely governed and monitored for potential benefits and risks Consumers Should Opt-In As a clinician, I believe that consumers should be able to freely access the health data they generate across all streams. The benefits far outweigh the risks, and physicians are seeing more and more patients request access to their complete medical records. Patients are taking an active role in their treatment plans; it ought to be medical professionals' jobs to facilitate their ability to do so. Individuals should be able to opt in to allow providers to collect and track their data for health predictions. Companies would need to carefully determine tracking criteria for specific diseases, and at what point they would notify the user that they are at risk. Once notified, the user would have the option to receive more information or send their data directly to their healthcare provider. For this to work, new data governance and stewardship models will be required, and legal protections for people and their data will become increasingly important. The people, companies, and organizations that hold private data have a big responsibility. If they're going to use these data to make better predictions about health and disease, then everyone needs to work together to better understand the expectations and responsibilities of all parties. The technical, legal, and social barriers are significant, but the potential for improving people’s health is tremendous. Dr. Sam Volchenboum (@SamVolchenboum) is the director of the Center for Research Informatics at the University of Chicago, a board-certified pediatric hematologist and oncologist, and the co-founder of Litmus Health, a data science platform for early-stage clinical trials. WIRED Opinion publishes pieces written by outside contributors and represents a wide range of viewpoints. Read more opinions here. Wired

IBM and the US Air Force have announced that they’re teaming up to build a unique supercomputer based on IBM’s TrueNorth neuromorphic architecture. The new supercomputer will consist of 64 million neurons and 16 billion synapses, while using just 10W of wall power. It’s common, when discussing CPUs, to compare them with the human brain. Superficially, the two seem similar — brains, like CPUs, receive inputs, perform calculations based on those inputs, and then return a result. But while brains and conventional CPUs may seem similar at an extremely high level, that similarity disintegrates as soon as you start examining either system in any detail. Transistors are binary (they’re either on or off), and they can only change the behavior of other transistors that they’re directly connected to. Neurons, in contrast, have both an analog and a binary aspect. The dendrites — the receiving arms of a neuron — have analog function in that they give a little electrical ripple called a “graded potential” whenever they get a ping from an upstream neuron. If they send enough graded potentials to the cell body, the latter then sends a binary off/on pulse train down the axon. The axon of a nerve sort of “speaks” in binary, even though it has to accommodate both binary and analog input. Scientists have spent decades creating software models that more closely resemble the way brains process information. But there’s an enormous efficiency gap when attempting to simulate something as different as a brain on modern silicon. While modern CPUs may be millions of times faster at certain calculations than any human, the human brain’s power efficiency is orders of magnitude better than the most efficient conventional CPU we can build. IBM’s TrueNorth project is an attempt to build a neuromorphic, or brain-like CPU directly in hardware. The goal is to design superior neural nets and create artificial intelligence in power envelopes that could conceivably operate outside of data centers or fixed installations. IBM is claiming that the TrueNorth Neurosynaptic System (that’s the official moniker) can convert and process data from multiple sources in parallel, while simultaneously pairing with more conventional processors to analyze the data. The US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) was the earliest adopter of TrueNorth for converting data into decisions, said Daniel S. Goddard, director, information directorate, U.S. Air Force Research Lab. “The new neurosynaptic system will be used to enable new computing capabilities important to AFRL’s mission to explore, prototype, and demonstrate high-impact, game-changing technologies that enable the Air Force and the nation to maintain its superior technical advantage,” he said in a statement. The new system will fit in a 4U standard server rack with 512 million neurons in total per rack. IBM claims this represents an 800-percent annual increase over the last six years, as the first systems contained just 256 neurons. ExtremeTech

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The Accountant, which was released last October, now has a sequel in the works. The film, directed by Gavin O’Connor, is a thriller starring Ben Affleck as a small-town accountant with high-functioning autism who runs a lucrative sideline doing accounting work for various international criminal organizations – work that leads to a whole lot of fighting and killing. The film had a nontraditional, very complicated structure, full of flashbacks to the title character’s childhood and earlier life, as well as an investigation led by J.K. Simmons’ federal agent and a potential romance between Affleck and Anna Kendrick. The film, despite mixed reviews, earned a North American box office total of $86.3 million, a number that more than doubled when international box office was factored in. So now, audiences should get ready for another visit to The Accountant universe. A sequel to The Accountant is moving forward at Warner Bros. As reported by Deadline, Affleck, O’Connor and screenwriter Bill Dubuque are all in talks to return, along with producers Lynette Howell Taylor and Mark Williams. Jon Bernthal, who had a supporting role in The Accountant, may be back as well, although there’s no word on whether Kendrick, J.K. Simmons, Alison Wright, or any other cast members from the first film would be returning. A continuing Accountant series will give Affleck two continuing franchises at Warner Bros. simultaneously, along with his role of Bruce Wayne/Batman in the DCEU. http://screenrant.com/the-accountant...tor-returning/

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The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. 'Kong: Skull Island' tops the chart this week, followed by ‘King Arthur: Legend of the Sword'. 'Wonder Woman' completes the top three. This week we have two newcomers in our chart. Kong: Skull Island is the most downloaded movie. The data for our weekly download chart is estimated by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference only. All the movies in the list are Web-DL/Webrip/HDRip/BDrip/DVDrip unless stated otherwise. RSS feed for the weekly movie download chart. This week’s most downloaded movies are: Movie Rank Rank last week Movie name IMDb Rating / Trailer Most downloaded movies via torrents 1 (…) Kong: Skull Island 6.9 / trailer 2 (…) King Arthur: Legend of the Sword 7.2 / trailer 3 (1) Wonder Woman (TC) 8.2 / trailer 4 (3) The Fate of the Furious 6.7 / trailer 5 (8) The Mummy 2017 (HDTS) 5.8 / trailer 6 (2) Power Rangers 6.5 / trailer 7 (5) The Boss Baby 6.5 / trailer 8 (4) Chips 5.8 / trailer 9 (6) John Wick: Chapter 2 8.0 / trailer 10 (9) Logan 8.6 / trailer Source: Torrentfreak.com

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Owners of a textbook pirate site were found guilty by a Danish court. Although not a torrent site in itself, the website was still sued due to copyright issues. Almost all types of media contents can be seen on pirate sites like The Pirate Bay, Kickass Torrents, and ExtraTorrent.cc. However, academic and other educational books are less likely to appear online as compared to movies, games, and music files. Seeing that, a trio composed of a 26, 31, and 71-years old decided to operate a site to resolve such concern allegedly. Denmark-based website LendStudy has provided students with access to hundred of textbooks. The site owners operate by scanning original copy of the books and selling it online. The selling price of the books in the said website is far lower than that of the original textbooks price, at around $45. "It is expensive for students to acquire new knowledge. Lendstudy wanted to spread knowledge in the form of books that give students more opportunities for new knowledge," Torrent Freak quoted one of the alleged site owners' defense. However, it did not take too long for the copyright holder to take notice of the said operation. Upon presentation of evidence, it was showcased by the plaintiff, RightsAlliance, that LendStudy made a revenue of around $3,500 by means of sophisticated I.T equipment. Seeing that, the idea of enriching the minds of students failed to persuade the court. Hence, the online piracy case prospered, while their excuse was ignored. Meanwhile, the crackdown on torrent sites and alternative pirate sites continue. Just a few months ago, European Court of Justice stated in its ruling that streaming copyrighted material for free on multimedia players such as Kodi is illegal. Seeing the current situation in some places concerning textbooks availability and pricing, one cannot help but empathize on the so-called vision of the textbook pirate site owners. However, Martin Lindø Westeraaard from University Press of Southern Denmark, also justified that if such action will continue "publishers have less incentive to produce textbooks and "it will be detrimental both for publishers and for the student."

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In April this year, DarkOverLord a Dark Web hacking group stole and held season 5 of popular TV show Orange Is the New Black (which was yet-to-be-released at that time ) to ransom but ended up leaking it on the Internet after failed negotiations with Netflix and Hollywood-based Larson Studios. Now, details have emerged highlighting how the hackers were able to steal the show from Larson Studios. It turns out that the group took advantage of a vulnerability in Window 7 operating system allowing them to access the original content account of Netflix. This was discovered after Larson Studios hired a cyber security company to detect the point of breach. Upon investigating, the security researchers found that the studio was still using Windows 7 which does not match the latest security protocols. Although it is unclear what kind of vulnerability the hackers exploited, the chief engineer of Larson Studios Mr. David Dondorf told Variety in an interview that the hackers were looking for random computers using Windows 7 and ended up breaching the one with the unreleased Season 5 of Orange Is the New Black TV show. “They were basically just trolling around to see if they could find a computer that they could open,” Dondorf explained. “It wasn’t aimed at us,” said Dondorf. Furthermore, Dondorf revealed that the studio paid a sum of 50 Bitcoins to the hackers which were around $50,000 at that time (now equivalent to $136,505) to prevent them deleting and leaking the data, however not only did they end up leaking the TV show online but they also deleted all the data from the targeted computer because the studio contacted the FBI regarding the incident. The DarkOverLord hackers have also confirmed to Variety that they were indeed paid, 50 Bitcoin but due to the breach of contract, the group was forced to punish the studio. The group works in a way that after targeting its victim, it sends them a written agreement for signature to agree to the terms of the agreement which involves not contacting the law enforcement authorities. “We found Larson Studios was in great delinquency of the agreement after sources confirmed law enforcement cooperation.” “Our agreement provides us the right to execute a harmful action against any client who defrauds our agreement.” Is is unclear if the group had access to other unreleased TV shows, however, a couple of weeks ago the same group also released first eight episodes of Steve Harvey’s “Funderdome” TV Show on ThePirateBay website. Therefore worse can be expected from the group in the coming days. Remember, the Dark Over Lord is the same hacker who hacked WestPark Capital investment bank last year and demanded ransom from the authorities. He was also responsible for hacking healthcare database of 34,000 patients in the US and selling them on DarkWeb BTC 20 ($29020). Also, for Windows 7 users, maybe it’s time for an upgrade or moving to another operating system to secure their systems from such breaches and avoid situations which try to force them to pay a large amount of ransom payment. Remember, just last month a critical SMB vulnerability was exploited by hackers to carry out WannaCry ransomware campaign, one of the largest cyber attacks ever.

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