How much income is needed to live well in the UK in 2023? At least £29,500 – much more than many households bring in
Matt Padley, Loughborough University and Abigail Davis, Loughborough University - You don’t have to look very hard at the moment to find evidence of the immense financial pressure on UK households. New figures...
French tech start-up wins EU’s new Industry of the Future Award with raw-materials prowess
Recycling silicon from solar panels advances Europe’s green goals as well as creating jobs and harnessing scarce resources. By Horizon Staff. For Yohan Parsa, research director at tech start-up ROSI SAS in France, a relatively...
Severe Vulnerabilities Discovered in Software to Protect Internet Routing
Frankfurt and Darmstadt (ots) - A research team from the National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity ATHENE led by Prof. Dr. Haya Schulmann has uncovered 18 vulnerabilities in crucial software components of Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI). RPKI is an Internet standard meant to protect Internet traffic from being hijacked by hackers. By now, all affected vendors provided patches for their products. The vulnerabilities could have had devastating consequences: Internet hijacks have already been exploited, e.g., for phishing passwords and other sensitive information, tricking certificate authorities into issuing fraudulent Web certificates, stealing cryptocurrency, distributing malware, and poisoning caches of DNS servers. The ATHENE team consisting of Prof. Dr. Haya Schulmann and...
Spotify just made a record profit. What can the platform do now to maintain momentum?
Andrew White, King's College London - It is not much of an exaggeration to say that Spotify saved the music industry. Global revenue for...
Spotify just made a record profit. What can the platform do now to maintain momentum?
Andrew White, King's College London - It is not much of an exaggeration to say that Spotify saved the music industry. Global revenue for recorded music reached its zenith...
What this year’s El Niño means for wheat and global food supply
David Ubilava, University of Sydney - The World Meteorological Organization has declared the onset of the first El Niño event in seven years. It estimates 90% probability the climatic phenomenon, involving an unusual warming of the Pacific Ocean, will develop through 2023, and be of moderate strength. El Niño events bring hotter, drier weather to places such as Brazil, Australia...
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol bans Private Jets and Night Flights
By Noah Düker - The private jet ban is set to into effect at the end of 2025. This will lead to “more quiet, clean and better air travel” an airport official said...
Generation Z may not need mortgages, here’s why
Geoffrey Ditta, Universidad Nebrija - Ask many Millennials – the generation currently in their late 20s to early 40s...
