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New image shows the North Star is changing. And it has spots.

Some 430 light-years from Earth lies our stalwart cosmic beacon, the North Star. Except this star is actually volatile. It’s pulsating as it constantly grows and shrinks. And a new unprecedented image of the hot ball of gas reveals it’s covered in large spots. In research published by The Astrophysical …

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The Quest to Uncover the Secrets of Gold Hydrogen

This story originally appeared on WIRED Italia and has been translated from Italian. In the quest to decarbonize the world, one element gets a lot of hype: hydrogen. “If you burn it, it produces only water, with no impact on the environment,” explains Alberto Vitale Brovarone, a professor in the …

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An AWS Configuration Issue Could Expose Thousands of Web Apps

A vulnerability related to Amazon Web Service's traffic-routing service known as Application Load Balancer could have been exploited by an attacker to bypass access controls and compromise web applications, according to new research. The flaw stems from a customer implementation issue, meaning it isn't caused by a software bug. Instead, …

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