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The article discusses the use of human urine on plants in Outer Space, including the uptake of nutrients from urine in plants that acts as a fertilizer, referencing an article coauthored by scientist Federico Maggi in the journal "Life Science in Space Research."

(Bloomberg) -- Clubhouse, the popular app that allows people to create digital discussion groups, says it's reviewing its data security practices after the Stanford Internet Observatory found potential vulnerabilities in its infrastructure that could allow external access to users' raw audio data. SIO said that as a Chinese company, Agora was subject to China's cybersecurity laws and would be "legally required to assist the government in locating and storing" audio messages authorities said jeopardized national security. "By analyzing Clubhouse app we found it includes an outdated release of Agora software library that uses deprecated encryption functions, according to their technical documentation, while security best practice is to always use the latest cryptographic support", Federico Maggi said in a phone interview. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- CK Hutchison Holdings Ltd.'s Italian unit Wind Tre SpA, the country's third largest phone company, reported a suspected security threat in some of its workstations, according to an internal memo seen by Bloomberg. Cyberattacks against companies have increased during the pandemic, with hackers targeting workers logging on from laptops at home and overwhelmed IT departments. The software company said at the time that it believed Chinese state-backed hackers had found a weakness in the Microsoft Exchange Server software, allowing them to break into email accounts and install malware. [Extracted from the article]

An excerpt of the study by the researchers at the University of Sydney led by Federico Maggi on the effectiveness of reusing nutrients from waste is presented.

The article discusses how Politecnico di Milano, Linklayer Labs and Trend Micro demonstrated a denial of service (DoS) attack on the network of an Alfa Romeo Giulia automobile. Topics discussed include the hacking of the car's safety system by abusing its Controlled Area Network (CAN) bus, the shutdown of the bus by forcing errors on the system, and the need for car manufacturers to continuously improve their security systems.

The article reports that Giulio Occhionero and his sister Francesca Maria have been arrested for planting the Pyramid Eye malware on government and corporate computers. It mentions that police investigations collected email passwords, credentials for compromised personal computers, and a trove of data spread across a network of several command-and-control and backup servers and computers.

India, July 13 -- Active agents from pesticides travel far from the agricultural lands they are applied on & even reach oceans Harmful chemicals from pesticides not only pollute the [...]

India, March 30 -- Asia home to largest land areas at high risk of pesticide pollution Around 64 per cent of land used for agriculture and food crops is at [...]