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Stocks Finished Mostly Higher on Chipmaker Strength

1 week ago
The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) closed up +0.36% on Tuesday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) closed down -0.38%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) closed up +0.68%. December E-mini S&P futures (ESZ26 ) rose +0.36%, and December E-mini Nasdaq futures...

Stocks Finished Mostly Higher on Chipmaker Strength

1 week ago
The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) closed up +0.36% on Tuesday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) closed down -0.38%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) closed up +0.68%. December E-mini S&P futures (ESZ26 ) rose +0.36%, and December E-mini Nasdaq futures...

Firework noise limit should be drastically cut to protect wild animals, UK government told

1 week ago

Ministers urged to go further than proposed cut to 110 decibels to ease acute stress on birds and others animals

Campaigners are calling on the UK government to protect the welfare of wild animals by cutting the maximum noise level of fireworks sold to the public from 120 to 90 decibels.

The Center for Wild Animal Welfare (CWAW) has said lowering the limit to 90dB – which is about one-eighth of the loudness of 120dB – would help to protect millions of wild animals from acute stress by reducing the area over which a firework disturbs surrounding wildlife.

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Xen Hypervisor Flaws Let One Malicious VM Read and Write Any Other VM's Memory

1 week ago
Two flaws in the Xen hypervisor allow a malicious guest virtual machine (VM) to read and write the memory of other VMs on the same host, including dom0. Dom0 is the VM that, by default, has full permissions and manages the others. Patches are out, and there is no known mitigation, the Xen Project said in an advisory on November 3. All Xen versions from 4.6 onward are vulnerable,