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CVE-2021-22555 is a 15 years old heap out-of-bounds write vulnerability in Linux Netfilter that is powerful enough to bypass all modern security mitigations and achieve kernel code execution. It was used to break the kubernetes pod isolation of the kCTF cluster and won 10000$ for charity (where Google will match
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It was launched in January of 2020, when we made the fly “hemibrain” connectome available on the internet — an online database that provides the morphological structure and synaptic connection of almost half of the brain of a fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster). This database and its related visualisation has redefined the
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The pandemic has turned 2020 into a year of medicine and information technology. The remarkable surge in the criticality level of medical infrastructure, coupled with feasible across-the-board digitalization, led to many of our last year’s predictions coming true much sooner than expected. As we foresaw, there has been an
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Welcome! In this post, we’ll be taking a character-by-character look at the source code of the BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine. Now, these words may be somewhat jarring – the vaccine is a liquid that gets injected in your arm. How can we talk about source code? This is a
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For whatever reason, this eluded me during medical school. I wanted to learn it. The concept no longer escapes my understanding.
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Going to try to keep this one simple and present two items: * Table with subsections such as pathogensis, diagnosis, and treatment * An algorithmic approach to dealing with a patient suffering from GI bleed. * This is not medical advice. If you need help, please seek a medical professional. This is purely
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Deep literacy is what happens when a reader engages with an extended piece of writing in such a way as to anticipate an author’s direction and meaning, and engages what one already knows in a dialectical process with the text. The result, with any luck, is a fusion of
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In 2019, the average cost for a corporate data breach reached almost $4 million. Let’s take a look at a few of these attacks to learn what went wrong and secure your business from such risks. MyFitnessPal MyFitnessPal is a typical fitness application. It allows users to log cardio
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Pfizer and BioNTech’s announcement of preliminary efficacy results for their Covid-19 vaccine candidate is a tiny speck of light at the end of a long, dark tunnel. Based on interim data from a late stage clinical trial, their candidate could prevent 90% of Covid-19 infections. There are still questions
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Can fasting or calorie restriction help my body fight cancer? Could it also help cancer treatment be more effective? Claim: Fasting and calorie restriction (CR) can slow and even stop the progression of cancer, kill cancer cells, boost the immune system, and significantly improve the effectiveness of chemotherapy and radiation
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In keeping with the biomedical perspective, early definitions of health focused on the theme of the body’s ability to function; health was seen as a state of normal function that could be disrupted from time to time by disease. An example of such a definition of health is: “a
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Achieving and maintaining health is an ongoing process, shaped by both the evolution of health care knowledge and practices as well as personal strategies and organized interventions for staying healthy. Diet An important way to maintain your personal health is to have a healthy diet. A healthy diet includes a