What is Ransomware? Georgia Court System Falls Victim to Cyberattack as Towns and Cities in Florida Pay More Than $1 Million to Hackers

A website and computer network which supports Georgia’s court system has been taken offline following a ransomware cyberattack that was discovered last weekend, officials say.

On Monday, a spokesperson for the Administrative Office of the Courts, Bruce Shaw, confirmed systems were compromised by ransomware and said servers had been taken down as investigators probed the incident, WXIA-TV (11 Alive) reported. The government website remains offline at the time of writing.

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AI Looks at What the Cat Dragged Home So You Don’t Have To!

There are 74 million house cats in the United States, four million of which, according to Amazon senior product manager Benjamin Hamm, like to hunt. Hamm’s cat Metric is one such hunter, and while this behavior was great for dealing with a rat infestation in his apartment, the fact that he brings back dead or wounded animals one out of 10 nights is a problem.

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The World’s Smallest MRI Machine Just Captured The Magnetic Field of a Single Atom

Using a new technique, scientists have performed the world’s smallest magnetic resonance imaging to capture the magnetic fields of single atoms. It’s an incredible breakthrough that could improve quantum research, as well as our understanding of the Universe on subatomic scales.

“I am very excited about these results,” said physicist Andreas Heinrich of the Institute for Basic Sciences in Seoul. “It is certainly a milestone in our field and has very promising implications for future research.”

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Raspberry Pi 4 Benchmarks & Mini Review – Can heat slow it down too much?

Raspberry Pi 4 has just been released with many improvements over Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ including a faster processor, a proper Gigabit Ethernet port, USB 3.0 interfaces, and 4K video support. That’s the theory, but how does it work in practice?

I can now let you know as I’ve received a Raspberry Pi 4 sample courtesy of Cytron, and ran some tests and benchmarks on the very latest boards from the Raspberry Pi foundation.

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