ReHacked #8: Europol and EC launched decryption platform, Youtube and piracy, why 75% plus fossils are male and more interesting news.

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Europol and the European Commission have launched a new decryption platform that will help boost Europol’s ability to gain access to information stored in encrypted media collected during criminal investigations. #privacy #security

YouTube Class Action: Same IP Address Used to Upload ‘Pirate’ Movies & File DMCA Notices #copyrights

From the dark matter to the speed of the University expansion surprises:

• astronomers have discovered a strange quirk of gravity in 153 galaxies,  which appears to support an alternative hypothesis to dark matter;
• our University expanding faster than it should and we don’t know why: The cosmos’s known ingredients and governing equations predict that it should currently be expanding at a rate of 67 kilometers per second per megaparsec — meaning we should see galaxies flying away from us 67 kilometers per second faster for each additional megaparsec of distance.  Yet actual measurements consistently overshoot the mark. Galaxies are receding too quickly. Riess’s team has used the new data to peg the expansion rate at 73.2  kilometers per second per megaparsec, in line with their previous value,  but now with a margin of error of just 1.8%. That seemingly cements the discrepancy with the far lower predicted rate of 67. #space #nature #astronomy

Sony Publishes An Official Linux Driver For PlayStation 5 DualSense Controllers  #hardware

Paleontologists Are Trying to Understand Why the Fossil Record Is Mostly Males

They found 75 percent of bison fossils in such collections were males. This wasn’t a surprise, based on what Pečnerová had theorized about mammoth herd behavior, since bison social structure similarly isolates young males. “By [the mammoth] analogy, some of the male bison are going off and doing stupid things,” Gower says, adding that the researchers were not able to test for age to further support the theory, but he hopes to in the future.

#nature #history

100 tips for a better life. #lifehacks

Car differential explained in video from 1937. #engineering

Photocatalyst that can split water into H2 and O2. #technology

Until next Monday and happy new year!

Dainius.