Federal Courts Slow to Fix Vulnerable System After Repeated Hacking
After a 2020 breach thought to be Russia’s work, the courts told Congress that they would harden a system storing sealed documents. Five years later, the system was hacked again.
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After a 2020 breach thought to be Russia’s work, the courts told Congress that they would harden a system storing sealed documents. Five years later, the system was hacked again.
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Director general of Cern in the 1980s who went on to establish the Sesame laboratory in Jordan
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Sighting by James Webb space telescope of black hole with sparse halo of material could upend theories of the universe
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