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The unmanned Hayabusa 2, named after a falcon, began leaving Ryugu last week, but it is still sending images back to Earth. A Japanese space probe is heading home from an asteroid 250 million km (155 million miles) from Earth after collecting sub-surface samples that could help scientists seeking the origins of life, Japan's space agency said on Monday. Asteroids are believed to have formed at the dawn of the solar system and scientists say the asteroid, called Ryugu , may contain organic matter that may have contributed to life on Earth. If the return trip is completed successfully, that will be the first time samples from beneath an asteroid's surface have been brought back to Earth, a spokeswoman for the Japan Aerospace Exploration |Agency , or JAXA, said. The unmanned Hayabusa2 , named after a falcon, began leaving Ryugu last week, but it is still sending images back to Earth. Those observations will be wrapped up on Monday or Tuesday before its main engin...

Security researchers were able to earn a total of $120,000 (roughly Rs. 86,21,600) by exploiting Google Chrome. Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Apple's Safari have been successfully hacked by hackers participating in network security contest Tianfu Cup. The two-day event, which is China's version of Pwn2Own, brought a list of security researchers from the country to test the vulnerabilities hidden within various popular apps, including Chrome, Edge, and Safari as well as Office 365 and Adobe PDF Reader. The event concluded on Sunday with team 360Vulcan emerged as the leader. The security researchers behind the team 360Vulcan managed to exploit Microsoft Edge among other distinct targets. The team 360 Vulcan won a total bounty of $382,500 (roughly Rs. 2,74,80,000) for hacking Adobe PDF Reader , Microsoft Edge ,Office 365, VMWare Workstation, and qemu+Ubuntu. There were a total of three successful exploits targeting Edge browser that emerged at ...

A screenshot of the information shared with CERT-IN by WhatsApp was circulated by government sources. Soon after tech giant WhatsApp got into a face off with the Indian government claiming its officials met the Indian government in the last five months, government sources say the information provided was "pure technical jargon". Government sources also say that Whatsapp had given information to CERT-IN, a government agency in May, but without any mention of Pegasus    or the extent of the breach. It also insists, that the information shared was only about a technical vulnerability and had nothing to do with the fact that privacy of Indian users had been compromised. To back its claim, a screenshot of the information shared with CERT-IN by WhatsApp was circulated by government sources. Earlier, highly-placed official sources indicated a war with the messaging platform, alleging that the whole controversy may be a ploy by the messaging company to build pressu...