Tag: Flash
Megaflash: here is the longest flash ever observed!
New satellite instruments from the World Meteorological Organization recorded titanic flashes, two of which broke world records. You will also be interested [EN VIDÉO] Kézako: where do lightning come from,…
Moonbounce, the dangerous malware that hides in the flash memory of motherboards
Kaspersky’s sleuths have detected, for the second time, a particularly stealthy UEFI rootkit, because it can hide in the SPI Flash chip of a PC motherboard. This allows the malicious…
The origins of lightning finally revealed
A team of scientists has used a space telescope to try to understand the origins of lightning inside storm clouds themselves. You will also be interested [EN VIDÉO] How do…
NASA maps global lightning strikes over 25 years
A sensor installed on the ISS allows NASA to have a global map of lightning strikes across the globe from 1995 to 2020. It highlights the most struck areas in…
The origins of lightning revealed by a telescope
A team of scientists has used a space telescope to try to understand the origins of lightning inside storm clouds themselves. You will also be interested [EN VIDÉO] How do…
The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way is unpredictable
Here, an image produced using X-ray data collected by the Swift satellite between 2006 and 2013. The supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* is in the center of the image. Low-energy…
Social media users beware! Flash warning came for WhatsApp and Facebook: “Change your passwords now”
Facebook and WhatsApp are among the most used social media platforms in the world. However, both platforms have come to the fore not with a new feature announcement this time,…