<b>An article on the release of Brave Browser version 1.0</b>; A letter to congress from the Brave browser company; <b>Hackers access company's network without detection for 22 months</b>; Archaeological find suggests new insights into the evolution of avian flight; and <b>a Steem essay about the impact that space exploration will have on terrestrial construction</b>

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<li> <A HREF="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/15/brave_web_browser_hits_version_1/">Like a BAT outta hell, Brave browser hits 1.0 with crypto-coin rewards for your fave websites</A> - There's probably not much new here for the crypto community, but it is useful article for the Internet at large.  The article describes how the <i>Brave Browser</i> blocks advertising and tracking, then lets users opt-in to receiving ads from <i>Brave</i>'s own trusted advertusubg network - and pays users in BAT tokens to accept the ads.  The article points out that the company is run by Brendan Eiche, who invented javascript and cofounded Mozilla, but was forced to resign from Mozilla in 2014 for political reasons pertaining to the same-sex marriage debate.  The article highlights Eiche's belief that traditional advertising is parasitic because it, "<i>not only violates privacy, but slows down page loads, drains batteries, and makes for a miserable experience</i>", and also suggests that as the browser's user-base grows, the idea of blocking one set of ads just to insert another may become controversial.  The article also notes that for trusted web sites or badly written web sites that don't operate with shields up, the user is able to turn off the browser protections and allow the original ads to appear on the site.</li><br>

<li> <A HREF="https://brave.com/malvertising-homeland-security/">Brave warns US Senate & Congress: foreign state actors can use targeted ads to run code on US government computers, exploiting conventional browsers</A> - Following on the release of the 1.0 version of the <i>Brave Browser</i>, the <i>Brave</i> company sent a letter warning congress that state actors and other malicious parties can abuse conventional browsers by inserting malicious code into targeted advertising.  The letter contained a <A HREF="https://brave.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/table-browser-protections.pdf">table of browser protections</A> that show how Brave stacks up for security and privacy against other browsers, including Firefox, Safari, and Chrome.  According to the letter, "<i>The NSA warned in June 2018 that foreign state actors can execute software on US government computers by buying targeted ads and including malicious code in the body of the ad being delivered. Government computers and devices are vulnerable to these malvertising attacks because the web browsers used by government agencies do not automatically block such ads.</i>"  In contrast, Brave's default settings block malicious advertising by default.</li><br>

<li> <A HREF="https://www.wired.com/story/data-breach-army-app-security-news/">Security News This Week: Hackers Discovered Only After Maxing Out Victim's Cloud Storage</A> - More evidence for my belief that every sizable company should assume that their systems have already been compromised by malicious parties, and users should assume that any private data that they have disclosed has already been compromised.  In this case, the <i>US Federal Trade Commission</i> is suing Utah-based <i>InfoTrax</i> because it says the company failed to notice that its systems had been hacked for a period of 22 months from May/2014 through March/2016.  According to the suit, it was only when the company started receiving alerts for being out of storage that it realized that something had gone awry.  In other news, the article also notes that a court ruled that suspicionless cell phone searches at the border are unconstitutional, and that Army Intelligence Officers with top-secret clearances were instructed to download and use an app with international ties and a privacy policy that turned out to be troubling. </li><br>

<li> <A HREF="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2019/11/14/a-new-prehistoric-bird-sheds-light-on-how-they-took-to-the-skies/#.Xc3rk797k3g">A New, Prehistoric Bird Sheds Light on How They Took to the Skies</A> - This week's <A HREF="https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-019-0639-4">Communications Biology</A> describes the archaeological find of a bird, named <i>Fukuipteryx prima</i> (F. prima), during archaeological research in Japan.  The well preserved fossil may give new insights into the evolutionary changes that were necessary to bring about flight.  Outside of China, this is the first species of bird to be uncovered from the early <i>Cretaceous</i> period, aged between 101 million and 145 million years.  The species probably could not fly very far, but it contains a bone called a pygostyle that was previously believed to have evolved later, while the ability to fly was being fine tuned.  That bone is found in modern birds, and is located at the base of the tail feathers.  It is made up of fused spinal vertebrae.  This comes as a surprise because all other birds of the same age, found in China, did not have the pygostyle.  Researchers hope that more research in Japan may find other birds who can further illuminate the original purpose of this bone, which now appears to have evolved for other reasons, and coincidentally helped to support flight.  (Which brings to mind the <A HREF="https://www.quantamagazine.org/computers-evolve-a-new-path-toward-human-intelligence-20191106/">stepping stone principle</A>, from <A HREF="/@remlaps-lite/curating-the-internet-science-and-technology-digest-for-november-9-2019">Curating the Internet: Science and technology digest for November 9, 2019</A>.)  <A HREF="https://www.realclearscience.com/2019/11/15/new_fossil_sheds_light_on_how_birds_took_to_the_skies_288320.html">h/t RealClear Science</A></li><br>

<li> STEEM <A HREF="/@taskmaster4450le/martian-housing-altering-construction-on-earth">Martian Housing Altering Construction On Earth</A> - According to this essay by @taskmaster4450le, research into efficient construction for Lunar and Martian expeditions may also have consequences for home construction on Earth.  In particular, the essay suggests that 3D printing improvements for these extraterrestrial activities will change the way that society builds our dwellings, will increase the creative options, and it will drive costs down.  The post also contains photos of existing housing that can be built for less than $10,000.  Current houses that can be 3-D printed are fairly small, but the essay suggests that the ability to construct cheap, creative homes from 1,500 to 2,000 square feet may be realized in the foreseeable future.  (A 10% beneficiary setting has been applied to this post for @taskmaster4450le.)</li><br>
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