Sandbox and malicious code attacks against Google’s Chrome web browser Attackers are currently attacking Chrome on Android and on the desktop -Version. Anyone who uses the web browser should update it as soon as possible. The developers have closed a total of ten security holes in the current issue. In a post, Google warns that attackers are currently exploiting the vulnerability classified as “high”. If attacks work, malicious code can reach computers. It is currently not known whether Linux, macOS and Windows are equally affected.

The synthetic coronavirus Years ago 70 Albert Sabin and his research team succeeded in isolating variants of the polio virus that are still humans could infect, but not cause paralysis. Sabin’s weakened strains of the virus became the famous orally administered polio vaccine that billions of children took in the form of sugar cubes. Now scientists from the start-up Codagenix believe that synthetic biology could show a way to prevent a weak form of COVID – 19 – produce pathogen, reports Technology Review. According to the bold plan, it could then be distributed around the world in the form of inexpensive nasal drops. If everything goes according to plan, the first volunteers in Great Britain should receive the synthetically produced virus as part of initial safety tests this month.

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Castor transport rolls through Germany again The first Castor transport with German nuclear waste from abroad in nine years has arrived in Germany. A special ship from Great Britain, which had been expected for several days, moored in the port of Nordenham on the Weser on Monday morning, the police said. From there, the six Castor casks are taken by train to an interim storage facility in Biblis in Hesse. Neither the GNS transport company nor the massively represented police gave information about the route. Opponents of nuclear power have called for rallies along the possible routes towards Biblis.

Online shopping boom inspires PayPal The online payment service PayPal continues to benefit from the trend towards shopping on the Internet during the Corona crisis. In the third quarter, net income rose year-on-year by 121 percent to one billion US dollars, the company said on Monday announced after the US market closed. PayPal also raised its annual forecasts and now represents 121 sales growth between 20 and 20 percent in prospect.

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