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How npm install scripts can be weaponized: A real-world example of a harmful npm package
At the beginning of 2020, my boss at GitHub pulled me in to a surprise meeting. “I think that we’re going to buy npm,” he told me. “The npm registry keeps growing, and the team managing it can’t keep up. We want to make sure that the npm registry stays online. Anyway, I want you …
Tumble dryers release harmful microfibers into air, putting wildlife and environment at risk
NEWCASTLE upon TYNE, England, (StudyFinds.org) – Tumble dryers are as bad as washing machines for spewing out plastic, scientists are warning. According to a recent study, dryers release microfibers into the air at comparable levels to those that go down the drain during the same load. The findings are based on experiments involving over 1,200 garments …
City says car shredder may be harmful to residents’ health, compares company’s legal claim to ‘shredder fluff’
Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s Administration said in a court filing Thursday that residents’ health may be harmed if the city issues an operating permit to a car-shredding operation on the Southeast Side — as its owners have demanded — before environmental studies can be completed. The statement was made in filings for a lawsuit brought by …
Tiny smoke particles could make wildfires particularly harmful to human health
When the San Francisco Bay Area experienced a record 30 consecutive days of worrisome air quality alerts in August and September, Mary Prunicki began taking blood samples from firefighters. The sky had turned orange from nearby wildfires. Thousands of firefighters would spend months battling the blazes, which would eventually scorch more than 4 million acres …
Advanced drainage technology can be harmful to the environment
Steve Lekwa, Naturally Speaking | Special to the Ames Tribune Mississippi flooding: Delta farmer races against water, time Third generation farmer Peyton Potter of has battled backwater and drainage runoff since 2018. Sarah Warnock and Barbara Gauntt, Mississippi Clarion Ledger I was recently working in our basement and noted that our sump-pump was cycling several …
Latest Technology Helping Student Identify Harmful Algae |
Graduate student Rebecca Rogers with the Imaging FlowCytobot (IFCB) at the Marine Sciences Center in Southampton. Rebecca Rogers has learned to go with the flow — the Imaging FlowCytobot (IFCB), that is. The IFCB is a cutting-edge technology used to aid in the research efforts of marine scientists — an automated submersible imaging flow cytometer …
Common Pipe Material Can Form Harmful Chemicals in Drinking Water
Rusted iron pipes can react with residual disinfectants in drinking water distribution systems to produce carcinogenic hexavalent chromium in drinking water, reports a study by engineers at UC Riverside. Chromium is a metal that occurs naturally in the soil and groundwater. Trace amounts of trivalent chromium eventually appear in the drinking water and food …
High-Dose Vitamin D Food Supplements Often Unnecessary and Even Harmful
In humans, vitamin D is formed in the skin following its exposure to sunlight. In comparison to the body’s own formation of vitamin D, dietary consumption generally makes up only a relatively small proportion of the vitamin D supply to the body. While an overdose resulting from the body’s own production is not possible, …
Maple trees offer most protection from harmful UV
Image caption The study was the first to consider the UV protection offered by street Morningtrees in the Northern Hemisphere A species of maple tree offers the best protection from damaging ultraviolet rays of sunlight, a study has suggested. The crimson king (Acer platanoides) variety of maple tree came out as the most protective, closely …
UK to set limits on harmful airborne particles
Image copyright Reuters A new target will be set to protect people from the effects of breathing in tiny particles produced by transport and industry, the UK government says. The country falls some way short of a limit recommended by the World Health Organization for tiny particles called PM 2.5s. These are produced by burning …
