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Champions League final delayed for security reasons | Sports | German football and major international sports news | DW

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The Champions League Final between Liverpool and Real Madrid in the Stade de France, Paris was delayed by 30 minutes for “security reasons” UEFA said Saturday.

Inside the stadium, UEFA posted a statement inside the stadium saying kickoff had been delayed due to the “late arrival” of fans but a host of reports from journalists and fans on the ground suggested otherwise as chaos reigned.

Television footage showed many empty seats in the Liverpool end as thousands of fans were still outside with 30 minutes to go before the original kickoff time. Social media coverage was full of reports from Liverpool fans saying they had been queueing for hours but still couldn’t gain entry. There were also multiple reports of tear gas being used.

Both teams returned to the pitch for a second warmup owing to the delays. When the game did kickoff, many fans were still outside and reports of further tear gas use continued.

DW’s Matt Pearson was on the ground in Paris and reported the following:

“It’s chaos. It was when I went in at 6 and is now. I’ve just been outside and there’s tear gas in the air, fans trying to get in and police charging gates. There are still hundreds, even thousands of fans outside. Anyone at this point should have had a ticket check.”

This comes just a week after chaotic scenes ahead of the Europa League Final in Sevilla.

Later, Liverpool released a statement saying they were requesting a formal investigation into “unacceptable issues.”

UEFA said that “turnstiles at the Liverpool end became blocked by thousands of fans who had purchased fake tickets which did not work”, before adding it was “sympathetic” to those affectd and that a review would be undertaken.

After the game, Parisian police released a statement saying “a large number of supporters without match tickets or holding false tickets disrupted access to the Stade de France at the external security perimeter. These fans exerted strong pressure to enter the stadium and delayed the access of ticketed spectactors. Taking advantage of this action, a number of people managed to get through the gates protecting the stadium.”

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Spain’s most powerful supercomputer launch delayed

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Spain's most powerful supercomputer launch delayed
Spain’s most powerful supercomputer launch delayed. image: Twitter

Spain’s most powerful supercomputer launch has been delayed in Barcelona.

The much-anticipated launch of Barcelona’s ‘Marenostrum 5’ supercomputer has been delayed. The inauguration, which was initially planned for early 2021, is pending due to Covid-19 and bureaucratic problems and has now been moved back again to a date yet to be finalised.

Marenostrum is at present, the most powerful computer in Spain, and since 2004, four versions have been installed. The computer works as a simulator; all stored data is used to create unique situations to improve every scientific field with predictive models of behaviour.

Marenostrum will be used in every scientific field. For instance, it will be very useful in Medicine because doctors can decide which treatment to use in a patient by comparing old and new cases- with instantaneous results- using the supercomputer.

In 2019, the European Commission chose the BSC, along with other EU member States, such as Bulgaria, Finland or Italy, to be part of the initiative European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking.

Basically, the project aims to create super-powerful computers in order to experiment with new technologies for the next generation of supercomputers in Europe. Mare Nostrum 5 was the highest UE investment in research infrastructure in Spain, about 100 million euros.

What can supercomputers be used for?

The best supercomputers fill rooms, cost millions, and are thousands of times faster than your computer at home. They are usually used for complex scientific problems involving lots of maths.

They are used to predict the weather, model brains, or help predict the result of a nuclear explosion, for example. Some are used to test the strength of encryption (computer security) methods.

They have been used to model the spread of swine flu, coronavirus, to predict climate change, and even to understand the Big Bang at the beginning of the Universe. However, technology moves quickly, as an example, a top-end desktop computer today calculates at the same speed as a supercomputer did 10 years ago.

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Cyberpunk 2077’s next big patch delayed to second half of March after studio hack

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Cyberpunk 2077’s next big patch has been delayed following developer CD Projekt Red’s disclosure that it fell victim to a ransomware attack earlier this month. The next big patch, 1.2, is now scheduled for a release sometime in the second half of March.



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“While we dearly wanted to deliver Patch 1.2 for Cyberpunk 2077 in the timespan we detailed previously, the recent cyber attack on the studio’s IT infrastructure and extensive scope of the update mean this unfortunately will not happen — we’ll need some additional time,” CD Projekt Red said via the Cyberpunk 2077 Twitter account.

The ransomware attack has been a source of considerable disruption for CDPR, as it included both source code and personal details of employees and other sensitive information that was allegedly later sold on the internet. According to a new report from Bloomberg on Wednesday, the hack has made it nearly impossible for some CDPR employees to effectively perform their jobs.

Here’s Jason Schreier for Bloomberg reporting the level of disarray the hack has left the studio in:

CD Projekt has said it refused to pay a ransom to the hackers. As a result, employees remain unable to log onto the company’s virtual private network, making it impossible to access the systems and tools needed to do most of their jobs, said the people, requesting anonymity because they weren’t authorized to talk publicly.

And here’s more information on how the leaking of personal identification data in the hack has caused havoc on the personal lives of employees:

Despite the unplanned vacation, the hack has been a nightmare for employees. The invaders had access to their personal information including Polish identification numbers and passport details, leading the company to tell staff to freeze their accounts and report the security…

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US establishes Cyber Unified Coordination Group to respond to SolarWinds compromise. Report on Chinese influence ops delayed.

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The US Government and a large number of private organizations continue to assess the extent of the SolarWinds incident. The scope and extent of the damage are known to be large, but just how large, and who specifically was affected, remains under investigation. An op-ed by former US Homeland Security Advisor Bossert probably has it right in saying that the breach is “hard to overestimate.”

A joint statement yesterday from the US FBI, CISA, and ODNI says that the Government has invoked Presidential Policy Directive (PPD) 41 to establish a Cyber Unified Coordination Group to coordinate a whole-of-Government response to the Russian cyber operation that exploited SolarWinds’ Orion platform.

According to KrebsOnSecurity, FireEye, Microsoft, and GoDaddy cooperated on a response to the SolarWinds compromise by establishing a killswitch to disable Sunburst backdoor instances still beaconing to their original domain. As FireEye said in widely quoted statement, “this actor moved quickly to establish additional persistent mechanisms to access to [sic] victim networks beyond the SUNBURST backdoor,” so the killswitch is far from representing a thorough remediation. BleepingComputer has a summary of what’s publicly available so far.

Bloomberg reports that the US Director of National Intelligence said yesterday that the Intelligence Community will not meet tomorrow’s deadline to report to Congress about Chinese influence operations in the 2020 election season. That there were attempts seems clear enough, but how extensive they were, and how much prominence they should be given, remains a matter of disagreement among the agencies in the Intelligence Community.

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