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Scout Motors has announced two electric vehicles – the Traveler SUV and the Terra truck with prices starting at $60,000. The vehicles will have a range of up to 563 kilometers, and the versions with a gas generator will have a range of more than 800 kilometers.

Scout Motors, a subsidiary of Volkswagen Group, unveiled two electric vehicles on Thursday that it hopes will attract U.S. buyers with styling that seeks a point of contact between the modern and the rugged, where the digital doesn't supplant the mechanical, Tech Crunch reported, writes UNN.

Details

The company will also offer variants of its all-electric Scout Traveler SUV and Scout Terra truck that will feature an integrated gas generator using a system called Harvester, a reference to the brand's roots with the International Harvester Scout from the 1960s.

The Scout electric vehicles – a truck and SUV – won't be available until 2027 at the earliest. When they finally go into production, the vehicles will have a body-on-frame chassis, a non-split rear axle, front and rear mechanical interlocks, and a powertrain that will provide acceleration from zero to 96.5 km per hour in 3.5 seconds (in some configurations).

The company said Thursday that the all-electric models are expected to have a range of up to about 563 kilometers. The electric vehicles will also be equipped with Tesla's North American charging standard. But the company will also offer variants with an extended range of more than 804 kilometers, made possible by an integrated gas generator.

Prices

The Scout Traveler and Terra models will have a starting price of less than $60,000. Scout noted that those prices could be as low as $50,000 with available incentives. That's assuming the incentives outlined in the American Inflation Relief Act remain in place. Scout is poised to take advantage of these incentives because it will design the cars in Michigan and manufacture them in a new $2 billion plant capable of producing 200,000 electric cars a year in South Carolina.

Scout is also taking the controversial step of selling its electric vehicles directly to consumers, which will avoid the use of VW dealerships. The company said potential customers can pre-order to order the Scout Traveler SUV or Scout Terra truck for a refundable $100.

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ESA has published a video demonstrating the deformation of the Earth's magnetic field during the LaChampagne event 41,000 years ago. The planet's magnetosphere weakened to 5% of its current strength, allowing cosmic rays to penetrate the atmosphere.

Around 41,000 years ago, a temporary change in the Earth's magnetic poles, known as the Lacham Event, occurred. A new video shows how the Earth's magnetic field deformed during the “polar reversal event.

Writes UNN with reference to Live Science.

A fascinating new videoreleased on October 10 by the European Space Agency (ESA) shows how the Earth's magnetic field failed and almost completely disappeared during the last “polar shift” of our planet, which occurred about 41,000 years ago. The eerie soundtrack of “alien” creaking sounds emphasizes the strain on our planet's invisible shield.

For reference

The Earth's magnetic field, or magnetosphere, first formed up to 3.7 billion years ago and is generated by a swirling metallic ocean in the outer core of our planet. The magnetic bubble protects life on Earth from solar radiation and high-energy cosmic rays. However, from time to time, the Earth's internal dynamo weakens, allowing the planet's magnetic poles to reverse.

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Approximately 41,000 years ago, there was a temporary change in the Earth's magnetic poles known as the LaChampagne event. During this period, the planet's magnetic field weakened dramatically, allowing cosmic rays to penetrate the Earth's atmosphere, contributing to some climate change.

Past studies of fossilized tree rings have also shown that the magnetosphere was reduced to about 5% of its current capacity, allowing solar radiation to paint auroras across the equator.

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CERT-UA has detected a large-scale cyberattack on government agencies through phishing emails with fake Google spreadsheets. Attackers steal browser data and install malware through a fake bot scan.

The CERT-UA team, which operates under the State Special Communications Service, has detected a new large-scale cyberattack aimed at local governments in Ukraine, UNN reports with reference to the State Special Communications Service.

Details

According to the State Service for Special Communications, the attackers send phishing emails with the subject line "Replace Table" that contain a link to a supposedly Google spreadsheet. In fact, the link leads to a page with "instructions" for running a malicious command.

How the attack scheme works:

After receiving the email, the user clicks on the link and ends up on a page that simulates bot protection.

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After clicking on "I'm not a robot" and following the proposed "instructions", a malicious command is executed on the computer.

Executing the script will result in:

– downloading the program and creating a tunnel using it;

– theft of authentication and other browser data (Chrome, Edge, Opera, Firefox, etc.);

– installation of broadband access points.

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