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An impressive appearance of the northern lights, the Aurora Borealis, in the town of Xanthi, Greece,  on Thursday, October 10, 2024. The phenomenon, which is rare in Greece, offered a magnificent sight to the residents of the area in north-eastern Greece. The sky was lit up with red and purple …

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There will be two moons in the night sky on Sunday, September 29, 2024. the normal Moon and a so called “mini moon”, a newly discovered asteroid named 2024PT5. The Earth’s “Second Moon” will be visible tonight reportedly also in Greece. Its  first appearance will be after 22:45 local time. …

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The Perseid meteor shower is reaching its peak on Monday night, offering a unique spectacle in the sky on August 12, 2024.  The Perseid meteor shower is the most impressive summer ‘rain’ of shooting stars every August and is visible also in Greece. Without needing any equipment, armed only patience …

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Over 400 hackers’ attacks were recorded on the information systems of the Land Registry this week, however, although an attempt was made, the intrusion of a malicious user into the Database failed. This is stated in the announcement of the Ministry of Digital Governance on Friday. As indicated by the …

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Greece largely remains unaffected by the global digital outage, although there are flight delays and long queues at the big airports of the country. While flights could land, they could not leave as they are part of the system affected by the digital black out of the Microsoft systems. Flights …

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Citizens now have the ability to file complaints through the “gov.gr” platform to the Hellenic Telecommunications and Post Commission (EETT) regarding breaches of obligations by digital platforms. Specifically, they can report violations of the Digital Services Act, a set of rules enforced across the European Union. When citizens identify a …

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Consumer groups from eight countries in the European BEUC network, including from Greece, filed on Thursday complaints against Meta with their national data protection authorities, alleging Meta has failed to adhere to GDPR principles on the processing of personal data. The groups  asked their national data protection watchdogs to act …

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The colors of the night sky in Athens were changed into green when a “fireball” meteor passed through the atmosphere on Sunday night and thus towards the dawn of Monday. As seen in the video uploaded by Forecast Weather, the impressive meteor appeared for a few seconds over the sky …

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Sophia, the globally renowned humanoid AI robot, recently toured Athens and was captured in a photograph against the backdrop of the Acropolis. To add the icing on top of AI kitsch, robot Sophia was dressed in ancient Greek gown including a warm wool coat against the winter chills and wore …

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Luminous Transient Events (TLE’s) over storms in the Greek area: a very rare phenomenon, the Red Sprites, occurred over a storm in the Aegean Sea on November 12, 2023. The amazing phenomenon was capture by @csath who posted the picture on social media. Last night, "Jellyfish" Sprite over the #thunderstorms …

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A truly rare phenomenon in Greece: Aurora Borealis was visible mainly in the northern parts of the country, mainly in Macedonia,on Sunday night, November 5, 2023. The impressive celestial phenomenon occurs very rarely in the European south and left young and old in central Macedonia, Serres, Pieria and Thessaloniki stunned …

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A real cringe child leads the students’ parade on Greece’s National Day on October 28. The boy has a deformed face and fingers and is holding a fake Greek flag on a bent pole.A bad joke combining Greece’s National Day and American Halloween? Or just a reckless product created by …

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The most spectacular summer shower of shooting stars, the meteor shower of Perseids, reaches its peak in the night from Saturday, August 12, to Sunday dawn, August 13, 2023. The meteor shower is visible on the sky of Greece and on the north hemisphere sky in general. Those who will …

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Archaeological sites, museums and other monuments throughout the country will be open on the first night and last night of August for visitors to enjoy the two full moons of August. Admission to the sites will be free of charge on these nights and the Culture Ministry has organized, as …

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Mysterious lights appeared in the night sky over the islands of Evia and Rhodes on Sunday, July 16, 2023. The lights appeared and disappeared having locals and tourists wondering about the phenomenon. the lights weren’t neither UFOS nor riding or fallen angels as some suggested but Εlon Musk’s Starlink SpaceX …

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A new magma chamber discovered beneath the Kolumbo underwater volcano, near the Greek island of Santorini, is a sleeping menace, a study found, even thought eruption is not expected immediately. The new magma chamber was announced in a recent paper published in the journal Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems by a team …

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The first meteor shower of the year 2023 is here tonight. The Quadrantids meteor shower is considered as one of the most spectacular ones due to the intense nominal rate of approximately 120 meteors per hour. The Quadrantids appear early each January with their peak being overnight on Jan 3 …

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Cyber ​​attack targets 800 services of Greece’s Gov.gr and TAXISnet – Medical prescriptions frozen. The  unprecedented DDoS attack reportedly came from the Netherlands One of the biggest cyber attack s to hit Greece took place on Friday morning against the information systems of the Ministry of Digital Governance, centered on …

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Greece has the slowest fixed internet in Europe, despite the significant investments that have been made in recent years, while internet services remain among the most expensive in relation to people’s incomes, according to the annual report on the digital quality of life, compiled by cyber security company Surfshark. The …

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The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has warned over the potential event of large debris from the Chinese rocket Long March 5B entering the atmosphere across the southern airspace of the European Union. Greece is among the seven countries of the European South the European Regulator mentions as “zones …

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