The Dyn attack highlights the internet’s surprisingly vulnerable centralization Last Friday, a coordinated attack of unknown origin brought down a broad swath of the web, cutting down sites from Github to Spotify to Twitter. Unlike thieves who steal data, this hack—known as a DDOS attack—just brings down
I understand him. He cares about two things, how people perceive him and how much cash he has in the bank. Mark Cuban was persuaded against Donald Trump by a conversation with the man himself, who Cuban says literally “doesn’t know how technology works.” ↩︎ Bloomberg Businessweek, posted Oct. 19,
We went through years of seeing every hack in America reduce dramatic Red Sox playoff baseball to prefabricated invocations of the Curse of the Bambino, and hindsight has only proven how silly and counterproductive it was for writers to hug their clichés rather than write meaningful and interesting things about
McDonald’s is curtailing Ronald McDonald’s public appearances in light of the rash of clown-clad pranksters scaring kids across the US and UK, with some “killer clowns” even showing up at the chain. Look: He was creepy before the whole clown thing. ↩︎ posted Oct. 13, 2016 The Impossible
RBG says “no” to the knee Among the liberal millennials Obama’s eight years have brought to Washington, few cultural talismans are considered more woke than a “Notorious RBG” shirt. But the Supreme Court justice’s personality cult deflated a bit when she called Kaepernick’s protest “dumb and disrespectful.
Paraplegics can “learn” to walk again with the assistance of virtual reality technology that takes advantage of the brain’s ability to change itself. Consult further: “This is the first fMRI study in the literature that provides evidence for neuroplasticity and associated locomotor recovery after VR.” ↩︎ posted Oct. 6, 2016
It’s normal to work under these conditions, to be threatened with arrest on one side and kidnap on the other, to have to conduct major surgery underground and constantly see buildings around us reduced to rubble. In the last year alone our hospital was targeted five times. That’s
Nine-year-old Zianna Oliphant implored the Charlotte City Council to figure out a way to treat black people better. “I’ve come here today to talk about how I feel, and I feel like that we are treated differently than other people,” she entreated before breaking down in tears.
If you needed a really explicit reason to believe that humanity is embarrassing, wikiHow formalizes it in a judgment-free zone. After a breakup, a writer turns to wikiHow, a network of self-help spawning a community of anonymous care. ↩︎ Real Life, posted Sept. 30, 2016 The Catalog of Human
The Climate Math Meets Methane One of the biggest questions facing American energy policy is the role of natural gas. The Clean Power Plan swaps gas in for coal, but that has led to higher methane emissions than previously projected. Natural gas can be cheaply had through domestic fracking, and
