Largest DDoS attack in history clogs Internet and emphasizes the need to correct Open DNS resolvers [UPDATE]

A 300 Gigabit per second denial of service attack has been crowned the biggest DDoS operation to date. For over a week, European spam-blocking service Spamhaus has been subjected to a brutal Denial of Service attack that has been so large, it has threatened to slow down the entire Internet...
Largest DDoS attack in history clogs Internet and emphasizes the need to correct Open DNS resolvers [UPDATE]

Netflix announces new Sci-Fi series, Sense8, from creators of The Matrix and Babylon 5

Following the success of Arrested Development and House of Cards, Netflix has announced a new original series, Sense8. Due in late 2014, it’s being developed by the Wachowskis of The Matrix, V for Vendetta, Cloud Atlas and Speed Racer fame, as well as J. Michael Straczynski, creator of...
Netflix announces new Sci-Fi series, Sense8, from creators of The Matrix and Babylon 5

Bitcoin cryptographic virtual currency puzzles economists - hits record-setting $1 billion valuation

Bitcoin, the world’s first open source cryptographic currency, set a new record yesterday afternoon as the price listed on the largest online exchange rose past US $92. With nearly 11 million Bitcoins in circulation, this sets the total worth of the currency at just over one billion...
Bitcoin cryptographic virtual currency puzzles economists - hits record-setting $1 billion valuation

Apollo 11 Saturn V rocket engines recovered from floor of Atlantic

Two of the five Saturn V rocket engines that powered NASA’s July 19, 1969 Apollo 11 rocket launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, has been recovered from the Atlantic ocean floor in an expedition sponsored by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. The rockets, which had a shelf life of only 165 seconds,...
Apollo 11 Saturn V rocket engines recovered from floor of Atlantic

Largest DDoS attack in history clogs Internet and emphasizes the need to correct Open DNS resolvers

A 300 Gigabit per second denial of service attack has been crowned the biggest DDoS operation to date. For over a week, European spam-blocking service Spamhaus has been subjected to a brutal Denial of Service attack that has been so large, it has threatened to slow down the entire Internet...
Largest DDoS attack in history clogs Internet and emphasizes the need to correct Open DNS resolvers

Seven More Fantasy Art Girls

Fantasy artists produce some unbelievable art. Here are seven hot fantasy art girls.

Seven More Fantasy Art Girls

De-extinction for the first time - bizarre extinct frog species brought back from the grave

Rheobatrachus silus, the gastric-brooding frog, is different from most other frogs – it gives birth from its mouth, swallowing eggs to hide in its stomach until they’re ready to hatch then spitting out live baby frogs. Sadly. the frog was last seen in the wild in 1979 and became...
De-extinction for the first time - bizarre extinct frog species brought back from the grave

Ah, Hello? Has anyone else noticed that the Devil in "The Bible" looks just like President Obama?

Twitter lit up on Sunday (3/17/13) after the History Channel’s airing of the popular miniseries, The Bible, showed the devil for the first time in the series. 13.1 million viewers couldn’t help but notice that Satan, played by actor Mehdi Ouzaani, looked oddly like United States 44th...
Ah, Hello? Has anyone else noticed that the Devil in "The Bible" looks just like President Obama?

Facebook's latest blunder - bypasses Google Play store with latest software update causing confusion and problems for many users

You gotta wonder what the goofballs at Facebook have been thinking lately. Their latest blunder – in their infinite wisdom, Facebook decided to bypass the Google Play store with their latest software update, issuing a software update prompt in the Android notification screen which has...
Facebook's latest blunder - bypasses Google Play store with latest software update causing confusion and problems for many users

Samsung Galaxy S4 fizzle but device does solidify position as king of the mobile arena - for now...

The Samsung Galaxy S4 was revealed today and although there were no mind-blowing revelations (and a couple of disappointments), it is indeed a beauty. With a 5 inch Super AMOLED 1920×1080 display (441ppi and protected via Gorilla Glass 3) and 1.6GHz 8-core Exynos Octa 5410 SoC (which is...
Samsung Galaxy S4 fizzle but device does solidify position as king of the mobile arena - for now...

China's modern Internet architecture - a framework for effective and efficient Internet traffic communication or model for mass censorship

When it comes to Internet architecture, China has a huge advantage over the rest of the world. Given its relatively new economic status (the Internet was not introduced to China until 1994), China is in the unique position to build its Internet, from the ground up, using proven and sound...
China's modern Internet architecture - a framework for effective and efficient Internet traffic communication or model for mass censorship

Creepy Ratters - men who secretly spy on "slaves" via webcams and remote administration toolsets

They use a set of tools called “remote administration tools” (RAT). They call themselves “ratters” and they taunt, prank, and toy with their prey, typically young females. They use underground forums to share the spoils of their efforts, hundreds of gigabytes worth of photos of their...
Creepy Ratters - men who secretly spy on "slaves" via webcams and remote administration toolsets

New study goes back 11,300 years to chart Earth's global temperature changes - things just got worse

A new study published by Science reconstructs global temperatures further back than any previous study, going back a whopping 11,300 years to study historic global temperature changes in the Earth’s atmosphere. The most notable study prior to this was Penn State University’s 1999 study...
New study goes back 11,300 years to chart Earth's global temperature changes - things just got worse

Walgreens pharmacy to build America's first zero-energy superstore

Walgreens pharmacy is building what it calls America’s first “zero-energy” superstore. Located in Evanston, Illinois,, just 20 miles from its corporate headquarters, the store will use more than 800 solar panels, two wind turbines, and geothermal energy to power its superstore. ...
Walgreens pharmacy to build America's first zero-energy superstore

New EMBRACE+ provides wireless smartphone notifications using flashing light, color, vibration on wrist-worn bracelet

EMBRACE+ is anxious to get to market and we’re itching to get our hands on one. EMBRACE+ provides customizable notifications for incoming calls, texts, email, calendar alerts, alarm and timer, social media apps (Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, LinkedIn, Skype) and more via lights in a...
New EMBRACE+ provides wireless smartphone notifications using flashing light, color, vibration on wrist-worn bracelet

Long live the X Window display server! Except on Ubuntu Linux where it is being tossed out and replaced...

After three decades of life, Unix’s X Window display server is showing its age and Ubuntu Linux creators have decided enough is enough. In order to power the Unity user interface in Ubuntu on tablets and phones, Canonical says that the 1980’s-era X Windows display server has to go and in...
Long live the X Window display server! Except on Ubuntu Linux where it is being tossed out and replaced...

China's ghost cities - Chinese find out the hard way that "if you build it they will come" does not always apply

One of the hottest economies in the world belongs to the Chinese and within their economy, one of the hottest markets is real estate. Or so they thought. Chinese commercial developers have built miles and miles of commercial and residential properties that have gone unused and remain vacant in...
China's ghost cities - Chinese find out the hard way that "if you build it they will come" does not always apply