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Google is desperate for us to forget the simple joy of the original internet: Links
We have to go back.
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Cloudflare says DDoS attacks have multiplied to 1.7x last year's count and at points there's been about one attempt every second
News That must be quite a few packets of data.
TIL the Wayback Machine saves 150,000 gigabytes of webpages every day and lives in a church in San Francisco
News Currently, one copy of the Internet Archive is 175 petabytes of web history and counting.
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For 33 years, a 'true story' about the 'resonant frequency of a chicken's skull cavity' written in an MS-DOS help file has fueled an urban legend that a certain sound wavelength will make chicken heads explode
News Borland C++ Turbo, you've got some explaining to do.
'We cloned Gmail, except you're logged in as Epstein and can see his emails' is the most impressively cursed tech project of the year
News Way better than combing through a bunch of PDFs.
The internet as we know it emerged out of the Protocol Wars, which is as nerdy as it sounds but also somehow involved the Pentagon
News Is this the nerdiest war to ever be fought?
Cloudflare apologises for 'the pain we caused the Internet' and admits a file size error brought down large parts of the web yesterday, not a malicious cyberattack
News A teeny, tiny bug turned into a major internet outage.
Cloudflare goes down, but a fix is in and ChatGPT and X are back online again
Live This is just weeks after the AWS outage.
'They just really didn't think anyone would look up': Researchers snooped on unencrypted satellite data with basic equipment, finding private calls, text messages, and even military communications
News 'They assumed that no one was ever going to check and scan all these satellites and see what was out there. That was their method of security.'
