Service of some major internet sites was disrupted for several hours on Friday morning as internet infrastructure provider Dyn said it was hit by a cyber attack that disrupted traffic mainly on the U.S. East Coast.

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Submitted on October 21st 2016 by jcscher with 2 comments and with 2 Related Links:

1. This Is Why Half the Internet Shut Down Today [Update: It’s Getting Worse] Added by gladsdotter on October 21st 2016.

2. Hackers Used New Weapons to Disrupt Major Websites Across U.S. Added by gladsdotter on October 22nd 2016.

Internal Endace documents reveal the firm’s key role helping governments harvest vast amounts of data on private emails, chats, and browsing histories. By Ryan Gallagher, Nicky Hager.

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Submitted on October 24th 2016 by AdelleChattre

If you're still holding onto your Galaxy Note 7 for whatever reason, you'll no longer be allowed to be a passenger of Amtrak trains...

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Submitted on October 21st 2016 by lostwonder with 4 comments

Kevin Marks: "I thought my eyesight was beginning to go. It turns out, I’m suffering from design."

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Submitted on October 19th 2016 by gladsdotter with 2 comments

What John Podesta’s emails from 2008 reveal about the way power works in the Democratic Party. By David Dayen.

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Submitted on October 21st 2016 by AdelleChattre with 1 comments

Beginning in the 1970s, Mr. Bunnell rode the early wave of personal computers, establishing one magazine after another, as he also espoused liberal causes.

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Submitted on October 21st 2016 by canuck

Apple has filed a lawsuit against Mobile Star LLC for manufacturing fake Apple chargers and cables and passing them off on Amazon as authentic goods. According to the details of the lawsuit posted by Patently Apple, Cupertino bought and tested over 100 Lightning cables and chargers marked "Fulfilled by Amazon" over the past nine months. The result? Around 90 percent of the chargers were fake. Now, we all know there's an abundance of counterfeit Apple goods out there, but people tend to trust listings sold by Amazon itself.

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Submitted on October 21st 2016 by aj0690

If we don’t speak up now, the days when we can walk around with our heads held high without fear of surveillance are numbered. Federal and local law enforcement across the country are adopting sophisticated facial recognition technologies to identify us on the streets and in social media by matching our faces to massive databases.

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Submitted on October 21st 2016 by everlost with 1 comments

The Memory of Mankind project aims to save our most precious documents from an apocalypse – by burying microscopic engravings in an Austrian salt mine.

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Submitted on October 20th 2016 by gladsdotter

Two new books assess the quality of our digital lives: How do we shake off the village when we carry the world in our pocket?

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Submitted on October 21st 2016 by gladsdotter

The Microsoft Surface tablet is so bad that the best coach in the NFL would rather use paper. By Daniel Roberts.

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Submitted on October 24th 2016 by AdelleChattre with 1 comments

Walt Martin is kneeling, legs folded behind him, butt resting on his heels. “I’ve got to practice my yoga,” he says, clearly joking. Never mind that we’re in the cab of an 18-wheeler cruising through Colorado at 55 mph and Martin was, until a moment ago, the guy at the wheel. Maybe he was feeling cocky. After all the truck, outfitted with $30,000 worth of hardware and software from San Francisco startup Otto, had just hours before made the world’s first autonomous truck delivery.

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Submitted on October 25th 2016 by Nelson

Hackers claim to have breached the site, obtaining databases of millions of users.

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Submitted on October 20th 2016 by alicybersec

European Space Agency says whereabouts of Schiaparelli craft unknown after it deploys parachute before signal goes dead

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Submitted on October 20th 2016 by sjvn with 2 comments

“Showing that they don’t care about me, or caring that I should know they don’t care about me, still denotes dependence... They show me respect precisely by showing me that they don’t respect me.” By Maria Popova.

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Submitted on October 25th 2016 by AdelleChattre

WASHINGTON: If you want a glimpse of future war, look back a hundred years to the bloody stalemate of the Somme, the cataclysmic battle of World War I.

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Submitted on October 24th 2016 by Appaloosa

Samsung apparently doesn't see much humor in a Grand Theft Auto V mod that turns the recalled, hazardous Galaxy Note 7 into an in-game weapon. In fact, the company is trying to erase it from the internet completely. Samsung has issued a DMCA takedown targeting a YouTube video that showcased the mod, which gives the Note 7 explosive, grenade-like capabilities. It was a pretty great way of poking fun at Samsung's ongoing PR crisis — and now the company is responding in a terrible way: ridiculous overreach and misuse of the DMCA tool.

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Submitted on October 20th 2016 by rhingo

Our best bet for combating devastating crown-of-thorns star fish could be a robot called COTSbot. By Victoria Ticha.

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Submitted on October 25th 2016 by AdelleChattre with 1 Related Links:

1. CO2 levels mark ‘new era’ in the world’s changing climate. By Matt McGrath Added by AdelleChattre on October 25th 2016.

You'll never look at a tobacco hornworm the same way again.

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Submitted on October 24th 2016 by Appaloosa

Rifles equipped with AimLock systems are being developed to make our armed forces more deadly. This is among 50 other projects being looked at by the armed forces to increase the capabilities and lethality of soldiers on the ground.

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Submitted on October 26th 2016 by Devang