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China's Man-on-the-Side Attack on GitHub - NETRESEC Blog

On March 27 The following message was posted on the official GitHub blog: We are currently experiencing the largest DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack in github.com's history. The attack began around 2AM UTC on Thursday, March 26, and involves a wide combination of attack vectors. These inc…

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How I doubled my Internet speed with OpenWRT

How I doubled my Internet speed with OpenWRT Mike Solomon OpenWRT is a powerful Linux distribution for embedded devices, such as my router, and this is the story of how I used it to double my bandwidth at no extra cost to myself. How? By doubling the number of Internet connections I have. My setup M…

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TPP leak: states give companies the right to repeal nations' laws

A new Wikileaks-published leak from the secretive Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) treaty reveals a January 2015 draft "Investment Chapter" of the agreement, where the investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) mechanisms are set out. They allow companies to repeal nations' environmental, health and la…

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The man who proved Stephen Hawking wrong

He grew up in grinding poverty and was forever in trouble at school. So how did Leonard Susskind become one of the world’s greatest physicists?

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Hasnain says:

:The day that Leonard Susskind decided he was not going to follow his father into the family plumbing business, his parents were appalled. “My father was a tough guy,” says Prof Susskind with a chuckle. “He said: ‘What do you want to be: a ballet dancer?’ I said: ‘No, I don’t want to be a ballet dancer, I want to be a physicist.’ He said: ‘You aint going to work in no drugstore.’ I said: ‘No, not a pharmacist, a physicist.’ He said: ‘What’s a physicist?’ I said: ‘Like Einstein.’ That shook him and from that moment he got it. My mother was crying and saying, ‘We’re going to be broke,’ and he just looked at her and said: ‘Shut up – he’s going to be Einstein.’”"

Posted on 2015-03-28T17:24:01+0000

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Super Mario 64 HD

Demonstration project for the Super Character Controller, a recreation of Super Mario 64's first level, Bob-Omb Battlefield. Everything is just as you remember, except some really minor stuff that ...

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Ikea's flat-pack refugee shelter is entering production

Ikea's line of flat-pack refugee shelters are going into production, the Swedish furniture maker announced this week, after being tested among refugee families in Ethiopia, Iraq, and Lebanon. The...

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