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10-year-old girl climbs Yosemite's El Capitan – and she may have made history in the process

Schneiter climbed Yosemite National Park's iconic El Capitan, a challenging 3,000-foot cliff, and she may be the youngest person ... in the Middle East is the last thing we need" Biden said. Daniel ... read more

What the East Coast Internet Shut Down Really Means

The Internet of Things era is already here. It could take down our cities if we let it ... without much policy work or consensus about what values they’re trying to serve. That’s not to say that it ... read more

Russia Is Planning to Unplug From the Internet. Here's Why.

The Web's history is one of competing governments attempting to extend their ideology and interests through technology. "The mistaken notion that the Internet ... person in charge of this project nor ... read more

Golden Animals in Manland: The Strange Place Queer Women Occupy in Bushwork

One without the modern comforts of cell phones, running water, internet, grocery stores ... were being sexist or misogynistic. When someone called another man a “faggot” or a “pussy,” I told them to ... read more

Hackers cripple US internet in wide-scale cyber attack

"First targeting the East Coast of the United States ... It was just disruptive, so some people are theorising that someone is trying to figure out how to shut down the internet." WikiLeaks, a whistle ... read more

Hackers take credit for cyberattack that shut down sites like Twitter and Reddit as officials probe for answers

The massive disruption, mostly along the East Coast, was the result ... We ask supporters to stop taking down the US internet. You proved your point. pic.twitter.com/XVch196xyL In a widely shared ... read more

The return of internet nationalism

The Web's history is one of competing governments attempting to extend their ideology and interests through technology. "The mistaken notion that the internet ... person in charge of this project, nor ... read more

The ambitious plan to reinvent how websites get their names

But unlike previous efforts, Handshake isn’t trying to replace DNS but work with ... Since the government controls the internet service providers, it can easily use the DNS to shut down websites it ... read more

Cloudflare’s Five-Year Project to Protect Nonprofits Online

In May 2018, the Middle East-focused free speech and information access group Majal suffered a major cyberattack. Someone had managed to infiltrate ... "We used to think maybe we should just shut down ... read more

Is climate change really driving the ratpocalypse?

“It really has been enough to shut down multiple research studies ... The brown rat, the one most commonly found on the East Coast, can give birth to as many as six litters a year, with 12 ... read more

Florida city pays $600,000 to hackers who seized its computer system

"Phishing emails often appear as though they have been sent from a legitimate organization or someone known ... war in the Middle East is the last thing we need" Biden said. Daniel Kestner is facing a ... read more

Here's how 1 Metairie man helped break the Internet in a massive 2016 cybersecurity attack

Remember in 2016 when the Internet basically shut down for the day? It happened in September ... Entire websites based on the East Coast were more or less shuttered as the tech company Dyn was hit ... read more