Internet

DDoS attack scheme

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An attack initially targeted to hit Spamhaus, an organization that maintains a list of spammers to filter to block the many junk e-mail that everyone receive with great annoyance, escalated in recent days and turned into a real online battle that slowed Internet in various parts of the world.

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Almost a year after Facebook’s IPO, that happened in May 2012, the consequences of its debacle are yet to be assessed. Among the reasons for the collapse in the value of the social network’s shares there were technical problems with the Nasdaq platform. Yesterday, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) – the authority which oversees the American Stock Exchange – announced that it approved a $62 million plan to compensate the investors affected by those problems.

Kristen Bell on the Veronica Mars set

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The fund raising for the production of a “Veronica Mars” moive through the crowd-funding site Kickstarter started on March 13, 2013 with the goal of reaching $2 millions. The success was extraordinary and that figure was exceeded in less than 24 hours. Right now the amount raised is $3,837,584 and there’s time until April 12, 2013 to donate at least $10 to the project.

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The story of the videogame SimCity, the latest version of the successful series with the same name, which was to revive a glorious name in the field of videogames, has instead become synonymous with failure. The big problems suffered by players in the early days that followed the launch of the new Simcity showed that Maxis, a subsidiary of Electronic Arts that developed it, made various mistakes.