DDoS attacks cause the Three-Stooges-Syndrome
On Wednesday (28.02.2018) GitHub.com was unavailable from due to a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. The platform was hit by 1,35 terabits per second of traffic […]
Artikel von Stefan Neuner
I want to short the european housing market
Neulich erzählte ein Handwerker, dass er in der Nähe von Ottobrunn (Deutschland) eine Eigentumswohnung erworben hat. Die Wohnung hat 380.000 Euro gekostet. Dafür hat er […]
UBER is not about the money
Uber Technologies Inc. had a painful 2017, but the business managed to grow. Despite a turbulent year for the ride-hailing company, sales were $7.5 billion. […]
There is some kind of backup plan for Apophis, right?
On Friday the 13th of April 2029, an asteroid large enough to fill the Rose Bowl will fly so close to Earth, that it will […]
What do you do, when you wake up to a flipping magnetic field?
Scientists say the Earth’s magnetic field could be about to flip upside down. During the thousand years it will take for this change to complete, […]
Amazon will get you, my pretty, and your insurance, too!
Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase announced on Tuesday that they would form an independent health care company for their employees in the United States. „Hard […]
COMPAS calls it „Pre-Cog Deja Vu“
COMPAS ist ein proprietärer Algorithmus, der auf Basis von 137 Merkmalen eine Wahrscheinlichkeit dafür errechnet, ob ein Straftäter rückfällig werden wird oder nicht… Das Akronym […]
The clone monkeys are alive!
Chinese scientists have cloned monkeys using the same technique that produced Dolly the sheep two decades ago, breaking a technical barrier that could open the […]
The answer to the ultimate question of wealth is 42
42 people hold as much wealth as the 3,7 billion people who make up the poorest half of humanity, according to a new report published […]
Hack the cloud
A cyber attack against a major cloud computing firm could cause as much financial damage as Hurricane Sandy or Hurricane Katrina. Increasing numbers of businesses […]