Several internet companies repelled DDOS attacks on Monday night. Among them are at least three Internet providers Freedom Internet, Tweak and Kabelnoord. Web hosting company TransIP also faced a DDOS attack targeting so-called name servers on Monday. While averting this attack and resolving its consequences, the company was hit by a second, more violent attack Read more about Dutch ISPs and Webhoster TransIP hit by DDOS[…]
Yandex Yandex Yandex, Russia’s multi-hyphenate internet giant, began testing its autonomous cars on Moscow’s icy winter roads over three years ago. The goal was to create a “universal” self-driving vehicle that could safely maneuver around different cities across the globe. Now, Yandex says its trials have been a resounding success. The vehicles recently hit a major Read more about Yandex’s autonomous cars have driven over six million miles in ‘challenging conditions’ in Moscow[…]
An otherwise meaningless game during Monday’s preliminary stage of the $200,000 Magnus Carlsen Invitational left a pair of grandmasters in stitches while thrusting one of chess’s most bizarre and least effective openings into the mainstream. Norway’s Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura of the United States had already qualified for the knockout stage of the competition Read more about Double bongcloud: why grandmasters are playing the worst move in chess[…]