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4chan Has Been DDOSed 710

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday December 28 2010, @09:11AM
from the happens-to-everyone dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to the 4chan status page all of the 4chan boards have been DDOSed and are down."

First Black Holes Born Starving-> 0

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xp65

on Monday August 10 2009, @06:17PM

xp65 writes "A new supercomputer simulation designed to track the fate of the universe's first black holes finds that, counter to expectations, they couldn't efficiently gorge themselves on nearby gas. The findings have implications for understanding the formation of galaxies and of the giant black holes that reside in their centers. The study, which will appear in an upcoming issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters, shows that early black holes had a surprisingly complex role in shaping the universe."
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New Chrome Beta Adds Themes, Speed, & HTML 5 V 0

Submitted by adeelarshad82 on Wednesday August 05 2009, @07:41PM

adeelarshad82 writes "Google developers are always working on and updating the Chrome in three channels--Stable, Beta, and Developer--in increasing positions on the bleeding-edge scale. Today the company thought changes to the Beta channel warranted a post on the main Google Blog. The advances range from the superficial addition of themes for customizing the browser's window borders to even faster speed under the hood to internal support for HTML 5 tags such as and "web workers" which allows the browser to divvy processing work among sub-threads."

HTML5 Canvas Experiment-> 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2009, @05:00PM

An anonymous reader writes "These guys built an impressive demonstration of modern browsers' HTML5 capabilities — from the 9elements blog: "HTML5 is getting a lot of love lately. With the arrival of Firefox 3.5, Safari 4 and the new 3.0 beta of Google Chrome, browsers support some great new features including canvas and the new audio/video tags. [...] We've created a litttle experiment which loads 100 tweets related to HTML5 and displays them using a javascript-based particle engine." Who needs Flash anyway?"
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TechCrunch publishes stolen Twitter documents 0

Submitted by NaijaGuy on Thursday July 16 2009, @03:46AM

NaijaGuy writes "Would you believe that the pioneer microblogging service run by an expectedly computer-savvy startup team uses 'password' as the password for their servers? The BBC just reported this morning that Twitter is seeking legal advice over some stolen documents. Back in the spring, reports surfaced that a French hacker named Hacker Croll broke into the Yahoo Mail account of a Twitter product manager named Jason Goldman and then accessed his Twitter account. This same hacker has apparently accessed a Twitter employee's Google Apps account and sent 310 documents to TechCrunch that reveal financial projections into 2013 as well as plans for a reality TV show called Final Tweet. Twitter's blog mentioned yesterday that this was not so much harmful but merely an embarrassment on par with someone rifling through your underwear drawer. Plenty of readers told TechCrunch they felt the stolen documents should not be published, but TechCrunch responded by saying the info would find its way online elsewhere if they didn't do it, and that it's also not their fault that 'Google has a ridiculously easy way to get access to accounts via their password recovery question.'"