Why Privacy Matters: Discord Data Breach
In a recent incident that underscores the critical importance of privacy in the digital age, Discord has confirmed that user data was leaked after an attack on one of its…
Linux Kernel 6.18 now Better agains’t DDoS Attacks
In a significant stride towards bolstering server resilience against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, a set of patches has been merged into the Linux kernel version 6.18. These patches…
Windows 10 is dead: 50 reason to move to Linux
Windows 10 is dead. Microsoft won't be updating it anymore, other than security patches for a small while, and so it's recommended that everyone move away from it. However, where…
The entire U.S. economy depends on A.I.
NVidia, Microsoft, Google, Meta, OpenAI and Amazon: what do all of these companies have in common? They all invest hundreds of billions of dollars in A.I. every year. They all…
Delta Project – How Egypt is Flooding the Desert
A sweeping push is remapping Egypt’s desert. Huge green circles, new canals and fast-moving construction have turned satellite images green. The change is part of a government program called the…
Researchers Selected for ALMA Radiotelescope study Blackhole
A team of Brazilian researchers has been chosen to conduct observations using the most expensive and highest-resolution ground-based telescope for millimeter waves ever built: the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA),…
Harvard Researchers Achieve Major Breakthrough in Quantum Computing
In a significant leap forward for quantum computing, researchers from Harvard University have unveiled a groundbreaking system boasting over 3,000 qubits, capable of continuous operation for more than two hours…
The Current State of Brazil – 2025
World wide, much is talked about Europe, Canada, United States, Russia and China, specially nowadays. But the international community, for the most part, barely hears about Brazil, the giant of…
PostgreSQL 18 released with major I/O and performance overhauls
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group today released PostgreSQL 18.0, the annual major feature release for the widely used open-source SQL database. This release focuses on I/O and query performance while…
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Is NordVPN Worth it?
Short answer: yes — for most people.Longer answer: it depends on what you need and how much you want to pay. Below I’ll walk through the facts, the good, the…