Month: March 2021
Malicious DNS requests flooded the web last year Internet
Of the 109bn DNS queries the content deliver network (CDN) provider Akamai handled last year, 21.5m were malicious as cybercriminals leveraged the disruption caused by the pandemic to launch additional cyberattacks. These findings come from the latest edition of the firm’s annual State of the Internet report titled “Adapting to…
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Extra Crunch roundup: Coupang and Roblox debut, driving GPT-3 adoption, startup how-tos, more
Extra Crunch publishes a variety of article types, but how-tos are my favorite category. For many entrepreneurs, the startup they are trying to get off the ground might be only the second entry on their resume. As a result, they don’t have much experience to draw from when it comes…
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Daily Crunch: Marco Rubio sides with Amazon workers
A prominent Republican senator weighs in on Amazon’s labor disputes, Microsoft reports a security vulnerability in Exchange and we examine ByteDance’s gaming strategy. This is your Daily Crunch for March 12, 2021. The big story: Marco Rubio sides with Amazon workers Senator Marco Rubio published an op-ed in USA Today…
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‘Halo Infinite’ will allow you to push enemies off the game’s ring
When Halo Infinite comes out later this year, it will allow you to do something you’ve not been to do in any previous game in the series: push enemies off the edge of the Halo ring itself. The tidbit of information came from the latest community Q&am… Source
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Facebook abandons plans for undersea web cable to Hong Kong Undersea Cable
Facebook has abandoned its plans to lay more than 8,000 miles of fiber-optic cable between California and Hong Kong following pressure from US national security officials. First reported by the Wall Street Journal, the social media giant’s Hong Kong-Americas (HKA) project would have provided companies with greater bandwidth to a…
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Why game developers can’t get a handle on doors
The best kind of door in a video game is the one no one remembers. Sure, everyone can appreciate a big, beautiful door with great animations, says Owlchemy Labs developer Pete Galbraith. But in a video game, doors are often synonymous with a massive design headache. Forgettable means a developer…
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