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Cloudflare says DDoS attacks have multiplied to 1.7x last year’s count and at points there’s been about one attempt every second

If you thought the AI industry deals with big numbers—millions of tokens, giga-zigga-exa-flexa-FLOPs (a very real metric, I tell you)—wait until you hear about the internet. That thing has been taking an absolute beating over the last year. We’ve seen very visible effects of this with various memorable outages, but now we’ve also got some…

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Monkey Island Creator Ron Gilbert Cancelled His Pixelated Zelda-Esque RPG Because Old-School Zelda “Isn’t The Big, Hot Item”

“The deals they were offering just made absolutely no sense to me to go do this”. When Ron Gilbert revealed his upcoming rogue-like RPG Death By Scrolling at Gamescom Opening Night Live earlier this year, we have to say we were a little confused. Prior to the announcement, the Monkey Island creator had previously teased…

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