D-Silence

Physicists have taken the first ever image of a Wigner crystal. Hungarian physicist Eugene Wigner first theorized this crystal in 1934, but it’s taken more than eight decades for scientists to finally get a direct look at the “electron ice.” The fascinating first image shows electrons squished together into a tight, repeating pattern — like…

Azure successfully mitigated a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack that peaked at 2.4 Tbps. Dahan shares that the attack traffic originated from approximately 70,000 sources and from multiple countries in the Asia-Pacific region, such as Malaysia, Vietnam, Taiwan, Japan, and China, as well as from the United States. For more, check out this TechRadar/MSN…

Catchy title of this BBC story. “One of the things that we’ve seen in the last several years is an increased reliance on a small number of networks and companies to deliver large portions of Internet content,” says Luke Deryckx, Chief Technical Officer at Down Detector. “When one of those, or more than one, has…

This is crazy – I remember when a 300W power supply was a monster. Later, a 450W power supply was considered standard for a PC. Now comes word of an upcoming 450W graphics card power connector. 450W! Modern graphics cards are getting faster and faster, but they also need more and more energy. The GeForce…

C|Net takes a quick look at the upcoming airless tires. Nails become minor annoyances and sidewall cuts that usually render a tire unrepairable are no longer possible. There would be no need to check tire inflation (you’ve probably ignored my admonitions to do that anyway) and we’d say goodbye to spare tires, jacks and inflation…

Facebook revealed more about what caused 6-hour outage on Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp. The incident occurred when an engineer doing routine maintenance work issued a command “which unintentionally took down all the connections in our backbone network, effectively disconnecting Facebook data centers globally,” Janardhan wrote. For more, check out this USA Today story.

Hmm…let me count the ways this could be a bad idea… The U.S. Department of Defense is taking input on its plan to build an advanced mobile nuclear microreactor prototype at the Idaho National Laboratory in eastern Idaho. For more, check out this IEN story.

Is this the harbinger of the fall of western civilization? I need to come up with a cool, new idea! More than one billion people around the world now use TikTok, according to an announcement Monday from the app. For more, check out this USA Today story.

According to an article on The Verge, Windows 11 won’t stop older PCs, but might make you sign a waiver. But in some ways, the new PC Health Check app is still misleading because it suggests my perfectly good 7th-gen Core i7 desktop gaming PC isn’t ready for Windows 11, despite the fact that I’ve…

And why is this important? More than 800 minor objects have been detected beyond Neptune in a discovery that could help identify our Solar System’s hypothesized planet, known as Planet Nine. For more, check out this Daily Mail/MSN story.