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Category: Culture

TIME’s Machine of the Year: How Personal Computer Changed Society

TIME magazine's selection of a "Person of the Year" is a tradition dating back to 1927, when the award was given to Charles Lindbergh after his historic solo crossing of...
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The Birth of World Wide Web: How Tim Berners-Lee Created the First Website

There you have it! On December 20, 1990, something epochal happened at CERN in Geneva. Tim Berners-Lee , a British computer genius, created the first website in history, info.cern.ch ,...
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Whoever took down Cloudflare during the outage put their infrastructure at risk

A major outage in Cloudflare's infrastructure has unexpectedly tested the robustness of the cloud and its security systems for many businesses. On November 18, service outages caused websites around the...
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The phenomenon of polarization on the internet: Hikikomori

Many still maintain that hikikomori is an exclusively Japanese phenomenon. Yet, scientifically, numerous studies now confirm the existence of cases similar in characteristics to Japanese hikikomori in Spain, France, Italy,...
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The History of GPS: The History of Satellite Navigation

It's amazing how far we've come with satellite navigation in the last 40 years. GPS (Global Positioning System) is one of the most useful things to have ever come out...
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16 Years of Go: An Innovative and Scalable Programming Language

In November 2025, the Go programming language turned 16 years old. It was released publicly on November 10, 2009 , as a Google experiment to create a simple and fast...
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Quishing: What it is, how it works, and how to protect yourself

Quishing is an emerging form of cyberattack that combines traditional phishing with the use of QR codes , tools now familiar to many. The term " quishing " is a...
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The Most Famous Hackers: The Story of Kevin Mitnick, AKA the Condor

Kevin Mitnick (code name Condor) is perhaps the most famous hacker of all time. He is an American hacker, IT security consultant, ethical hacking expert, public speaker, and writer. He...
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The dark web isn’t selling your data. You’re the one putting it up for sale every day!

Unfortunately, personal data is a highly attractive and valuable market for cybercriminals, for reasons that are not at all difficult to imagine . We're not just talking about scams or...
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New Penetration Testing Methods: Adversary Emulation and the Importance of a Non-Technological Approach to Corporate Security

In the ever-evolving digital world, cybersecurity threats are becoming increasingly sophisticated and pervasive. Companies in every industry face a growing challenge in protecting their sensitive data and customer information. In...
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