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Month: October 2016

The PC Market is Getting Smaller and Better

A note to lead this off: Unless otherwise noted, I refer to laptops/notebooks and desktops as PCs regardless of whether they run MacOS or Windows. So when you see “PC” here it will be making a distinction between gadgets like phones and tablets, and non-mobile and less mobile devices. October 29, 2016. This week the […]

A Note to the Non-Existent Readers of This Site

To anyone who stumbles across this site, an obvious question would be “Why does this exist?” The purpose of this site is primarily to give me an outlet and an impetus to regularly write. I chose to write about technology since it interests me and is a broad field with many products, plots, and players. It […]

2016-10-24 – Large Internet Outage Caused by IoT Botnet Attack

On Friday, October 10th, 2016, cyber attacks on an extremely large scale targeted a deep level Internet infrastructure providing company called Dyn. The attacks resulted in many internet traffic problems, especially on the East Coast, and resulted in a large number of prominent sites and services being down entirely. Visa, PayPal, Reddit, and Amazon were […]