By Swapnil Bhartiya In October, a DDoS attack on Dyn’s infrastructure took down a big chunk of the internet, making sites like Amazon and Twitter inaccessible. It was the first major attack …read more Source:: OpenSource
Day: December 7, 2016
Cassini beams back first images from new orbit
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•NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has sent to Earth its first views of Saturn’s atmosphere since beginning the latest phase of its mission. The new images show scenes from high above Saturn’s …read more Source:: Science
Diabetes drug slows experimental Parkinson’s disease progression, human trials to begin next year
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•A new investigational drug originally developed for type 2 diabetes is being readied for human clinical trials in search of the world’s first treatment to impede the progression of Parkinson’s …read more Source:: Science
Unique visual stimulation may be new treatment for Alzheimer’s
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•Using LED lights flickering at a specific frequency, researchers have shown that they can significantly reduce the beta amyloid plaques seen in Alzheimer’s disease in the visual cortex of mice. …read more Source:: Science
Most of Greenland ice melted to bedrock in recent geologic past, says study
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•Scientists have found evidence in a chunk of bedrock drilled from nearly two miles below the summit of the Greenland ice sheet that the sheet nearly disappeared for an extended …read more Source:: Science
Cloud convenience is killing the open source database
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•By Matt Asay Open source has never been more important or, ironically, irrelevant. As developers increasingly embrace the cloud to shorten time to market, they’re speeding past open source, making it even …read more Source:: OpenSource