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Over the past couple of months, we’ve been hearing about an increased number of public DDoS  attacks where The Pirate Bay, Reddit and even iMessage users became victims of these attacks. Considering these attacks against a number of popular websites and services have been popping up, we think its best to educate you to what exactly happens when a DDoS attack occurs, and lucky for us, VideoLAN recorded such an attack.

VideoLAN, who are known to be the creators of VLC, suffered a DDoS attack on April 23, which they took a record of to show exactly what happens when a DDoS attack is initiated. The colored balls are requests that are being sent to the server and the small paddle is a representation of the server trying to keep up with these requests, with balls don’t get hit resulting in a 404 error. (more…)

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When Pinterest unveiled its big redesign last month, it took the sort of gamble on feature trade-offs that we’ve seen before: some big leaps forward at the expense of a few leaps back. Much to the relief of many, the company is already doing what it can to restore what was lost while still forging ahead. Veteran users can once again see pins they’ve just posted, mention friends and find would-be contacts on Facebook on Twitter. As for the less nostalgic among us? The progress isn’t as dramatic, but it’s there: Pinterest has reworked notifications to show their history, and searches now include as-you-type keyword suggestions. More updates are on the way, including notifications for new pins, so we wouldn’t worry that Pinterest is spending most of its time mending broken fences.

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Yahoo is an internet company probably best known for their search engine services, emails, stock updates, weather updates and more. It is not uncommon for companies to venture outside their core competency, but it looks like Yahoo could be taking a larger detour than expected. It seems that as far as Yahoo Japan is concerned, the company will be launching a drink under the Yahoo Japan branding. We’re not sure how this drink will taste like, but considering that Japan is pretty open when it comes to trying out new flavors and combinations, we expect this Yahoo drink to be welcome with open arms.

The drink will apparently be a thirst quencher, along the lines of Gatorade or Pocari Sweat, just to name a few. The drink will also help Yahoo promote their newly launched web services, such as weather, disasters and a revamped travel section, with the icons of the services being printed on the bottle’s wrapper. There will also be a contest that Yahoo Japan will be running in which customers will stand a chance to win travel packages, digital cameras amongst other prizes. So, anyone interested in a Yahoo thirst quencher?

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A couple of weeks back we reported that The Pirate Bay had been kicked out of Greenland after merely two days. Tele-Post, a telecom company which monitors .GK registrations in Greenland, said that it blocked two Pirate Bay domain names because it fears they will be put to illegal use. The world’s number 1 file sharing website has now found a new home in Iceland, and has switched to the .IS domain. The Icelandic registry, ISNIC, has said that they are not responsible for a registrant’s use of their domains and that they will not take any action against the .IS domain names of The Pirate Bay, unless a court order compels them. They say it is the domain’s owners responsibility to adhere to the law, not theirs.

Even if a court order takes away these domains, the website will move everything to another domain, they have already said that they possess a handful of domain names which will be used to access the website even if its primary domains are blocked. So for a while, The Pirate Bay is going to be using the .IS domain.

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Google announced today that it is releasing a string of new social features for Google Drive which will make it even easier to work together in Drive. These features consist of one-click group chat and new profile pictures. Instead of just displaying names of other viewers, whenever a user now opens a file in Drive they’ll see profile pictures, which will make it easier to know who else is viewing the file in just a single glance.

More details about each viewer can be obtained by just hovering over the profile picture, they can also be added to Google+ from within Drive itself. Users who don’t have profile photos can select from a number of animal drawings, which includes an alligator and a monkey. Group chats can now be started in Google Drive in just a single click. At the top right there is a new chat button, clicking on it will open up a chat box from where everyone in the file can be messaged. Google says that these new features will be rolled out over the next couple of days.

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