Erlang Solutions: Immersive Esports: The Technology Behind Competitive Gaming
Esports has outgrown local tournaments and now runs on global platforms linking millions of players and fans, powered by immersive esports technology. Communities form around games, teams, and streamers, blending competition, entertainment, and social connection. At this scale, reliability and low latency are non-negotiable to keep matches fair and audiences engaged during spikes.
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Dinosaur fossil rewrites the story of how sauropods got long necks
A 230-million-year-old fossil found in Argentina shows that the evolution of sauropod dinosaurs’ long necks began earlier than previously thought ⌘ Read more
CO2 levels in Earth’s atmosphere jumped by a record amount in 2024
The global average concentration of CO2 surged by 3.5 parts per million to reach 423.9 ppm last year, fuelling worries that the planet’s ability to soak up excess carbon is weakening ⌘ Read more
Analysis of 4.4-million-year-old ankle exposes how earliest ancestors moved and evolved
For more than a century, scientists have been piecing together the puzzle of human evolution, examining fossil evidence to understand the transition from our earliest ancestors to modern humans. ⌘ Read more
GOP spreads increasingly desperate and dangerous lies to shirk blame for their shutdown
Emily Singer, Staff Writer - Daily Kos
_Stephan: Today I listened to one Republican congress member after another claiming that the coming Saturday “No King” rallies are really “Hate America” rallies, and I thought how cowardly do you have to be to say something that dishonest and stupid about rallies that will involve millions of American who actu … ⌘ Read more
Retired Finnish intelligence detective spent tens of millions from lottery winnings to fight Russian espionage | Article in Ukrainian |Yle Novyny ⌘ Read more
Lunduke Journal Grew to Over 11 Million Views in September
While the Big Tech-sponsored “Tech News” appears to be buying “views”. ⌘ Read more
Lunduke Journal Had Over 11 Million Views in September
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Zelensky: If Putin wants to seize eastern Ukraine, he has to bury million of his soldiers ⌘ Read more
Johnson & Johnson ordered to pay $966 million in latest talc cancer case | CNN Business ⌘ Read more
Johnson & Johnson ordered to pay $966 million after jury finds company liable in talc cancer case ⌘ Read more
Russia loses one million tons of fuel in September alone as strikes and sanctions converge ⌘ Read more
Relief for fruit producers as SA declared free from brown rugose virus
More than a year since South Australia’s $230 million tomato and capsicum sector was plunged into turmoil by the first discovery of the tomato brown rugose fruit virus in Australia, the state has been declared free of the exotic disease. ⌘ Read more
Ukraine disables 40% of one of Russia’s largest oil refineries processing 17.5 million tons annually ⌘ Read more
Millions of buildings at risk from sea level rise, analysis finds
Sea level rise could put more than 100 million buildings across the Global South at risk of regular flooding if fossil fuel emissions are not curbed quickly, according to a new McGill-led study published in npj Urban Sustainability. ⌘ Read more
Is Mainstream Tech News Dead?
Millions of “Followers”, but struggle to get a single “Like”? ⌘ Read more
Wineries and distillers not happy about recycling scheme expansion
Producers in Western Australia’s premier wine region say the state government’s expanded bottle recycling scheme is set to cost them millions of dollars. ⌘ Read more
I think I understand now. Americans do not go camping, we do recreational activities. I don’t think campers are a thing here, but RVs (Recreational Vehicles) are. That’s why it would never cross my mind to get anything with fabric, that folds. No mate, we get a house on wheels, with a million miles engine. 🤣
Other than that, it looks nice!
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“AI” coding chatbot funded by Microsoft were Actually Indians
London-based Builder.ai, once valued at $1.5 billion and backed by Microsoft and Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund, has filed for bankruptcy after reports that its “AI-powered” app development platform was actually operated by Indian engineers, said to be around 700 of them, pretending to be artificial intelligence. The startup, which raised over $445 million from investors including Microsoft and the Qatar Investm … ⌘ Read more
Sony’s NEWS UNIX workstations
The first prototype was ready in just six months. By October 1986, the project was announced, and in January 1987, the first NEWS workstation, the NWS 800 series, officially launched. It ran 4.2BSD UNIX and featured a Motorola 68020 CPU. Its performance rivaled that of traditional super minicomputers, but with a dramatically lower price point ranging from ¥950,000 to ¥2.75 million (approximately $6,555 to $18,975 USD in 1987). Competing UNIX workstations typically cost clo … ⌘ Read more
70-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Embryo Found Perfectly Preserved Inside Fossilized Egg in Chinese Museum. ⌘ Read more
Texas Law Now Requires Age Verification for App Stores
In Unrelated News: Nearly 30 Million user accounts leaked in two massive data breaches. ⌘ Read more
10 Unbelievably Bizarre Blunders
Mistakes are a universal part of life. Some are harmless slip-ups we laugh off, others spiral into chaos, triggering consequences we never imagined. A missed keystroke might cost a fortune. A wrong turn could lead to marriage with the wrong bride. A simple distraction might accidentally win someone $10 million. Whether they spark panic, legal […]
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** The Misconfigured Magnet: How Public Buckets Exposed Millions of User Files **
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$1 Million Tax Payer Grant for “Gender Inclusive Open Source”
A cancelled grant, worth a million bucks, for Oregon State University to create “best practices for fixing gender-bias bugs”. ⌘ Read more
Introducing Docker Hardened Images: Secure, Minimal, and Ready for Production
From the start, Docker has focused on enabling developers to build, share, and run software efficiently and securely. Today, Docker Hub powers software delivery at a global scale, with over 14 million images and more than 11 billion pulls each month. That scale gives us a unique vantage point into how modern software is built… ⌘ Read more
Millions of Records Exposed via SQL Injection in a Tamil Nadu Government Portal ⌘ Read more
Coinbase Hacker Demands $20 Million Dollar Ransom
In filing, Coinbase says damages may be upward of $400 Million. ⌘ Read more
E-COM: the $40 million USPS project to send email on paper
How do you get email to the folks without computers? What if the Post Office printed out email, stamped it, dropped it in folks’ mailboxes along with the rest of their mail, and saved the USPS once and for all? And so in 1982 E-COM was born—and, inadvertently, helped coin the term “e-mail.” ↫ Justin Duke The implementation of E-COM was awesome. You’d enter the messages on your computer, send it to the post office usi … ⌘ Read more
The Human Firewall: Why Your Employees Are Both Your Greatest Vulnerability and Asset
In the high-stakes world of cybersecurity, organizations invest millions in sophisticated technologic … ⌘ Read more
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This Simple Domain Hack Is Fooling Millions: Don’t Be Next!
Cybercriminals are using lookalike URLs powered by Punycode to mimic trusted sites and steal your data.
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EU fines TikTok token amount of €530 million for gross privacy violations
A European Union privacy watchdog fined TikTok 530 million euros ($600 million) on Friday after a four-year investigation found that the video sharing app’s data transfers to China put users at risk of spying, in breach of strict EU data privacy rules. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission also sanctioned TikTok for not being transparent with users about where their personal data was be … ⌘ Read more
Apple fined for €500 million by EC, Facebook for €200 million
The European Commission has levied fines against both Apple and Facebook for violating the Digital Markets Act. Apple has to pay a €500 million fine, and Facebook a €200 million fine. Apple is breaking EU law by not allowing application developers to inform users of other offers outside the App Store. The Commission found that Apple fails to comply with this obligation. Due to a number of restrictions imposed … ⌘ Read more
Mozilla Accuses Trump of Political Interference with Their “Movement”
The makers of Firefox, which recently re-branded as a “Global Crew of Activists” focused on Marxism & “LGBT Climate Change using Al”, confirms loss of $3.55 Million of Tax Payer funding. ⌘ Read more
10 Rare & Interesting Versions of Common Animals
The animal kingdom is never short on variety, with over 1.5 million living animal species in existence today. And yet, our interests tend to focus on a common few—the black bear, the ring-tailed lemur, the gray wolf. But for every common species, there is an equally uncommon and interesting variation that hardly anyone pays attention […]
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4Chan Hack Reveals University Professor Moderators, 10 Million Bans, 10 Year Old Software
Hack of 4Chan was carried out by users of a competing image message board which published 4Chan source code, staff emails, & more. ⌘ Read more
Number of Accounts Exposed in Hacks Now Nearly 2X Earths Population
Over 3 Million accounts were exposed this last week alone. ⌘ Read more
$70M in 60 Seconds: How Insider Info Helped Someone 28x Their Money
Article URL: https://data-and-politics.ghost.io/70-million-in-60-seconds-how-insider-information-helped-someone-28x-their-money/
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Banana growers scramble to rescue cyclone-damaged fruit
An estimated 1.6 million kilograms of bananas have been damaged or destroyed in NSW because of ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred. ⌘ Read more
AWS Support Fuels Kubernetes Innovation, Driving Global Adoption and Open Source Sustainability
AWS extends $3 million cloud credit grant to Kubernetes project, ensuring continued growth and resilience KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe, London, UK – April 1, 2025 — The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems… ⌘ Read more
10 Logistical Secrets Behind the World’s Most Massive Events
From the Olympics to royal funerals to music festivals that transform entire landscapes, some events push human coordination to its limits. But behind the public spectacle lies a world of strategic planning, military-grade operations, and bizarre contingency protocols. These events aren’t just big—they’re logistical marvels, requiring teams to manage millions of people, thousands of moving […]
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10 Worst Movies by Great Directors
While the days of movies serving as a cultural monolith are long gone, there are still names out there that demand as much as hundreds of millions of dollars in investment from companies and demand from audience members many hours in driving to theaters, watching ads, reading or writing essays devoted to their work. Whether […]
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Help The Lunduke Journal Fight Against The Tech Goliaths
Mozilla, The Linux Foundation, & other corrupt, Woke “Open Source” organizations have received hundreds of millions in donations. ⌘ Read more
Winemaker says crop destroyed by hazard reduction burn
Smoke from a hazard reduction burn in the NSW Southern Highlands allegedly destroys millions of dollars worth of wine grapes, leaving any wine produced tasting “like an ashtray”. ⌘ Read more
Help The Lunduke Journal fight against the Tech Goliaths
The corrupt Tech Foundations of the world — WikiMedia, The Linux Foundation, Mozilla, and the rest — have received hundreds of Millions of dollars in donations. ⌘ Read more
10 Video Games That Were Scrapped Close to Completion
Remarkably, the world of video game development is often fraught with unpredictability, where immense effort and staggering amounts of money—sometimes tallying up to millions—can be poured into a project, only to see it abandoned before reaching the finish line. This phenomenon is not only bewildering but also disheartening as developers walk away from near-completed projects, […]
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