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Thursday, June 16, 2022

Recalled 'Egg Chair' Broke Ribs, Collapsed a Lung



A hanging egg chair sold at Marshalls, T.J. Maxx, HomeGoods and HomeSense has been recalled by the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission after 19 reports of injuries from people falling. Attention Marshalls, T.J.

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Cloudflare mitigated the most powerful HTTPS DDoS attack ever recorded



What just happened? Cloudflare recently detected and mitigated what it is calling the largest HTTPS DDoS attack on record.

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Yellowstone Wrecked by 'Thousand-Year' Floods



Yellowstone National Park is currently closed to all visitors and Montana has declared a statewide disaster because of historic, widespread flooding.

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US Army Deploys First Floating Solar Array



The system sits atop the surface of North Carolina’s Big Muddy Lake, where it will generate clean energy for Fort Bragg. At 1.1 megawatts, it’s the biggest floating solar array in the Southeast United States.

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The Facebook Papers: How Meta Failed to Fight Against American Climate Denial



This piece is part of Gizmodo’s ongoing effort to make the Facebook Papers available to the public. See the full directory of documents here. The summer of 2020 proved to be a boiling point for Facebook on climate change.

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The Facebook Papers: How Meta Failed to Fight Against American Climate Denial



This piece is part of Gizmodo’s ongoing effort to make the Facebook Papers available to the public. See the full directory of documents here. Read more...

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Monday, June 13, 2022

Low-cost Astra rocket suffers upper stage failure, two NASA satellites lost



California-based Astra on Sunday launched two shoebox-size NASA satellites from Cape Canaveral in a modest mission to improve hurricane forecasts, but the second stage of the company's low-cost booster malfunctioned before reaching orbit and the payloads were lost.

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Thursday, June 9, 2022

How Hackers Stole Personal Data Of 2 Million Americans From Shields Health Care



Personal information is also valuable information, as personal data in the wrong hands can empower cybercriminals to commit identity theft and fraud.

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