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Called distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attacks, these were massive floods of junk internet data designed to knock websites offline by overwhelming the data pipes that connected them.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Called Nebula PMR 1, the object has a striking appearance that resembles a brain inside a transparent skull, which is why it has been nicknamed the "Exposed Cranium" nebula.

From Science Daily • Mar. 17, 2026

Called the Ballerettes, the team has several high school athletes from Southern California.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2026

Called Claude Cowork, it includes prewritten prompts for different use cases like basic legal work, which amplified the noise around agents, causing the iShares software ETF to decline 5% that day.

From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026

Called "On the Constitutions of Atoms and Molecules," the paper explained how electrons could keep from falling into the nucleus by suggesting that they could occupy only certain well-defined orbits.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson