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GoDaddy reveals what caused its massive outage
GoDaddy's internal investigation into the outage suffered by its website and those of 52 million of its customers yesterday found that it was not the result of an external hacker, negating claims by a supposed Anonymous affiliate who took responsibility shortly after the sites went offline. Read More


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Shot from the International Space Station on the morning of September 11, 2001. Here a smoke plume rises from the Manhattan area after two planes crashed into the towers of the World Trade Center. Read More

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