Pro-Iran group turns Ubuntu DDoS into shakedown • The Register

Canonical says its web infrastructure is under attack after a pro-Iran hacktivist group instructed its members to target the open source giant. “I can confirm that Canonical’s web infrastructure is under a sustained, cross-border Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack” a Canonical spokesperson told The Register.  “Our teams are working to restore full availability to…

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Jason Collins, NBA’s first out gay player, dies at 47

Jason Collins, the NBA’s first openly gay player who went on to become a pioneer for inclusion and an ambassador for the league, has died after an eight-month battle with an aggressive form of a brain tumor, his family announced Tuesday. Collins, who starred at Stanford and Harvard-Westlake High, where he helped the Wolverines win…

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The Movement: GOP’s tax cut push overshadowed by Iran war, tariffs

Republican attempts to flaunt the benefits of the tax cuts they passed last year are being overshadowed by President Trump’s foreign entanglements and tariffs, and the economic uncertainty that comes with it. “War’s expensive, government’s expensive, and there’s a challenge,” Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, said last week in a Tax Day…

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