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The Strange Story of the Teens Behind the Mirai Botnet

Cars That Think

The VDoS gang members had been only 14 years old when they started to offer DDoS services from Israel in 2012. One day in February 2000, for example, the hacker MafiaBoy knocked out Fifa.com , Amazon.com , Dell , E-Trade , eBay , CNN , as well as Yahoo , at the time the largest search engine on the Internet.

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BMW Group launches high performance D3 platform: data-driven development for autonomous driving

Green Car Congress

The reprocessing of the two million real-life kilometers and 240 million virtual kilometers requires a high performance data platform of more than 230 petabytes storage capacity and the computing power of more than 100,000 cores and more than 200 GPUs (Graphics Processing Units). The net useable data rate is approx. autonomous—driving.

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