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Largest cyber-attack in history causes global internet slowdown
2013-03-27 21:09:39| Extremetech
If you've noticed that some websites have been slow recently, there's a good reason for that. A huge distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack was launched against spam-fighting organization Spamhaus, and it's being called the biggest cyber-attack in history. With traffic peaking at over 300Gbps, this attack has had repercussions across the world.
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Largest Liberian palm oil project is failing locals: study
2013-03-22 19:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Liberia's largest palm oil company, Golden Veroleum, needs to review its social and environmental policies after its workers damaged graves, cleared existing crops and polluted creeks, according to an independent study it commissioned. The findings from The Forest Trust (TFT), a non-profit environmental consultancy, follow complaints from activists that the Singapore-controlled firm is violating commitments it made as a member of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), a global certification...
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Second Largest Canadian Pork Producer Phasing Out Gestation Stalls
2013-03-22 18:26:00| National Hog Farmer
Meatingplace.com reports that Quebec-based pork processor Olymel will progressively phase out using gestation stalls for pregnant sows in breeding facilities by 2022, according to Humane Society International/Canada. Olymel entered an agreement to acquire Big Sky Farms, Inc., the largest independent hog producer in Western Canada last October. read more
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U.S.-Spain Energy Companies Plan Worlds Largest Solar Towers
2013-03-21 17:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: A U.S.-based company that will soon finish construction of one of the worlds largest solar thermal power plants in the Mojave Desert, is now looking to build an even larger plant in Southern California. BrightSource Energy, which is expected to begin producing up to 370 megawatts of electricity in the Mojave Desert per day from its Mojave plant beginning this summer, last week announced plans to build, in partnership with Spain-based Abengoa Solar, a 500-megawatt plant in Riverside, California....
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Bosch Rexroth opens its largest hydraulics production campus in North America
2013-03-21 05:34:41| Industrial Machines - Topix.net
South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley joins company executives in formal opening of new $80 million site in Fountain Inn, S.C. and executives from Robert Bosch LLC to formally mark the start of production at the company's newly expanded hydraulics manufacturing campus in over five years to expand production in the new campus and convert an existing ... (more)
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