December 2018 – Books by Marilyn Wolf

Malware Attack Against Newspaper Printing

NBC News reports here on a malware attack against Tribune Publishing that affected newspaper printing across the country.

911 Outage

NBC News reports here on a service outage at CenturyLink that has prevented some customers from calling 911 emergency services.

Doom + Roomba = DOOMBA

Extremetech reports here on DOOMBA, a utility that converts Roomba floor maps into Doom dungeon maps.

Transformer Explosion in New York City

CNN reports here on a transformer explosion at a Queens, New York City ConEd power plant.

Fiftieth Anniversary of Apollo 8 at the Moon

Christmas Eve 2018 marks the 50th anniversary of Apollo 8—humankind’s first visit to a celestial body. It is also the 50th anniversary of Apollo 8’s Christmas Eve broadcast from the moon, watched by over one billion people. NASA remembers Apollo 8 here. Their mission also confirmed, in the words of Jim Lovell, “Roger, please be informed there is a Santa Claus.”