If you were wondering whether the www.php.net & downloads.php.net services weren't responding very well in the last 6 hours — thousands of requests/sec to https://www.php.net/'s root.
The server's load was 720, didn't die, but CDN connections to it timed out.
Now there is a caching strategy in place for a selected set of resources.
On December 29th of the previous year Polish energy infrastructure suffered a coordinated cyberattack. According to the recently published report by CERT Polska (English version available at: https://cert.pl/uploads/docs/CERT_Polska_Energy_Sector_Incident_Report_2025.pdf), the perpetuators had been preparing the security breach for months and had one single objective of causing as much damage as possible. The attackers’ communication patterns were found to be characteristic of a malicious activity cluster known as “Static Tundra,” “Berserk Bear,” “Ghost Blizzard,” and “Dragonfly.” As the report notes, “this is the first publicly described destructive activity attributed to this cluster.”
Guillermo Lopez-Rodriguez, Irais Moreno-Lopez, José-Carlos Hernández-Gutiérrez, “Cyberwarfare against Critical Infrastructures: Russia and Iran in the Gray Zone.” At the top of the image the logos of ACIG and NASK can be seen. At the bottom there is a tagline “CyberFriday with ACIG.”
🚦🧊 The traffic lights on our streets and the refrigerators in our kitchens exist thanks to the work of inventors like Garrett Morgan and John Standard.
The #Indianapolis Recorder looks at the history of American #infrastructure that highlights the Black innovators who designed the everyday tools we often take for granted.
Russian drone and missile strikes have left hundreds of thousands of people in Ukraine without heat or electricity in the depths of winter, as engineers struggle to keep up with infrastructure repairs. @ speaks with Ukrainians enduring the harsh conditions.
Walking and #cycling continue to rise across Greater #Manchester as the Bee Network expands, with more than 700 million active travel trips recorded in 2025, up from just over 510 million in 2021. Over 160km of routes now meet Bee Network standards, including more than 20km added last year. New #infrastructure has driven sharp increases in use, with cycle trips up 62% on Chorlton Cycle Way and daily cycling on Oxford Road more than tripling since segregation was introduced. Active travel now accounts for 33% of all trips, supported by growing use of bike hire, particularly e-bikes. Investment is also progressing in School Streets, safer junctions and crossings, and expanded routes, with long-term plans for a 2,700km network. Public backing remains strong, especially for lower speed limits and safer streets, while the report notes continued challenges around safety perceptions and journey quality. https://news.tfgm.com/press-releases/6c3f3834-e7f9-405a-9f92-f472c064877e/walking-and-cycling-surge-across-greater-manchester-as-bee-network-expands
With the US administration banning people from countries participating in the next #WorldCup and threatening to strip hosting rights from cities, #FIFA needs to be challenged on whether it will defend its own rules — or fold to authoritarian pressure. #HumanRights 🧵
Mexico has hosted two World Cups. Canada has modern stadiums and infrastructure in Toronto and Vancouver. Logistically difficult? Yes. Impossible? Absolutely not. 6) #Infrastructure#Hosting
"Shelter!" is an initiative for free public overnight-shelters. I am developing it while studying M.A. #Gestaltung at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts #Bielefeld. There is also a project-website: https://shelter.apgw.de
I like to see many new public shelter-spaces and trekking-places and I want to build shelters together with you, e.g. on public meadows at the edge of cities.
That's also a bit egoistic because I like to experience self-efficacy while building it, and in the best case, make it experiencable for others, too.
Inspiration and motivation is the impressive culture of public fresh air #tourism in #Denmark. There are hundreds of trekking-places for up to two nights, often with wooden shelter-huts. And: You are allowed to place your tent beside of them, if they are already taken...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladys_West
"Before GPS became an everyday utility, it was a hard mathematical problem.
In the 1950s–70s, Gladys West, a mathematician at the U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren, Virginia, worked on one of the most difficult challenges in satellite navigation: accurately modeling the Earth itself.
Modern GPS accuracy depends on:
• Precise satellite ephemerides
• Accurate gravitational field modeling
• Correct Earth reference frames
West’s work directly advanced all three.
Her contributions weren’t widely recognized at the time. In fact, it wasn’t until 2018 that she was inducted into the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Pioneers Hall of Fame—decades after GPS reshaped global navigation, logistics, finance, defense, and mobile computing...
Before GPS could tell us where we are, someone had to define what the Earth actually looks like—mathematically…” #Engineering#GPS#Geodesy#STEM#TechHistory#WomenInTech#DataScience#Infrastructure#WomenInGeoSpatial
H/T Evan Kirstel
photo with caption - Gladys West at her desk, no (!) computer, working on a geodesy problem...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladys_West
"...Hale, an avid city cyclist, has personally painted 14 crosswalks since May, including one at the intersection of South New Hampshire Avenue and 4th Street where a 9-year-old boy was hit and killed.
"I think we want a city that responds to the needs of its people in that sense and prioritizes these things as the way forward," said Hale. "I don't feel L.A. is doing that effectively."..."
Let's see. I'll put our website behind Cloudflare. That'll protect it from being DDoS:ed and nasty bots. While I'm at it, I'll also put my DNS hosting with CF because they say I must. Thus, I cannot edit my DNS records when CF is down.
(Because the "partial CNAME solution" is such a serious problem to handle.)