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Hackers Threaten to Release Medical Info of Australian Actors, Politicians, Activists
Hackers say they’ve obtained data from Medibank and have threatened to release the private medical information of high-profile Australians if a ransom isn’t paid. According to a new report from the Sydney Morning Herald, the unknown hackers claim to have 200 gigabytes of data from Medibank (including credit card numbers), following from the private health…
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These Are The Colours That Words Make When Used As Hex Code
Hexadecimal format allows us to instruct a computer to display a colour using three or six characters. For example, #000 will produce black. But how many words can be created in Hex and what colours do they produce? One intrepid programmer has tackled this problem so that we don’t have to.
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Why Does English Have So Many Words That Mean The Same Thing?
Video: It’s because though English is a Germanic language (the grammar and core vocabulary comes from that), there are a lot of words that come from the Romance (Latin-based) languages too, which were leaked into English when French-speaking Normans ruled England. That explains why there are a lot of twin words that mean the same…
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Proof That The English Language Is Crazy And Makes No Sense
English isn’t the hardest language in the world to learn, but it’s definitely a crazy one with wacky rules. Things that apply for some words never seem to be considered for similar ones. Change one letter here and it can sound completely different there but sound the same somewhere else. It’s all pretty ridiculous.