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Submission + - Unprecedented DDOS attack at Swedish government, media outlets (www.dn.se)

Submitted by Flu on Sunday March 20, 2016 @05:50AM

Flu writes: Yesterday, at 19:30 CET, an unprecedented DDOS attack shut down both Swedish government sites and all major news outlets, including www.aftonbladet.se, www.expressen.se, www.svd.se, www.dn.se, www.di.se and others.

The attack was announced in advanced in a tweet stating "The following days attacks against the Swedish government and media spreading false propaganda will be targeted".

A large amount of traffic was detected from Russia.

Tension between Russia and Sweden has slowly but steadily intensified during the latest years, causing Swedish relocation of military forces to strategic location and increased cooperation with NATO.

Submission + - Google Earth beaten by autorendering from photos (nyteknik.se)

Submitted by Flu on Saturday June 07, 2008 @04:05PM

Flu writes: Sweden's major engineer newspaper NyTeknik writes about a new technology which is used to automatically convert 60.000 aerial photographs of Stockholm, Sweden, into a 3d-world, similar to Google Earth's rendering of major buildings in some US citites.

But unlike Google's laser-measured rendering, this technique took less than 8 days (including the photography) to automatically generate the 3D-model of Stockholm — which includes every building and details as high as individual trees!

The program was developed by C3, a subsidiary of the Swedish defense industry company SAAB together with a PC gaming company called Agency 9.

The complete article is available at http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/it_telekom/allmant/article361352.ece (sorry, swedish only), but the 3D-rendering of Stockholm is available as a Java-Appled from the swedish phone-dictionary service Hitta.se at http://www.hitta.se/3d/3d_splash.aspx (tick the checkbox — it's an ordinary disclaimer, and click "Till 3D-kartan").

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