The Daily Nerd (November 5th, 2013)

The Daily Nerd (November 5th, 2013) #

How a grad student trying to build the first botnet brought the Internet to its knees #

On November 3, 1988, 25 years ago this Sunday, people woke up to find the Internet had changed forever. The night before, someone had released a malevolent computer program on the fledgling computer network. By morning, thousands of computers had become clogged with numerous copies of a computer “worm,” a program that spread from computer to computer much like a biological infection.

Emoji and Markdown Everywhere | Trello Blog #

Use Emoji and Markdown into any Trello text box. Not just a fancy feature but avoids to use Google Docs or anything else to add some minimal text notes and not get confused because of formatting avoidance

Bitcoin cashes in as its first ATM opens in Vancouver #

A silver and blue ATM, perched up next to the espresso bar in a trendy Vancouver coffee shop, could launch a new era for the virtual currency bitcoin, offering an almost instant way to exchange the world’s leading virtual money for cash.