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British Library reveals £400,000 plan to rebuild after “catastrophic” ransomware attack

World-famous library is still battling to recover from an incident described as one of the worst in British history.

Now, almost one year after the incident, the world-famous library has revealed details of its £400,000 plan to move forward from the disaster – which left it with a website that still doesn’t have a proper Content Management System (CMS) and forced the ongoing closure of both physical and virtual archives.

August 23, 2024 by Computers IT Security in Libraries Technology

The Strangest Computer Manual Ever Written

In the early 1980s, when the Apple II came out, a company called Franklin made a knock-off version of the same computer. It was a pretty blatant copy, which Apple wasn%u2019t happy about, but the law wasn%u2019t clear yet on whether operating systems could be protected by copyright. Apple eventually sued Franklin, and the court ruled that operating systems could in fact be protected. That put an end to Franklin computers.

It’s dark and funny and unlike anything else

January 3, 2023 by Computers

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