The Norwegian sovereign wealth fund (the largest fund of its kind in the world) was hit in the Solarwinds hack. dn.no/teknologi/olje…
"The 11179 billion NOK fund downloaded a compromised version of the Solarwinds Orion platform and installed it in July 2020, In December, they realized that it had installed a compromised version of the Solarwinds software."
11179 billion NOK...let's convert that to euros.
1093268750350 €. Hmm. That doesn't really help. Is that a million million euros?
They own 1.4% of all stocks in the world. Cool.
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The Finnish national Covid-19 contact tracing mobile app (by the @THLorg agency) has now been out for a month. Some notes:
The app has been downloaded 2.2 million time so far (Finland has 5.5 million people). We’ve had 1800 confirmed infected persons during this time. Of those, 600 persons were users of the app, and used the app to warn their potential contacts.
One of the people who received an exposure notification via the app was our prime minister. She quarantined, and tested healthy later.
«We’ve extracted text data from tens of thousands of PDF documents. In the process, we have seen how every single assumption we had about how PDF files are structured was proven incorrect»
Having .com as the most popular top-level domain is not surprising, but some of the runner-ups are. How often do you visit an .icu domain? Or .ga or .cf or .ml?
These seem to be the least popular of the new top-level domains. I don't think any of them have made their investment back. TLDs with number of active domains: