It sounds almost like the opening scene of a cyber-thriller: a series of quiet, precision strikes on data centers in the dead of night, followed by a sudden, unexplained silence across vast stretches of the internet. But this was real, and it happened in October. Ukrainian drones reportedly struck three Yandex data centers in different parts of Russia, and the effects were immediate and measurable. According to data from Cloudflare, as reported by Tom’s Hardware, automated web traffic originating from Yandex’s network collapsed to just 0.4 percent of what it had been at its peak during the previous two weeks.…

There’s an old saying that goes, “Stick to your day job.” Ken Jennings might want to hear that advice. For millions of Americans, Jennings is the face of quiz-show excellence, a man who became a household name by winning 74 straight games on Jeopardy! and later stepping into the iconic role once held by the beloved Alex Trebek. But now Jennings has wandered far from the safety of the trivia stage and into the messy, high-stakes world of Washington state politics. He’s starring in a political advertisement opposing Initiative 645, a ballot measure that would repeal Washington’s newly imposed income…