Blog Heap of Links for the day 22 October 2016

Officers tasered and arrested a 19-year-old man after a “viable improvised explosive device” was found on a Tube train at North Greenwich.North Greenwich tube station was evacuated for nearly seven hours after London Underground staff found the suspect package on an eastbound Jubilee Line train.

But experts warned the IED may have been just the first in a co-ordinated attack on the capital…

A major DDoS attack brought down a substantial portion of the Internet on the East Coast of the United States today. The attack was directed at Dyn, a cloud-based provider, and affected Twitter, Spotify, and a number of other major websites.

In other news, due to the housing shortage in Germany, an elderly couple in the city of Bonn are now faced with the choice of living in a refugee home with asylum seekers, or becoming homeless.…

…On this day in 1884 the Royal Observatory at Greenwich in Britain was adopted as the prime meridian of longitude by the International Meridian Conference. It is now a museum.…