Portal:Current events/2024 October 10
October 10, 2024 (Thursday)
Science and technology
- Nobel Prize in Literature
- This year's Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to Korean writer Han Kang "for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”.(Nobel Prize)
- Tomb of Christopher Columbus
- Researchers from the University of Granada confirm that bones lying in Spain's Seville Cathedral belonged to Christopher Columbus. (ABC.es)
- A denial-of-service attack takes down the Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine, used by millions. A data breach by the same hackers also steals 31 million passwords. (Forbes)