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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
A type of denial-of-service attack which is aimed at parsers of XML documents, based on defining entities that expand to large numbers of copies of other entities.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: plural, plural-only
Qualifier: computer security
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
In the most frequently cited example of such an attack, the first entity is the string lol (“laugh out loud”).
