Here is what happened on February 6th throughout technology. Here’s another episode of Today in Tech:

• On 6th Feb, 1959; Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments filed the first patent for an integrated circuit.
• This day in 2004 In Australia, the Music Industry Piracy Investigations organization raid P2P companies Sharman Networks and Brilliant Digital Entertainment, as well as several ISP’s and universities using an Anton Piller order.
• German car company BMW is banned from the Google index after attempting to deliberately deceive Google users on the 6th of Feb 2006.
• At least three DNS root nameservers are under a denial-of-service attack on February 6, 2007. The attack began at 10:30 UTC, and lasted about five hours. Although none of the servers crashed, two of the root servers reportedly “suffered badly”, while others saw “heavy traffic”. The botnet responsible for the attack has reportedly been traced to the Asia-Pacific region.