AWS Official Blog: Now Available: Version 1.0 of the AWS SDK for Go
Earlier this year, my colleague Peter Moon shared our plans to launch an AWS SDK for Go. As you will read in Peter’s guest post below, the SDK is now generally available! — Jeff; At AWS, we work hard...
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Matthew Garrett: If it’s not practical to redistribute free software, it’s...
I've previously written about Canonical's obnoxious IP policy and how Mark Shuttleworth admits it's deliberately vague. After spending some time discussing specific examples with Canonical, I've been...
View ArticleLWN.net: Langridge: No UI is some UI
At his blog, Stuart Langridge takes issue with a recent Medium post by Tony Aubé titled No UI is the New UI. Aubé's premise is that "invisible" applications—those that use text-messaging or...
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View ArticleAWS Official Blog: Amazon EMR Update – Apache Spark 1.5.2, Ganglia, Presto,...
My colleague Jon Fritz wrote the guest post below to introduce you to the newest version of . — Jeff; Today we are announcing Amazon EMR release 4.2.0, which adds support for Apache Spark 1.5.2,...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Australian ISP Rejects ‘Pirate Site’ Blocking Attempt
A small Australian Internet provider is refusing to block a website that allegedly infringes on the copyrights of a local construction company. Lawyers demanded a blockade citing Australia's new...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Reputation in the Information Age
Reputation is a social mechanism by which we come to trust one another, in all aspects of our society. I see it as a security mechanism. The promise and threat of a change in reputation entices us all...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: YouTube Pays Users’ Legal Bills to Defend Fair Use
Google has strengthened its stance towards wrongful DMCA notices that serve to intimidate YouTube users. Drawing a symbolic line in the sand, Google says it will cover legal costs associated with...
View ArticleВелоеволюция: Уникален нов велосипеден дизайн в София
Прясното маркиране на велосипедна лента по булевардите Никола Мушанов и Овча Купел ни изненадва с иновативни дизайнерски решения. За тази нова придобивка отново трябва да отдадем заслуженото на...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi: The Official Raspberry Pi Projects Book is out now!
Rob from The MagPi here again! Two posts from me in one week? You’re a very lucky bunch. One thing we’re very proud of at The MagPi is the quality of our content: articles, features, tutorials, guides,...
View ArticleLWN.net: Nmap 7 released
Version 7 of the Nmap security scanner has been released. "It is the product of three and a half years of work, nearly 3200 code commits, and more than a dozen point releases since the big Nmap 6...
View ArticleLWN.net: Detectify: Chrome Extensions – AKA Total Absence of Privacy
The "Detectify Labs" site has put up a lengthy analysis of the user tracking taking place in many Chrome browser extensions. "Google, claiming that Chrome is the safest web browser out there, is...
View ArticleLWN.net: Pitivi 0.95 released
The Pitivi 0,95 release is out, bringing a lot of changes to this longstanding video editor project. "This one packs a lot of bugfixes and architectural work to further stabilize the GES backend. In...
View ArticleLWN.net: Garrett: If it’s not practical to redistribute free software, it’s...
Matthew Garrett continues his campaign against Canonical's "intellectual property rights policy". "The reality is that if Debian had had an identical policy in 2004, Ubuntu wouldn't exist. The effort...
View ArticleDarknet - The Darkside: american fuzzy lop – Security Oriented Fuzzing Tool
American fuzzy lop is a security-oriented fuzzing tool that employs a novel type of compile-time instrumentation and genetic algorithms to automatically discover clean, interesting test cases that...
View ArticleLWN.net: Friday’s security updates
Debian has updated lxc (code execution). Debian-LTS has updated nspr (code execution). Mageia has updated dovecot (M5: denial of service), gcc (M5: predictable random values), kernel (M5: multiple...
View ArticleKrebs on Security: Starwood Hotels Warns of Credit Card Breach
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide today warned that malware designed to help cyber thieves steal credit and debit card data was found on point-of-sale cash registers at some of the company's...
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AWS Security Blog: AWS Announces Successful SOC Assessment with 3 New...
Today, I’m happy to announce the completion of another successful Service Organization Controls (SOC) assessment. The AWS SOC program is an intense, period-in-time audit performed every six months. We...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Movie Studios Shut Down New Popcorn Time Alternative, But Not...
The popularity of Popcorn Time has triggered the release of several streaming websites that mimic the features of the popular application in a web browser. This is a cause of great concern for the...
View ArticleLWN.net: Poettering: Introducing sd-event
Lennart Poettering introduces the sd-event API for the implementation of event loops. "sd-event.h, of course, is not the first event loop API around, and it doesn't implement any really novel...
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