AWS Official Blog: New – Encryption at Rest for Amazon Aurora
We launched a little over a year ago (see my post, Amazon Aurora – New Cost-Effective MySQL-Compatible Database Engine for Amazon RDS, to learn more). Customer adoption of Amazon Aurora has been strong...
View ArticleAWS Official Blog: New – Instance Protection for Auto Scaling
You can use to scale a collection of EC2 instances up and down based on a set of conditions that you define. Scaling out helps you to maintain the desired level of performance as demand for processing...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Busted Kickass and Pirate Bay Uploaders Crowdfund ‘Fines’
Two Dutch men busted by local anti-piracy group BREIN for uploading to The Pirate Bay and KickassTorrents are asking the public to help cover their 'fines'. BREIN is not happy with the crowdfunding...
View ArticleLWN.net: Linux Mint 17.3 “Rosa” Cinnamon released
Version 17.3 of the Ubuntu-based Linux Mint Cinnamon distribution has been released. This is a long-term support release, with support planned until 2019. There is a long list of new features for this...
View ArticleLWN.net: Apple releases Swift
Apple has released its Swift programming language under the Apache 2.0 license, and it's available for Linux. The code can be found on GitHub. "Swift makes it easy to write software that is incredibly...
View ArticleErrata Security: Joking aside: Trump is Unreasonable
Orin Kerr writes an excellent post repudiating Donald Trump. As a right-of-center troll, sometimes it looks like I support Trump. I don't -- I repudiate everything about Trump.I often defend Trump, but...
View ArticleLWN.net: It’s actually open source software that’s eating the world...
For a far-outside view, it's hard to beat this VentureBeat article, wherein a venture capitalist talks about how "open-source companies" are taking over. "The OSS companies that will be pillars of IT...
View ArticleAnchor Cloud Hosting: Continuous Delivery for Magento with Fleet
Continuous Delivery for your Magento store with Fleet You may have heard of continuous delivery (CD) and continuous integration (CI) without giving either term much further thought. It’s not uncommon...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Used eBook Sellers Receive Threats of Jail Time
People selling unwanted eBooks online have been warned that their activities could result in six months imprisonment. However, anti-piracy group BREIN, the alleged sender of the threats, says it is not...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: How Israel Regulates Encryption
Interesting essay about how Israel regulates encryption: ...the Israeli encryption control mechanisms operate without directly legislating any form of encryption-key depositories, built-in back or...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi: Pi Wars
Liz: a bunch of the Pi Towers crew spent Saturday at Pi Wars, the amazing, community-run Raspberry Pi robot competition, now in its second year. With 500 attendees and more robots than we’ve ever seen...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Anti-Piracy Lawyer Milked Copyright Holders For Millions
Leaks from a confidential auditor report into the activities of bankrupt anti-piracy law firm Johan Schlüter suggest that the company defrauded its entertainment industry clients out of $25m. One...
View ArticleLWN.net: NetHack 3.6.0 released
Version 3.6.0 of the NetHack dungeon adventure game has been released. This is the first official release in over ten years. "Unlike previous releases, which focused on the general game fixes, this...
View ArticleLinux How-Tos and Linux Tutorials: Three Ways to Easily Encrypt Your Data on...
Data encryption is one very solid security measure/precaution that everyone who owns data with significant personal or objective value should perform. What data encryption does is securing your data...
View ArticleLWN.net: Security updates for Tuesday
CentOS has updated libxml2 (C6: multiple vulnerabilities). Debian-LTS has updated bouncycastle (invalid curve attack) and linux-2.6 (multiple vulnerabilities). Fedora has updated audiofile (F22:...
View ArticleLWN.net: [$] Checksum offloads and protocol ossification
Given the processing requirements for high-speed networking, it is not surprising that there is interest in offloading some of that work to dedicated hardware. Linux has always carefully limited the...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: BitTorrent Still Dominates Internet’s Upstream Traffic
New data published by Canadian broadband management company Sandvine reveals that BitTorrent can be credited for a quarter of all upstream Internet traffic in North America, more than any other traffic...
View ArticleLWN.net: German court addresses GPLv3 section 8 termination provisions...
Opensource.com takes a look at a court case in Germany addressing the GPLv3 termination provisions. "In the Halle court case, the defendant, a higher education institution in Germany, offered certain...
View ArticleLWN.net: Mozilla Will Stop Developing And Selling Firefox OS Smartphones...
TechCrunch reports that the Firefox OS phone experiment has come to an end. "Firefox OS proved the flexibility of the Web, scaling from low-end smartphones all the way up to HD TVs. However, we weren’t...
View ArticleBackblaze Blog | The Life of a Cloud Backup Company: Senior Human Resources...
Backblaze continues to grow and we need someone who loves HR and someone who loves to do many different things – in the same body. If that’s you, then your next mission is waiting for you! Senior HR...
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