TorrentFreak: Pirate Bay’s .org Domain Back Online After Registrar Switch
The Pirate Bay's original .org domain is back online after the TPB team moved it to a new registrar. Earlier this week EuroDNS suspended the domain name because the registrant failed to verify the...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: LionsGate Wants Pirate Sites to Pay for Expendables Leak
Movie studio LionsGate has asked a federal court to issue a default judgment against the alleged operators of several file-sharing sites for their role in distributing the Expendables 3 leak. The...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Resilient Systems News: End-of-Year Trends Webinar
I'll be participating in an end-of-year trends and predictions webinar on Thursday, December 17, at 1:00 PM EST. Join me here. In other news, Resilient has joined the IBM Security App Exchange...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Friday Squid Blogging: Rare Octopus Squid Video from...
Neat: While the Dana octopus squid may lack a squid's trademark trailing tentacles, it makes up for them in spectacular lighting equipment, with two of its muscular arms ending in lidded light organs...
View ArticleBackblaze Blog | The Life of a Cloud Backup Company: Expert Buyer Amanda...
With Backblaze B2 ramping up, we keep buying more and more stuff. We needed help! Enter Amanda! She’s already been interfacing with our current purchasing and BZ Labs teams while working for one of our...
View ArticleLWN.net: Mozilla Open Source Support: First Awards Made
Mozilla has announced the first round of projects to receive support from the organization's new “Foundational Technology” grant program. The program offers funding to open-source projects outside of...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Pirate Gets a Million YouTube Views, Everybody Benefits
A pirate ordered to get 200,000 YouTube views or risk getting sued by companies including Microsoft has smashed his target. Against the odds Jakub F's anti-piracy video now has more than a million...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Aurous Developer Brings ‘Strike’ Torrent Site Back Online
This week the RIAA killed the Aurous music player for good, settling their lawsuit for millions of dollars. While Aurous is now done, Florida-based developer Andrew Sampson has just revived another...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: UK Movie Pirates Facing Shocking Prison Sentences
Five men are facing the prospect of many years behind bars when they stand off against Hollywood in court tomorrow. TorrentFreak has learned that an aggressive private prosecution by the Federation...
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View ArticleTorrentFreak: WebTorrent Brings BitTorrent to the Web, Impresses Netflix
BitTorrent currently transfers petabytes of data across the Internet every month, but with the shift to online streaming it's losing prominence. Stanford University graduate Feross Aboukhadijeh is...
View ArticleLauren Weinstein's Blog: Why Governments Lie About Encryption Backdoors
Despite any firm evidence to suggest that the terrorist attackers in Paris, in San Bernardino, or at the Planned Parenthood center in Colorado used strong (or perhaps any) encryption to plan their...
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View ArticleAnchor Cloud Hosting: New Employee Training: The Anchor way.
Traditionally, new employee onboarding is very text based: read a bunch of documents and FAQs, practice a few tasks, and ‘Boom’—you’re thrown in the deep end. At Anchor, we focus on hiring smart,...
View ArticleLWN.net: Kernel prepatch 4.4-rc5
Linus has released the 4.4-rc5 prepatch. "If you have all your Christmas shopping done, I would heartily recommend giving rc5 a whirl in between the eggnogs and the decorations. And if you're not...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week – 12/14/15
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. 'Pan.' tops the chart this week, followed by ‘The Martian' 'The Intern' completes the top three.Source: TorrentFreak, for the latest info...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Good Swatting Story
The New York Times Magazine has a good story about swatting, centering around a Canadian teenager who did it over a hundred times.
View ArticleTorrentFreak: UK ISPs Unleash 85+ New Blocks on ‘Pirate’ Domains
Internet service providers in the UK have begun blocking around 85 new 'pirate' domains following demands from rightsholders. All six major ISPs will implement the ban which targets, among other...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi: DOTs Board: on sale now!
Control your Raspberry Pi with paint – Perfect for all ages! The DOTs Board is an official Raspberry Pi product designed by Foundation’s Creative Producer, Rachel Rayns. It’s been used by the...
View ArticleKrebs on Security: Don’t Be a Victim of Tax Refund Fraud in ’16
With little more than a month to go before the start of the 2016 tax filing season, the IRS and the states are hunkering down for an expected slugfest with identity thieves who make a living requesting...
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