TorrentFreak: Startup Leverages DMCA Notices As Artist Marketing Tool
Every day millions of pirates are being tracked by companies working for the entertainment industries. This data is often used to warn or even sue alleged offenders, but a new startup is taking a...
View ArticleErrata Security: In defense of Paul Graham’s "Inequality"
The simplest way of trolling people is to defend that which everyone hates. That's what Paul Graham discovered this week in his support for "inequality". As a troll, I of course agree with his...
View ArticleKrebs on Security: Account Takeovers Fueling ‘Warranty Fraud’
Cybercrime takes many forms, but one of the more insidious and perhaps less obvious manifestations is warranty fraud. This scheme involves con artists who assume the identity of a consumer, complain...
View ArticleLWN.net: The birth of Debian, in the words of Ian Murdock himself (Ars Technica)
Glyn Moody conducted an interview with Ian Murdock in 1999. In this article on Ars Technica, Glyn looks back at Debian's early history, as Ian recounted it in that interview. "When we spoke in 1999,...
View ArticleBackblaze Blog | The Life of a Cloud Backup Company: A Fast Finish and a...
Backblaze finished 2015 by being one of 500 fastest growing technology companies in North America, and we’ve started 2016 by being selected as a visionary that delivers innovative storage solutions. A...
View ArticleLWN.net: [$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 7, 2016
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 7, 2016 is available.
View ArticleAWS Official Blog: Now Open – AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region
We are expanding the footprint once again, this time with a new region in Seoul, South Korea. AWS customers in the area can use the new Asia Pacific (Seoul) region for fast, low-latency access to the...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: ‘Fun’ Torrent Site Could Result in Jail, Millions in Damages
The alleged operator of a torrent site raided by police in 2012 is facing the prospect of years in jail despite authorities acknowledging he ran the site largely for fun. The 24-year-old is accused of...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi: Apply Now for Picademy USA
We’re excited to announce that applications are now open for the first-ever Picademy professional development workshop in the United States. It will be held on February 27th and 28th, 2016 at the...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Straight Talk about Terrorism
Nice essay that lists ten "truths" about terrorism: We can't keep the bad guys out. Besides, the threat is already inside. More surveillance won't get rid of terrorism, either. Defeating the Islamic...
View ArticleLWN.net: Mozilla: Man-in-the-Middle Interfering with Increased Security
Mozilla has run into a hitch with its plans to deprecate SHA-1 certificates. "However, for Firefox users who are behind certain 'man-in-the-middle' devices (including some security scanners and...
View ArticleLWN.net: Security updates for Thursday
CentOS has updated thunderbird (C7; C6; C5: multiple vulnerabilities). Fedora has updated libpng (F23: two vulnerabilities). openSUSE has updated grub2 (42.1: code execution). Red Hat has updated...
View ArticleLWN.net: PostgreSQL 9.5 released
PostgreSQL 9.5 has been released with lots of new features for the database management system, including UPSERT, row-level security, and several "big data" features. We previewed some of these...
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Darknet – The Darkside: A Look Back At 2015 – Tools & News Highlights
So here we are in 2016, yet still writing 2015 in our chequebooks (yah lolpls like anyone uses cheques any more). Following on from last year and our 2014 summary, here is our 2015 highlights post with...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: The Pirate Bay Switches on New .MS Domain
The Pirate Bay has put a new domain name into circulation. Starting this week TPB has officially switched on the Montserrat-based domain name ThePirateBay.ms. The new addition is welcome since the...
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Linux How-Tos and Linux Tutorials: Pro-Level Video Editing with LightWorks on...
When you think about video editing and Linux, most likely your thoughts immediately gravitate to the likes of OpenShot, Kdenlive, or Flowblade. And with good reason. These tools are outstanding video...
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View ArticleTorrentFreak: Hateful Eight Producer: Google Uses Fair Use as Piracy Distraction
After his new movie was downloaded more than a million times after being leaked in December, the producer of The Hateful Eight has directed his displeasure towards Google. Richard Gladstein suggests...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Replacing Judgment with Algorithms
China is considering a new "social credit" system, designed to rate everyone's trustworthiness. Many fear that it will become a tool of social control -- but in reality it has a lot in common with the...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi: Come to our fourth birthday party!
Today, we’re running a post we published last year for a second time. Why? Because tickets for our fourth birthday party go on sale today. (If you’re particularly pedantic, these are tickets for our...
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