LWN.net: [$] The Linux Foundation changes its bylaws
The Linux Foundation's board of directors is not usually a hotbed of controversy; for the most part it does its work in the background, quietly going about the business of directing the non-profit...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Cox Should Expose Pirating Subscribers, Court Hears
After winning a $25 million judgment last month, music publisher BMG has requested a permanent injunction against Cox Communications, requiring the Internet provider to expose the personal details of...
View Article/dev/ttyS0: Hardware Hacking Workshop is Now Live!
Registration for our three day Hardware Hacking Workshop is now live! Our first class is February 16, 2016, but other dates are available as well. Be sure to sign up while there’s still room, and enter...
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Darknet – The Darkside: PayPal Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Patched
So this is a big one, and thankfully this PayPal Remote Code Execution Vulnerability was discovered by security researchers and not the bad guys. Although there’s no way for us to know if someone has...
View ArticleErrata Security: How not to be a better programmer
Over at r/programming is this post on "How to be a better programmer". It's mostly garbage.Don't repeat yourself (reuse code)Trying to reuse code is near the top of reasons why big projects fail. The...
View ArticleAWS Official Blog: EMR 4.3.0 – New & Updated Applications + Command Line Export
My colleague Jon Fritz wrote the blog post below to introduce you to some new features of . — Jeff; Today we are announcing Amazon EMR release 4.3.0, which adds support for Apache Hadoop 2.7.1, Apache...
View ArticleErrata Security: Net ring-buffers are essential to an OS
Even by OpenBSD standards, this rejection of 'netmap' is silly and clueless.BSD is a Linux-like operating system that powers a lot of the Internet, from Netflix servers to your iPhone. One variant of...
View ArticleКлошкодил: 2016-01-28 грозния hack, който контролира лампите на фасата
Кодът, който пиша е грозна работа и пълен с hack-ове. Явно така ми харесва :) Това е кодът, който контролира лампите по фасадата на лаба. Потрил съм малко от от вътрешната информация в него, като...
View ArticleLWN.net: [$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 28, 2016
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 28, 2016 is available.
View ArticleTorrentFreak: DVD Screener Piracy Could Be Stamped Out…But Not Yet
Every year dozens of movies appear online in high quality, sometimes before their release date, thanks to the leaking of so-called DVD screeners. For pirates it's an annual feeding frenzy so one might...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Psychological Model of Selfishness
This is interesting: Game theory decision-making is based entirely on reason, but humans don't always behave rationally. David Rand, assistant professor of psychology, economics, cognitive science, and...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi: Self-driving car
Full disclosure: This car is perhaps not quite as big as the car you envisioned when you read the headline. Zheng Wang from Bridgwater State University has used a Raspberry Pi and some other hardware...
View ArticleBeyond Bandwidth: Five Considerations When Implementing Multi-CDN for your...
The following blog post is part of our guest author series, inviting commentary from leaders around the telecom industry. Cedexis is an independent, third-party CDN load balancing provider. Their...
View ArticleБлогът на Юруков: Вирусът Зика, комарите и климатичните промени
Европа ще става все по-уязвима на епидемии като тази от вируса Зика. Рискът за България също не е за подценяване. Промените на климата имат косвено отражение върху това и е важно да разберем...
View ArticleLWN.net: Thursday’s security advisories
Arch Linux has updated nginx (three denial of service flaws). Debian has updated iceweasel (three vulnerabilities) and openjdk-7 (multiple vulnerabilities). openSUSE has updated chromium (13.1:...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: The Pirate Bay’s Mobile Domain Suspended By Registrar
The Pirate Bay has suffered yet another setback with the suspension of another key domain. TheMobileBay.org was the domain and site layout served to users of mobile devices such as phones and tablets....
View ArticleAWS Official Blog: AWS Podcast – Bob Rogers (Intel Big Data)
For Episode 134 of the AWS podcast, I spoke with Bob Rogers, PhD, Chief Data Scientist for Big Data Solutions at Intel Corporation. We talked about how Bob entered the field of data science, how to get...
View ArticleLWN.net: NSA Hacker Chief Explains How to Keep Him Out of Your System (Wired)
Wired reports on a talk at the USENIX Enigma conference by Rob Joyce of the US National Security Agency (NSA). Joyce is the head of the NSA's Tailored Access Operations, which is tasked with breaking...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: “Piracy Harms” Are Now Part of U.S. Education Law
Last month President Barack Obama signed the Every Student Succeeds Act into law, making $1 billion dollars available for educational technology spending. In addition, the new law ensures that...
View ArticleAWS Official Blog: New AWS Enterprise Accelerator – Standardized Architecture...
In the early days of AWS, customers were happy to simply learn about the cloud and its benefits. As they started to learn more, the conversation shifted. It went from “what is the cloud” to “what kinds...
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