TorrentFreak: Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week – 02/08/16
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. 'Ride Along 2' tops the chart this week, followed by ‘The Big Short' 'The Good Dinosaur' completes the top three. Source: TF, for the...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Hollywood Dealt With, Showbox Provokes Record Labels
Showbox is a hugely popular all-in-one application for viewing the latest movies and TV shows on Android platforms and, with a tweak or two, on desktop machines too. Quite possibly installed on...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi: Astro Pi: 3D-Print Your Own Flight Case
Background Back in December, British ESA astronaut Tim Peake took two specially augmented Raspberry Pis, called Astro Pis, to the International Space Station (ISS) as part of his six-month mission....
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Exploiting Google Maps for Fraud
The New York Times has a long article on fraudulent locksmiths. The scam is a basic one: quote a low price on the phone, but charge much more once you show up and do the work. But the method by which...
View ArticleLWN.net: Kernel prepatch 4.5-rc3
The 4.5-rc3 kernel prepatch is out. "It's slightly bigger than I'd like, but not excessively so (and not unusually so). Most of the patches are pretty small, although the diff is utterly dominated by...
View ArticleKrebs on Security: IoT Reality: Smart Devices, Dumb Defaults
Before purchasing an "Internet of things" (IoT) device -- a thermostat, camera or appliance made to be remotely accessed and/or controlled over the Internet -- consider whether you can realistically...
View ArticleLWN.net: Security advisories for Monday
Arch Linux has updated lib32-libsndfile (multiple vulnerabilities) and libsndfile (multiple vulnerabilities). Debian has updated polarssl (code execution) and tiff (multiple vulnerabilities)....
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Beware: Piracy Defense Lawyers Can Be “Trolls” Too
Every month hundreds of people are sued for sharing copyrighted media through file-sharing networks, mostly BitTorrent. This practice is big business for copyright holders and lawyers alike....
View ArticleAWS Official Blog: AWS Week in Review – January 25, 2016
Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday January 25 We announced AWS Marketplace Support for the Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region. We announced that AWS CloudFormation Now...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Data and Goliath Published in Paperback
Today, Data and Goliath is being published in paperback. Everyone tells me that the paperback version sells better than the hardcover, even though it's a year later. I can't really imagine that there...
View ArticleDarknet – The Darkside: YARA – Pattern Matching Tool For Malware Analysis
YARA is a tool aimed at (but not limited to) helping malware researchers to identify and classify malware samples. With YARA you can create descriptions of malware families (or whatever you want to...
View ArticleBackblaze Blog | The Life of a Cloud Backup Company: Senior Network Sys Admin...
Backblaze is hiring and we need a Senior Network Sys Admin to join our operations team! Want to help us grow and continue on as a leader in cloud storage? Check out the job description and the steps to...
View ArticleAWS Official Blog: AWS Week in Review – February 1, 2016
Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday February 1 We launched the AWS Answers site. The showed you how to Test Your App’s Compatibility with Android 6.0 Using Amazon’s...
View ArticleLWN.net: It’s Been 20 Years Since This Man Declared Cyberspace Independence...
Wired talks with John Perry Barlow on the 20th anniversary of his Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace. "In the modern era of global NSA surveillance, China’s Great Firewall, and FBI agents...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Hollywood Wants to Shut Down Pirate Bay’s Streaming Technology
The streaming technology freshly embedded into The Pirate Bay is under fire from the Hollywood-backed anti-piracy outfit BREIN. Torrents-Time is an "illegal application" according to BREIN's lawyer but...
View ArticleAWS Official Blog: Lumberyard + Amazon GameLift + Twitch for Games on AWS
Building world-class games is a very difficult, time-consuming, and expensive process. The audience is incredibly demanding. They want engaging, social play that spans a wide variety of desktop,...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi: Another new Raspbian release
Some of you may have spotted that there is a new Raspbian release available for download. For most people, this is primarily updates and bug fixes to the existing Jessie image – but there’s one...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Large-Scale FBI Hacking
As part of a child pornography investigation, the FBI hacked into over 1,300 computers. But after Playpen was seized, it wasn't immediately closed down, unlike previous dark web sites that have been...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Kim Dotcom’s Extradition Appeal Set For August
The United States government will have to wait another six months for the appeal in the Kim Dotcom extradition case to be heard. A judge in the High Court in Auckland has just denied US requests for...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: KAT Adds Torrent Streaming: Expect Bloodshed, Tech Devs Warn
Following moves by The Pirate Bay to introduce on-site video streaming, today KickassTorrents implemented the same feature. The people at Torrents-Time, the people behind the technology, say that the...
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