AWS Official Blog: Congratulations to the Winners of the Hackster AWS IoT...
Earlier this year I told you about the AWS IoT Mega Contest. The contest closed at the end of January, the judges retired to our secret lair deep in the heart of Seattle, and we have chosen the...
View ArticleAWS Compute Blog: Introducing custom authorizers in Amazon API Gateway
Today Amazon API Gateway is launching custom request authorizers. With custom request authorizers, developers can authorize their APIs using bearer token authorization strategies, such as OAuth using...
View ArticleLauren Weinstein's Blog: Does Google Hate Old People?
No. Google doesn't hate old people. I know Google well enough to be pretty damned sure about that. Is Google "indifferent" to old people? Does Google simply not appreciate, or somehow devalue, the...
View ArticleAWS Official Blog: Amazon RDS Update – Share Encrypted Snapshots, Encrypt...
We want to make it as easy as possible for you to secure your AWS environment. Some of our more recent announcements in this area include encrypted EBS boot volumes, encryption at rest for Amazon...
View ArticleAWS Official Blog: New – Access Resources in a VPC from Your Lambda Functions
A few months ago I announced that you would soon be able to access resources in a VPC from your functions. I am happy to announce that this much-wanted feature is now available and that you can start...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: 82-Year-Old Great-Grandmother is a Pirate, Trolls Say
People who've managed to live for more than eight decades should be enjoying a peaceful and uncomplicated existence but for UK-based Sky customer Sheila Drew things are not so straightforward. She's...
View ArticleLinux How-Tos and Linux Tutorials: How to Run Windows Programs on Linux with...
Want to move to Linux, but there's this one application that's keeping you stuck on Windows? CodeWeaver's CrossOver Linux may be exactly what you need. Just because there's a Windows application you...
View ArticleAWS Official Blog: Amazon Web Services to Acquire NICE
I would like to extend a warm welcome to our new colleagues at NICE. We have signed an agreement to acquire this leading provider of software and services for high performance and technical computing....
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Determining Physical Location on the Internet
Interesting research: "CPV: Delay-based Location Verification for the Internet": Abstract: The number of location-aware services over the Internet continues growing. Some of these require the client's...
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Linux How-Tos and Linux Tutorials: Getting to Know Linux File Permissions
One of the most basic tasks in Linux is setting file permissions. Understanding how this is done should be considered a must-know, first step in your travels through the Linux ecosystem. As you might...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Torrents-Time Faces Security Concerns
Torrents-Time, the browser plug-in which allows people to stream torrents from The Pirate Bay and KickassTorrents, has been flagged as insecure by several developers. Responding to the criticism,...
View ArticleAWS Official Blog: Resources for Migrating Parse Applications to AWS
In light of the recent announcement that Parse will be winding down, the AWS team has been working to provide developers with some migration paths and some alternative services, as have members of the...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi: Astro Pi: New chance to send your code into space!
Right now, British ESA astronaut Tim Peake is using one of our intrepid Astro Pi flight units, Ed, to run UK school students’ code on board the International Space Station. Ed’s sister unit, Izzy, will...
View ArticleLWN.net: Friday’s security updates
Debian has updated libgcrypt20 (key leak) and nginx (three vulnerabilities). Debian-LTS has updated eglibc (regression in previous security update). Fedora has updated nodejs-is-my-json-valid (F22:...
View ArticleAWS Compute Blog: Scheduling SSH jobs using AWS Lambda
Puneet Agarwal, AWS Solution Architect With the addition of the Scheduled Events feature, you can now set up AWS Lambda to invoke your code on a regular, scheduled basis. You can now schedule various...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Fitbit Data Reveals Pregnancy
A man learned his wife was pregnant from her Fitbit data. The details of the story are weird. The man posted the data to Reddit and asked for analysis help. But the point is that the data can reveal...
View ArticleLWN.net: Is the vinyl LP an open music format? (Opensource.com)
Chris Hermansen looks at an early open music format—vinyl LP records—over at Opensource.com. He goes into some of the details of the format and how it is read, as well as a bit about ripping records...
View ArticleLWN.net: [$] Winning the copyleft fight
Bradley Kuhn started off his linux.conf.au 2016 talk by stating a goal that, he hoped, he shared with the audience: a world where more (or most) software is free software. The community has one key...
View ArticleBackblaze Blog | The Life of a Cloud Backup Company: Latest Adobe Creative...
Adobe Systems recently pushed an update to their Adobe Suite of products and services. On the Mac platform, updating one of these services, Adobe Creative Cloud, will disable Backblaze from backing up...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: uTorrent Debuts Ad-Free Client for $4.95 Per Year
The uTorrent team has introduced a new ad-free version of the popular file-sharing client. Users can now buy a yearly $4.95 subscription to download the latest torrents without being subjected to ads....
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