TorrentFreak: The Pirate Bay is Down For 24 Hours, Due to Technical Problems
The Pirate Bay has been offline for 24 hours, causing concern among many BitTorrent users. The TPB-team is aware of the problems and says the problems are caused by technical issues, so the site is...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Napster Founder Plans to Offer New Movies at Home For $50 Per Shot
Napster co-founder Sean Parker is said to be working on a brand new way to get the latest blockbusters into homes on the day they're released. The project, known as Screening Room, involves the...
View ArticleLWN.net: Another set of stable kernel updates
The 4.4.5, 3.14.64, and 3.10.100 stable kernel updates have been released; each contains the usual set of important fixes.
View ArticleRaspberry Pi: What a party!
On Monday 29 February, we celebrated the fourth (or first) birthday of the Raspberry Pi computer by giving a little gift to the community in the form of the Raspberry Pi 3. A lot more power, with...
View ArticleBeyond Bandwidth: Three Recurring Themes Heard Throughout HIMSS16
Once again, over 40,000 healthcare IT enthusiasts convened in Las Vegas to connect with peers, learn from thought leaders and share visions. This year, compared to the last seven HIMSS shows I have...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Three Large File-Hosting Sites Announce Shutdown
Three large file-hosting services have announced that they will shut down at the end of the month, citing reasons beyond their control. Lolabits, Abelhas and Partageurs are among the most popular...
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Darknet – The Darkside: Mac OS X Ransomware KeRanger Is Linux Encoder Trojan
So there’s been a fair bit of noise this past week about the Mac OS X Ransomware, the first of its’ kind called KeRanger. It also happens to be the first popular Mac malware of any form for some time....
View ArticleLWN.net: Thursday’s security updates
Arch Linux has updated bind (denial of service), chromium (multiple vulnerabilities), exim (privilege escalation), firefox (multiple vulnerabilities), libotr (code execution), and perl (ambiguous...
View ArticleErrata Security: Captain America Civil War — it’s us
The next Marvel movie is Captain America: Civil War (May 2, 2016). The plot is this: after the Avengers keep blowing things up, there is pushback demanding accountability. Government should be in...
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Медийно право : За обществените медии, регулаторите и правната им уредба
За тези, които са нямали два часа, за да проследят дискусията “Ролята и мястото на регулаторните органи и обществените медии и възможността за промяна на тяхната дейност в обществен интерес”, която се...
View ArticleLWN.net: A policy statement on open-source software from the White House
The White House has announced a draft policy addressing how the U.S. federal government will share and release custom software. "This policy requires that, among other things: (1) new custom code whose...
View ArticleBackblaze Blog | The Life of a Cloud Backup Company: Wanted: Customer Success...
Backblaze B2 continues to grow and as it does we are in need of someone to help customers get up and running! Want a challenge? Check out the position and job description of our Customer Success...
View ArticleBackblaze Blog | The Life of a Cloud Backup Company: Backblaze Release 4.0.5
We’ve updated our Backblaze Personal Backblaze and Backblaze Business Backup clients to Version 4.0.5. This is a minor release. Windows: Updated the Command Line install/uninstall capability by adding...
View Articlexkcd.com: Universal Install Script
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View ArticleErrata Security: Code is expressive. Full Stop. (FBIvApple)
I write code. More than a $billion of products have been sold where my code is the key component. I've written more than a million lines of it. I point this out because I want to address this FBIvApple...
View ArticleKrebs on Security: Hackers Target Anti-DDoS Firm Staminus
Staminus Communications Inc., a California-based Internet hosting provider that specializes in protecting customers from massive "distributed denial of service" (DDoS) attacks aimed at knocking sites...
View ArticleErrata Security: Can the Apple code be misused? (Partly Retracted)
Dan Guido (@DGuido) wants me to retract this post. He knows far more about iOS hacking than I do, so consider this at least partially retracted.However, he won't explain to me what specifically is...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: MovieSwap Aims to Be a Huge Crowd-Powered Streaming Service
A new service gathering steam on Kickstarter is set to immediately attract Hollywood's lawyers should it get off the ground. MusicSwap says it will receive millions of DVDs from its members, rip them,...
View ArticleБлогът на Юруков: Личните карти, електронната идентификация и немците
В сряда съвсем неочаквано и в последния възможен момент Цветан Цветанов вкара промени в законопроекта за електронната идентификация. Така той отряза ключова част от законопроекта предвиждаща добавянето...
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