The diaspora* blog: diaspora* version 0.5.1.0 released!
We did it! Six weeks after agreeing to introduce a fixed release cycle for diaspora* software, we are pleased to announce our next minor release. This is the first diaspora* release within a fixed...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Warner Bros. Inflate TV Show Piracy ‘Fines’ By 50%
Rightscorp has decided to squeeze more money from BitTorrent users it accuses of downloading Warner Bros. TV shows. In a move that's likely to be connected to the anti-piracy outfit's precarious...
View ArticleGattaNegra's days: Охлюв по склона [ Витоша 100 км – 2015 ] (16+)
Точно както в “Питър Пан” всичко ми се струва, сякаш е било насън. Миналата година по това време му се смеех, понеже е станал в 4, въртял е педалите 12-13 часа и после се е върнал изподран, кален и...
View ArticleErrata Security: How we really know the Sunday Times story is bogus
Stories sourced entirely from "anonymous senior government officials" are propaganda, not journalism. The identities of the sources are hidden not to protect them from speaking out against the...
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[Медийно право] [Нели Огнянова] : Финансиране на обществените медии:...
Вероятно БТА е източник на новината на български език за референдума в Швейцария, посветен на финансирането на обществените радио и телевизия. В заглавието се твърди, че швейцарците на референдум днес...
View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: ISC StormCast for Monday, June...
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View ArticleErrata Security: How to code: lesson 27
I was reading some code on the Internet today and came across this:The thing to notice is the hang & symbols in front of the variables, instead of just making things line up. It's a stylistic quirk...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week – 06/15/15
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. 'Get Hard' tops the chart this week, followed by ‘Run All Night.' 'Kingsman: The Secret Service' completes the top three.Source:...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Mega Publishes First Transparency Report
After 2.5 years of operations the Mega cloud storage service has published its first transparency report. Aimed at inspiring confidence in how the company deals with complaints and protects privacy,...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Encrypting Windows Hard Drives
Encrypting your Windows hard drives is trivially easy; choosing which program to use is annoyingly difficult. I still use Windows -- yes, I know, don't even start -- and have intimate experience with...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi: Kite mapping
This is something I’ve been meaning to try for myself in some of the ruined iron-age villages up on the moors in Cornwall and Devon one summer. Richard Hayler and his son learned about kite mapping at...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Game of Thrones Season Finale Breaks Piracy Record
The season finale of Game of Thrones has set a new piracy record, with 1.5 million downloads in eight hours, a number that will swell to over 10 million during the days to come. In addition, the...
View ArticleLWN.net: Kernel prepatch 4.1-rc8
As promised, the 4.1-rc8 kernel prepatch is out. "So I'm on vacation, but time doesn't stop for that, and it's Sunday, so time for a hopefully final rc."
View ArticleKrebs on Security: Catching Up on the OPM Breach
I heard from many readers last week who were curious why I had not weighed in on the massive (and apparently still unfolding) data breach at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM). Turns out,...
View ArticleLWN.net: Security updates for Monday
Debian has updated libav (two vulnerabilities), openssl (multiple vulnerabilities), qemu (multiple vulnerabilities), qemu-kvm (two vulnerabilities), sqlite3 (denial of service), and xen (multiple...
View ArticleGrigor Gatchev - A Weblog: ПаметникътнацарСамуил–неувяхващвнароднатапамет!
Не ми се искаше да пиша за него. Други писаха достатъчно. Но с времето няколко живи „паметника“ счупиха по повод него и тъпомера, и гьонсуратомера ми. Въпреки че и двата са с логаритмична скала, и...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Innocent Cox Subscribers Dragged into Piracy Lawsuit
As the result of a rather broadly interpreted court order, many innocent Cox Communications subscribers have been dragged into a piracy lawsuit. The account holders are involved because their current...
View ArticleBradley M. Kuhn's Blog ( bkuhn ): Why Greet Apple’s Swift 2.0 With Open Arms?
Apple announced last week that its Swift programming language — a currently fully proprietary software successor to Objective C — will probably be partially released under an OSI-approved license...
View ArticleLauren Weinstein's Blog: When Google Thinks They’re Your Mommy
Major tech companies are in an interesting position these days. They provide and (one way or another) control most of our communications pipelines, and (quite reasonably) usually wish to encourage...
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SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: RFC 7540 – HTTP/2 protocol, (Mon,...
RFC 7540 has been out for a month now. What should we expect with this new version? 1. New frame: HTTP/2 implements a binary protocol with the following frame structure: Length: The length of the frame...
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