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Bitcoin Weekly 2015 May 20: The Bitcoin blockchain continues to gain enterprise and government level curiosity
The tide of enterprise and government-level interest in Bitcoin has been changing of late, but with an eye for the functionality of the Bitcoin blockchain rather than bitcoins themselves. This week the government of Honduras made a deal with Factom Inc., a technology company that uses the Bitcoin blockchain to secure the provenance of digital ...
Zombie Awareness Tips: How to survive the apocalypse with a smart home
Zombies. The walking dead returned from the grave to feast on soft buttery brains. Smart homes, a technology that allows for the automation of certain tasks such as turning on lights or changing the temperature. What do zombies and smart homes have in common? Very little. However, when the zombie apocalypse comes and zombies eat ...
VENOM vulnerability bites VM hosts
A new unchecked buffer vulnerability that affects some computer virtualization platforms has been discovered and published by CrowdStrike Senior Security Researcher Jason Geffner. The vulnerability, dubbed VENOM (Virtual Environment Neglected Operations Manipulation, CVE-2015-3456), affects QEMU’s virtual Floppy Disk Controller (FDC) used in numerous virtual machine (VM) platforms including Xen, KVM, and the native QEMU client. ...
CA Technologies integrates Docker containers to enhance DevOps continuous delivery
As part of a continuing initiative to deliver tools that increase application quality and accelerate release CA Technologies (CA Inc.) has integrated CA Release Automation with the Docker platform. This integration allows Docker containers and images to be fused into the life cycle of continuous delivery. As DevOps and continuous delivery has evolved, businesses have ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2015 May 13: 21 Inc. and bitcoin-mining toasters, Nasdaq uses Open Assets Protocol, itBit becomes a regulated trust exchange
After a few months of wondering, we may have a better idea of what 21 Inc. intends and it seems to be fairly ambitious: according to a report the plan is to add ASIC mining chips to common Internet of Things products. This could including toasters that would mine bitcoins when idle. Of course, 21 ...
Nasdaq gives blockchain technology the enterprise treatment
Nasdaq, the American stock exchange, announced today that it intends to use the blockchain, the secure ledger technology that underpins Bitcoin, as part of an enterprise-wide initiative. This initiative intends to first build on the Open Assets Protocol, a colored coin innovation built upon the Bitcoin blockchain and network. The first application Nasdaq intends to release will ...
Zynga lays off 364 people in cost reduction plan, refocuses efforts
Mobile and social game company Zynga Inc. recently released its Q1 2015 financial results, which outperformed expectations, but in which the company announced it would lay off 18 percent of the company–364 people–in an effort to cut $100 million in costs. Mark Pincus, founder and returning CEO of Zynga, said in a statement, “”For our ...
Vormetric and CloudHesive partner up to encrypt the cloud
Today Vormetric, Inc. announced that CloudHesive LLC joined the Vormetric Cloud Partner Program, which will add several Encryption-as-a-Service (EaaS) solutions to CloudHesive’s cloud management toolset. The new offerings include services that employ Vormetric Transparent Encryption and the Vormetric Cloud Encryption gateway. Vormetric prides itself as a leader in data security solutions through protecting data in ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2015 May 6: Gavin Andresen and max block size, FinCEN fines Ripple Labs, Wozniak joins Planet Capital board
Ripple Labs found themselves on the wrong side of FinCEN this week and has been subject to a $700,000 fine for failing to keep up with regulations as a money exchanger. Most notably the fine also comes with requirements that Ripple Labs comply better with anti-money laundering regulations, including better tracking of money transfers. ...
Pinshape announces partnership with 3DPrinterOS for 3D print cloud streaming
Pinshape Inc., a 3D printing community and marketplace, announced a strategic partnership with 3DPrinterOS (developed by 3D Control Systems Ltd.), the world’s first operating system for 3D printing to enable cloud-based streaming of 3D print jobs and designs to a wide variety of printers. By using the 3DPrinterOS API, Pinshape designers and customers can quickly ...