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Omega2, $5 Linux platform computer for IoT projects, exceeds $450k in Kickstarter funding
The Omega2 set out to produce an extremely cheap, extensible Linux computer designed for Internet of Things (IoT) projects with a Kickstarter campaign asking for only $15,000. Now, with only for days remaining in the campaign, the Omega2 team is set to receive over $450,000 in funding from over 11,000 backers. Developed by the Onion Corporation, the Omega2 ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2016 August 17: Bitfinex hack interim report, KeepKey wallet does ShapeShift trades, Copay users can purchase Amazon gift cards
It’s the week of wallets in the Bitcoin ecosystem with KeepKey and BitPay’s Copay both making announcements. The hardware wallet KeepKey just announced a firmware change that allows wallet users to make trades on the ShapeShift cryptocurrency exchange platform (currently for Bitcoin, Litecoin and Dogecoin). BitPay’s Copay wallet app also announced a change that will ...
DDoSCoin rewards attackers with a cryptocurrency for blasting a website
Two researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of Michigan released a white paper [PDF] describing a new type of cryptocurrency. It’s called DDoSCoin and it would pay people who run nodes in a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack for participation. The cryptocurrency does this by using the cryptographic handshake from ...
myDevices partners with Arduino to jumpstart Internet of Things project development
This week, Internet of Things (IoT) company myDevices (division of Avanquest North America Inc.), developer of Cayenne (a drag-and-drop IoT project builder), announced a partnership with Adruino S.r.L., leading open source hardware and software ecosystem for embedded and microcontroller projects. As a market, IoT is a rapidly growing industry that connects consumers, businesses and even ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2016 August 10: Bitfinex trading coming back online, App Store fake Bitcoin apps, Kim Dotcom Megaupload Bitcache talk
Bitfinex is big news this week, especially after the hack last week, and the company has begun reporting that it expects to bring most of its trading platform back online along with deposits. The iTunes App Store is still having troubles with fake Bitcoin apps appearing—Apple has been removing those last discovered and reported but ...
Delta Air Lines flight cancellations possibly caused by data center fire
Earlier today, Delta Air Lines, Inc. grounded all flights nationwide–domestic and international–due to a power failure at its Atlanta data center. The outage lasted six hours ending around 8:40 a.m ET, although at that time Delta noted that only “limited” flights would be running and there would continue to be cancellations throughout the day. .@Delta has ...
Numerous fake Bitcoin wallet apps discovered in Apple iTunes App Store
A number of fake Bitcoin wallet mobile apps have been added to the iTunes App Store run by Apple, Inc. very recently, according to a representative from Breadwallet LLC who posted on Reddit. The fake wallets use the same, or very similar, names to existing official mobile wallet apps, but presumably open the user to ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2016 August 3: Bitfinex loses 119,756 BTC in theft, Blockstream acquires GreenAddress, Brave browser raises $4.5 million
This week, Hong Kong-based Bitcoin exchange Bitfinex suffered a major security breach that led to the theft of over 119,000 BTC. The hack also coincides with a sudden drop in the USD-BTC market value of almost 20 percent. The company has released a few updates into the investigation about the hack. Blockstream, the company behind ...
Mozilla begins roll-out of multi-process support and mandatory add-on signing in Firefox
Today, Mozilla Corp announced the general availability of Firefox 48, an update that will include new security and developer features that can take advantage of multi-process support and add-on signing. Although only a few users will initially receive the multi-process advantage with this update, Mozilla will be rolling out the change to more as time ...
Brave ad-blocking browser raises $4.5 million in preparation for 1.0 launch
Brave Software, Inc., a startup dedicated to reinventing the web browser to produce a faster, more stable, privacy-centric and secure software, today announced it has raised $4.5 million in a seed round from venture capital firms and angel investors. Aside from integrating ad-blocking software while using enhanced script-control features, the Brave browser would also implement ...