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The Syrian Electronic Army Denies Being D0xed by Anonymous
The Syrian Electronic Army (or SEA) has been a thorn in the side of the online security community for months now and has been implicated in numerous hacks involving mostly cybervandalism of Twitter accounts and journal websites such as the New York Times and Huffington Post. Recently, cells of the hacking collective Anonymous have geared ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2013 August 28: Bitcoin Luminaries Meet With Regulators, BitPay Adds Microtransactions, Bitcoin Added to Oxford Online Dictionary
Yet another week of tumult rolls through the Bitcoin cryptocurrency market and community as curiosity piques about the interest of regulators in the virtual currency. News is beginning to trickle in from Monday’s closed-door meeting between representatives of The Bitcoin Foundation and a bevy of federal regulators and lawmaker advisors. BitPay has joined the bandwagon ...
Appcelerator Snaps Up API Startup Singly Pushing the DevOps Platform Normalization Curve
Getting a web app to run natively on mobile requires a good bit of graphical optimization and code editing that most developers would rather not do. An emerging San Francisco-based startup called Singly promises to simplify this chore with an abstraction layer that normalizes third party functionality across a wide range of platforms. Singly’s DataFabric ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2013 August 21: Bitcoin is Money
As world governments begin to grasp that a virtual currency can and is being used as part of commerce and trade, it means that they must come to understand what that means for them. In most cultures that grow beyond barter and abstract value into currency also start to regulate the production and use of ...
Exclusive: A Study of the Development Team Working on Missing World Media’s City of Heroes Spiritual Successor The Phoenix Project
In the wake of video game publisher NCSoft Corp. shutting down the popular MMORPG City of Heroes a number of fans have found themselves in limbo—primarily because for a very long time, CoH has been the pinnacle-best of superhero-themed MMOs in the video game market. As a result, the fans have been aching for a replacement ...
Aerospike 3 Release Seeks a Step Up in NoSQL, Focuses On Real-Time Processing
For the past several years, NoSQL databases have provided a scalable, manageable, and stable method for dealing with modern scaling and data format challenges. Aerospike real-time NoSQL database and key value store has broken the predictable performance barrier by applying established distributed systems principles, new real-time optimization techniques and flash storage (SSDs) technologies. Now, the ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2013 August 14: US Regulators Aim Their Sights at Bitcoin
Virtually unnoticed for some time, Bitcoin has just become of major interest to regulators—specifically the New York Department Of Financial Services and the US Senate. In a statement released alongside the revelation that the NYDFS had submitted 22 subpoena’s to various big players in the Bitcoin market, Benjamin Lawsky, who heads the department, called Bitcoin ...
Atlassian Celebrates New Search Functionality with an Interactive Tale in InfoQuest
Atlassian has put time and thought into what affects the role of everyone–including developers–when it comes to office interactions, communication, and project management with a suite of tools that simplify tracking and organizing the nitty-gritty social details of working together. While that last sentence may make sense to anyone who has worked with a group ...
What IBM #OpenPOWER Consortium New Chips for Datacenters Could Mean for Developers
The datacenter has become the metropolis of cloud computing and a space where a lot of things come together for Internet and networked and while the field is constantly changing a group of servers is a massive investment for any outfit from enterprise to small business. As a result, looking at the IBM OpenPOWER Consortium ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2013 August 7th: Coinbase Offers Microtransactions, Crypto Street Beta Launch, MtGox Partners With Akamai
In this Bitcoin Weekly we take a little look at the state of economic stability of Bitcoin itself by talking about a few things that have to do with exchanging, trading, and working directly with BTC. To start, Coinbase thinks it has a solution to the “microtransactions” problem that plagues not just fiat money over-the-Internet ...