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Botnet takes over Twitch Installs Linux, partially installs Gentoo
Lately a fad of allowing crowdsourced control of video games has invaded popular videogame streaming website Twitch TV (Twitch Interactive, Inc.). First it was Twitch Plays Pokemon then more interesting iterations appeared such as Twitch Plays Dark Souls (an extremely difficult game for someone without hundreds of fingers going in opposite directions). Over the weekend ...
Oculus co-founder says mobile VR will dominate before PC VR goes wireless
Next year, a flood of virtual reality (VR) headsets will be hitting the consumer market leading the way for an entire market of VR-based entertainment. VR currently promises to be a new way interacting with computers, an immersive science fiction iteration on film and gaming. However, according to Oculus Inc. co-founder Palmer Luckey, VR on ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2015 October 28: European Union rules BTC exempt from VAT, Bitfinex bitcoin debit cards debut, BTCC margin trading service launches
As of writing, BitcoinAverage.com is currently reporting that the market price of BTC is $300.98. This marks the first time that Bitcoin has remained above the $300 mark for a sustained period of time since January this year. (There was a brief spike during July, but that didn’t last.) This marks the third week of ...
Raspberry Pi will soon have official, customized bulk ordered versions available
The hugely popular micro-sized bare-bones development kit Raspberry Pi is about to receive official customization treatment in an exclusive agreement struck between Raspberry Pi Trading Ltd., the commercial subsidiary of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, and Element14, subsidiary of Premier Farnell plc. In London today the two companies announced that the deal will give Element14 exclusive ...
Joomla zero-day SQL Injection flaw patched, affects millions of websites
Last week, Trustwave SpiderLabs discovered a SQL injection vulnerability exploit in widely popular web content management software (CMS) Joomla that allowed for access to administrative areas. Shortly thereafter, Open Source Matters, Inc., developers of Joomla, released version 3.4.5 to address this issue. Administrators are urged to upgrade immediately to seal up the vulnerability. The exploit ...
Pantheon for EDU: Managing websites for schools just got easier
For organizations with a large number of web properties to manage–because of sheer size, numerous departments, multiple locations or open access to employees and students–a content management system (CMS) is the best tool. This week Pantheon Systems, Inc., a powerful website management platform for WordPress and Drupal, announced Pantheon for EDU: the only product of ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2015 October 21: Kinguin partners with BitPay, corrupt agent sentenced in Silk Road theft, Voxelus cryptocurrency
This week opened up with the Bitcoin market rising almost $20 over last week and peeking into the $270 range–thus opening up rumors and speculation as to what’s causing this rising market. As with the last time Bitcoin saw a sudden bust of value, China is rumored to be behind it (or at least China ...
Bitcoin Group on track for world’s first Bitcoin mining IPO with $3m via BnkToTheFuture
Melbourne-based Bitcoin Group Limited is a hair’s breadth away from an Initial Public Offering after raising over $3 million on Bitcoin equity website BnkToTheFuture (Bnk To The Future Ltd.). According to Forbes, the company has raised most of the $3.6 million needed for the IPO–and according to Bitcoin Group’s BnkToTheFuture website the company has exceeded its goals. ...
Popcorn Time pirate movie streaming coming to a browser near you
It has never been so easy to watch popular movies and TV shows on your computer without having to buy them, all made possible by the widely popular application Popcorn Time. The app, described as “Netflix for pirates,” uses the BitTorrent peer-to-peer protocol to stream movies in a fashion similar to other networks used by ...
MIT developing a system that replaces human intuition for big data analysis
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) are looking to take human intuition out of big data analysis by letting computers choose the feature set used to identify predictive patterns in the data. This effort is called “Data Science Machine” and so far the prototype of this ...