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Epic’s forums hacked, taken offline during investigation
Epic Games, Inc., developer of the Unreal Engine and the Unreal series of first person shooters, is currently sending out e-mails warning users that its forums have been subject to a hack. The e-mail, in part, warns that the hackers may have gotten away with a lot of personal information given to Epic Games by ...
Chef bridges the gap to Amazon Web Services with 1-click deployment launch
Last week DevOps automation industry leader Chef Software, Inc. announced the availability of Chef for the Amazon Web Services, Inc. cloud environment. This update also brings the configuration management and automation capabilities of Chef into the AWS cloud by enabling 1-click deployment for Chef, which allows customers rapid ease-of-install when migrating through the cloud. Chef is following ...
Coinsetter opens up Bitcoin for margin trades and shorting to all users
New York City-based Bitcoin exchange Coinsetter Inc. just announced margin trading capability for all its users. This functionality was previously available to only select business users and allowed those users to trade or short on the deliverable bitcoin market with up to 5.0x leverage. This service is now open to all users. “Coinsetter has made ...
Lizard Squad throws DDoS tantrum over taunts from CEO of Daybreak Games
“So I’m coming for you Julius.” These were the words of John Smedley, CEO of Daybreak Game Company (previously Sony Online Entertainment), when berating 17-year-old Julius “zeekill” Kivimaki on Twitter. The Finnish teen, who has apparent ties to Lizard Squad, was convicted over 50,000 counts of computer crime related charges, but given a 2-year commuted ...
Square Enix announces a new Dragon Quest and it looks like Minecraft
Yesterday video game developer and publisher Square Enix Holdings Co., Ltd. announced the most recent spin-off game from the long-running Dragon Quest series and it looks surprisingly like a block-placing game we all know. The game is named Dragon Quest Builders and, readers may already have guessed, it has an aesthetic that’s uncannily similar to ...
BitFury grabs another $20m to build 100 MW data center for blockchain infrastructure
BitFury Group, a well-established Bitcoin blockchain infrastructure provider and transaction processing company, just announced it raised $20 million in funding with participation from DRW Venture Capital, iTech Capital and Georgian Co-Investment Fund. “The success of yet another funding round validates our business strategy and brings us closer to our ambitious goals,” said Valery Vavilov, CEO ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2015 July 8: Bitcoin network woes, ArcBit launch, Bitcurex offers no fees to Greece, and MIT’s Project Enigma
This past weekend and week saw a spike in the number of invalid blocks being mined by Bitcoin miners and a few forks of the Bitcoin blockchain started as result. To avoid this, the Bitcoin Core developers have alerted everyone who is running on software older than 0.9.5 to upgrade to 0.10.2. See below for ...
ZeroTurnaround lands $5 million in Series B funding to ease development and testing woes
Developer productivity tool vendor ZeroTurnaround USA, Inc. announced today that it has raised $5 million in Series B funding led by Bain Capital Ventures alongside Western Technology Investment. This brings the total amount of funding since the company’s founding in 2007 to $15 million. “We are passionate about taking away the frustrations and time draining ...
Spyware vendor Hacking Team hacked, 400GB of nefarious data leaked
Hacking Team is an Italian company specializing in surveillance software who have just learned the hard way what it’s like when the tables are turned. Sunday, the company became the victims of a hack from unknown attackers who have released 400GB of data via a Torrent claimed to be from Hacking Team’s dark, private vaults. ...
FullDive VR headset for the masses turns your smartphone into a virtual viewport
The world of Virtual Reality (VR) development is currently dominated by headsets that run their own hardware such as Oculus Rift and Sony Corporation’s Project Morpheus. This makes headsets powerful, but expensive. The alternative is to use already-existing hardware such as smartphones. California-based startup FullDive Inc. hopes add a cheaper everyday alternative to the VR ...