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Google, your YouTube commenters are revolting
Anger and fury continues to grow over the integration of YouTube comments with Google+ as long-time video makers react to woes and community disruption caused. When Google announced the upcoming replacement, debates broke out about the anti-anonymous nature of Google+ while also noting some positive benefits. Google+ comments allow users to hold highly connected, social ...
New Autodesk 3D cloud-streaming applications bring high-end power into the browser
More than ever the cloud and mobile devices are freeing up workers from being chained to their offices to get work done and the first wave has been collaboration and support—but the technology just hadn’t quite cracked the nut for highly computational tasks such as 3D rendering and design. This is the domain of Autodesk ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2013 November 13: Bitmit closing up shop, Chinese exchange GBL vanishes on investors, Shopify adds 70,000 merchants to the BTC market
Bitcoin value lately continues its highly upwardly mobile trajectory as over the last 24 hours the bids on MtGox for the currency has elevated from $365 to $425. In the Bitcoin community, new opportunities are opening up as others are closing down. Right now, Bitmit is showing all signs of shutting its doors—closing out all ...
Bitcoin wallet Inputs.io goes frownyface and shuts down after serious breach
Visitors to the secure Bitcoin wallet site Inputs.io will be greeted with a frowning emoticon today and a PGP-signed message telling them the bad news: Inputs.io has been shut down in the wake of a massive hack. The site has lost 4100 bitcoins to hackers and is unable to continue operations. :( Two hacks totalling ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2013 November 6: China market still going strong, another study ‘Bitcoin is broken’, US Senate seeks hearings on virtual currency
Not to be outdone from last week, Bitcoin value has continued its rise from $210 last week to exceeding $250 this week. Much of this is still speculated to be due to the introduction of China to Bitcoin exchange markets (and not without some convincing evidence.) Also this week–a new paper about how the protocol ...
Ask DevOps: It is time again to tangle with Daylight Savings Time, a guide for developers
Daylight Savings Time is becoming more and more of a controversial subject as civilization continues to integrate with roads, cars, and internet. The old ways of saving extra light by pushing the clocks around is becoming more of a frustrating tradition and less of something that seems useful to new generations—but aside from making extra ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2013 October 30: World’s first Bitcoin ATM in Canada, FBI finally got DPR’s BTC booty, London-based Coinfloor launches
Growth continues for the Bitcoin market as it continues to maintain a value above $200 even with some fluctuations. The world’s first Bitcoin ATM has been set up in a coffee shop in Vancouver, Canada that allows people to easily exchange BTC for CDN—something that, if it were ubiquitous enough, could break the consumer-difficulty with ...
Minecraft 1.7 Patch Changes, Rearranges, Turns-Upside-Down the Virtual World
The next massive update to Minecraft is rolling off the assembly line as this blog post is typed and the 1.7.2 patch is a real doozy. Developer Mojang has announced its availability and it’s already rolling out to the launcher so that people have it ready to go. No doubt many servers will soon follow. ...
PHP.net Compromised, Caught Potentially Spreading Malware
For a short time today, it appears that something managed to compromise the PHP.net web pages and alter some of the JavaScript present to spread malware. Earlier today, Barracuda Labs quickly published a blog post researching the hits and speculating about what happened. Earlier today Google’s stop-badware system caught this as well and flagged php.net ...
Exclusive: Interview with City of Titans Project Lead Chris Hare and Lead of Composition William Strickland
City of Titans, to-be-developed by Missing Worlds Media, has been heralded from the get-go as the spiritual successor to now-lost City of Heroes and is running a Kickstarter campaign (already fully funded) that has exceeded $470,000 and still has more than ten days to go. Known originally as The Phoenix Project, CoT is a superhero ...