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Breaking: Disagreement Between Bitcoin Clients Generates Fork
Due to a difference between two versions of the Bitcoin client (running v0.7 and v0.8 respectively) a fork has occurred when v0.8 clients generated a block that v0.7 blocks could not process. As a result, the two clients diverged and generated different, separate Blockchains—the functional way that Bitcoin transactions and wallet balances are recorded and ...
BitInstant Social-Engineering, DNS Hijack Hack Ended With $12,480 Worth of Bitcoins Stolen
Last Monday, BitInstant announced the results of having suffered a successful social engineering hack that ended with them losing approximately $12,480 USD worth of BTC (believed to be ฿999 BTC). The attacker, who used socially engineered information in order to take control of the DNS registrar and redirect connections away from BitInstant’s servers and gain access ...
Riverbed Announces Community-Centric Spash and Developer-Friendly FlyScript for Software-Defined Networking
Today Riverbed, an application performance company, announced a suite of new tools provided to developers that will greatly enhance their ability to perform DevOps duties. Amid these, management elements such as in FlyScript—a software-defined scripting language for acting on networking—and a highly integrated developer community called Splash. FlyScript is the brand name for this entire set ...
Google Glass: The Cultural Impact of Digital Eyes
Google’s wearable-computing project, Google Glass, has become something of a media phenomenon lately due to its highly innovative aspect of being able to put augmented reality and a camera right up to consumers’ eyes. No doubt this will have a great impact on the individual user experience and enable an entirely new era of digital ...
Bitcoin Adoption: The Slow but Steady Emergence Through Services
It’s 2013 and Bitcoin has been making many inroads into ecommerce, much of the focus of adoption has been on seeing how it could allow people to use money in ways they hadn’t before. It’s almost the science fiction credits that could be traded from phone-to-phone on the street. However, before we get there, first ...
Evernote Hacked, Enforces Password Change for 50 Million Users
Evernote, the popular Internet-based note-taking service, has posted an advisory that it has been subject to a security breach that they believe allowed hackers to infiltrate and take usernames, associated e-mail addresses and encrypted passwords of the 50 million users who are registered. In addition to the advisory, Evernote users will be asked to reset ...
Bitcoin Value Reaches All Time High, Exceeds $32 USD and Continues Upwards
This week, the value of a Bitcoin reached its all time high and is continuing a slow rise upwards. According to Bitcoin Magazine, Wednesday saw Bitcoins exceed it’s previous all time high of $31.9099 USD set on June 9, 2011. Today that USD value has continued to soar on MtGox to $34.41. This is a ...
Earbits Dips into Social Currency to Connect Artists and Listeners
Streaming music is becoming a normal thing for Internet goers now that the streaming music radio is no longer on the chopping block (as often) with Pandora and Spotify making headlines. Many of these ventures maintain themselves with advertisements and subscribers; but this week Earbits–a music streaming site of 3 years running–has announced that they’re implementing ...
EA Looks to Big Data to Level Up the Video Game Industry
Video games have grown from singular personal diversions into a market that spans not just the globe but minds. Many games, such as Battlefield and Call of Duty, serve millions of players a day and numbers close to that concurrently. As they play, they leave behind traces of themselves, behaviors, activity, and even their own ...
Big Data PaaS Provider Continuuity Announces Developer Suite and Sandbox
Today Big Data application fabric provider Continuuity announces the public beta for the company’s developer suite and application sandbox enabling PaaS Big Data. October of last year saw commentary on the SDK and other developer tools released by Continuuity into private beta and now much of that hard work is coming to a head for ...