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BitInstant’s CEO Goes to Brazil for Money Conference Returns With ‘World’s Current Monetary System is Inferior to Bitcoin’
BitInstant CEO Charlie Shrem and Erik Voorhees went down to Rio de Janeiro for the annual Global Payments Forum held by the North American Payments Association (NACHA) to speak about Bitcoin’s niche as “virtual currency.” In a post on BitInstant’s blog Voorhees speaks about the conference’s reaction to them and his reaction to the conference ...
Anonymous ‘Spokesman’ Barrett Brown Raided by FBI During Recorded Chat Session
In what would make the second time this year, Barrett Brown was raided by the FBI. This time the event happened “on camera” and a portion of it was recorded during a live video chat where he was holding a discussion with others. Wired magazine has an article (and recorded video) up right now about ...
Blizzard Caught with Screenshots Around their Ankles Over World of Warcraft Watermarks
Players of the ever-popular World of Warcraft developed by Blizzard has been caught watermarking screenshots taken from within the game bringing to light privacy issues with playing online games and sharing of images taken within them. Screenshots from the wildly popular MMO have been sussed out by enterprising amateurs, and appear to have been within ...
Go Daddy Outage Related to Router Failure and Not Anonymous DDoS
Yesterday, the Internet saw what can happen when a DNS outage strikes a major webhost when millions of people could not access web pages provided by Go Daddy. Initially, reports went out that Anonymous had taken credit for a DDoS attack against the Go Daddy’s DNS infrastructure and thus caused intermittent failures for numerous websites—but ...
Whisper.sh: An Intimate Take on Radical Anonymity
We’ve been moving slowly through the era of social information technology and that means more and more fears crop up about having our lives on display in social networks. People have images of themselves at parties on Facebook, tweet that they’re at a concert, and get it up with a HangOut on Google+ from their ...
Google Stealthily Erases The Pirate Bay, BitTorrent from Instant Search Suggestions
Google has entered the Pirate Bay and BitTorrent fleet battle via submarine torpedo against the ever-popular technology by stealthily leaving words related to these items out of the autocomplete. When searching on Google, customers are given autocompletion suggestions but Google also has a list of “banned words” that do not autocomplete, now Pirate Bay’s domain ...
Stranger Than Fiction: Romney’s Tax Records Ransomed for Bitcoin
In what is probably the weirdest news to date involving Bitcoin, the favorite darling virtual currency, it looks as if an anonymous group has claimed to have pilfered Presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s tax records and is demanding $1 million BTC to not unleash the information. According to an article today in CNN the group published ...
Pluarlsight Does “Call Me Maybe” the Developer Way
It’s Wednesday, so let’s just take a short break from our computers and remember that development and operations can be fun. Software development and DevOps isn’t just about computers and numbers, it involves people and teams. The Pluarlsight staff decided to get together and collage a music video of them singing along with “Call Me ...
Kendo UI by Telerik Brings HTML5 Into Focus for Mobile App Developers
Telerik, a leading provider of developer tools and solutions announced a major update to its product Kendo UI. It has released the Kendo UI Complete with several new features, like support for tablet U and server-side wrappers for ASP.NET MVC. This enhancement has been created to enable developers to quickly build rich, native-like, and simplify ...
Guild Wars 2 on the Virtual Gaming Economy
Virtual items have become a part of the mainstream Internet culture by way of massively multiplayer online games (MMOs) and social games such as hook into Facebook. After all, what exactly is a pair of sunglasses for your Farmville sheep, or your cute little avatar worth to you? Perhaps a few cents, but sometimes these ...