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Canada decides to treat Bitcoin as ‘money’
Like many countries, Canada has warned its population of the perceived risks posed to investors and the financial system by cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. Now, in order to try and circumvent these ‘dangers’, the nation in the Great White North has become the first to legislate Bitcoin usage, under the premise that it really IS money. ...
Study says encryption won’t protect you against determined snoops
Analysis of encrypted web traffic can reveal all kinds of sensitive information about a person, including their sexual orientation and medical conditions, claims a new study on the erosion of Internet privacy. The study, titled “I Know Why You Went to the Clinic” shows how it’s possible to identify which websites and pages people have ...
VMware wants to patent real-time chats between humans and servers
VMware has filed for an interesting patent that describes a way to build instant messaging functionality into servers, so system admins can ‘chat’ to them in real-time, reports The Register. The patent, which is dubbed “System And Method for Chatting With Machines,” notes that servers usually rely on emails or SMS messages to report problems to ...
Chicago gets a friendly Big Brother with the Array of Things
Architects and data scientists in Chicago are looking to light up the city this summer with a new form of civic infrastructure – aesthetically pleasing, highly visible boxes mounted onto street lights that are designed to monitor environmental conditions in the city. Before conspiracy theorists’ alarm bells start ringing, note that this is not your ...
Google forks OpenSSL into seriously BoringSSL
As developers continue heir struggles to fix the vulnerabilities within OpenSSL’s crypto library, Google has announced yet another fork of the project based on its own version of the code, amusingly dubbed BoringSSL. Previously, Google added patches on top of each new OpenSSL release, essentially building its own hacked version of OpenSSL for use with ...
Russia to drop x86 in favor of home-grown 64-bit ARM chips
The Russian government is looking to ditch processors made by Intel and AMD and replace them with a local flavor of ARM, according to numerous reports. Kommersant says a group of three state-owned Russian companies is working to develop a home-grown ARM processor known as Baikal that will use ARM’s 64-bit Cortex A-57 as a design ...
Flash, bang, wallop: The storage arms race has begun
SanDisk shook up the enterprise flash market this week, swooping in to acquire Fusion-io in a deal valued at approximately $1.1 billion. The move is likely to accelerate innovation in the Flash market as the big storage players jockey for position in one of IT’s most chaotic, and potentially lucrative markets. Consolidation began in earnest ...
Rackspace unveils new OnMetal cloud servers based on OpenStack
Rackspace has gotten a bit creative in its battle to stay relevant in the fight against AWS, Google and co., by making its Open Compute hardware available with the launch of its OnMetal Cloud servers running OpenStack. The announcement was made at the Structure event in San Francisco, where Rackspace said customers will now be ...
Microsoft makes Office 365 roadmap public, adds First Release program
Ever keen to keep its enterprise customers happy, Microsoft has announced a couple of new initiatives designed to help give Office 365 users a peek at upcoming changes to the service. These include a new ‘public roadmap’ of updates and a voluntary program that allows users to preview those updates. The initiatives are meant to ...
After 2 years in hiding, WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange speaks out (again)
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange marked the two-year anniversary of his confinement in Ecuador’s embassy in London on Thurdsay with a conference call with journalists in which he remained as defiant and unapologetic as ever. During the call with journalists, Assange demanded that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder drop the ongoing probe into WikiLeaks; spoke of ‘new ...