Analysts Suspect Cryptocurrencies Used to Evade US Sanctions in North Korea
During an interview earlier this week, two Washington-based financial intelligence analysts explain that North Korea is using cryptocurrencies to evade US sanctions. The intelligence researchers Lourdes Miranda, and Ross Delston say the Pyŏngyang region is actively trading established digital assets to avoid US financial sanctions that have been imposed since the fifties. Also read: Developer Paul Sztorc Launches the First...
CBS Shuts Down Stage 9, a Fan-Made Recreation of the USS Enterprise
For those unfamiliar with the project, Stage 9 is a beautiful virtual recreation of the Enterprise ship from Star Trek: The Next Generation for Windows, Mac and Linux. More experience than game, Stage 9 was built by fans over two years in the Unreal Engine. “There were two things that we were always pretty careful with,” says project leader ‘Scragnog’. “We made it as clear as we possibly could that this...
Illuminati Kodi Repository Throws in the Towel After ACE Threats
As one of the most popular media players of all time, Kodi has amassed tens of millions of users. While completely legal in its own right, the open source platform is often augmented with third-party addons that regularly provide access to huge amounts of infringing content. This has attracted the negative attention of copyright holders who are keen to prevent unlicensed content being exploited by the masses. Since last year, the...
Happy Birthday, GNU: Why I still love GNU 35 years later
GNU was publicly announced on September 27, 1983, and today has a strong following. GNU is… an operating system an extensive collection of computer software free software licensed under the GNU Project’s own General Public License (GPL) What else is GNU to you? Which tool is your favorite? Here are five great responses. read...
What containers can teach us about DevOps
One can argue that containers and DevOps were made for one another. Certainly, the container ecosystem benefits from the skyrocketing popularity of DevOps practices, both in design choices and in DevOps’ use by teams developing container technologies. Because of this parallel evolution, the use of containers in production can teach teams the fundamentals of DevOps and its three pillars: The Three Ways. Principles of flow...
