Nintendo Wins Injunction Against Switch Mod & Pirate Game Seller
In January 2018, hacking group Team-Xecuter announced a Nintendo Switch hack that presented the opportunity for people to run pirated games on the console. This type of exploit is nothing new for hardware manufacturers like Nintendo but given its aggressive stance towards its intellectual property rights, the company wasn’t likely to sit back and watch the development and distribution that followed. Indeed, during December 2018,...
Torrent Site YTS ‘Settles’ Piracy Lawsuit with Movie Company but Stays Online
YTS is the most-visited torrent site on the Internet. With millions of daily visitors, it even beats the legendary Pirate Bay. The site ‘unofficially’ took over the YTS brand when the original group threw in the towel in 2015. Since then, it has amassed a rather impressive user base. However, that growth didn’t go unnoticed by copyright holders. The movie industry sees the popular torrent site as one of the main...
What you need to know about Rust in 2020
Rust has drawn plenty of attention from programmers on sites like Hacker News for a while. While many have long loved using the language for hobby projects, it didn’t start catching on in industry until 2019, when this really started to change. read...
My Raspberry Pi retrospective: 6 projects and more
Historically and theoretically speaking, a decade, a century, or a millennium starts when the clock turns midnight on January 1 of the year one of its decimal order. For example, the 20th century started on January 1, 1901, not on January 1, 1900. The reason for this is simple: there is no year 0 in our modern calendar, so these periods of time start on year 1 (using the Gregorian calendar). But that’s not how we refer to time...
Introducing the guide to inter-process communication in Linux
Getting one software process to talk to another software process is a delicate balancing act. It can be a vital function for an application, though, so it’s a problem any programmer embarking on a complex project has to solve. read...
