Publicly Listed Canadian Company Mojo Invests 1.5% of Reserves in Bitcoin, Plans More Next Year
On December 23, 2020, the Canadian financial tech firm Mogo announced its plans to invest 1.5% of the company’s reserve assets into bitcoin by the year’s end. Mogo’s president and CFO said the initial corporate investment of up to $1.5 million in bitcoin builds on the company’s product development related investments in bitcoin during the last few years. Ever since Microstrategy purchased bitcoin to replace a percentage of the firm’s...
EU Opinion: Abusive BitTorrent Copyright Trolls Should Be Denied Access to Subscriber Data
The term ‘copyright troll’ is regularly used to describe companies and entities, largely in the video entertainment industries, that target alleged file-sharers for cash settlements. In the main, these companies prefer not to enter into adversarial legal action for various reasons, mostly related to the profits to be made from additional sources of relatively easy settlement revenue. However, their often complicated business...
Nintendo Conducted Invasive Surveillance Operation Against Homebrew Hacker
Projects to protect the intellectual property rights of corporations are underway all around the world on a continual basis but it is rare for operational details to leak out to the public. Unfortunately for Nintendo, leaked documents are now revealing how frightening things can get for console hackers in their crosshairs, even when those targets have already declared that their work isn’t designed for piracy purposes. Leaked...
5 reasons to use the Atom text editor
Beautiful open source text editors are pretty common these days, between Adobe’s Brackets, Microsoft’s VSCode, and GitHub’s Atom. Each of these seem to offer similar experiences: a modern interface, easily installable plugins, and a big brand-name sponsor. And they’re all actually really good. So what sets Atom apart from any other hyper-modern text editor? read more Powered by...
10 ways we learned Rust in 2020
The Rust language is getting more and more popular, as the combination of memory safety and zero-cost abstractions makes it a good fit for handling many tasks. In addition, frequent releases, consideration for development ergonomics, and high-quality documentation are leading more people to learn Rust. Whether you’re new to Rust or have been using it for a while, you’ll learn something new in Opensource.com’s top 10...