US Court Orders 21 Pirate Site Operators to Pay $1 Million Each in Damages
Nov10

US Court Orders 21 Pirate Site Operators to Pay $1 Million Each in Damages

The entertainment industry’s battle against pirate sites is frequently described as a cat-and-mouse game. The site operators are often anonymous or located in exotic countries, completely ignoring any and all legal threats. Take The Pirate Bay, for example. While the site’s founders were convicted over a decade ago, the site continues to thrive. It’s still accessible from its original .org domain name but the current operator is...

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Mangabank “Suffers DDoS Attack” & Disappears Following Legal Action
Nov10

Mangabank “Suffers DDoS Attack” & Disappears Following Legal Action

Last week we reported that a San Francisco law firm acting for Japanese publisher Shueisha had filed an ex parte application at a California district court. The application, which sought discovery of information for use in a foreign proceeding (28 U.S. Code § 1782), targeted a number of websites believed to act as file-hosting repositories for pirated manga works. According to the publisher, the content contained in the sites –...

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Transfer files between your phone and Linux with this open source tool
Nov10

Transfer files between your phone and Linux with this open source tool

Are you looking for a way to quickly copy files from your iPhone or Android mobile device to your Linux computer or from your Linux computer to your devices? I recently discovered an open source application that’s easy to install and makes transferring files as simple as a QR code. The qrcp project provides a command that generates a QR code in your terminal that allows you to send or receive files to your computer over the...

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How Knative unleashes the power of serverless
Nov10

How Knative unleashes the power of serverless

Knative is an open source project based on the Kubernetes platform for building, deploying, and managing serverless workloads that run in the cloud, on-premises, or in a third-party data center. Google originally started it with contributions from more than 50 companies. Knative allows you to build modern applications which are container-based and source-code-oriented. read more Powered by...

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