CFTC Chairman Confirms Bitcoin, Ether Are Commodities
The chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) says he is certain bitcoin and ether are commodities. He outlined how his agency is working with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to regulate the crypto sector, noting that “there are no customer protections right now in the crypto market.” Bitcoin and Ether Are Commodities ‘For Sure’ CFTC Chairman Rostin Behnam discussed the regulation of...
Spanish Police & LaLiga Carry Out Nationwide Pirate IPTV Crackdown
In 2018, top-tier Spanish football league LaLiga caused widespread uproar with a clever yet intrusive anti-piracy tool. In common with its counterparts overseas, LaLiga’s premium content is widely pirated in both homes and commercial premises such as bars and restaurants. Since LaLiga couldn’t hope to visit them all, the football league added a new feature to its official app. Users’ phones effectively became spying devices that could...
Bogus DMCA Notices Sent to Google By Fake Google….To Protect Google?
DMCA takedown notices give copyright holders the ability to remove copies of their content from websites that have no right to distribute them. Billions of similar notices target search engines that carry links to similarly infringing content. Numerous scandals over the years have highlighted how sloppy notices have wrongfully targeted legitimate content but more worrying are those that appear to be calculated and malicious. These...
7 pieces of Linux advice for beginners
7 pieces of Linux advice for beginners Opensource.com Mon, 05/23/2022 – 03:00 Register or Login to like Register or Login to like What advice would you give a new Linux user? We asked our community of writers to share their favorite Linux advice. 1. Use Linux resources My brother told me that Linux was like a “software erector set” (that’s a dated reference to the old Erector sets that could be purchased in...
A hands-on guide to images and containers for developers
A hands-on guide to images and containers for developers Evan “Hippy” Slatis Mon, 05/23/2022 – 03:00 Register or Login to like Register or Login to like Containers and Open Container Initiative (OCI) images are important open source application packaging and delivery technologies made popular by projects like Docker and Kubernetes. The better you understand them, the more able you will be to use them to enhance the...
