How Bitcoin Mining Can Help Nuclear Reactors
The most economical, technically simple and safe way to operate nuclear power plants is to generate electricity at a constant rate and as close to full capacity as possible, according to the Nuclear Energy Agency. Bitcoin mining can help by utilizing the excess energy that reactors typically generate outside peak periods of consumption, which in turn reduces the stress of powering such facilities up and down. Also read: Mainstream...
Roku to Go Back on Sale in Mexico After Copyright Victory
Commercial streaming-capable devices are often designed to receive officially licensed programming but many can be reprogrammed to do illegal things. Manufacturers say they are not responsible for this behavior but last year in Mexico, that position was successfully challenged. Following a complaint filed by cable TV provider Cablevision, the Superior Court of Justice of the City of Mexico handed down an order preventing the...
Vodlocker Hammers Streaming Sites with JavaScript-based DDoS
Last year we highlighted a rather interesting service which makes it easy for anyone to embed a pirated movie. Requiring only an IMDb number, Vodlocker.to allows anyone to embed videos, many of which are pirated. This turned out to be a welcome feature for many smaller site operators, who use basic scripts to set up a streaming portal with minimal investment. In exchange, Vodlocker can serve some extra ads on these sites, which makes...
Browsing the web with Min, a minimalist open source web browser
Does the world need another web browser? Even though the days of having a multiplicity of browsers to choose from are long gone, there still are folks out there developing new applications that help us use the web. One of those new-fangled browsers is Min. As its name suggests (well, suggests to me, anyway), Min is a minimalist browser. That doesn’t mean it’s deficient in any significant way, and its open source,...
Automating upstream releases with release-bot
If you own or maintain a GitHub repo and have ever pushed a package from it into PyPI and/or Fedora, you know it requires some additional work using the Fedora infrastructure. read...
