Abkhazia Temporarily Shuts Down 15 Mining Farms
Authorities in Abkhazia have cut off 15 mining facilities from the territory’s electrical grid. The short-term measure is meant to alleviate power shortages during the cold winter months. The operators of the farms have fully cooperated with the local electric utility. Also read: Two Mining Companies Among Georgia’s Major Electricity Consumers 8,950 kWt of Mining Hardware Unplugged Chernomorenergo, the state-owned company...
Reporting When Pirate Releases Hit The Internet is Apparently Illegal Now
While the vast majority of BitTorrent users will simply visit their favorite pirate site for a list of what is available, very often content hasn’t been released online yet. From simply trying to soon to waiting for a delayed release, checking sites can be a bit hit and miss. For those looking for more information on whether content has hit the Internet yet, it’s possible to use a so-called PRE Database, or PreDb for...
Five ‘Piracy’ Predictions For 2019
Following the latest trends is one of the main tasks at the TorrentFreak newsroom and this job continues in the New Year. While predicting the future isn’t in our job description, we’re not too shy to take a guess or two. After the poor results last year, we might just have a shot in 2019. Demonoid Makes a Comeback The first one’s easy, but far from guaranteed. The popular semi-private BitTorrent tracker Demonoid...
Hot sysadmin reads for the new year
The sysadmin job is challenging and requires a lot of firefighting. Knowing that putting out fires is a big part of your job, what one thing would you save if your datacenter was literally on fire? Please share your answers in the comments below. P.S. You can only save ONE thing! read...
DevOps: Get up to speed with these handy guides
In 2018, the Open Source DevOps team helped produce two amazing guides to help advance our DevOps practices. read...
