Beijing to Disperse $6 Million in Digital Yuan in a Red Envelope Lottery
China’s central bank digital currency (CBDC) continues to gain further ground as the Beijing Local Financial Supervision and Administration Bureau revealed 40 million worth of the country’s digital yuan ($6.3 million) will be distributed to Chinese citizens. Beijing and China’s Central Bank Launches Digital Yuan Lottery The People’s Bank of China (PBoC) and Beijing Local Financial Supervision and Administration Bureau have announced a...
Mangamura Operator Handed Three-Year Prison Sentence, $650K in Fines
After being founded in 2016, pirate site Mangamura was said to have caused huge damage to the local manga industry. According to Japan-based anti-piracy group CODA, in just two years Mangamura caused around $2.91 billion in losses but in April 2018 the show came to an abrupt end. Just days after the government in Japan announced emergency websites blocking measures against several sites, including Mangamura, the download platform shut...
Database of ‘Pirate Site Haven’ DDoS-Guard is Reportedly Up For Sale
So-called bulletproof hosting services are a thorn in the side of anti-piracy groups everywhere. They operate much like regular hosting companies but are much more lenient when it comes to complaints from third parties, meaning that spammers, online gambling entities, and other questionable actors have a better chance of keeping their content online. Given that pirate sites now fall into these categories, bulletproof hosters are also...
Explore the Kubernetes ecosystem in 2021
Kubernetes, the de facto standard for container orchestration, has quickly grown to dominate the container environment both in terms of infrastructure management and application development. As an open source platform with a huge community of enthusiasts and professionals, and being a part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Kubernetes has become not only a powerful and impressive orchestration system itself but it has fostered...
Test your Kubernetes experiments with an open source web interface
Have you wanted to cause chaos to test your systems but prefer to use visual tools rather than the terminal? Well, this article is for you, my friend. read more Powered by...
