BitTorrent Turns 20: The File-Sharing Revolution Revisited
“My new app, BitTorrent, is now in working order, check it out here,” Bram Cohen wrote on a Yahoo! message board on July 2, 2001. This was probably one of the more underwhelming software launches in history. The official website, consisting of a few lines of HTML code with black text on a white background, didn’t impress either. Nothing hinted at the powerhouse BitTorrent would soon become. While BitTorrent lacked a fancy PR channel,...
ISP Doesn’t Have to Expose Alleged Movie Pirates, Dutch Supreme Court Rules
Piracy settlement letters have become a serious threat in countries all round the world. Thus far, Dutch Internet users have been spared from this practice but local movie distributor Dutch Filmworks planned to change that. Dutch FilmWorks’ Quest for Piracy Settlements Four years ago the company received permission from the Dutch Data Protection Authority to monitor and store the IP-addresses of BitTorrent users who shared pirated...
Identify flowers and trees with this open source mobile app
Where I live, there are lots of trails and roads lined with flowers and trees. My community is famous for its annual maple festival, and maple trees are easy for me to identify. However, there are many other trees I cannot identify by name. Flowers are the same: dandelions are easy to spot, but I don’t know the names of the wildflowers that line my walking path. Recently my wife told me about PlantNet, a mobile application that...
Fancy Bear Is Trying to Brute-Force Hundreds of Networks
While SolarWinds rightly drew attention earlier this year, Moscow’s Fancy Bear group has been on a password-guessing spree this whole time. Powered by WPeMatico
Windows 11’s Security Push Leaves Scores of PCs Behind
The minimum hardware requirements for Microsoft’s next operating system will leave plenty of PCs stranded. Powered by WPeMatico
