Appeals Court Revives Canadian Reverse Class Action Against BitTorrent Pirates
Movie studio Voltage Pictures has gone after alleged movie pirates for many years now. The company and its subsidiaries have filed numerous lawsuits against alleged pirates in the United States, Australia, and Europe, which likely brought in substantial revenues. Last week, we reported that Voltage just launched a new legal campaign in the UK. At the same time, there is news coming from Canada as well, where Voltage hopes to hold...
My favorite LibreOffice productivity tips
LibreOffice is my productivity application of choice. It’s one of the most potent reasons for recommending Linux distributions to educators and students, whether PK-12 or higher education. Now that the school year is upon us, I thought I would recommend some LibreOffice shortcuts and tips that might save you valuable time. Work faster with keyboard shortcuts I use a lot of keyboard shortcuts. Here are the most common shortcuts...
Add storage with LVM
Logical Volume Manager (LVM) allows for a layer of abstraction between the operating system and the hardware. Normally, your OS looks for disks (/dev/sda, /dev/sdb, and so on) and partitions within those disks (/dev/sda1, /dev/sdb1, and so on). read more Powered by...
Pnetwork Protocol Gets Hacked, Loses 277 Bitcoin on Binance Smart Chain
Pnetwork, a multi-chain bridging protocol, announced it was hacked yesterday, losing 277 pbtc (its bridged version of bitcoin) on Binance Smart Chain. The protocol acknowledged that an attacker managed to exploit a bug in its codebase to take control of the stolen bitcoin. The bridging contracts are currently working as usual but with extra security measures enabled. Pnetwork Protocol Hacked: 277 Bitcoin Lost Pnetwork, a decentralized...
Biggest Bank in Venezuela Suffers 5 Day Outage After Hack Attempt
The Bank of Venezuela, one of the biggest state banks in the country, is now experiencing an outage that has left its customers without services for five days. The bank published a PR statement stating this was the result of a “terrorist attack” on the national financial system, being perpetrated in the form of a massive hack. More than 16 million customers are still without banking services at the time of writing. Bank of Venezuela...
