Anti-Piracy Group Continued to Send DMCA Notices on Behalf of Indicted Copyright Swindlers
Piracy tracking firm MUSO aims to help rightsholders convert pirates into paying customers. This is a noble goal and the UK-based company doesn’t shy away from taking a stand. Earlier this week, we highlighted how MUSO linked the increased fragmentation of legal streaming services as one of the reasons why piracy is flourishing. Traditional DMCA Takedowns At its core, however, MUSO is still an anti-piracy outfit. This means that the...
Try Asciidoc instead of Markdown
Try Asciidoc instead of Markdown Seth Kenlon Mon, 08/15/2022 – 03:00 1 reader likes this 1 reader likes this I’m a happy user of the XML-based Docbook markup language. To me, it’s a precise, explicit, and detailed system that allows me to have contextual and domain-specific metadata in what I write. Best of all, though, it can be transformed (that’s what XML users call it when XML is converted into another...
How ODT files are structured
How ODT files are structured Jim Hall Mon, 08/15/2022 – 03:00 1 reader likes this 1 reader likes this Word processing files used to be closed, proprietary formats. In some older word processors, the document file was essentially a memory dump from the word processor. While this made for faster loading of the document into the word processor, it also made the document file format an opaque mess. Around 2005, the Organization for...
A New Tractor Jailbreak Rides the Right-to-Repair Wave
A hacker has formulated an exploit that provides root access to two popular models of the company’s farm equipment. Powered by WPeMatico
Flaw in the VA Medical Records Platform May Put Patients at Risk
The Veterans Affairs’ VistA software has a vulnerability that could let an attacker “masquerade as a doctor,” a security researcher warns. Powered by WPeMatico