Google Removes Hundreds of Domains to Aid French Sports Piracy Crackdown
At the start of this year, a French bill went into effect that sanctioned the formation of a new regulatory body. The old HADOPI anti-piracy outfit merged with the Higher Audiovisual Council, creating the Audiovisual and Digital Communication Regulatory Authority (Arcom). Sports Piracy Crackdown Along with this organizational change, Arcom received new anti-piracy powers. It can swiftly order online services to take down unlicensed...
Is Lua worth learning?
Is Lua worth learning? Seth Kenlon Thu, 11/03/2022 – 03:00 Lua is a scripting language used for procedural programming, functional programming, and even object-oriented programming. It uses a C-like syntax, but is dynamically typed, features automatic memory management and garbage collection, and runs by interpreting bytecode with a register-based virtual machine. This makes it a great language for beginners, but also a powerful...
How open source weaves connections between countries
How open source weaves connections between countries Phil Shapiro Thu, 11/03/2022 – 03:00 Long ago, when I was a tech administrator for Arlington Public Schools, I received an unexpected email saying, “Our school in India loves your children’s stories, so we’ve printed them all out in braille.” Apparently, the school had found my collection of children’s stories on the web. I spent a moment...
When Your Neighbor Turns You In
Authoritarian societies depend on people ratting each other out for activities that were recently legal—and it’s already happening in the US. Powered by WPeMatico
Economists Warn of Severe Recession as Fed Continues Raising Interest Rates to Fight Inflation
A growing number of economists have warned about a severe recession in the U.S. if the Federal Reserve keeps up its fight against inflation. “Each adverse development in the outside world implies the Fed is going to have to do more in order to bring the situation under control,” said one economist. Economists Warn of Deep Recession Resulting From Fed’s Response to Inflation A growing number of economists have warned that the Federal...
