A number of high-profile outages that took place last weekend can be traced back to how the Linux OS kernel mishandled a leap second added to the official time,charges the CTO of DataStax,a company that manages the open source Cassandra ...
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Computerworld-The first decision every blogger faces is:Which blogging platform should I use?Movable Type,WordPress,Drupal,TypePad,Blogger,Posterous,Squarespace or Tumblr? Most of these products or services let you customize the ...
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Security researchers have identified a botnet controlled by its creators over the Tor anonymity network. It's likely that other botnet operators will adopt this approach, according to the team from vulnerability assessment and penetration ...
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Users running pirated copies of Windows 8 Pro can reportedly upgrade to a fully licensed and permanently activated version of the OS by simply installing a free Windows 8 Media Center upgrade offered by Microsoft. The relatively simple ...
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Amazon Web Services confirmed that its Elastic Block Storage (EBS) service experienced degraded service, leading sites across the Internet to experience downtime, including Reddit, Imgur and many others. AWS confirmed on its status page ...
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Despite precautions by system providers, an extra second added to the official timekeeping record Saturday triggered several popular Internet services to crash over the weekend, including LinkedIn, Reddit and Quantas airline's reservation ...
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IDG News Service - The Russian version of Wikipedia went black on Tuesday to protest a proposed law that could become the basis for Internet censorship. Wikipedia's protest is backed by other large Russian online businesses such as the ...
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US President Barack Obama has promised to fight for a free internet, during a question and answer session on social networking site Reddit. Barack Obama posted an “ask me anything” invitation on Reddit about an hour before ...
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The upper house of the Russian Parliament passed a bill on Wednesday that the nation's IT industry believes has high potential to lead to Internet censorship. The bill, including amendments to several laws, was adopted by the upper house ...
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Searchmetrics has released 2 studies on US and UK newspapers use of Pinterest the Social Media bookmarking and content sharing site with a growing engaged audience and very desirable demographic for marketers. Marcus Tober, founder and ...
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Once a high-flying web property, Digg was sold Thursday for a paltry $500,000. The sale to Betaworks, maker of an iOS news aggregator app and an URL clipper, Bit.ly, was a fraction of the $45 million lavished on the venture by Silicon ...
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It has been a big year for some tech luminaries, with several of them getting a nod from editors picking Time Magazine's Person of the Year. Calling him the "architect of the New America," President Barack Obama Wednesday was named Time's ...
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A group of activists have banded together to protect the Internet from what they see as bad legislation, with a focus initially on copyright enforcement proposals. Members of the new Internet Defense League hope they can harness the ...
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Amazon suffered another embarrassment as web services hosted at its Virginia datacentre were subject to an outage, bringing websites of a number of high-profile customers down, and for not the first time. The cloud infrastructure was hit ...
Skype has disabled the account password reset option on its website following reports that the feature can be abused to hijack Skype accounts if the attackers know the email addresses associated with them. Instructions on how to exploit ...
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