Straight outta addresses.
Felt this was appropriate use of a meme. #IPv6 pic.twitter.com/DTOLo2bgvl
— Tom Hollingsworth (@NetworkingNerd) August 13, 2015
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Backup/Restore.
Successful.
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Smartphones are the primary internet device in 2015.
Coming from 15% in 2013, smartphones are the primary device to connect to the internet only two years later. 2015 that that went up to 33%. Laptop and Desktop lost significantly in the same period.
https://twitter.com/benedictevans/status/629157862732738564
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AntiVirus Firm BitDefender Hacked
AntiVirus Firm BitDefender Hacked by DetoxRansome; Turns Out Stored Passwords Are UnEncryptedvia: AntiVirus Firm BitDefender Hacked; Turns Out Stored Passwords Are UnEncrypted
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ARIN IPv4 Addresses Run Out Tomorrow
ARIN exhausted:
via: Slashdot
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Spectrum 2015 Programming Languages
New languages enter the scene, and big data makes its markSpoiler: basically, all is the same as past year, but R made a jump up by 4 positions and ranks 6th now. R is a statistical language, capable of munging huge amounts of data, hence the Big Data reference in the article.
via: Spectrum
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IETF93 DOTS Recording
Recording from the IETF “DDoS Open Threat Signaling” (DOTS) Working Group meeting during IETF93, taking place July 19-24 in Prague. The agenda of the WG is to develop a standards
based approach for the realtime signaling of DDoS related telemetry and threat handling requests and data between elements concerned with DDoS attack detection, classification, traceback, and mitigation. -
Skype translate has reportedly a swearing problem.
The joys of automation don’t go down with society that well for Skype.
For some reason, Microsoft’s Skype translator is inserting unintended expletives into its Chinese translations.
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The most important skill for an entrepreneur? Money!
The most important skill for an entrepreneur? Money!
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Audi, BMW and Daimler buy here.com
William Boston of the Wall Street Journal comments on the acquisition of here.com, formerly Nokia, by German car manufacturers Audi, BMW and Daimler.
German auto makers Audi, BMW and Daimler have agreed in principle to purchase Nokia’s digital mapping service, called Nokia Here, for about $2.7 billion, according to a person familiar with the situation.
via: Audi, BMW and Daimler Near Deal to Buy Nokia Mapping Service
Also:
Both sides of this — why Nokia needs to sell Here Maps, and why the car makers want to buy it — were explained by Horace Dediu last month.
via: Daring Fireball.