Goldman Sachs’ Blankfein Admits His View on Cryptocurrency Is Evolving — Says Crypto ‘Is Happening’
Jan28

Goldman Sachs’ Blankfein Admits His View on Cryptocurrency Is Evolving — Says Crypto ‘Is Happening’

Lloyd Blankfein, a former Goldman Sachs CEO who is now the firm’s senior chairman, says his view on cryptocurrency is evolving. “I look at the crypto, and it is happening,” he added. Goldman Sachs Executive Lloyd Blankfein Says Crypto ‘Is Happening’ Lloyd Blankfein, a former Goldman Sachs CEO who has voiced skepticism about cryptocurrency in the past, said in an interview with CNBC this week that his view on crypto is “evolving.”...

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BeIN First to Use New Anti-Piracy Law to Block 18 Pirate Streaming Sites
Jan28

BeIN First to Use New Anti-Piracy Law to Block 18 Pirate Streaming Sites

For many years there have been established processes for removing infringing content and links to infringing content from the internet. The US is famous for its DMCA legislation, for example, and EU countries have similar rules in place. At least in theory, these laws can be used to take content down but pirate sites tend not to be particularly compliant. This often pushes rightsholders down the path of court-ordered site blocking...

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Pirate Site Traffic Surged in 2021, Research Finds
Jan28

Pirate Site Traffic Surged in 2021, Research Finds

Despite the growing availability of legal options, online piracy remains rampant. Every day pirate sites and services are used by millions of people worldwide. This is a serious problem for major content producers, Hollywood included. At the same time, it’s also seen as a threat to the broader economy, which generates hundreds of billions of dollars from video entertainment. The piracy landscape is still vast and complex, despite the...

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Congratulations to the 2022 Opensource.com Community Award recipients
Jan28

Congratulations to the 2022 Opensource.com Community Award recipients

Many journeys into open source start with community interactions. Code is an important contribution, but so is sharing knowledge. The community knowledge base is often a person’s first exposure to a project. I love working with the community of authors here at Opensource.com. I have the privilege of visiting with the members in our Correspondents program weekly and am really looking forward to building relationships with authors...

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Software Privacy Day: Use Delta Chat, an open source chat tool
Jan28

Software Privacy Day: Use Delta Chat, an open source chat tool

It’s Software Privacy Day again, the day meant to encourage users everywhere to spare a thought about where their data actually goes when it’s posted on, over, or through the Internet. One of the cottage industries around Internet communication that seems to ebb and flow in popularity is the venerable chat application. People use chat applications for all manner of conversations, and most people don’t think about...

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