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Comcast Funds BitStalker Anti-Piracy Research
For years the RIAA and other copyright holders have been sending copyright infringement notices to ISPs, requesting they forward them to their customers. ISPs including Comcast have always kindly complied with these requests, but remained a neutral party. It therefore came as a surprise when we found out that three major US ISPs – Comcast, Cox and Warner Cable – have been funding research which aims to help copyright holders track down and gather evidence against BitTorrent pirates more efficiently.
Continue reading »Tribler releases new version with distributed channel subscriptions
Tribler just released a new beta of its Bittorrent client with a new feature that the researchers behind the project have dubbed P2P moderation. The idea in a nutshell is that users can aggregate channels and content and distribute them through DHT. From the official announcement: “In Tribler V5.2 every user can start their own “Channel” to publish torrents.
Continue reading »Oracle: destroyer of virtual worlds
Lights out for Sun’s Project Darkstar Another of Sun Microsystem’s almost-practical projects for Java has been shuttered now that Oracle holds the purse strings. Project Darkstar, an open-source application server catered specifically for massively multiplayer online games, will no longer receive Snoracle funding.…
Continue reading »Google’s Android code deleted from Linux kernel
‘Go fork yourself!’ After removing Google’s Android driver code from the Linux kernel, Novell Fellow and Linux developer Greg Kroah-Hartman has argued that the mobile OS is incompatible with the project’s main tree.…
Continue reading »DOE grants $80 million to biofuel research
On Wednesday, US Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced that $80 million of stimulus money will be invested in advanced biofuels and fueling infrastructure. The funds will be divided between a few different projects and consortia with the intent of developing a more sustainable transportation system. Of the $80 million, $44 million will go to the National Alliance for Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts.
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