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Is uTorrent ‘secretly’ installing BitCoin mining software? Probably not.

Mar06
by on March 6, 2015 at 7:03 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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One of the most popular BitTorrent clients around, uTorrent, has been under fire today after allegedly installing cyptocurrency mining software on its users’ computers without warning. It started when uTorrent community forum member “Groundrunner” noticed increased CPU loads, even while his computer was idle, after installing the most recent update to the software, build 38913. He did some digging, and noticed a piece of software called Epic Scale was now running on his computer. According to Epic Scale’s Website, it solves “math problems for weather prediction, physics simulations, cryptography (including cryptocurrency mining) and more.” The problem-solving and mining are meant to help several charities. Epic Scale says it does not track…

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Three men have been charged with one of the largest data breaches in US history

Mar06
by on March 6, 2015 at 6:45 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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The US Department of Justice has charged three men with hacking into US email service providers in what it calls “one of the largest reported data breaches in US history.” Assistant Attorney General Caldwell said in a statement, “the defendants allegedly made millions of dollars by stealing over a billion email addresses from email service providers.” Acting U.S. Attorney Horn said in the same statement, “the scope of the intrusion is unnerving, in that the hackers didn’t stop after stealing the companies’ proprietary data—they then hijacked the companies’ own distribution platforms to send out bulk emails and reaped the profits from email…

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Samsung’s curved all-in-one PC lands March 8 for $1,299

Mar06
by on March 6, 2015 at 6:17 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Product Launches

Samsung’s ATIV One 7 Curved was announced at CES, and will finally be going on sale this Sunday for $1,299. While there are plenty of curved HDTVs and monitors already on the market, this is the first all-in-one curved PC. And if you have a Samsung smartphone, you can pair the two for one-tap music playback as well as answering messages and calls on the computer. It boasts a 27-inch 1080p curved display and a Core i5 processor with 8GB of RAM, 1 TB storage and runs Windows 8.1. The curvature of the screen offers 178-degree viewing angles. The PC…

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Shuttleworth says Ubuntu’s future is more exciting than space travel

Mar06
by on March 6, 2015 at 3:37 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Insider, Profiles and Interviews

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What now feels like a very long time ago was actually only a handful of years. Back in 2010, Canonical knew exactly what its future would hold and had a plan on how to get there. It wanted to build one OS for all devices: phones, TVs, tablets, the desktop, servers and beyond. It wanted the device to be irrelevant and the OS to be agnostic. Unfortunately, while the company knew exactly what it was doing, its loyal Ubuntu desktop user base didn’t. The past The desktop and server versions were the only thing that existed back then, and Canonical wasn’t ready to share its…

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Amazon’s bringing its mobile games to iOS

Mar06
by on March 6, 2015 at 3:17 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Product Updates

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When Amazon Game Studios revealed its latest set of exclusive new mobile titles late last year, they were all restricted to Amazon hardware. Now it’s decided – perhaps thanks to the relatively poor sales performance of the Fire phone – to bring four of them to iOS. There’s no release date yet, but horror game ‘Lost Within’, sci-fi adventure ‘Tales from Deep Space’, haunted adventure title ‘ Til Morning’s Light’ and arcade puzzler ‘To-Fu Fury’ are all coming to iPhones and iPads. Rather than going with the free-to-play model and bombarding you with opportunities to spend cash on in-app purchases, Amazon’s been making its…

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