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Since MannDude started a topic called 100,000 I thought I'd start one called 10,000 :P 10,000 of these "Links" being installed here over the next few years.  The first ones are being installed now photo1 photo2 description from nyc.gov: Proposed privacy policy for the free wifi...

Dell has reportedly agreed to acquire EMC (which owns 81% of VMWare) in the largest tech deal ever: $65 billion.  EMC's most valuable asset is its 81% stake in VMware, worth about $27 billion.  ...

Spamhaus blacklisted over 131K ColoCrossing IPs this weekend for repeat offenses and Ernie Quick of Hudson Valley Host and Jon Biloh of ColoCrossing are trying to use the blacklisting as an opportunity to squeeze more money from customers for a $10 mail service add-on.  TL;DR Ernie just earned...

It's still very early in this startup's life but I like what I've seen (which is a rarity) so time for a review. VScale.io (website: www.vscale.io)  is a new Russian hourly billing "cloud" provider targeted to developers. mini review / random notes:  Saint-Petersburg location recent startup...

First 8-core ARM offering announced today by Hetzner.  Pricing ex. VAT is € 9.90 + € 9.90 for the smallest  2GB RAM/32GB MicroSD model,   The top of the line € 19.90 + € 19.90 setup is 2GB RAM/32GB MicroSD + 240GB SSD 8 core Samsung Exynos-5422 Octa-Core processors 1 1 Gbit/s-Port port/...

Proposed faster, more secure alternative to Tor: ABSTRACT We present HORNET, a system that enables high-speed end-to-end anonymous channels by leveraging next generation network architectures. HORNET is designed as a low-latency onion routing system that operates at the network layer thus...

RunAbove news:   ThunderX ARMv8 powered cloud servers coming in August:     full press release: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ovhcom-launches-worlds-first-armv8-based-public-cloud-powered-by-caviums-thunderx-workload-optimized-processors-300111952.html   -------------------   OVH VPS...

342,016 IPs to be exact acquired in a short period of time by this relatively new (domain registered October 25, 2014) British Virgin Islands Islands based low end VPS provider.  http://bgp.he.net/AS62741#_asinfo Spamhaus is alleging that  3 of the /16's they acquired were hijacked by AS62741...

ICANN has proposed several changes to the use of WHOIS privacy on domain registrations.  Proposals include limiting the use of private WHOIS to non-commercial entities only (something which I have long advocated for because there is no legitimate reason why a business needs to hide its...

borrowed from LET because 30 minutes notice deserves its own thread (moderator dearest: feel free to move this to the tutorials section and change the title to "how not to run a business" or "how to alienate your customers" or "why business customers won't touch your service with a 10 foot pole"...

full study: https://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/05/18/lxd-crushes-kvm-in-density-and-speed/ LXD info: http://www.ubuntu.com/cloud/tools/lxd

PayPal (USA) announced some changes to its buyer protection policy on April 30th.  The policy changes will be effective beginning July 1st. Many changes announced but the change that will hit many VPS board users is that buyer protection will now be extended to intangible items like digital...

short version: ordered a server (used) on Monday and drives are going read-only after a few hours of uptime.  Rebooting solves the read-only problem (until it happens again a few hours only). my diagnosis: it's probably either a drive hardware problem or a faulty cable, but outdated drive...

Today's drama starts with linuxthefish asking on the LET GVH/XFuse thread: "Did anyone else get an email from Nexim web hosting to the email account they used on GVH SolusVM?"

$40 million Tier III data center just opened on January 15th https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=a2XaEITtpFU website: data center features The owner is MainOne, the operator of the MainOne submarine cable (capacity of 4.96 Tbps) that stretches from Portugal to Nigeria...

India blocked 32 websites this week, including GitHub and the Internet Archive, because some dumbass decided the sites are used to spread "ISIS propaganda".  The bans on GitHub, Vimeo, DailyMotion, and Weebly have now been lifted but the other 28 sites remain blocked. The list of sites...

Interesting statistics on website traffic (and bot trends)... full article: http://www.darkreading.com/informationweek-home/bad-bots-on-the-rise/d/d-id/1318276?

My favorite cloud provider sold...   full news release: http://www.it-ernity.nl/en/media/news/2014/November/50/it-ernity-adds-leading-public-cloud-services-acquires-cloudvps   more: http://www.cloudvps.com/blog/cloudvps-acquired-by-dutch-provider-it-ernity/ edited to add: CloudVPS is the 14th...

OVH's Kimsufi is scrapping its 1 year old "forum only support" and Kimsufi users will now be able to enjoy the same quality support as other OVH users.  Hardware support and commercial support (billing, order questions) will now be handled by email, Mon-Fri during office hours.  Support for...

Something different, so it's worth a thread.  Online.net is testing a dedicated ARM server cloud.  You can get a free 15-minute trial here: http://labs.online.net/#/ (no signup required) or a longer free trial by following @online_fr on Twitter and sending them a DM with your email...