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Mozilla Holds Its Nose And Supports DRM Video In Firefox

Stephen Shankland | CNET | May 14, 2014

The open-source browser gets a proprietary Adobe software so people can watch video from sites like Netflix over the Web. Supporting it is better than losing Firefox users, Mozilla says...

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Mozilla Tells The FCC To Grow A Spine, Reclassify ISPs As Common Carriers

Brad Reed | BGR | May 5, 2014

Mozilla might not be as big as Google or Netflix in most consumers’ minds but as the maker of the popular Firefox browser, it does have some clout. That’s why it’s noteworthy that Mozilla on Monday recommended that the Federal Communications Commission use the “nuclear option” against Internet service providers by reclassifying them as common carriers under Title II of the Communications Act...

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Net Neutrality's Death Could Spark Populist Revolt

Ron Fournier | National Journal | May 6, 2014

With echoes of the Gilded Age, Washington coddles moneyed, monopolistic internet barons...If history is a guide, our generation's Standard Oil, the populists' boogeyman, may be Comcast, Verizon and/or AT&T – the sprawling internet providers who, like Rockefeller and his railroad co-conspirators, could monopolize the price and quality of indispensable goods.

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Netflix And YouTube Make Up Majority Of US Internet Traffic, New Report Shows

Amanda Holpuch | The Guardian | November 11, 2013

Peer-to-peer file sharing has declined and Amazon and Hulu struggle to win receding American attention spans Read More »

Netflix Does Its Tech Homework

Dana Blankenhorn | Seeking Alpha | July 31, 2012

When people here and elsewhere look at Netflix (NFLX) they see a content company, a sales channel for Hollywood. They may compare it with other channels or they may focus on its growing costs. What no one seems to do is consider Netflix as a technology play. So let's look at that. Read More »

Netflix Open Source Cloud-testing Chaos Monkey

Derrick Harris | GigaOM | July 30, 2012

Netflix has open sourced Chaos Monkey, a service designed to terminate cloud computing instances in a controlled manner so companies can ensure their applications keep running when a virtual server dies unexpectedly. In the past year, Chaos Monkey has terminated more than 65,000 of Netflix’s instances. Read More »

Netflix Open Sources Its Hadoop Manager For AWS

Derrick Harris | GigaOM | June 22, 2013

Netflix has open sourced its software to make running Hadoop jobs on the Amazon Web Services cloud as easy as possible. Read More »

Netflix Positioned To Lead The Next Wave Of Cloud Adoption

Matt Asay | ReadWrite | June 24, 2013

As the cloud grows in importance, Netflix is positioned to lead mainstream enterprises to adopt it in droves. Read More »

New From Netflix: Open-Sourced Gatekeeper To Improve The Delivery Of Web Services

Barb Darrow | GigaOM | June 12, 2013

Netflix is open sourcing yet another tool to augment the Amazon Web Services infrastructure it relies on to deliver streaming media to myriad devices. Read More »

New Research Shows Attackers Turning to Encrypted Cyber Attacks During Pandemic

Press Release | Zscaler, ThreatLabZ | November 10, 2020

Zscaler, Inc...today released its 2020 State of Encrypted Attacks report, published by the Zscaler ThreatLabZ team. The threat research reveals the emerging techniques and impacted industries behind a 260-percent spike in attacks using encrypted channels to bypass legacy security controls. The report provides guidance on how IT and security leaders can protect their enterprise from the rising trend of encrypted threats, based on insight sourced from over 6.6 billion encrypted threats across the Zscaler™ cloud from January through September 2020 over encrypted channels. To download and read, see the 2020 State of Encrypted Attacks.

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No Longer Why Open Source, But How To Do Open Source

Mark Hinkle | Open Source Delivers | May 7, 2014

Fifteen years ago I spent a good deal of my time evangelizing open source software...Today I spend more time educating perspective open source participants on how they can leverage open source to reduce development costs, improve operational efficiency and drive customization for their own purposes.

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Open Source Project Management Can Be Risky Business

Our digital lives are powered by programming philosophers who choose to develop their code out in the open. All programs begin with lines of instruction. When ready for execution these lines of instruction are converted to a binary format that the computer can execute. Open source programs are programs where the human readable code is accessible to anyone. This philosophy of openness and freedom has allowed these projects to impact the lives of everyone. The Linux kernel is the core of all Android devices, and nearly a third of all Internet traffic rides on just one openly developed project, Netflix...

Open Source Software Is More Secure Than You Think

Lasse Andresen | SC Magazine | October 8, 2013

[...] Open source is growing in the enterprise, but oftentimes when people think of open source, they are concerned about the potential security issues. But, those security concerns are merely myths. So, what is the reality when it comes to open source software security? Read More »

Patent Trolls Are Starting To Get Trampled

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | ZDNet | September 24, 2014

The Open Invention Network now has over a thousand licensees and the court cases are starting to go against the patent trolls...

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Peering Into The Soft Underbelly Of Net Neutrality

April Glaser and Seth Schoen | Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) | February 19, 2014

The net neutrality fight is moving in new directions, and quickly. Today FCC Chair Tom Wheeler announced that the FCC would press forward with new “Open Internet” rules, undeterred by last month’s court decision striking down most of the old ones. Last week, Comcast and Time Warner Cable announced plans to merge. [...] Read More »