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Extra Crunch offers members the opportunity to tune into conference calls led and moderated by the TechCrunch writers you read every day. This week, TechCrunch’s Josh Constine and Frederic Lardinois discuss major announcements that came out of Facebook’s F8 conference and dig into how Facebook is trying to redefine itself for the future. Though touted […] Continue reading Takeaways from F8 and Facebook’s next phase
It feels like there’s a WeWork on every street nowadays. Take a walk through midtown Manhattan (please don’t actually) and it might even seem like there are more WeWorks than office buildings. Consider this an ongoing discussion about Urban Tech, its intersection with regulation, issues of public service, and other complexities that people have full […] Continue reading The limits of coworking
The Hackaday Prize invites everyone to focus on specific challenges with encouragement of prize money and motivation of deadlines. But what happens after the award ceremony? While some creators are happy just to share their ideas, many projects need to get into the real world to make their full impact. Several past prize winners have used their award as seed money to start production and go into business. Recognizing this as something worth supporting, a new addition this year is Tindie’s Project to Product program.
Tindie is a marketplace for makers to sell to other makers, hence a natural place …read more
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The dark web’s largest network of illegally trafficked narcotics, weapons and other illicit materials has been taken down by an international team of law enforcement officials. U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the shutdown of AlphaBay and Hansa in a Thursday press conference. AlphaBay abruptly went offline on July 5, while Hansa has been under the control of law enforcement since June 20. AlphaBay was primarily used by international criminals within what is known as the “Dark Web,”, websites only accessible to users who have masked their identity online through different tactics. AlphaBay and Hansa were among the prominent marketplaces on the dark web. “The dark net is not a place to hide,” Sessions said. The operation to take down the marketplaces involved collaboration from Thailand, The Netherlands, France, Germany, Lithuania, Canada, the UK and Europol, which officials touched on as a positive sign for the future of international cybercrime […]
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What’s a six year old startup doing entering Y Combinator? Plotting a new growth trajectory after a pivot. Pilot may be a veteran in Silicon Valley startup terms but it reckons the freelance contractor marketplace model it switched to around a year and a half ago is ideally positioned to serve a future of work that’s increasingly fragmented and distributed. Read More Continue reading YC-backed Pilot is building a contractor platform geared for the future of work
The rise in on-demand services from the likes of Uber, Lyft and Postmates is fuelling a new workforce of freelancers in the service industry who are not tied to single places of employment and can work hours that are more suitable to them. Now a similar kind of flexibility is finding its way into the world of hourly work, too. Shiftgig — a startup that has built a mobile platform… Read More Continue reading Shiftgig raises $20M more to connect hourly workers with open jobs
Last week we reported on the xDedic underground marketplace. The day after, an anonymous source posted the links pointed to a series of pastes on the Pastebin, which in turn contained long lists of IP addresses. The author of the comment mentioned that the list of pastes is related to hacked servers from the xDedic marketplace. Continue reading The Tip of the Iceberg: An Unexpected Turn in the xDedic Story
Newly revealed bazaar is a hacker’s dream and makes attacks cheaper and faster. Continue reading For sale: 70k hacked government and corporate servers—for as little as $6 apiece
Over the last two years, deep in the slums of the Internet, a different kind of underground market has flourished. The short, cryptic name perhaps doesn’t say much about it: xDedic. However, on this obscure marketplace anyone can purchase more than 70,000 hacked servers from all around the Internet. Continue reading xDedic – the shady world of hacked servers for sale
We like to pop into electronics flea markets and swap meets at every chance we get. Last month [Brian] made it to the ham swap meet at Northrup Grumman held in Redondo Beach. I had a great time a couple of years back at the Electronics Flea Market held at De Anza College. Physical proximity to one of these nearly-mythical events is, unfortunately, required. If only the Internet offered a solution to this problem…
The fact that you’re reading Hackaday puts you into one of three categories: you wish you had a lot more tools, you’re on the way to …read more
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