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Ask Gamasutra: The future of Steam in the living room
Ask Gamasutra: The future of Steam in the living room
The Gamasutra team weighs in on Valve Software's three-pronged strategy to bring Steam to the living room.
Oct. 1, 2013
London Teenager Arrested in Connection with Spamhaus DDoS
London Teenager Arrested in Connection with Spamhaus DDoS
In March this year, anti-spam website Spamhaus suffered a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at 300 gigabits per second, the largest ever recorded and sufficient to disrupt the internet itself in some parts of Europe.
Sept. 30, 2013
Britain's Defense Policy Adds Cyber Deterrence to Nuclear Deterrence
Britain's Defense Policy Adds Cyber Deterrence to Nuclear Deterrence
Sept. 30, 2013
NSA Creates Detailed Graphical Analyses that Include Americans' Metadata
NSA Creates Detailed Graphical Analyses that Include Americans' Metadata
The latest Edward Snowden leaks show that the NSA not merely collects metadata (everything about a communication excluding the content) from Americans and non-Americans alike, it generates automatic graphical analyses from that data.
Sept. 30, 2013
Project Sonar Kicks Off Crowdsourced, Internet-Wide Security Scanning
Project Sonar Kicks Off Crowdsourced, Internet-Wide Security Scanning
Crowdsourcing is being used for everything from start-up funding to news reporting, and it makes sense that the idea would make it to the security community. Rapid7 has kicked off Project Sonar, a collaborative effort to improve security through the active, comprehensive analysis of public networks. This includes running enormous scans across public internet-facing systems, organizing the results and sharing the data with the information security community.
Sept. 30, 2013
Partner Voices: Why Agile Tools and Processes Are Critical to IT Operations
Partner Voices: Why Agile Tools and Processes Are Critical to IT Operations
Guest blogger Colin McNamara, Nexus IS Director of Cloud Practice and Chief Cloud Architect, shares tips on how to transition to software development based engineering.
Sept. 30, 2013
Cisco at Interop: John Chambers to Keynote and More
Cisco at Interop: John Chambers to Keynote and More
*Note - Skip to the bottom if you aren't at Interop.  You can register for our online event and participate in the captioning fun* This week we're in New
Sept. 30, 2013
Apple's challenge denied in Lodsys in-app purchases lawsuit
Apple's challenge denied in Lodsys in-app purchases lawsuit
Although Apple was looking to intervene in a lawsuit filed by Lodsys against various iOS developers, the iPhone maker has had its motion refused by an East Texas judge.
Sept. 30, 2013
As Twitch popularity explodes, Take-Two invests in the video company
As Twitch popularity explodes, Take-Two invests in the video company
Publishing behemoth Take-Two Interactive has invested in popular video streaming service Twitch, as the latter today announced a new $20 million round of investment.
Sept. 30, 2013
Do you want your game to do everything or do one thing very well?
Do you want your game to do everything or do one thing very well?
In this reprint from the October 2012 issue of Game Developer magazine, Damion Schubert encourages devs to evaluate the comparative merits of designing a game with breadth or depth in mind.
Sept. 30, 2013
Get a job: Turtle Rock Studios is looking for a community manager
Get a job: Turtle Rock Studios is looking for a community manager
"Create, manage, and execute community and social media plans, working with internal departments, developers, and external agencies to get approvals and most importantly: create great content."
Sept. 30, 2013
Shadow of the Eternals developer Precursor breaks up
Shadow of the Eternals developer Precursor breaks up
Following two unsuccessful crowdfunding efforts, Precursor's Denis Dyack announced on Friday that development on Shadow of the Eternals had been suspended and that its studio will be "taking a break."
Sept. 30, 2013