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It’s a good day for net Neutrality, Microsoft is getting competitive with Chrome & the DMCA is ugly & busted.

Plus a 3d Printed bus, Marvin gets named & our Kickstarter of the week!

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• U.S. Appeals Court Upholds Net Neutrality Rules In Full
• Microsoft shows how bad Chrome is for your laptop’s battery
• BitTorrent, Inc. Separates Out Sync Business to Focus on Media
• Google Sees DMCA Notices Quadruple In Two Years
• NASA Electric Research Plane Gets X Number, New Name
• Olli, a 3D printed, self-driving minibus, to hit the road in US

Kickstarter of the Week

• LELO HEX

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Bittorrent client Transmission gets hit with Ransomware, Facebook pays out $15k to a hacker & Microsoft is bringing SQL to Linux. It’s a HUGE edition of Tech Talk Today!

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• IRS Suspends Insecure ‘Get IP PIN’ Feature
• Facebook Fixes Bug That Allowed You to Reset Anyone’s Password
• Justice Department Asks Judge to Review Pro-Apple Ruling in iPhone Case – WSJ
• First Mac Ransomware Found in Transmission BitTorrent Client – Mac Rumors
• WNYT.com – Virtual dissections help college students stay on the ‘cutting edge’
• Linux Action Show
• Microsoft is bringing SQL Server to Linux | TechCrunch

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• LMcable | The world’s first IOS & Android Common Connector by LMcable
• Amazon.com: [Apple MFI Certified] dodocool® 2-in-1 lighting to usb cable(8 pin connector) Micro USB Charging Data Cable (3ft/ 1m) for iPhone 6 ,iphone5,samsung (Yellow): Cell Phones & Accessories

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Dropbox receives a major storage and functionally update, is this enough to overlook the services glaring issues? Twitch.tv is now bigger than CNN & Red Hat sees a major executive abruptly leave.

Plus the new improvements to BitTorrent Sync & more!

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Dropbox Beefs Up Its Pro Feature Set, Now Offering 1TB Of Storage For $10/Month

Many Dropbox users start out as Basic users, but the company increasingly has been trying to get customers to upgrade and pay for storage. In 2011, the company launched Dropbox for Business, which has seen a fair amount of success in the years since. Dropbox says that it’s used within 4 million companies and 97 percent of Fortune 500 businesses, although not all of those companies are paying customers.

Until today, those so-called “prosumers” were paying $10 a month for 100 GB of storage, but they had a feature set that was pretty similar to the company’s Basic offering.

Dropbox is looking to offer Pro users a lot more storage and a lot more features than their Basic brethren, which it hopes will give a lot more people a reason to upgrade.

Dropbox Pro now offers 10x the storage that users previously got, boosting available capacity for each of its users to 1 TB for $10 a month. By doing so, Dropbox is matching pricing for Google Drive, which lowered its prices for a TB of storage earlier in the spring.

Another feature that is now available to Pro users is the ability to remotely wipe files from your Dropbox folder if your laptop happens to get lost or stolen. By doing so, any Dropbox files or folders that were connected to that device will no longer be accessible the next time that the computer, phone, or other device comes online. And if the device is recovered, users can easily reconnect it to their account.

Dropbox previously offered 200 GB for $20 a month and 500 GB for $50 a month, but with the increase in storage to 1 TB, it’s decided to drop those tiers. As a result, in the short term it could make slightly less money from users who paid a premium for their storage plans.

However, the company could easily make up the difference by increasing the number of Pro users who sign up.

BitTorrent Sync Gets New Interface, Links for Sharing

Version 1.4 is designed to fundamentally change the way users interact with the app by simplifying the sharing process. In that vein, Sync for Windows and OS X have a redesigned user interface to make it easier for sharing via a new workflow and customizable folder list for folders.

You can now right-click on a folder, select “Share with BitTorrent Sync” and then choose either Email (a preformatted message will show up and you’ll need to input the email addresses), Copy (the link will be put in your clipboard), or QR code (for mobile scanning).

The sender can set a given link to expire after a number of days or after a certain number of times it is used, and can also require confirmation to ensure that only the receiver can sync the data in question (this is on by default but can be turned off for less important transfers). If the receiver doesn’t have Sync version 1.4, the webpage will prompt them to install it.

Twitch is now bigger than CNN, MSNBC, and MTV during prime time | The Verge

The New York Times had a great data-driven article this morning about just how big Twitch has become. One year ago the video game live-streaming platform wasn’t even equal to HLN in size. Fast-forward to this summer and Twitch is bigger during prime-time hours than CNN, E!, or MSNBC, with occasional spikes that put it above MTV as well.

Right now Twitch has about 715,000 concurrent viewers during prime time, but will quickly eclipse that if its growth continues apace.

Samsung’s Gear S smartwatch doesn’t need a phone to get online or make calls

The Gear S (not Solo) has a twist: there’s a 3G modem inside.

That means that even when outside the range of a Bluetooth-connected phone or WiFi, it can still send and receive messages or make calls.

It has a 2-inch AMOLED screen plus a dual-core 1GHz CPU inside along with GPS, heart rate and motion sensors, all powered by a 300mAh battery Samsung says can last up to two days.

It runs Tizen instead of Android Wear.

In the run up to IFA next week Samsung is also introducing the Gear Circle headset.

The Gear Circle has a magnetic clasp so it fits around your neck while not in use, a touch sensor and battery with up to 11 hours of talk time.

Pairs with a phone over Bluetooth, letting users hear notifications, use voice commands or listen to music through the earbuds.

Both devices will go on sale in October, although there’s no word on a price for either.

Red Hat CTO unexpectedly quits, amid rumors of executive ‘friction’

No-one among the rank and file at Red Hat seem to have seen this coming. In a move the Linux giant’s staffers said was “shocking” and a “punch in the gut,” long-time Red Hat chief technology officer Brian Stevens has resigned.

In a short press release, the company announced: “Brian Stevens will step down as CTO.”

Stevens, whose Red Hat page was taken down minutes after the news was released, had been with Red Hat since 2001. Before that he had been the CTO at Mission Critical Linux, and a senior architect at Digital Equipment Company (DEC), where he worked on Digital’s Unix operating system, Digital Unix. Today it lives on as HP’s Tru64. In technical circles, he’s perhaps best known for his work on the X Window System

Some Red Hat employees speculated that Stevens may have left because friction between Stevens and Cormier.

Paul Cormier is Red Hat’s president of products and technologies.

They observed that CTO office had been moved out from underneath Cormier’s control some time back. However, no one said that was any kind of current feud that might have lead to this move.

Others suggested that perhaps Steven wanted to move up to a CEO slot and that would never happen within the company.

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Wireless providers double down on slicing up the internet into marketing packages, and we’ll explain why we feel this is very bad for future innovation on the web.

Plus has Google just taken another major step away from G+, why BitTorrent’s new Bleep chat might fall short, and the amazing story of Popcorn Time and it’s new features.

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Sprint Will Sell a $12 Wireless Plan that Only Connects to Facebook or Twitter – Digits – WSJ

For about $12, will soon let subscribers buy a wireless plan that only connects to Facebook.

For that same price, they could choose instead to connect only with Twitter, Instagram or Pinterest—or for $10 more, enjoy unlimited use of all four. Another $5 gets them unlimited streaming of a music app of their choice.

The plan, offered under the company’s Virgin Mobile brand of prepaid service, comes as wireless carriers are experimenting with ways to make wireless Internet access more affordable for the poorest consumers by offering special deals on slices of the Web.

In the process, however, they are testing the long-held principle that all Internet traffic should be treated equally by creating strong incentives for subscribers to use already dominant services.

In June, T-Mobile US Inc. said it would allow customers unlimited use of mobile streaming music that doesn’t count against their data plans when they use services like Pandora and Spotify. Earlier this year, AT&T Inc. created a program allowing companies to foot the bill for data used by their customers on mobile apps.

Sprint said the plan—called Virgin Mobile Custom—was aimed at giving consumers more choices.

The new plan is only available at Wal-Mart and the base offering covers just 20 minutes of talk time and 20 texts. Subscribers can customize the plan by buying up to unlimited talk or text or both, and by choosing among data packages.

Ubuntu for Phones to Integrate Nokia HERE Maps

“HERE will provide a hybrid solution integrating an A-GPS and WiFi positioning system. Although Ubuntu already features GPS-based location, GPS on its own is not sufficient to support the location services that run on the OS with a rapid and efficient location positioning capability. This fully integrated solution will also be available to the many thousands of application developers currently using Ubuntu OS on their own hardware.”

Hangouts Now Works Without Google+ Account

Until now, you had to have a Google+ account to use Hangouts if you were a Google Apps user. Starting today, that requirement is gone. Anybody with a Google Apps account will now be able to start or join a meeting from their desktop or their dedicated Chromebox for Meetings device. For now, however, the requirement is still in place on mobile, but Google says that’s going away soon, too.

The only other restriction for those who want to use Hangouts without a Google+ account is that they won’t be able to use Hangout apps other than Screenshare or Chat and that they won’t be able to use Hangouts on Air to broadcast their chats to a larger audience.

BitTorrent’s new Bleep chat client doesn’t rely on any central servers to find and manage contacts. Instead, the company is using Distributed Hash Tables, also known as DHT, which are basically decentralized sets of data that can be queried by any connected client.

The company touts the absence of a central server or directory as a safeguard against government wiretapping and other kind of snooping, and it also promises better security for the actual messages. Bittorrent’s Senior Director of Product Development Farid Fadaie explained it this way on the company’s engineering blog:

“We are using secure encryption protocols such as curve25519, ed25519 , salsa20, poly1305, and others. Links between nodes are encrypted. All communication is end to end encrypted. This should be the new normal in the post-Snowden era.”

BitTorrent starts testing Bleep, its new P2P messaging platform

BitTorrent is slowly starting to take the wraps off its upcoming P2P chat initiative: The company started an invite-only pre-alpha test of a new Windows chat client dubbed “Bleep” on Wednesday, and it also revealed that it plans to make the underlying peer-to-peer technology available to other chat apps and messaging service providers as well.

• Bleep… BitTorrent Unveils Serverless & Encrypted Chat Client | TorrentFreak

Popcorn Time Adds Apple TV Support, iOS App Coming Soon | TorrentFreak

While the original app was shut down by the developers after a few weeks, the project was quickly picked up by others. This resulted in several popular forks that have gained millions of users in recent months.

Today one of the most popular Popcorn Time forks releases a highly anticipated feature. The developers inform TorrentFreak that the latest version now has Airplay support, making it possible to stream movies directly to Apple TVs and other supported devices.

Ironically, Airplay support is currently limited to the Windows release, but a Mac version is due early next week and the Linux release will follow shortly after.

The latest feature follows the addition of Chromecast support a few weeks ago.

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Liam from Gaming on Linux joins us to discuss the Witcher 2 port fiasco, and why Linux’s reputation as a gaming platform could be on the line.

Plus a heated Manjaro discussion, your feedback, and a BIG announcement!

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• OpenShot Video Editor | Blog: May Development Update: Video + Interview + More!

• Manjaro Xfce

• About Arch, Manjaro, and Wi-Fi

• Question for the Virtual LUG

• GitHub does dotfiles – dotfiles.github.io

• Straw Poll: What’s your DE?

The Witcher 2 Drama:

Guest: Liam Dawe (upurtweet) on Twitter

Full time dad, owner of @gamingonlinux and writer for @linuxvoice !

• The Witcher 2 Just Made A Bunch Of Linux Gamers Very, Very Angry

eON is a middle ground idea between what WINE does, and a native port. It is tuned and customised to each game we port — we do not simply slap a Windows binary into it and ship the game. For example, we often customise the D3D9->GL code path in various ways to cater for the title. Shaders are often rewritten to native GLSL, etc.

• GamingOnLinux – Why We Shouldn\’t Accept Bad Linux Ports

_The problem is if we keep accepting ports at a sub-par quality then Linux will gain a reputation for having low quality games. Think about that big picture for a moment, seriously.

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Bittorrent Sync is out, and it promises to enable p2p Dropbox style file sharing, for free, with no limits. But has AeroFS already beat them to the punch? We put these two Dropbox killers head to head.

Plus: The systemic issues facing Microsoft that have lead to open source code remaining the benchmark of quality, Gabe prepares to address the Linux faithful, Gnome upsets users, Ubuntu has a new package format, a double picks blowout…

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