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ThunderNews Announces Upgrades for Full Header Depth
We are planning a software upgrade on February 23, 2016 to the news server software that manages messages and headers. This upgrade enables our news servers to display the full depth of headers going back 7+ years to match our...
Wayback Machine Celebrates Milestones on USENET
Thee Internet Archive today announced a massive milestone for its Wayback Machine: 400 billion indexed webpages. The data encompasses the Web as it looked anytime from late 1996 up until a few hours ago. To celebrate the milestone, the Internet...
SSD Technology Is Getting Faster According To USENET
A post on technology USENET newsgroups details the announcement of the Japanese team at Chuo University that have made a breakthrough in SSD technology which will make a great drive all the better. The team has found a software/firmware solution...
Empire Of Data Caps Strike Back
Data caps for US ThunderNews customers may be a reality again from their ISP. A Comcast executive said that he is confident the company will roll out usage-based data pricing nationwide once it completes a series of “robust” trials it...
Symantec Claims Antivirus Is Dead On USENET
Symantec, maker of the widely used Norton Antivirus software suite, has declared that antivirus technology “is dead”. The company’s senior vice president of information security Brian Dye has been quoted on USENET that hackers were not only finding new ways...
USENET Reports On New 185TB Tapes
There was a time, in computing’s not-so-distant past, where magnetic tape was the best way to back up large amounts of data. In the mid-90s, tape could store tens or hundreds of gigabytes, while hard drive capacities were still mostly...
ThunderNews SSL Patched For Heartbleed
Last week, we learned about a potential security exploit called “Heartbleed” on some websites that use an SSL to secure customer information. The problem affects a piece of software called OpenSSL, used for security on popular web servers. With OpenSSL,...