https://www.businessinsider.com/google-cofounders-sergey-brin-larry-page-sur
prise-phd-student-2019-12
Google's billionaire cofounders Sergey Brin and Larry Page dropped a
surprise visit on a Ph.D. student who sits in Page's old office at Stanford
<https://www.businessinsider.com/author/isobel-asher-hamilton> Isobel Asher
Hamilton
Dec 9, 2019, 1:58 PM
* The Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin paid a surprise
visit to a Stanford Ph.D. student on Friday night.
* The student occupies what used to be Page's office when he was
working on his own Ph.D. at Stanford, where he met Brin in 1995.
*
* The student said the tech billionaires told him they were taking "a
trip down memory lane" after
<https://www.businessinsider.com/alphabet-larry-page-sergey-brin-stepping-do
wn-sundar-pichai-2019-12?r=US&IR=T> stepping down from their roles at
Alphabet, Google's parent company.
A Ph.D. student at Stanford got a big surprise on Friday night.
Jacob Ritchie, who's getting a Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford,
tweeted a picture over the weekend showing that the Google cofounders Larry
Page and Sergey Brin had dropped by his office on Friday night.
One perk of being in the office late on a Friday is that sometimes you get
surprise guests.
<https://twitter.com/jwkritchie/status/1203199158808506368/photo/1>
"Larry and Sergey were visiting Stanford to 'take a trip down memory lane'
after stepping down on Tuesday from their roles at Google and Alphabet,"
<https://twitter.com/jwkritchie/status/1203199158808506368> Ritchie said in
a follow-up tweet.
Page and Brin met in 1995 while working on computer-science Ph.D.s at
Stanford and went on to found Google in 1998. The pair announced last week
that
<https://www.businessinsider.com/alphabet-larry-page-sergey-brin-stepping-do
wn-sundar-pichai-2019-12?r=US&IR=T> they would step down from their roles at
Alphabet, Google's parent company - but remain
<https://www.forbes.com/profile/sergey-brin/#495817434b43> two of the
<https://www.forbes.com/profile/larry-page/#56a84de07893> richest people on
the planet.
As it happens, <https://twitter.com/jwkritchie/status/1203199162394669056>
Ritchie occupies what used to be Page's office, which Page got after Brin
"illicitly" gave him the master key to the building early, allowing him to
choose the best desk.
Ritchie said Page and Brin knocked on his door while he was working late,
"on the off chance that there was someone inside," adding that the surprise
visit was "an incredibly surreal and amazing experience."
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Top 5 Crypto and Blockchain Trends to Watch Out for in 2020
After the parabolic bull run of 2017, the last two years were pretty much a bearish phase. New lows were created, bounces and new projects were spread thinly apart.
As we look forward to 2020, expectations of another massive crypto rally, interesting projects and the impending Bitcoin halving usher a new wave of enthusiasm among investors and developers alike.
Decentralized Finance (DeFi), cross-border crypto payments regulated by governments, crypto based gaming, and virtual reality, are some other interesting things to look forward to.
Although there are many exciting developments on the horizon, here are 5 blockchain trends to watch out for:
1. State and Corporate Cryptocurrencies
Many countries, including UAE (Dubai), Japan, Sweden, Russia, Estonia, and France, have announced their plans for a regulated state-issued cryptocurrency. The list of countries pondering over this move is even longer. Countries wishing to move to digital payments and curb cash find cryptocurrencies to be the best way forward.
Similarly, with Facebook’s Libra project, many corporates have started wondering whether issuing their own cryptocurrencies would be the right move for them.
Multinational corporations as J. P. Morgan Chase, Walmart, AirAsia, Mitsubishi, Amazon, Nornickel and Tencent are looking to issues their own digital assets.
This will mean less volatility and cryptocurrencies will no longer be questioned for their intrinsic values. All of them will compete in an international open market.
2. Regulation
Many crypto exchanges and projects will face the wrath of regulators. This will mean exchanges shutting shops in certain jurisdictions, de-listing of tokens and projects that do not follow the legal requirements and operate in a grey area.
3. Deanonymization
Companies and governments alike are working on projects to deanonymize crypto payments. The US government is already working on a project to develop forensic analysis tools for privacy-focused cryptocurrencies, like Monero and ZCash.
4. Crypto Purchases with Fiat
With crypto spreading to the masses, it would become easier to buy Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies with fiat money. This could be done through folks who already own crypto or through a growing network of crypto ATMs. Just like we use our bank accounts, our crypto wallets would provide us access to cash through various crypto ATMs. As virtual currency ATMs become ubiquitous, it would be interesting to see people purchase digital assets with cash. Also, the resistance to imposed government restrictions and other obstacles will create new DeFi-based P2P currency exchange platforms. These platforms will offer their services through mobile finance mediums and will enable any user to become an agent and exchange crypto for cash directly with their peers safely from/in any place in the world.
5. FinTech Moving to Switzerland
Switzerland has been Europe’s finance hub for the last century and the country does not plan to give up that status anytime soon. Swiss regulation is friendlier for FinTech startups, and crypto projects. We can see early signs of the already flourishing Swiss FinTech industry. Switzerland is poised to become the FinTech hub in 2020.
Conclusion
2020 will see exciting new developments on the crypto and blockchain front. The market has recovered from the shock of a crash after the inexplicable bull run. Now it is time for bigger and and mature players to enter the industry. The new year will belong to more crypto adoption and better regulation.
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https://www.zdnet.com/article/20-vps-providers-to-shut-down-on-monday-givin…
20 VPS providers to shut down on Monday, giving customers two days to save their data
No explanation given for the sudden shutdown. Customers suspect an exit scam.
<https://www.zdnet.com/meet-the-team/us/catalin.cimpanu/> Catalin CimpanuDecember 8, 2019 -- 04:15 GMT (20:15 PST)
<https://zdnet4.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/2019/12/08/26f51898-2672-40e6-8355-5b03…>
At least 20 web hosting providers have hastily notified customers today, Saturday, December 7, that they plan to shut down on Monday, giving their clients two days to download data from their accounts before servers are shut down and wiped clean.
The list of providers that notified customers about their impending shutdown includes:
ArkaHosting
Bigfoot Servers
DCNHost
HostBRZ
HostedSimply
Hosting73
KudoHosting
LQHosting
MegaZoneHosting
n3Servers
ServerStrong
SnowVPS
SparkVPS
StrongHosting
SuperbVPS
SupremeVPS
TCNHosting
UMaxHosting
WelcomeHosting
X4Servers
All the services listed above offer cheap low-end virtual private servers (VPSes).
Furthermore, all the websites feature a similar page structure, share large chunks of text, use the same CAPTCHA technology, and have notified customers using the same email template.
<https://zdnet1.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2019/12/08/2e49ebaa-593c-4dbf-8bde-e9…> <span class="img aspect-set " style="padding-bottom: 78%"><img src="https://zdnet1.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2019/12/08/2e49ebaa-593c-4dbf-8bde-e9…" class="" alt="tcnhosting.png" height="auto" width="370"></span> Image: merce <https://zdnet2.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2019/12/08/faacd66e-c8dc-4f4a-b829-74…> <span class="img aspect-set " style="padding-bottom: 77%"><img src="https://zdnet2.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2019/12/08/faacd66e-c8dc-4f4a-b829-74…" class="" alt="strong.png" height="auto" width="370"></span> Image: webpromo <https://zdnet3.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/2019/12/08/83facf01-bbe5-47dd-be9e-9c7c…> <span class="img aspect-set " style="padding-bottom: 41%"><img src="https://zdnet3.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/2019/12/08/83facf01-bbe5-47dd-be9e-9c7c…" class="" alt="megazone.jpg"></span> Image: Bad Packets <https://zdnet1.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/2019/12/08/77af913c-56b4-448b-9147-ae8d…> <span class="img aspect-set " style="padding-bottom: 41%"><img src="https://zdnet1.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/2019/12/08/77af913c-56b4-448b-9147-ae8d…" class="" alt="bigfootservers.png"></span> Image: ZDNet
All clues point to the fact that all 20 websites are part of an affiliate scheme or a multi-brand business ran by the same entity.
Shutdown confirmed by customers
The initial reaction on bulletin boards dedicated to discussing web hosting topics was that someone might be sabotaging the company behind all these VPS providers by sending spoofed emails and hoping that customers jump ship.
This proved to be false. In the hours after they received the notifications, several users confirmed the email's legitimacy by analyzing email headers, confirmed the shutdown with the support staff at their respective VPS provider, and found a copy of the same message in their web hosting dashboards.
Since then, customers have shifted from surprise to anger. <https://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1790105&p=10198301#post1019…> Some said inquiries about refunds remained unanswered.
Those who didn't lose too much money quickly realized they were set to work the weekend, as they had to download all their data and find a new provider, in order to avoid a prolonged downtime on Monday, when the 20 providers are set to shut off servers.
"Deadpooling"
Online, the phrase "exit scam" is now being mentioned in several places [ <https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/3061746/#Comment_3061746> 1, <https://twitter.com/crypt0r3x/status/1203471466949414922> 2, <https://twitter.com/bad_packets/status/1203433576521330689> 3]. Many believe the company behind all these VPS providers is running away with the money it made in Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals, without providing any service.
Paranoia and fear of a scam are high, and for good reasons. As several users have <https://twitter.com/crypt0r3x/status/1203471466949414922> pointed out, the VPS providers don't list physical addresses, don't list proper business registration information, and have no references to their ownership. Effectively, they look like ghost companies.
Requests for comment sent by ZDNet to some of the VPS providers remained unanswered before this article's publication.
A source in the web hosting industry who wanted to remain anonymous told ZDNet that what happened this weekend is often referred to as "deadpooling" -- namely, the practice of setting up a small web hosting company, providing ultra-cheap VPS servers for a few dollars a month, and then shutting down a few months later, without refunding customers.
"This is a systemic issue within the low-end market, we call it deadpooling," the source told us. "It doesn't happen often at this scale, however."
A user who was impacted by his VPS provider's shutdown also told ZDNet that the number of VPS providers going down is most likely higher than 20, as not all customers might have shared the email notification online, with others.
Another source in the web hosting industry also pointed out that <https://lowendbox.com/?s=192.3.180.103&searchsubmit=Find> a search for an IP address used by one of the soon-to-close VPS providers shows it has also been used by other companies that provide cheap VPS hosting services -- which are also using websites with a similar structure and templates as some of the services shutting down this weekend.
We'll most likely find out the extent of the sudden shutdown from Monday going forward, as customers who didn't see the email in time will find their websites or application backends inaccessible and will come forward online to expose other low-end VPS providers that we don't know about yet.
(h/t <https://twitter.com/bad_packets/> Bad Packets)
Article updated on December 8 with the explanation for "deadpooling."
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* <https://www.zdnet.com/article/top-cloud-providers-2019-aws-microsoft-azure-…> Top cloud providers 2019: AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud
* <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEpOUBemjlM> Adobe's cloud pivot: What we've learned (ZDNet YouTube)
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Sent: Thursday, December 5, 2019 12:04 PM
Subject: Inovacije iz Telekoma Srbija na Games.con
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