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San Francisco, USA / California, March 7th, 2024, ChainwireFirewall secures funding from North Island Ventures, Breyer Capital, and Hack VC to bulletproof smart contract networks.Firewall, a blockchain infrastructure startup, announced its $3.7M pre-seed round, co-led by North Island Ventures, Breyer Capital, and Hack VC. Firewall transforms the usability of smart contract technology through an innovative finality consensus mechanism that eliminates smart contract exploits.The founders of Firewall, previously…

How to install the Firewall GUIWhat you'll need: You'll only need three things for this task: a running instance of Fedora Linux, a user with sudo privileges, and a network connection.  The first thing to do is open GNOME software (assuming you're running Fedora with the default desktop environment). Once the app is open, search for firewall. You should see an entry named, simply, Firewall. Click install and, when prompted, type your sudo password. Getting to know the Firewall GUIThe first thing you will need to…

Firewall Ultra developer First Contact Entertainment has shut down after eight years. The studio cites the general lack of virtual reality support in the video games industry as the main reason.In a Facebook post before Christmas, First Contact Entertainment said that it would close its doors by the end of 2023. "The lack of support for VR within the industry has eventually taken its toll," the studio said. "As a AAA VR game developer, we are just not able to justify the expense needed gouging forward. We…

First Contact Entertainment is a studio specializing in VR games, and it is behind titles like Firewall: Zero Hour and Firewall Ultra. It has announced that it will be shutting down by the end of the year. According to the announcement from the studio, a “lack of support for VR within the industry has eventually taken its toll.” Though the company wishes it could continue with its AAA VR projects, it has become impossible to justify the expenses. This is notable news for the VR community, as Firewall: Zero Hour…

The flying punching bag that is Southwest Airlines once again had to temporarily cancel flights due to computer issues. Mid-morning on Tuesday ET, Southwest said it halted operations at some airports due to “intermittent technology issues.” The company wrote on Twitter that it was working to get things operational again after users complained about canceled and delayed flights.You Could Soon Get Cash Back for Your Canceled FlightOn Tuesday, the Federal Aviation Authority also tweeted Monday that Southwest requested the…

WASHINGTON—TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew plans to offer a series of broad promises on platform safety and security at a much-anticipated congressional hearing on Thursday, according to his testimony. Mr. Chew will pledge to keep safety on Chinese-owned TikTok a top priority—especially for teenagers—and also will promise to firewall U.S. user data from foreign access and keep the platform free from government interference.  “TikTok will remain a platform for free expression and will not be manipulated by any government,” Mr.…

Chinese schoolchildren are turning to AI bot ChatGPT to slash their homework time -- vaulting the country's "Great Firewall" to write book reports and bone up on their language skills.With its ability to produce A-grade essays, poems and programming code within seconds, ChatGPT has sparked a global gold rush in artificial intelligence tech. But it has also prompted concern from teachers, worried over the possibilities for cheating and plagiarism. In China, where the service is unavailable without a virtual private…

In February of 2022, we looked at some of the best DNS blockers and firewalls for securing your small business and residential network. Among our list of recommended hardware firewall products that were easy to configure and provide the highest performance for a small business or residential broadband connection was Firewalla, a family of products made by a group of former Cisco engineers.It should be noted that high-speed broadband does not require a high-speed firewall device. One could go "naked" without the Firewalla,…

As protests against rigid covid control measures in China engulfed social media in the past week, one Twitter account has emerged as the central source of information: @李老师不是你老师 (“Teacher Li Is Not Your Teacher”).  People everywhere in China have sent protest footage and real-time updates to the account through private messages, and it has posted them, with the sender’s identity hidden, on their behalf. The man behind the account, Li, is a Chinese painter based in Italy, who requested to be identified only by his last…

TechCrunch: Two weeks ahead of China's 20th communist party congress, censors seem to be blocking TLS-based circumvention tools that locals use to bypass the Great Firewall — Tools helping China's netizens to bypass the Great Firewall appear to be facing a fresh round of crackdowns in the run … TechCrunch: Two weeks ahead of China's 20th communist party congress, censors seem to be blocking TLS-based circumvention tools that locals use to bypass the Great Firewall — Tools…