The mass-market hosting sector is fragmented, under pressure and transforming rapidly, according to a report from Tier1 Research (T1R), a research firm that tracks the hosting and IT infrastructure sector. T1R says the hosting industry is being reshaped by the proliferation of wireless and broadband access, Web-enabled mobile devices, and the movement of personal and business lives to an online environment. This has created growing demand for a wide range of online services that now form a new layer of value that hosters are fighting to deliver to their customers.

“The transformation under way has forced hosters to reconsider old concepts, explore new opportunities and change the way they traditionally do business,” said Philbert Shih, Senior Analyst at T1R and lead author of the…

Turn back the clock night. Legends night. No, you’re not seeing things night.

The Armstrong Shamrocks host the Kamloops Rattlers in Thompson Okanagan Senior Lacrosse League play tonight, Friday, May 31 (7:30 p.m., Nor-Val Sports Centre).

The Irish will start longtime, thought-to-be-retired goalie Chad Pieper between the posts this evening.

“It’s been five years since Chad played for the Shamrocks,” said Armstrong communications advisor Ryan Nitchie. “Let’s call this load management to give (starter) Connor Senn a rest. Chad has been coming out to practices, looks great, and we’re going to give him the start.”

There’s also senior lacrosse action in Vernon as…

Soulmask is fun enough on your own, but playing with friends elevates the experience to a whole new level. If you want to create a custom world just for your group, you can even host your own dedicated server in Soulmask without much hassle.

Creating a dedicated server sounds scary on paper if you’ve never done it before, but it’s actually pretty simple. If you want to host your own custom Soulmask server, here’s what you need to do.

How to Make a Custom Server in Soulmask

To create a dedicated server in Soulmask, just follow these steps.

1. Create a new folder to hold your server’s files.
2. Download SteamCMD for Windows.
3. Extract the files to a folder in the root directory of your C drive (or whatever drive Steam is installed on).
4. Search for “CMD” in Windows and open Command…

Late Friday afternoon, a time window companies usually reserve for unflattering disclosures, AI startup Hugging Face said that its security team earlier this week detected “unauthorized access” to Spaces, Hugging Face’s platform for creating, sharing and hosting AI models and resources.

In a blog post, Hugging Face said that the intrusion related to Spaces secrets, or the private pieces of information that act as keys to unlock protected resources like accounts, tools and dev environments, and that it has “suspicions” some secrets could’ve been accessed by a third party without authorization.

As a precaution, Hugging Face has revoked a number of tokens in those secrets. (Tokens are used to verify identities.) Hugging Face says that users whose tokens have been…