Miscellaneous Tech News
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@StuartJordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I was hoping this one wouldn't be allowed through.
"The European parliament has backed controversial copyright laws which critics say could change the nature of the internet."
Article 11 states that search engines and news aggregate platforms should pay to use links from news websites.
Article 13 holds larger technology companies responsible for material posted without a copyright licence.
yeah - if these pass, the EU could be in for a world of hurt from an internet POV. Watch costs skyrocket, and posting will grind to a halt.
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@StuartJordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I was hoping this one wouldn't be allowed through.
"The European parliament has backed controversial copyright laws which critics say could change the nature of the internet."
Everyone hoped that.
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New Huawei phone has a 5x optical zoom, thanks to a periscope lens
How do you cram a 5x zoom into the P30 Pro? Just turn the whole assembly sideways!
Huawei officially announced the Huawei P30 Pro smartphone today. While it has a new Huawei-made SoC, an in-screen optical fingerprint reader, and lots of other high-end features, the highlight is definitely the camera's optical zoom, which is up to a whopping 5x. Not digital zoom. Real, optical zoom.
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Microsoft exec bans company from pulling any dumb April Fools’ pranks
Internal memo says that pranks have little upside and can too often backfire.
This was particularly striking in Google's 2016 mic drop feature on Gmail, where clicking the "mic drop" button sent a recipient a gif of a Despicable Me minion—a vile affront to humanity in and of itself—and then muted and archived the conversation, thus hiding any responses to it. Cue widespread complaints from users who clicked the button by accident, denying themselves jobs and offending their bosses.
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Xiaomi’s “100W” quick charging goes from 0 to 100 in 17 minutes
18V/4.5A charging solution smokes the competition (hopefully not literally).
We all know battery density hasn't kept pace with the power demands of smartphones, but would you settle for a smartphone that just charged really, really quickly? Xiaomi is teasing a new high mark for speedy phone charging: a "100W" quick-charge solution. Xiaomi Senior Vice President Xiang Wang shared a video on Facebook of the new charging solution in action, saying that "Xiaomi's engineers have created a 100W fast-charging solution, which can fully charge a large 4000mAh battery in just 17 minutes!"
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Xiaomi’s “100W” quick charging goes from 0 to 100 in 17 minutes
18V/4.5A charging solution smokes the competition (hopefully not literally).
We all know battery density hasn't kept pace with the power demands of smartphones, but would you settle for a smartphone that just charged really, really quickly? Xiaomi is teasing a new high mark for speedy phone charging: a "100W" quick-charge solution. Xiaomi Senior Vice President Xiang Wang shared a video on Facebook of the new charging solution in action, saying that "Xiaomi's engineers have created a 100W fast-charging solution, which can fully charge a large 4000mAh battery in just 17 minutes!"
Wow.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
New Huawei phone has a 5x optical zoom, thanks to a periscope lens
How do you cram a 5x zoom into the P30 Pro? Just turn the whole assembly sideways!
Huawei officially announced the Huawei P30 Pro smartphone today. While it has a new Huawei-made SoC, an in-screen optical fingerprint reader, and lots of other high-end features, the highlight is definitely the camera's optical zoom, which is up to a whopping 5x. Not digital zoom. Real, optical zoom.
That moves Huawei way up on my potential next purchase list. That is super cool.
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BBC News - Internet access in Africa - Are mesh networks the future?
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
BBC News - Internet access in Africa - Are mesh networks the future?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-47723967Nice use of Ubiquiti gear in the video.
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‘Long-term security risks’ from Huawei
The Chinese company Huawei has been strongly criticised in a report by the body overseeing the security of its products in UK telecoms.
The report, issued by the National Cyber Security Centre, which is part of GCHQ, says it can provide "only limited assurance that the long-term security risks can be managed in the Huawei equipment currently deployed in the UK".
The report reflects what are said to be deep frustrations at the failure of the company to address previously identified problems.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
‘Long-term security risks’ from Huawei
The Chinese company Huawei has been strongly criticised in a report by the body overseeing the security of its products in UK telecoms.
The report, issued by the National Cyber Security Centre, which is part of GCHQ, says it can provide "only limited assurance that the long-term security risks can be managed in the Huawei equipment currently deployed in the UK".
The report reflects what are said to be deep frustrations at the failure of the company to address previously identified problems.
Interesting - So Huawei doesn't directly allow the Chinese government to spy by including malware in their systems - they just make such poor quality software that it's easy for the Chinese (or anyone else - likely) to compromise those system. yeah.. /sigh.
Now - will all that said - and the constant stream of updates for Cisco and everybody else - ALL of these tech companies should be under a much greater microscope to get their shit in order!
I really wish someone would shine this same spot light on Cisco (and hell Ubiquiti too) just so we can these dogs to do better. As for Ubiquiti - that's mainly to show they are really doing it well, or they should burn before they become much bigger.
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@Dashrender That's why I started the https://www.mangolassi.it/topic/16646/cisco-security-vulnerability-thread/53 thread. I don't think we've gone an entire month since I started tracking without a hardcoded credentials issue. That's not even counting the remote vulnerabilities!
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
New Huawei phone has a 5x optical zoom, thanks to a periscope lens
How do you cram a 5x zoom into the P30 Pro? Just turn the whole assembly sideways!
Huawei officially announced the Huawei P30 Pro smartphone today. While it has a new Huawei-made SoC, an in-screen optical fingerprint reader, and lots of other high-end features, the highlight is definitely the camera's optical zoom, which is up to a whopping 5x. Not digital zoom. Real, optical zoom.
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
‘Long-term security risks’ from Huawei
The Chinese company Huawei has been strongly criticised in a report by the body overseeing the security of its products in UK telecoms.
The report, issued by the National Cyber Security Centre, which is part of GCHQ, says it can provide "only limited assurance that the long-term security risks can be managed in the Huawei equipment currently deployed in the UK".
The report reflects what are said to be deep frustrations at the failure of the company to address previously identified problems.
I'm so conflicted (not really). Are they a good company or not? Depends on the market their in, ex network gear versus consumer gear? Or is it a blanket concern with whatever Huawei slaps their logo on?
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@NerdyDad said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I'm so conflicted (not really). Are they a good company or not? Depends on the market their in, ex network gear versus consumer gear? Or is it a blanket concern with whatever Huawei slaps their logo on?
I don't consider "security risks" from the Five Eyes to be credible. When Germany or Switzerland or Brasil tell us that Huawei is a risk, it's worth thinking about. As long as only the Five Eyes make the claim, it's like being told by the world's worst criminals that some random common enemy of their interest is a bad person - if anything, it makes them more likely to be good.
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@scottalanmiller I agree with this too. From what I read last they are the 3rd largest networking producer in the world. Don't know if this is still true though. I think we would hear about it a lot more regardless if there was something really wrong.
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@jmoore said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller I agree with this too. From what I read last they are the 3rd largest networking producer in the world. Don't know if this is still true though. I think we would hear about it a lot more regardless if there was something really wrong.
Yeah, they are huge and trusted by most of the world.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@jmoore said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller I agree with this too. From what I read last they are the 3rd largest networking producer in the world. Don't know if this is still true though. I think we would hear about it a lot more regardless if there was something really wrong.
Yeah, they are huge and trusted by most of the world.
Everything against them seems mostly political. The UK did a huge security audit and said all this stuff was bad (even though reading through the actual comment it was mostly that they didn't think Huawei was capable of making improvements.) However they never released an official public report.
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@coliver said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@jmoore said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller I agree with this too. From what I read last they are the 3rd largest networking producer in the world. Don't know if this is still true though. I think we would hear about it a lot more regardless if there was something really wrong.
Yeah, they are huge and trusted by most of the world.
Everything against them seems mostly political. The UK did a huge security audit and said all this stuff was bad (even though reading through the actual comment it was mostly that they didn't think Huawei was capable of making improvements.) However they never released an official public report.
Right, not one seemingly honest complaint has come out yet. I'm not defending Huawei, I don't know them well. But no credible issues have surfaced yet. It's nothing like Lenovo, and the government had no issues with that for a long time, long after it was indisputable what was going on. The issues with Huawei are too ephemeral and "secret". If the government has info, they are intentionally holding back data that the world needs. At this point, the US and UK are doing things very, very badly regardless of what they know about Huawei.
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Boston Dynamics’ latest robot is a mechanical ostrich that loads pallets
The latest creation from Softbank's Boston Dynamics looks ready for actual work.
Boston Dynamics has a new YouTube video showing off its newest robot design. This one is a reimagining of the "Handle" robot that the company originally showed off in 2017. Back then the robot could jump four feet in the air and do all kinds of tricks; now its purpose is to load pallets.
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Apple apologizes for failing MacBook keyboards yet again
The failures may be uncommon, but third time isn't the charm for this design.
Apple has again acknowledged failures in MacBook butterfly keyboards and apologized. The apology was included in a Wall Street Journal report by prominent tech journalist Joanna Stern pointing out that, like some others, she encountered a keyboard failure in her 2018 MacBook Air.
