Miscellaneous Tech News
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Huawei 5G kit must be removed from UK by 2027
The UK's mobile providers are being banned from buying new Huawei 5G equipment after 31 December, and they must also remove all the Chinese firm's 5G kit from their networks by 2027.
Digital Secretary Oliver Dowden told the House of Commons of the decision. It follows sanctions imposed by Washington, which claims the firm poses a national security threat - something Huawei denies. Mr Dowden said the move would delay the country's 5G rollout by a year. The technology promises faster internet speeds and the capacity to support more wireless devices, which should be a boon to everything from mobile gaming to higher-quality video streams, and even in time driverless cars that talk to each other. 5G connections are already available in dozens of UK cities and towns, but coverage can be sparse. Mr Dowden added that the cumulative cost of the moves when coupled with earlier restrictions announced against Huawei would be up to £2bn. -
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Huawei 5G kit must be removed from UK by 2027
The UK's mobile providers are being banned from buying new Huawei 5G equipment after 31 December, and they must also remove all the Chinese firm's 5G kit from their networks by 2027.
Digital Secretary Oliver Dowden told the House of Commons of the decision. It follows sanctions imposed by Washington, which claims the firm poses a national security threat - something Huawei denies. Mr Dowden said the move would delay the country's 5G rollout by a year. The technology promises faster internet speeds and the capacity to support more wireless devices, which should be a boon to everything from mobile gaming to higher-quality video streams, and even in time driverless cars that talk to each other. 5G connections are already available in dozens of UK cities and towns, but coverage can be sparse. Mr Dowden added that the cumulative cost of the moves when coupled with earlier restrictions announced against Huawei would be up to £2bn.Glad I'm moving out of the tech backwater nations to a place that can actually build national networks. The term "first world" is starting to refer to the more backwards places today.
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CVE-2020-1350 | Windows DNS Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Windows Domain Name System servers when they fail to properly handle requests. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could run arbitrary code in the context of the Local System Account. Windows servers that are configured as DNS servers are at risk from this vulnerability.
To exploit the vulnerability, an unauthenticated attacker could send malicious requests to a Windows DNS server.
The update addresses the vulnerability by modifying how Windows DNS servers handle requests
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BBC News - The remote work experiment that upped productivity 13%
http://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200710-the-remote-work-experiment-that-made-staff-more-productive -
Twitter accounts of Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and others apparently hacked
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/15/tech/twitter-hack-elon-musk-bill-gates/index.html
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Twitter hack: FBI investigates major attack
The FBI has launched an investigation after hackers hijacked Twitter accounts of a number of high-profile US figures in an apparent Bitcoin scam.
"The accounts appear to have been compromised in order to perpetuate cryptocurrency fraud," said the bureau, urging the public to be vigilant. Elon Musk, Bill Gates and Joe Biden were among those hit in what Twitter said was a "co-ordinated" attack. Their official accounts requested donations in the cryptocurrency. "Everyone is asking me to give back," said a tweet from the account of Mr Gates, the Microsoft founder. "You send $1,000, I send you back $2,000." -
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Twitter hack: FBI investigates major attack
"Everyone is asking me to give back," said a tweet from the account of Mr Gates, the Microsoft founder. "You send $1,000, I send you back $2,000."*
Anyone who fell for this needs to turn in their internet license to surf.
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https://cyber.dhs.gov/ed/20-03/
Gov't panics about DNS.
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Teens ride hired Tees Valley e-scooters on A19
Two teenage boys hired e-scooters and rode them along a busy dual carriageway, police have said.
The equipment is being trialled in the Tees Valley area and can only be used on cycle lanes and roads with a speed limit of up to 40mph. Cleveland Police said they stopped two teenagers who hired the scooters and rode them along the A19 to Teesside Park on Thursday. Police have not said how old they were or whether they had driver's licences. Ginger, the firm running the trial, has been asked how the system will prevent those not permitted to use it from hiring the vehicles, but has not commented. -
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://blog.cloudflare.com/building-cloudflare-tv-from-scratch/
Are they trying to compete with normal TV? or are they making their own content - IT related stuff?
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Uber drivers launch legal battle over 'favouritism'
Uber has been accused by a UK-based drivers union of displaying favouritism in the way in which it allocates jobs.
The App Drivers & Couriers Union has launched a legal challenge in a bid to understand how the firm's algorithms pair drivers with ride requests. The union wants Uber to be more transparent about how the data it collects impacts drivers, and whether it leads to favouritism. Uber has always said that it does not manage its self-employed drivers. However the union alleges that Uber is monitoring drivers' performance, and claims that the firm is noting incidents of late arrivals, cancelled jobs and customer complaints about attitude or inappropriate behaviour against driver profiles. “This is about the distribution of power,” Anton Ekker, the privacy lawyer leading the case, told the Guardian. -
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://blog.cloudflare.com/building-cloudflare-tv-from-scratch/
Are they trying to compete with normal TV? or are they making their own content - IT related stuff?
It's 100% their own stuff. Mostly made by their engineers and interns.
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Apple's 2030 carbon-neutral pledge covers itself and suppliers
Apple has announced a target of becoming carbon neutral across its entire business and manufacturing supply chain by 2030.
The company says the commitment means its devices will have had "zero climate impact" at point of sale. It told BBC News any company hoping to become a supplier would have to commit to "be 100% renewable for their Apple production" within 10 years. It follows climate-focused pledges by other technology giants. It has also just announced the creation of a consortium involving Nike, Starbucks and Mercedes-Benz among others to share information on carbon-reducing technologies. -
US report accuses China of 'digital authoritarianism'
A US report accuses China of "digital authoritarianism" - using technology not only to track its own citizens but to exert power beyond its borders.
It warns that China's mounting influence on the digital sphere could soon overshadow that of the US and other democracies. And it expresses concern about its export of surveillance technology. The US has put pressure on other countries to ban Huawei from their mobile networks. And it is also considering a wider ban on other Chinese tech firms such as TikTok. Relationships between the US and China are tense, not just over the role of Chinese tech firms but over the coronavirus pandemic and more general trade between the two nations. -
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
A US report accuses China of "digital authoritarianism" - using technology not only to track its own citizens but to exert power beyond its borders.
Has the U.S. looked in a mirror lately?
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@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
A US report accuses China of "digital authoritarianism" - using technology not only to track its own citizens but to exert power beyond its borders.
Has the U.S. looked in a mirror lately?
Just because one is a criminal doesn't mean you can't identify other criminals. Sometimes, that makes it easier.
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@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
A US report accuses China of "digital authoritarianism" - using technology not only to track its own citizens but to exert power beyond its borders.
Has the U.S. looked in a mirror lately?
Yeah its all about power and money.
