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NVidia confirms that its technology was NOT involved in the recent Uber accident.

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NVidia's ARM process and SoC roadmap announced. NVidia has stopped selling Tegra processors, sadly, but internally they are still developing the products with Xavier and Orin products of very high intrest.

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How to use your phone to lock and unlock Windows 10.

dafyre

@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Drupal Vulnerability
https://www.drupal.org/sa-core-2018-002

And the benefit of being open source... already patched!

Yepp! Boss did an emergency patch on several systems around lunch time today. Easy Peasy.

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Fedora 28 Beta coming next week.

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Researchers manage to heal dendrite growth in lithium-metal batteries.

dbeato

https://www.theregister.co.uk/AMP/2018/03/29/microsoft_meltdown_out_of_band_patch/

scottalanmiller

@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/AMP/2018/03/29/microsoft_meltdown_out_of_band_patch/

A patch, for a patch, for a patch. Nice.

dbeato

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/AMP/2018/03/29/microsoft_meltdown_out_of_band_patch/

A patch, for a patch, for a patch. Nice.

It is Microsoft, what are you gonna do

black3dynamite

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/AMP/2018/03/29/microsoft_meltdown_out_of_band_patch/

A patch, for a patch, for a patch. Nice.

Well, that sounds familiar.

"I'm a dude playing the dude, disguised as another dude!"

Dashrender

EU is definitely playing hardball.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/government/brexit-european-commission-wants-to-cancel-317-000-eu-domains-owned-by-brits/

scottalanmiller

@dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

EU is definitely playing hardball.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/government/brexit-european-commission-wants-to-cancel-317-000-eu-domains-owned-by-brits/

LOL, there's a risk no one was thinking about.

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TrueOS 18.03 Released, includes Spectre and Meltdown Fixes

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Changes to look forward to in LibreOffice 6.1.

LibreOffice Calc now better deals with image handling, including sorting of image cells and when resizing images in Calc the aspect ratios are honored.
Calc now supports customizing the highlight colors.
Big improvements to the importing filter for Microsoft Excel 2003 XML.
Dialog improvements for LibreOffice Online as well as other functionality improvements for this web-browser based LibreOffice.
GTK3 native message dialogs are now in place.
Improved "KDE 5" integration.

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Wine 3.5 released.

black3dynamite

https://fedoramagazine.org/mozilla-releases-facebook-container-extension-firefox/

scottalanmiller

@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

https://fedoramagazine.org/mozilla-releases-facebook-container-extension-firefox/

Yup, they released that a few days ago. Pretty cool that they took an official stance on it.

DustinB3403

XCP-ng has released the first iteration just this morning!

dbeato

https://developers.googleblog.com/2018/03/transitioning-google-url-shortener.html

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Today is the 25th anniversary of the Thinkpad. Once a great laptop.