Miscellaneous Tech News
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Microsoft Again Trying to Steer Windows 10 Users Away from Firefox
Because Microsoft Edge is the “recommended browser”
Microsoft trying to convince users to stick with its very own Microsoft Edge browser in Windows 10 isn’t a new thing, but it now looks like this approach has a received another silent refresh.
One reddit user has recently revealed that Microsoft is now trying to steer them away from Firefox using the built-in search feature in Windows 10.
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Ubuntu 19.04 Is Dubbed the "Disco Dingo," Slated for Release on April 18, 2019
The beta will be available for public testing on March 28
For now, there's no word on what new features the Ubuntu 19.04 (Disco Dingo) release will include, but we already know that it will ship with the upcoming GNOME 3.32 desktop environment, due for release on March 13, 2019, and will be powered by the latest Linux kernel that will be available next spring, probably Linux 5.0.
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Linux Mint 19.1 Lands This Christmas with Cinnamon 4.0, Mainline Kernels Support
It will be based on the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS operating system
The Cinnamon 4.0 desktop environment in Linux Mint 19.1 looks to shape up as a modern desktop interface thanks to a new panel layout with a larger and darker design. But the good old Cinnamon won't go away, as the developers promise it will be one click away if you don't like the new look.
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@mlnews They have been doing this constantly and for a long time. Every single time the pc needs to restart for an update the browser and other stuff gets reset to Edge and other Microsoft apps. I just change them back for everyone.
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Microsoft's Activation Servers are on the fritz and downgrading Windows 10 Pro to Home versions.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/08/windows_10_activation/
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Microsoft's Activation Servers are on the fritz and downgrading Windows 10 Pro to Home versions.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/08/windows_10_activation/
This appears to be tied to build 18277 from the article.
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Microsoft's Activation Servers are on the fritz and downgrading Windows 10 Pro to Home versions.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/08/windows_10_activation/
This appears to be tied to build 18277 from the article.
Did you read the entire thing? Because nope.
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@DustinB3403 mines doing it on build 17763.55
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@hobbit666 Me too. :frowning_face:
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@mlnews I'm loving the new posting format for news articles :thumbs_up:
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@bnrstnr said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews I'm loving the new posting format for news articles :thumbs_up:
Thanks
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Apple walks Ars through the iPad Pro’s A12X system on a chip
Apple's Anand Shimpi, Phil Schiller talk silicon—"This is really an Xbox One S class GPU."
Apple made some big claims about the A12X during its presentation announcing the product: that it has twice the graphics performance of the A10X; that it has 90 percent faster multi-core performance than its predecessor; that it matches the GPU power of the Xbox One S game console with no fan and at a fraction of the size; that it has 1,000 times faster graphics performance than the original iPad released eight years ago; that it's faster than 92 percent of all portable PCs.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Apple walks Ars through the iPad Pro’s A12X system on a chip
Apple's Anand Shimpi, Phil Schiller talk silicon—"This is really an Xbox One S class GPU."
Apple made some big claims about the A12X during its presentation announcing the product: that it has twice the graphics performance of the A10X; that it has 90 percent faster multi-core performance than its predecessor; that it matches the GPU power of the Xbox One S game console with no fan and at a fraction of the size; that it has 1,000 times faster graphics performance than the original iPad released eight years ago; that it's faster than 92 percent of all portable PCs.
Yet only the top 1% of the world can afford it
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Police decrypt 258,000 messages after breaking pricey IronChat crypto app
Weakness allowed cops to monitor encrypted messages for some time.
Police in the Netherlands said they decrypted more than 258,000 messages sent using IronChat, an app billed as providing end-to-end encryption...
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Samsung’s foldable phone is real, and it launches next year
It was veiled in darkness, but Samsung showed off its first folding phone
...After a lot of talk about Bixby and Samsung's Android Pie update, the company cut the lights and showed off a folding smartphone veiled in darkness and hidden in a case. It wasn't a full device announcement, but we're still able to glean some information from Samsung's tease.
Samsung is calling this hardware the "Infinity Flex Display," and it will come as part of the company's first foldable smartphone. As you would expect from Samsung, the display is still OLED. The cover is no longer glass, of course, because glass isn't flexible. Samsung says it developed "an advanced composite polymer"—plastic—to cover the display instead....
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Negotiating with ISPs: Don’t accept broadband price hikes without a fight
[Your bill rose $40 because the promotional rate expired—here's what to do next](link url).
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Facebook open-sources new suite of Linux kernel components and tools
POSTED ON OCT 30, 2018
An integral part of Facebook’s engineering culture has always been our development work on open source solutions that solve real-world production issues and address key challenges in modern large-scale cloud computing. Today, we are announcing a suite of open source Linux kernel components and related tools that address critical fleet management issues. These include resource control, resource utilization, workload isolation, load balancing, measuring, monitoring, and much more.
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@NerdyDad said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Facebook open-sources new suite of Linux kernel components and tools
POSTED ON OCT 30, 2018
An integral part of Facebook’s engineering culture has always been our development work on open source solutions that solve real-world production issues and address key challenges in modern large-scale cloud computing. Today, we are announcing a suite of open source Linux kernel components and related tools that address critical fleet management issues. These include resource control, resource utilization, workload isolation, load balancing, measuring, monitoring, and much more.
Wow, that's awesome.
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@NerdyDad said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Facebook open-sources new suite of Linux kernel components and tools
POSTED ON OCT 30, 2018
An integral part of Facebook’s engineering culture has always been our development work on open source solutions that solve real-world production issues and address key challenges in modern large-scale cloud computing. Today, we are announcing a suite of open source Linux kernel components and related tools that address critical fleet management issues. These include resource control, resource utilization, workload isolation, load balancing, measuring, monitoring, and much more.
Good to hear about Btrfs. Hopefully this will convinced Red Hat to support it again.
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@NerdyDad said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Facebook open-sources new suite of Linux kernel components and tools
POSTED ON OCT 30, 2018
An integral part of Facebook’s engineering culture has always been our development work on open source solutions that solve real-world production issues and address key challenges in modern large-scale cloud computing. Today, we are announcing a suite of open source Linux kernel components and related tools that address critical fleet management issues. These include resource control, resource utilization, workload isolation, load balancing, measuring, monitoring, and much more.
Good to hear about Btrfs. Hopefully this will convinced Red Hat to support it again.
RH doesn't support it because they are trying to create a competitor. Not because they didn't think that it was good.
