Miscellaneous Tech News
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The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed
Like spam, we'll be able to manage it but not eliminate it.
Years into the robocalling frenzy, your phone probably still rings off the hook with "important information about your account," updates from the "Chinese embassy," and every bogus sweepstakes offer imaginable. That's despite promises from the telecom industry and the US government that solutions would be coming. Much like the firehose of spam that made email almost unusable in the late 1990s, robocalls have made people in the US wary of picking up their cell phones and landlines. In fact, email spam offers a useful analogy: a scourge that probably can't be eliminated but can be effectively managed.Finding the right tools for that job remains a challenge. The Federal Trade Commission has had a strong track record in its 140 robocall-related suits, including a recent victory at the end of March that targeted four massive operations. Bipartisan anti-robocalling legislation is gaining traction in Congress. Apps that flag or block unwanted calls have matured and are solidly effective. And wireless carriers—in part facing pressure from the Federal Communications Commission—have increasingly offered their own anti-robocalling apps and tools for free.
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Bitcoin mining ban considered by China's economic planner
Bitcoin creation has joined a list of activities facing a ban in China.
A notice published online in Mandarin by the country's economic planning agency added "virtual currency mining activities [including] the production process of Bitcoin" to a list of industries that could be shut down.
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InitRAMFS, Dracut y Dracut Emergency Shell
The Linux startup process goes through several stages before reaching the final graphical or multi-user target. The initramfs stage occurs just before the root file system is mounted. Dracut is a tool that is used to manage the initramfs. The dracut emergency shell is an interactive mode that can be initiated while the initramfs is loaded.
This article will show how to use the dracut command to modify the initramfs. Some basic troubleshooting commands that can be run from the dracut emergency shell will also be demonstrated. -
Slack announces deeper integration with Office 365.
The messaging service is getting a new Outlook calendar and mail app, an updated OneDrive app and users will now be able to preview Office files directly within Slack.
https://www.techradar.com/news/slack-joins-forces-with-microsoft-office-365 -
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/04/microsoft-edge-may-come-to-linux-eventually-just-not-right-now
And who would use it?
I would
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@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/04/microsoft-edge-may-come-to-linux-eventually-just-not-right-now
And who would use it?
I would
Why, it's just chrome with the Edge appearance.
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/04/microsoft-edge-may-come-to-linux-eventually-just-not-right-now
And who would use it?
I would
Why, it's just chrome with the Edge appearance.
No, it is Chromium. Not Chrome. Totally different.
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To add to what Jared said, these are the main differences from wikipedia:
*The following features of Google Chrome are not present in a default Chromium build. But some of these items can be enabled or manually added to a Chromium build, which is what many Linux distributions do.[7]
Auto-update capability
Integrated Adobe Flash Player
API keys for some Google services
The Widevine digital rights management module
Licensed codecs for the popular H.264 video and AAC audio formats
Tracking mechanisms for usage and crash reportsThe other differences are branding and licensing. While Chrome has the same user interface functionality as Chromium, it changes the color scheme to the Google-branded one. Chrome is also not open-source, so its binaries are licensed as freeware under the Google Chrome Terms of Service.[8]*
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Mysterious safety-tampering malware infects a second critical infrastructure site
Use of game-changing Triton malware to target safety systems isn't an isolated incident.
Sixteen months ago, researchers reported an unsettling escalation in hacks targeting power plants, gas refineries, and other types of critical infrastructure. Attackers who may have been working on behalf of a nation caused an operational outage at a critical-infrastructure site after deliberately targeting a system that prevented health- and life-threatening accidents. -
Microsoft's April Security Patch Bundle Released
Microsoft announced the release of its April security patches on Tuesday, addressing 74 unique vulnerabilities.
Microsoft's complete list of security patches can be found in its "Security Update Guide" for this month, now totaling 83 pages. -
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Microsoft's April Security Patch Bundle Released
Microsoft announced the release of its April security patches on Tuesday, addressing 74 unique vulnerabilities.
Microsoft's complete list of security patches can be found in its "Security Update Guide" for this month, now totaling 83 pages.Maybe this is why @EddieJennings can't update any longer?
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The Case of the Spontaneous Hyper-V Modifications
When mysterious changes to the Hyper-V virtual switch caused all of his virtual machines to lose connectivity, Brien was left puzzling over the source of the problem and the workaround.
As someone who works with Hyper-V almost every day, I thought that I had pretty much seen it all. Last week, however, I ran into a really strange problem. Even now, I am at a loss to explain how or why it happened, but I wanted to pass along the fix just in case anyone else experiences the issue. -
US lawmakers to probe algorithm bias
Computer algorithms must show they are free of race, gender and other biases before they are deployed, US politicians have proposed.
Lawmakers have drafted a bill that would require tech firms to test prototype algorithms for bias.
Many organisations rely on coded instructions or algorithms for tasks such as showing users relevant ads, analysing behaviour or sorting data. -
This is the first photo of a black hole
The black hole image captured by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.
The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, called EHT, is a global network of telescopes that captured the first-ever photograph of a black hole. More than 200 researchers were involved in the project. They have worked for more than a decade to capture this. -
Developers love Python and TypeScript, get paid for Clojure, and aren’t using blockchain
Visual Basic remains as unpopular as ever.
Stack Overflow's annual developer survey was published this week, giving an insight into the skills, experience, and opinions of a wide slice of the developer community. Since its launch in 2008, Stack Overflow has become an essential developer tool, offering copy/paste solutions to an ever-growing number of programming problems. -
Why the US still won’t require SS7 fixes that could secure your phone
The regulatory back door big telecom uses to weaken security regulation.
The outages hit in the summer of 1991. Over several days, phone lines in major metropolises went dead without warning, disrupting emergency services and even air traffic control, often for hours. Phones went down one day in Los Angeles, then on another day in Washington, DC and Baltimore, and then in Pittsburgh.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Developers love Python and TypeScript, get paid for Clojure, and aren’t using blockchain
Visual Basic remains as unpopular as ever.
Stack Overflow's annual developer survey was published this week, giving an insight into the skills, experience, and opinions of a wide slice of the developer community. Since its launch in 2008, Stack Overflow has become an essential developer tool, offering copy/paste solutions to an ever-growing number of programming problems.Clojure is definitely the cool language nearly anyway you look at it.
