Miscellaneous Tech News
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Cable companies can save money now that DOCSIS 3.1 upgrade is mostly done
Broadband investment happens in cycles—despite what the FCC tells you.
Cable-company spending on network equipment is dropping as major providers like Comcast and Charter finish up their nationwide DOCSIS 3.1 rollouts. -
Hackers behind dangerous oil and gas intrusions are probing US power gridst
Group responsible for safety tampering Triconex malware has expanded, researchers say.
Group responsible for safety tampering Triconex malware has expanded, researchers say. -
Samsung TVs should be regularly virus-checked, the company says
Samsung has advised owners of its latest TVs to run regular virus scans.
A how-to video on the Samsung Support USA Twitter account demonstrates the more than a dozen remote-control button presses required to access the sub-menu needed to activate the check. -
@hobbit666 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Samsung TVs should be regularly virus-checked, the company says
Samsung has advised owners of its latest TVs to run regular virus scans.
A how-to video on the Samsung Support USA Twitter account demonstrates the more than a dozen remote-control button presses required to access the sub-menu needed to activate the check.Seems like they could have made that a simply thing to do, and to have automated it.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@hobbit666 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Samsung TVs should be regularly virus-checked, the company says
Samsung has advised owners of its latest TVs to run regular virus scans.
A how-to video on the Samsung Support USA Twitter account demonstrates the more than a dozen remote-control button presses required to access the sub-menu needed to activate the check.Seems like they could have made that a simply thing to do, and to have automated it.
I simply don't connect my TV to the internet. That's what my Roku is for.
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Microsoft Releases Hyper-V Server 2019 After Long Delay
Microsoft on Monday announced that Hyper-V Server 2019 is now available for download from the Microsoft Evaluation Center page.
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Microsoft Deprecating Windows To Go
Microsoft plans to put an end to its Windows To Go product in the near future, according to a Friday support article.
Windows To Go is a portable hardware and software product. -
Cloudflare aims to make HTTPS certificates safe from BGP hijacking attacks
Free service prevents BGP hijackers from fraudulently obtaining browser-trusted certs.
Content delivery network Cloudflare is introducing a free service designed to make it harder for browser-trusted HTTPS certificates to fall into the hands of bad guys who exploit Internet weaknesses at the time the certificates are issued. -
Google Calendar scam adds malicious links to your schedule
https://mashable.com/article/google-calendar-scam/ -
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Microsoft Releases Hyper-V Server 2019 After Long Delay
Microsoft on Monday announced that Hyper-V Server 2019 is now available for download from the Microsoft Evaluation Center page.
Whoa, I'd almost forgotten about it!
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Nearly 12 million Quest Diagnostics patients affected by data breach
Not Quest's own systems, but their data. Financial and personal data for loads of customers. Really damaging stuff like socials and credit card info.
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AMD says its Ryzen 3000 isn’t just cheaper—it’s better
AMD's Travis Kirsch says there's no reason to buy an Intel CPU anymore.
AMD's new line of Ryzen 3000 desktop CPUs will benefit from the same 7nm manufacturing process as the company's new Navi-powered GPUs. -
Veeam Backup and Replication v10 Sneak peek: Cloud Tier Copy Mode
https://www.veeam.com/blog/v10-sneak-peek-cloud-tier-copy-mode.html
"Copy Mode is an additional policy you can set against the Capacity Tier extent of the Scale Out Backup Repository (SOBR), which is backed by an Object Storage repository. Once selected, any backup files that are created as part of any standard backup or backup copy job will be copied to the Capacity Tier. This fully satisfies the 3-2-1 rule of backup, which asks for one full copy of your data off site." -
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Nearly 12 million Quest Diagnostics patients affected by data breach
Not Quest's own systems, but their data. Financial and personal data for loads of customers. Really damaging stuff like socials and credit card info.
LabCorp was affected too, 7.7M customer records exposed.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/06/labcorp-7-7m-consumers-hit-in-collections-firm-breach/ -
@dafyre said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@hobbit666 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Samsung TVs should be regularly virus-checked, the company says
Samsung has advised owners of its latest TVs to run regular virus scans.
A how-to video on the Samsung Support USA Twitter account demonstrates the more than a dozen remote-control button presses required to access the sub-menu needed to activate the check.Seems like they could have made that a simply thing to do, and to have automated it.
I simply don't connect my TV to the internet. That's what my Roku is for.
Preach it man! I connected my TV so I could update it's firmware, then instantly disconnected it. TV manufacturers rarely update the software for this IOT devices (yep, your TV is an IOT device)... I'd much rather just replace a Roku or ChromeCast or Amazon TV, etc every few years than worry about my TV.
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
TV manufacturers rarely update the software for this IOT devices (yep, your TV is an IOT device)... I'd much rather just replace a Roku or ChromeCast or Amazon TV, etc every few years than worry about my TV.
Once you start calling that IoT, so is your laptop. IoT means everything now.
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A smart TV is like a smart phone.... a computer. So if we call smart TVs IoT, then we have to call smart phones IoT, what's the difference? And since we cant tell the difference between a smart phone and a laptop, or a laptop and a desktop, or a desktop and a server. Now servers are IoT.
The problem is, things like Smart TVs have no logical barriers to make them IoT, they don't qualify as IoT the way IoT was created as a term to mean.
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If you read the descriptions and definitions, Smart TVs are definitely not IoT by any industry definition, meaning, or intention.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_of_things
IoT refers to ordinary things connected to the Internet. There are loads of ways to describe this, but common sense should be enough. IoT mostly refers to sensor style devices, things that have always existed, but not can be controlled or monitored via a network. That's totally different than "network / compute centric devices" like laptops, desktops, servers, smart phones, smart TVs, etc. that are Internet / computer products at their core.
IoT is about connecting non-compute / non-network objects. Thermostats, for example. They don't need the Internet to function, but you can use the Internet to monitor them. It is IoT because it is an everyday, non-compute object that has been connected to the Internet.
A smart TV is absolutely the opposite. A Smart TV doesn't work if it is not on the Internet, it's function as a Smart TV is to stream network content.
IoT requires that the primary function(s) of a device not be compute or network based, and that those abilities be ancillary.
This has always, from day one, been the intent of the definition, and it has never varied.
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What would be IoT is a non-smart TV that is monitored from the Internet, but is just used for watching local content. These exist, but are not what was being discussed. Smart TVs, as with any "Smart" product, cannot be IoT. Smart = Not IoT.
An IoT TV would be weird, but plausible. Like you could turn it off with an Internet remote, or change the channel from Canada while on vacation. But it isn't Smart, just a normal TV with a nearly senseless Internet option.
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OK fine - I'll give you all that.
People need to look at their TVs just like how they look at their smart phones and laptops/desktops, etc.
