Miscellaneous Tech News
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Microsoft asks to join private Linux security developer list
Microsoft's migration from Linux enemy to Linux friend continues in security circles.
Almost all of Linux's development work is conducted in the open. Almost. -
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@StuartJordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
It is a complete different pricing model, a completely greedy pricing model.
It's only greedy if the customers decide that it is worth it and it maximizes profits.
LOL - that's not greed.
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Georgia courts (mostly) shrug off ransomware attack
But a Florida city pays $600k in ransom and still faces $1m in security fixes.
A spokesman for Georgia's Administrative Office of the Courts has confirmed that the AOC's information technology team discovered ransomware on the organization's servers on Saturday. -
HP, Dell, Microsoft, and Amazon look to move some hardware production out of China
HP, Dell, Microsoft, and Amazon are the latest companies to consider moving some of their hardware production out of China in light of the ongoing trade war with the US.
Nikkei reports that HP and Dell are both looking to move up to 30 percent of their laptop production out of the country. -
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Microsoft asks to join private Linux security developer list
Microsoft's migration from Linux enemy to Linux friend continues in security circles.
Almost all of Linux's development work is conducted in the open. Almost."All of which makes good sense. Besides, Levin revealed in a follow-up note to the discussion that: "the Linux usage on our cloud has surpassed Windows,"
Hmmm.... Is Levin talking about Azure? Don't know, but I think so. If so, I am trying to figure out why choose Azure over AWS or any others if doing Linux Systems?
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D-Link agrees to new security monitoring to settle FTC charges
Agreement settles charges D-Link left users open to critical and widespread threats
Router and webcam maker D-Link has agreed to implement a new security program to settle charges it failed to safeguard its hardware against well-known and preventable hacks and misrepresented its existing security regimen. -
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
D-Link agrees to new security monitoring to settle FTC charges
Agreement settles charges D-Link left users open to critical and widespread threats
Router and webcam maker D-Link has agreed to implement a new security program to settle charges it failed to safeguard its hardware against well-known and preventable hacks and misrepresented its existing security regimen.Remember that conference where D-Link was there with a booth and all they did was try to tell everyone that they were a serious company? They had nothing to show, just sales guys saying over and over "we do business stuff, too!"
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
D-Link agrees to new security monitoring to settle FTC charges
Agreement settles charges D-Link left users open to critical and widespread threats
Router and webcam maker D-Link has agreed to implement a new security program to settle charges it failed to safeguard its hardware against well-known and preventable hacks and misrepresented its existing security regimen.Remember that conference where D-Link was there with a booth and all they did was try to tell everyone that they were a serious company? They had nothing to show, just sales guys saying over and over "we do business stuff, too!"
Nope, because if I saw them at all, I just strolled on past knowing they didn't know dink about business class stuff.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Microsoft Turning On Teams for Office 365 Business, ProPlus Subscribers as Early as July
Microsoft plans to activate its Teams collaboration app for organizations with existing Office 365 Business or Office 365 ProPlus subscriptions starting as early as July 9, according to a Friday announcement.
Unless IT pros take advance action to block the arrival of Teams, the application will get turned on automatically by Microsoft with the arrival of next Office update.
There has been a switch (for a couple of months) in the admin portal to disable the automatic adding of Teams for SFB users, but it got turned on by default. I had to go in and disable it, as we left SFB/Teams for Slack.
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The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 6.2.5
The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 6.2.5, the fifth bug and regression fixing release of the LibreOffice 6.2 family, targeted at tech-savvy individuals: early adopters, technology enthusiasts and power users.
Users in production environments can start evaluating LibreOffice 6.2.5. -
Eternal Terminal – A Remote Shell That Automatically Reconnects Without Interrupting The Session
Eternal Terminal (ET) is a remote shell that automatically reconnects without interrupting the session.
Unlike the normal SSH session, ET session will survive even after the network outages or IP changes. -
Ubuntu 19.10 Indeed Working On "Experimental ZFS Option" In Ubiquity Installer
It looks like in July we could finally see an "experimental ZFS" option within Ubuntu 19.10 and its daily images for those wanting an easy-to-use ZFS On Linux based installation of Ubuntu.
We've been anticipating Canonical to add this easy-to-use option for setting up a ZoL (ZFS on Linux) root file-system configuration when installing Ubuntu. -
FreeBSD turns 26
The FreeBSD operating system is continuing to make progress, 26 years after it got its name.
Among the areas where work is being done is on improved support for RISC-V, FUSE filesystem updates, C runtime changes, and security improvements. FreeBSD Day is celebrated on June 19, in recognition of the date in 1993 when the name FreeBSD was coined for a fork of the 386BSD project. -
ENDEAVOUR OS – READY TO BE RELEASED
One of our favorite Arch based Linux distros Antergos discontinued recently. All those using Antergos – here is another distro ready to take place as a user-friendly arch Linux distro, EndeavourOS.
EndeavourOS promises to provide an easier way to install and use Arch Linux just as Antergos did. -
New memory chip could make data transfer 1,000 times faster
A Cambridge-based startup believes it has a prototype that could potentially solve the von Neumann bottleneck
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@pmoncho said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I am trying to figure out why choose Azure over AWS or any others if doing Linux Systems?
Why exactly wouldn't you? What specific reasons?
I would think it 100% depends on one's particular needs.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Ubuntu 19.10 Indeed Working On "Experimental ZFS Option" In Ubiquity Installer
It looks like in July we could finally see an "experimental ZFS" option within Ubuntu 19.10 and its daily images for those wanting an easy-to-use ZFS On Linux based installation of Ubuntu.
We've been anticipating Canonical to add this easy-to-use option for setting up a ZoL (ZFS on Linux) root file-system configuration when installing Ubuntu.That would be very handy.
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@hobbit666 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
New memory chip could make data transfer 1,000 times faster
A Cambridge-based startup believes it has a prototype that could potentially solve the von Neumann bottleneck
@hobbit666 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
New memory chip could make data transfer 1,000 times faster
A Cambridge-based startup believes it has a prototype that could potentially solve the von Neumann bottleneck
Sounds like they have some cool ideas.
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@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@pmoncho said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I am trying to figure out why choose Azure over AWS or any others if doing Linux Systems?
Why exactly wouldn't you? What specific reasons?
I would think it 100% depends on one's particular needs.
Pretty much.
