Miscellaneous Tech News
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Third parties confirm AMD’s outstanding Ryzen 3000 numbers
AMD debuted its new Ryzen 3000 desktop CPU line a few weeks ago at E3, and it looked fantastic. For the first time in 20 years, it looked like AMD could go head to head with Intel's desktop CPU line-up across the board. The question: would independent, third-party testing back up AMD's assertions?
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Bungie is investigating why Destiny 2 won't run on Ryzen 3000 PCs
Reports of issues getting Destiny 2 to run on a Ryzen 3000 system are piling up.
Several Destiny 2 players who upgraded to a Ryzen 3000 series CPU are reporting that the game will not load properly. It's not clear what is causing the hiccup, though the good news is that Bungie is aware of the problem and is looking into it. -
Microsoft Previews Azure Active Directory FIDO2 Sign-Ins Without Passwords
Microsoft on announced the availability of a public preview of Azure Active Directory's FIDO2 support.
FIDO2, or FAST Identity Online 2.0, is a Web standard for user authentications without passwords. -
Silent Mac update nukes dangerous webserver installed by Zoom
Fix also requires users to confirm they want to join a Zoom conference
Apple said it has pushed a silent macOS update that removes the undocumented webserver that was installed by the Zoom conferencing app for Mac. -
Dropbox Transfer tests direct sharing of files up to 100GB
Send copies of files (even the big ones) with this new Dropbox feature.
Dropbox is adding a new option for how its users can share files. -
KALI LINUX RELEASED FOR RASPBERRY PI
Last month, June Raspberry Pi foundation released RPi 4 with more memory options and useful features. Recently Kali Linux announced the release of its Kali Linux images for Raspberry Pi.
Recently, Kali Linux tweeted the news of releasing the pentesting distro for RPi and got a good response from its followers -
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Website drive-by attacks on routers are alive and well. Here’s what to do
Researchers detect 4.6 million attempts over 2 months in Brazil alone.
Website drive-by attacks that try to booby trap visitors’ routers are alive and well, according to antivirus provider Avast, which blocked more than 4.6 million of them in Brazil over a two-month span. -
Microsoft Teams is now officially bigger than Slack
It's the first official milestone for Microsoft's group chat, and it's a big one.
Microsoft Teams may have only been around for two years, but the group-chat platform is already larger than one of its main competitors. -
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Microsoft Teams is now officially bigger than Slack
It's the first official milestone for Microsoft's group chat, and it's a big one.
Microsoft Teams may have only been around for two years, but the group-chat platform is already larger than one of its main competitors.Wow, that's actually really surprising.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Microsoft Teams is now officially bigger than Slack
It's the first official milestone for Microsoft's group chat, and it's a big one.
Microsoft Teams may have only been around for two years, but the group-chat platform is already larger than one of its main competitors.Wow, that's actually really surprising.
My first thought was were they counting active users or just everybody who is subscribed to O365, lol. The article says they claim 13mil daily users.
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@scottalanmiller and @dafyre take it with a grain of salt, they forced all of the smaller customers onto Teams. So a lot of people really had no choice as one day they were SfB users the next it was Teams only.
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@dafyre said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Microsoft Teams is now officially bigger than Slack
It's the first official milestone for Microsoft's group chat, and it's a big one.
Microsoft Teams may have only been around for two years, but the group-chat platform is already larger than one of its main competitors.Wow, that's actually really surprising.
My first thought was were they counting active users or just everybody who is subscribed to O365, lol. The article says they claim 13mil daily users.
That does seem very suspicious.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Website drive-by attacks on routers are alive and well. Here’s what to do
Researchers detect 4.6 million attempts over 2 months in Brazil alone.
Website drive-by attacks that try to booby trap visitors’ routers are alive and well, according to antivirus provider Avast, which blocked more than 4.6 million of them in Brazil over a two-month span.Gotta love this
Besides watching out for spoofed sites, people can protect themselves by keeping router firmware updated or, when updates are no longer available, replacing the router.
OK how is a user supposed to know the vendor has stopped providing updates versus they just haven't had a reason to supply an update recently?
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Microsoft Teams is now officially bigger than Slack
It's the first official milestone for Microsoft's group chat, and it's a big one.
Microsoft Teams may have only been around for two years, but the group-chat platform is already larger than one of its main competitors.Wow, that's actually really surprising.
Is it? Anyone and everyone who has O365 has Teams - so, do those who don't bother to use Teams still count simply because they have it?
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Website drive-by attacks on routers are alive and well. Here’s what to do
Researchers detect 4.6 million attempts over 2 months in Brazil alone.
Website drive-by attacks that try to booby trap visitors’ routers are alive and well, according to antivirus provider Avast, which blocked more than 4.6 million of them in Brazil over a two-month span.Gotta love this
Besides watching out for spoofed sites, people can protect themselves by keeping router firmware updated or, when updates are no longer available, replacing the router.
OK how is a user supposed to know the vendor has stopped providing updates versus they just haven't had a reason to supply an update recently?
They have to have raised an IT person. At least for my parents, I just show up with a new thing and they go "Oh, I'm glad you know we need that."
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Microsoft Teams is now officially bigger than Slack
It's the first official milestone for Microsoft's group chat, and it's a big one.
Microsoft Teams may have only been around for two years, but the group-chat platform is already larger than one of its main competitors.Wow, that's actually really surprising.
Is it? Anyone and everyone who has O365 has Teams - so, do those who don't bother to use Teams still count simply because they have it?
I suppose the article does say this
Microsoft announced that Teams has more than 13 million daily active users. The amount rises to 19 million when looking at weekly active users.
So maybe it's actually true in a meaningful way.
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System76's Linux-Powered Thelio Desktops Now Available with AMD Ryzen Gen 3 CPUs
System76, the US-based maker of powerful Linux computers, announced on Twitter that its Thelio desktop line-up can now be configured with 3rd-generation AMD Ryzen processors.
System76's Thelio line-up offers customers out-of-this-world handcrafted desktop systems powered by the company's in-house developed Pop!_OS Linux operating system or Canonical's Ubuntu Linux
