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Facebook boss faces 'blow-dried armpit' jibes
Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg has faced jibes on social media over claims he has staff blow-dry his armpits before public appearances.
The claim is from a new book, Facebook: The Inside Story by Steven Levy, that will be released later this month. A Bloomberg review included the anecdote about Mr Zuckerberg having a member of his communication team dry his "anxiety sweat" before a speech. A Facebook spokesperson said she doubted the story's accuracy. "I doubt this is true, and if so, it would have been at our communications team's request, but surely anyone who has ever worn a grey T-shirt can relate," said Liz Bourgeois, a Facebook spokesperson. The anecdote was first reported in a review of the book by Bloomberg News. -
Overview of the hardware specifications for the UMG-Pro:
Processor: Quad ARM Cortex-A57 Core at 1.7 GHz
System Memory: 2 GB DDR4
2 x 1/10G SFP+ WAN/LAN Ports
2 x 10/100/1000 RJ45 WAN/LAN Ports
1 x RPS DC Input
1 x Smart Power Outlet 125VAC (Max 10A)
1 x 1.3" Color LCD Touch DisplayThe UMG-Pro will be available in the EA store soon.
Note: The UMG-Pro will be adoptable to an external controller and will not host any controllers on it.
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Samsung explains mystery alert sent overnight
Samsung has apologised after it accidentally sent an alert to thousands of devices overnight.
Affected devices received a notification from Find My Mobile in the early hours of Thursday morning. Some customers complained on social media that it had woken them up, while others worried their device had been hacked. In a statement, Samsung said the alert had been sent unintentionally to a "limited number" of devices. Thousands of customers posted on social media and news site Reddit, many sharing screenshots of the notification and asking what it might mean. -
@Romo said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Processor: Quad ARM Cortex-A57 Core at 1.7 GHz
System Memory: 2 GB DDR4Ah, same CPU as a decent smartphone...in 2015.
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@Pete-S said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Romo said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Processor: Quad ARM Cortex-A57 Core at 1.7 GHz
System Memory: 2 GB DDR4Ah, same CPU as a decent smartphone...in 2015.
The lack of RAM in an edge device seems like the killer to me.
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https://www.zdnet.com/article/bug-in-wordpress-plugin-can-let-hackers-wipe-up-to-200000-sites/
WordPress site owners who use commercial themes provided by ThemeGrill are advised to update one of the plugins that come installed with these themes in order to patch a critical bug that can let attackers wipe their sites.
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@Pete-S said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Romo said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Processor: Quad ARM Cortex-A57 Core at 1.7 GHz
System Memory: 2 GB DDR4Ah, same CPU as a decent smartphone...in 2015.
Way more power than an average router
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I got this last night.
BBC News - Samsung explains mystery alert sent overnight
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I got this last night.
BBC News - Samsung explains mystery alert sent overnight
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-51572775Me too. Ooops.
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@Pete-S said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Romo said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Processor: Quad ARM Cortex-A57 Core at 1.7 GHz
System Memory: 2 GB DDR4Ah, same CPU as a decent smartphone...in 2015.
Have you looked at the CPU used in most Cisco gear? There are reasons an ER-X outperforms any ASA, ever.
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@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Pete-S said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Romo said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Processor: Quad ARM Cortex-A57 Core at 1.7 GHz
System Memory: 2 GB DDR4Ah, same CPU as a decent smartphone...in 2015.
Have you looked at the CPU used in most Cisco gear? There are reasons an ER-X outperforms any ASA, ever.
Yeah, a modern Raspberry Pi CPU in a router is a big freaking deal. That's so much more power than they traditionally have.
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@travisdh1 isn't like a twenty year old 32bit MIPS the standard?
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@travisdh1 isn't like a twenty year old 32bit MIPS the standard?
For the higher end stuff, yes.
It's been a while, but if I remember correctly the low end ASA uses a single core 32 bit MIPS CPU. Yes, the ASIC handles all standard traffic, but do anything that has to touch the CPU and it just falls over. They're a lot like the CPUs SGI was using in the early 90s, so might be closer to 30 years old.
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@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Pete-S said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Romo said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Processor: Quad ARM Cortex-A57 Core at 1.7 GHz
System Memory: 2 GB DDR4Ah, same CPU as a decent smartphone...in 2015.
Have you looked at the CPU used in most Cisco gear? There are reasons an ER-X outperforms any ASA, ever.
ASA was introduced in 2006. That's like a 100 years ago in technology improvement. Of course it's faster.
The quad core ARM in the router is nothing special. It's a $10 part. You'll find the same type CPU in many devices, including routers. A multi-core ARM cpu is ubiquitous today.
This is just technology marching on as time goes by.
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@Pete-S said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Pete-S said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Romo said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Processor: Quad ARM Cortex-A57 Core at 1.7 GHz
System Memory: 2 GB DDR4Ah, same CPU as a decent smartphone...in 2015.
Have you looked at the CPU used in most Cisco gear? There are reasons an ER-X outperforms any ASA, ever.
ASA was introduced in 2006. That's like a 100 years ago in technology improvement. Of course it's faster.
The quad core ARM in the router is nothing special. It's a $10 part. You'll find the same type CPU in many devices, including routers. A multi-core ARM cpu is ubiquitous today.
This is just technology marching on as time goes by.
They've "updated" the ASA line since then. This is the new stuff I'm talking about, not the ancient 2006 stuff.
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@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Pete-S said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Pete-S said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Romo said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Processor: Quad ARM Cortex-A57 Core at 1.7 GHz
System Memory: 2 GB DDR4Ah, same CPU as a decent smartphone...in 2015.
Have you looked at the CPU used in most Cisco gear? There are reasons an ER-X outperforms any ASA, ever.
ASA was introduced in 2006. That's like a 100 years ago in technology improvement. Of course it's faster.
The quad core ARM in the router is nothing special. It's a $10 part. You'll find the same type CPU in many devices, including routers. A multi-core ARM cpu is ubiquitous today.
This is just technology marching on as time goes by.
They've "updated" the ASA line since then. This is the new stuff I'm talking about, not the ancient 2006 stuff.
ASA was phased out long ago, though.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Pete-S said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Pete-S said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Romo said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Processor: Quad ARM Cortex-A57 Core at 1.7 GHz
System Memory: 2 GB DDR4Ah, same CPU as a decent smartphone...in 2015.
Have you looked at the CPU used in most Cisco gear? There are reasons an ER-X outperforms any ASA, ever.
ASA was introduced in 2006. That's like a 100 years ago in technology improvement. Of course it's faster.
The quad core ARM in the router is nothing special. It's a $10 part. You'll find the same type CPU in many devices, including routers. A multi-core ARM cpu is ubiquitous today.
This is just technology marching on as time goes by.
They've "updated" the ASA line since then. This is the new stuff I'm talking about, not the ancient 2006 stuff.
ASA was phased out long ago, though.
I must've purged the new name from memory.
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@Romo said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Overview of the hardware specifications for the UMG-Pro:
Processor: Quad ARM Cortex-A57 Core at 1.7 GHzFor reference the RP4 is...
4x Arm Cortex A-72 cores (Broadcom BCM2711B0) @ 1.5 GHz
So higher end cores, at a little slower speed. So one generation older than the RP4. But might get better performance in some situations.
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The UMG Pro's processor is more like the RockChip OP1 used in things like the HardROCK64. But only the four low power cores and with the two high performance cores skipped.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/hardrock64-pine64-raspberry-pi-alternative-sbc
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