Miscellaneous Tech News
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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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Privacy issue or non issue?
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What happens when the internet vanishes?
From his high-rise desk overlooking the sprawling city of Addis Ababa, Markos Lemma has a pretty good view of things.
As the founder of technology innovation hub IceAddis, his co-working space is usually abuzz with wide-eyed entrepreneurs fuelled on strong coffee and big dreams. But when the internet shuts down, everything is killed in its tracks. Data shared with the BBC by digital rights group Access Now, shows that last year services were deliberately shut down more than 200 times in 33 separate countries."Traffic around here just stops. No one comes in - or when they do they don't stay for long because without the internet, what are they going to do?" Markos says. -
Pets 'go hungry' after smart feeder goes offline
Owners of a device designed to release food for pets say their animals were left hungry during a week-long system failure.
Petnet allows owners to schedule and control feeding via a smartphone app. When the BBC contacted Petnet on its advertised email address, the email bounced back with a delivery failure notice. One pet owner tweeted: "My cat starved for over a week", while others complained about other hardware issues. "My three Gen2 feeders constantly jam and won't dispense food," wrote another. Some expressed relief that the feeders were now back online.
