Miscellaneous Tech News
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Disney forces explicit Club Penguin clones offline
Disney has ordered unauthorised copies of its Club Penguin game to close, after the BBC found children were being exposed to explicit messages.
Visits to fan-run Club Penguin Online surged during the coronavirus pandemic with more than a million new players. But racist, homophobic, anti-Semitic and sexual messages flow freely on the unauthorised platform. Disney said it was "appalled" by the website, and has ordered it to close or face legal action. Club Penguin Online appeared to go offline on Friday afternoon. -
Facebook is buying Giphy and integrating it with Instagram
Plans to integrate with Instagram and other apps
Facebook is buying the popular GIF-making and sharing website Giphy for a reported price of $400 million, with plans to integrate the massive GIF library into Instagram and other Facebook apps. News of the deal was first reported by Axios, which revealed the $400 million value of the deal. -
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Facebook is buying Giphy and integrating it with Instagram
Plans to integrate with Instagram and other apps
Facebook is buying the popular GIF-making and sharing website Giphy for a reported price of $400 million, with plans to integrate the massive GIF library into Instagram and other Facebook apps. News of the deal was first reported by Axios, which revealed the $400 million value of the deal.Well, crap.
I guess the new world order will be House of Mouse and the Facebook Data Empire
Seriously though I’m disappointed but I know how the game is played. Someone would have bought it eventually -
RedHat to offer online exams in August
https://servicesblog.redhat.com/2020/05/15/first-look-at-red-hat-remote-certification-exams/
Granted my RHCSA is scheduled for next month, but at least it looks like they've listened to many of the voices clamoring for online exams.
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@EddieJennings said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
RedHat to offer online exams in August
https://servicesblog.redhat.com/2020/05/15/first-look-at-red-hat-remote-certification-exams/
Granted my RHCSA is scheduled for next month, but at least it looks like they've listened to many of the voices clamoring for online exams.
Certiport is providing exams from home too. Certiport has developed a home-based assessment solution using virtual machines that allows for administered exams.
https://certiport.pearsonvue.com/Educator-resources/Exams-from-Home -
Uber lays off 3,000 more employees in latest round of COVID-19-inspired cuts
More pain for the ride-hailing giant
Uber is laying off 3,000 employees in the latest round of COVID-19-inspired cost-cutting, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in an email to staff. The news, which was first reported over the weekend by The Wall Street Journal, comes as the ride-hailing company has seen an 80 percent drop in its ride-hailing business as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. “We have to take these hard actions to stand strong on our own two feet, to secure our future, and to continue on our mission,” Khosrowshahi said in the email. -
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I saw this yesterday and wasn't impressed at all, Windows is using WSL to bring in a few apps, can it be useful, sure. But pretty much anyone who is going to need a linux GUI app, is already going to be using Linux and possibly have a Windows VM running under KVM.
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I saw this yesterday and wasn't impressed at all, Windows is using WSL to bring in a few apps, can it be useful, sure. But pretty much anyone who is going to need a linux GUI app, is already going to be using Linux and possibly have a Windows VM running under KVM.
that's definitely not true. I'm forced to use Windows and other than running a full VM I don't have many options.
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I saw this yesterday and wasn't impressed at all, Windows is using WSL to bring in a few apps, can it be useful, sure. But pretty much anyone who is going to need a linux GUI app, is already going to be using Linux and possibly have a Windows VM running under KVM.
Running virt-manager without needing to run xming would be nice.
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I saw this yesterday and wasn't impressed at all, Windows is using WSL to bring in a few apps, can it be useful, sure. But pretty much anyone who is going to need a linux GUI app, is already going to be using Linux and possibly have a Windows VM running under KVM.
Running virt-manager without needing to run xming would be nice.
It would be, and honestly, shouldn't be THAT hard to port.
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Man sentenced to death in Singapore via Zoom
A man has been sentenced to death via a Zoom video call in Singapore, as the country remains on lockdown following a spike in Covid-19 cases.
Punithan Genasan, 37, received the sentence on Friday for his role in a drug deal that took place in 2011. It marks the city's first case where such a ruling has been done remotely. Human rights groups argued that pursuing the death penalty at a time when the world is being gripped by a pandemic was "abhorrent".The vast majority of court hearings in Singapore have been adjourned until at least 1 June, when the city's current lockdown period is due to end.Cases which have been deemed to be essential are being held remotely. -
Coronavirus: MPs demand answers on misinformation
Twitter has begun labelling tweets that spread misinformation about Covid-19, including some from Mark Steele, who posts about links between 5G and coronavirus.
But tweets from other 5G conspiracy theorists, such as David Icke, remain unchallenged. MPs have asked Google, Twitter and Facebook to return to Parliament to answer their questions about content. Only Facebook's head of global policy Monica Bickert has agreed to attend. Chairman of the DCMS (Digital, Culture, Media and Sport) select committee Julian Knight said MPs had been "very disappointed" by the standard of evidence given by the three firms about coronavirus misinformation at their last meeting. "The failure by Twitter, Facebook and Google to give adequate answers in writing to our outstanding questions have left me with no alternative but to recall them to Parliament," he said in a statement. -
Researchers Squeezed Breakneck 44.2 Tbps Through Ordinary Fiber Optic Cables
A group of scientists in Australia used a "microcomb" to accelerate internet connection speeds to breakneck speeds of 44.2 Tbps — roughly 1 million times faster than an average user's internet speed.
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@hobbit666 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Researchers Squeezed Breakneck 44.2 Tbps Through Ordinary Fiber Optic Cables
A group of scientists in Australia used a "microcomb" to accelerate internet connection speeds to breakneck speeds of 44.2 Tbps — roughly 1 million times faster than an average user's internet speed.
And only 300% faster than Cisco claimed a decade ago was the speed necessary for YouTube videos in a Spicecorps event.
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Huge Microsoft Windows Update Advisory
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Huge Microsoft Windows Update Advisory
Why is Microsoft Update even messing with user data anyway? I get it if you’re not able to access your data because you can’t log in.
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Coronavirus: First Google/Apple-based contact-tracing app launched
The team developing Switzerland's coronavirus contact-tracing app says it has become the first to have launched a product incorporating a technology provided by Apple and Google.
Members of the Swiss army, hospital workers and civil servants can now install the SwissCovid app ahead of a planned wider rollout. A Latvian coalition says it is running close behind. But the US tech firms face criticism for their prescriptive approach. Automated contact tracing involves using smartphones to detect when two people are close to each other for long enough that there is a significant risk of contagion, so that one can be warned if the other is later diagnosed with having the disease.
