Miscellaneous Tech News
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Fedora's Chromium maintainer suggests switching to Firefox as Google yanks features in favour of Chrome
'They're not closing a security hole, they're just requiring that everyone use Chrome'
Fedora's maintainer for the open-source Chromium browser package is recommending users consider switching to Firefox following Google's decision to remove functionality and make it exclusive to its proprietary Chrome browser.
The comments refer to a low-key statement Google made just before the release of Chrome 88, saying that during an audit it had "discovered that some third-party Chromium-based browsers were able to integrate Google features, such as Chrome sync and Click to Call, that are only intended for Google's use... we are limiting access to our private Chrome APIs starting on March 15, 2021."
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Twitter pilot to let users flag 'false' content
Twitter is asking its users for help in combating fake news.
It has announced a pilot that allows people to submit notes on tweets that may be false or misleading. The initiative, named 'Birdwatch', is being trialled among a small group in the US initially. The firm acknowledged the new system would have to be "resistant to manipulation attempts". Companies like Twitter are looking at how they can better moderate their platforms. Twitter said on Monday: "We know this might be messy and have problems at times, but we believe this is a model worth trying." Twitter, along with other large social media companies, has struggled to deal with disinformation on its platform. The pilot will allow users to flag tweets they believe to be "misleading or false", provide evidence to the contrary and discuss them with other - on a separate 'Birdwatch' site. Additional notes and flags would then be placed on to content. -
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Saw a link to this on Ars
https://www.theregister.com/2021/01/26/killing_centos/
A little perspective on the CentOS news from last month. -
Remember the discussion recently where I felt that security researchers and vendors being allowed to keep secrets from the people that they know are at risk is bad? Well I'm definitely not alone.
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Beware fake Covid vaccination invites, NHS warns
The NHS has warned people to be vigilant about fake invitations to have the coronavirus vaccination, sent by scammers.
The scam email includes a link to "register" for the vaccine, but no registration for the real vaccination is required. The fake site also asks for bank details either to verify identification or to make a payment. The NHS says it would never ask for bank details, and the vaccine is free. Cyber-security consultant Daniel Card told BBC News that traffic data indicates thousands of people had clicked the link to the fake site - although it is unclear how many then filled in the form. -
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Remember the discussion recently where I felt that security researchers and vendors being allowed to keep secrets from the people that they know are at risk is bad? Well I'm definitely not alone.
I don't see the connection between your comment and the article.
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Remember the discussion recently where I felt that security researchers and vendors being allowed to keep secrets from the people that they know are at risk is bad? Well I'm definitely not alone.
I don't see the connection between your comment and the article.
The connection to be made was between a previous discussion and the article. His comment was referring to the link between the two.
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Microsoft FY21 Q2: Earnings Reach $43.1B Revenue as Cloud, Xbox, and Surface Thrive
Microsoft FY21 Q2 earnings show the company continues to record growth across almost all its product and service divisions.
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Emotet botnet taken down by international police swoop
Police have seized thousands of computers running one of the most dangerous hacking networks worldwide.
The Emotet network obtains access to victims' computers, via malicious email attachments, then sells it to criminals who install more dangerous malware. Police from the UK, EU, US and Canada worked together to "disrupt" Emotet. Europol called it "one of most significant botnets of the past decade" and one of the main "door openers" for computer systems worldwide. "Once this unauthorised access was established, these were sold to other top-level criminal groups to deploy further illicit activities such data theft and extortion through ransomware," it said. -
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USA #9 on The World´s Top 10 automated countries
The average robot density in the manufacturing industry hit a new global record of 113 units per 10,000 employees. By regions, Western Europe (225 units) and the Nordic European countries (204 units) have the most automated production, followed by North America (153 units) and South East Asia (119 units).
https://ifr.org/ifr-press-releases/news/robot-race-the-worlds-top-10-automated-countries
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/01/ubuntu-21-04-will-use-wayland-by-default
Maybe this will help push OBS devs to make their app work natively with Wayland
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@EddieJennings said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/01/ubuntu-21-04-will-use-wayland-by-default
Maybe this will help push OBS devs to make their app work natively with Wayland
And apps like TeamViewer and Flameshot.
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@EddieJennings said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/01/ubuntu-21-04-will-use-wayland-by-default
Maybe this will help push OBS devs to make their app work natively with Wayland
It definitely will. That's really the goal, to turn up the pressure ahead of the LTS release.
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Google halts Play Store 'review bombing' by GameStop traders
Google has removed a wave of negative reviews of popular stock-market trading apps targeted by furious investors.
Platforms such as Robinhood have been hit after preventing independent traders buying GameStop and AMC shares. Users of a Reddit message board had managed to upset the market by buying the shares and inflating their value, hitting established hedge funds. Many online traders, feeling betrayed by Robinhood's restrictions, have hit back with critical reviews of the app. Google has removed tens of thousands of one-star reviews for the widely-used trading app - which had previously had a four-star average. It says it takes action when it sees "fake ratings", designed to manipulate a product's average score. -
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Google halts Play Store 'review bombing' by GameStop traders
Google has removed a wave of negative reviews of popular stock-market trading apps targeted by furious investors.
Platforms such as Robinhood have been hit after preventing independent traders buying GameStop and AMC shares. Users of a Reddit message board had managed to upset the market by buying the shares and inflating their value, hitting established hedge funds. Many online traders, feeling betrayed by Robinhood's restrictions, have hit back with critical reviews of the app. Google has removed tens of thousands of one-star reviews for the widely-used trading app - which had previously had a four-star average. It says it takes action when it sees "fake ratings", designed to manipulate a product's average score.AKA Google artificially inflates Robinhood ratings to make it look better than it actually is.
"Review bombing" isn't exactly what's going on, not when RH had a day of totally screwing things up, then people reviewed them. Yes, it's tons of bad reviews all at once, but for a lot of legit reasons. Google taking them out, to me, constitutes an attempt at securities fraud (and I wrote to the House oversight board last night stating the same thing.)
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Sangoma Announces Definitive Agreement to Acquire Star2Star
Combination Creates an Industry Leading Company with Full-Spectrum Integrated Cloud-Native Communications Services, Focused on Long-Term Profitable Growth, with Combined Revenue Approaching $250 Million
MARKHAM, ONTARIO, January 29, 2021 – Sangoma Technologies Corporation (“Sangoma”) (TSXV: STC), a trusted leader in delivering cloud-based Communications-as-a-Service (“CaaS”) solutions, today announced it has entered into a stock purchase agreement dated January 29, 2021 (the “Agreement”) to acquire StarBlue Inc. (dba Star2Star Communications, herein “Star2Star”). This acquisition represents a transformational milestone for Sangoma and positions it in the upper echelon of the industry’s leading companies.
Pursuant to the Agreement, Sangoma will acquire Star2Star (the “Acquisition”) for approximately US$437 million, consisting of US$105 million in cash and 110 million common shares of Sangoma. The transaction will be subject to approval by Sangoma shareholders at a special meeting of shareholders expected to be held in late March or early April 2021 (the “Special Meeting”), with closing expected to occur shortly thereafter.
