Miscellaneous Tech News
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The Federal Communications Commission wants to hear from Internet users about their experiences trying to find good broadband service. The FCC announced yesterday that it is seeking "first-hand accounts on broadband availability and service quality directly from consumers" as part of a new data collection effort. People who live in areas where ISPs either haven't deployed service or have failed to upgrade old networks may be especially interested in participating..
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Microsoft is in talks to buy messaging platform Discord Inc for more than US$10 billion, Bloomberg News reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
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@nadnerB said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
The Federal Communications Commission wants to hear from Internet users about their experiences trying to find good broadband service. The FCC announced yesterday that it is seeking "first-hand accounts on broadband availability and service quality directly from consumers" as part of a new data collection effort. People who live in areas where ISPs either haven't deployed service or have failed to upgrade old networks may be especially interested in participating..
They are doing this so that they can pretend that they don't know how bad it is.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@nadnerB said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
The Federal Communications Commission wants to hear from Internet users about their experiences trying to find good broadband service. The FCC announced yesterday that it is seeking "first-hand accounts on broadband availability and service quality directly from consumers" as part of a new data collection effort. People who live in areas where ISPs either haven't deployed service or have failed to upgrade old networks may be especially interested in participating..
They are doing this so that they can pretend that they don't know how bad it is.
how bad what is? Discord?
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@nadnerB said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
The Federal Communications Commission wants to hear from Internet users about their experiences trying to find good broadband service. The FCC announced yesterday that it is seeking "first-hand accounts on broadband availability and service quality directly from consumers" as part of a new data collection effort. People who live in areas where ISPs either haven't deployed service or have failed to upgrade old networks may be especially interested in participating..
They are doing this so that they can pretend that they don't know how bad it is.
how bad what is? Discord?
Can you not read?
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@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@nadnerB said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
The Federal Communications Commission wants to hear from Internet users about their experiences trying to find good broadband service. The FCC announced yesterday that it is seeking "first-hand accounts on broadband availability and service quality directly from consumers" as part of a new data collection effort. People who live in areas where ISPs either haven't deployed service or have failed to upgrade old networks may be especially interested in participating..
They are doing this so that they can pretend that they don't know how bad it is.
how bad what is? Discord?
Can you not read?
Nope,
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Possible new icons coming
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Possible new icons coming
are they trying to out ewwwww Google?
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
OS X is 20 years old now?! I remember that change, seems like it wasn't nearly that long ago.
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@nadnerB said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Possible new icons coming
are they trying to out ewwwww Google?
I like these better than most icons in Linux distros... but that's just me.
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@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
OS X is 20 years old now?! I remember that change, seems like it wasn't nearly that long ago.
No kidding. I remember Mac magazines talking about the upcoming OSX release in late 1999. It wasn't out yet, but everyone was talking about what a game changer it would be. It still feels like the "new kid on the block" even after all of this time. It's still SO much younger than Linux and Windows NT.
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Not sure if it’s “news,” but it’s still interesting
https://blog.system76.com/post/646726872371200000/carl-testimony-hb21-1199mp3
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@EddieJennings said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Not sure if it’s “news,” but it’s still interesting
https://blog.system76.com/post/646726872371200000/carl-testimony-hb21-1199mp3
Yeah i've been following all these "Right to Repair" stuff. Would love to see it happen
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@hobbit666 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@EddieJennings said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Not sure if it’s “news,” but it’s still interesting
https://blog.system76.com/post/646726872371200000/carl-testimony-hb21-1199mp3
Yeah i've been following all these "Right to Repair" stuff. Would love to see it happen
Now if only their would protect farmers that way.
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New Android malware with full range of spying capabilities has been found
Despite its sophistication, the app can be easy for more experienced users to spot.
Researchers have discovered a new advanced piece of Android malware that finds sensitive information stored on infected devices and sends it to attacker-controlled servers. The app disguises itself as a system update that must be downloaded from a third-party store, researchers from security firm Zimperium said on Friday. In fact, it’s a remote-access trojan that receives and executes commands from a command-and-control server. It provides a full-featured spying platform that performs a wide range of malicious activities. -
Purple Fox Rootkit Can Now Spread Itself to Other Windows Computers
Purple Fox, a Windows malware previously known for infecting machines by using exploit kits and phishing emails, has now added a new technique to its arsenal that gives it worm-like propagation capabilities
The ongoing campaign makes use of a "novel spreading technique via indiscriminate port scanning and exploitation of exposed SMB services with weak passwords and hashes," according to Guardicore researchers, who say the attacks have spiked by about 600% since May 2020. A total of 90,000 incidents have been spotted through the rest of 2020 and the beginning of 2021. First discovered in March 2018, Purple Fox is distributed in the form of malicious ".msi" payloads hosted on nearly 2,000 compromised Windows servers that, in turn, download and execute a component with rootkit capabilities, which enables the threat actors to hide the malware on the machine and make it easy to evade detection. -
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