Miscellaneous Tech News
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Russia’s Twitter throttling may give censors never-before-seen capabilities
Censorship based on deep packet inspection may work against Tor and VPNs.
Russia has implemented a novel censorship method in an ongoing effort to silence Twitter. Instead of outright blocking the social media site, the country is using previously unseen techniques to slow traffic to a crawl and make the site all but unusable for people inside the country. Research published Tuesday says that the throttling slows traffic traveling between Twitter and Russia-based end users to a paltry 128kbps. Whereas past Internet censorship techniques used by Russia and other nation-states have relied on outright blocking, slowing traffic passing to and from a widely used Internet service is a relatively new technique that provides benefits for the censoring party. -
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Russia’s Twitter throttling may give censors never-before-seen capabilities
Censorship based on deep packet inspection may work against Tor and VPNs.
Russia has implemented a novel censorship method in an ongoing effort to silence Twitter. Instead of outright blocking the social media site, the country is using previously unseen techniques to slow traffic to a crawl and make the site all but unusable for people inside the country. Research published Tuesday says that the throttling slows traffic traveling between Twitter and Russia-based end users to a paltry 128kbps. Whereas past Internet censorship techniques used by Russia and other nation-states have relied on outright blocking, slowing traffic passing to and from a widely used Internet service is a relatively new technique that provides benefits for the censoring party.Where "new" and "novel" are "techniques every IT shop has used against social media sites for almost twenty years."
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Microsoft Build OpenJDK
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/java/announcing-preview-of-microsoft-build-of-openjdk/
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T-Mobile 5G home Internet: $60 a month, 100Mbps speeds, and no data cap
30 million households are eligible; signups available "until capacity runs out."
T-Mobile yesterday launched a $60-per-month 5G home Internet service, saying that it will generally provide download speeds of 50 to 100Mbps and upload speeds of 10 to 25Mbps. The $60 monthly price includes everything, T-Mobile said, promising, "No added taxes or fees. No equipment fees. No contracts. No surprises or exploding bills." The service has no data cap, but T-Mobile's home Internet customers will get slower speeds than mobile customers in times of congestion. -
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
T-Mobile 5G home Internet: $60 a month, 100Mbps speeds, and no data cap
30 million households are eligible; signups available "until capacity runs out."
T-Mobile yesterday launched a $60-per-month 5G home Internet service, saying that it will generally provide download speeds of 50 to 100Mbps and upload speeds of 10 to 25Mbps. The $60 monthly price includes everything, T-Mobile said, promising, "No added taxes or fees. No equipment fees. No contracts. No surprises or exploding bills." The service has no data cap, but T-Mobile's home Internet customers will get slower speeds than mobile customers in times of congestion.my biggest is is the requirement to use their router, I don't believe you can put it into bridge mode.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
T-Mobile 5G home Internet: $60 a month, 100Mbps speeds, and no data cap
30 million households are eligible; signups available "until capacity runs out."
T-Mobile yesterday launched a $60-per-month 5G home Internet service, saying that it will generally provide download speeds of 50 to 100Mbps and upload speeds of 10 to 25Mbps. The $60 monthly price includes everything, T-Mobile said, promising, "No added taxes or fees. No equipment fees. No contracts. No surprises or exploding bills." The service has no data cap, but T-Mobile's home Internet customers will get slower speeds than mobile customers in times of congestion.I got 220Mb/s last week in Georgia!
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US adds Chinese supercomputing companies to export blacklist
Biden administration tightens controls on tech that aids China’s military.
The US has placed Chinese groups accused of building supercomputers to help the Chinese military on an export blacklist, the first such move by the Biden administration to make it harder for China to obtain US technology. Three companies and four branches of China’s National Supercomputing Center were added to the US government “entity list,” which bars American companies from exporting technology to the groups without a license. The US commerce department said the groups were involved in building supercomputers used by Chinese “military actors” and facilitating programs to develop weapons of mass destruction. -
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
US adds Chinese supercomputing companies to export blacklist
Biden administration tightens controls on tech that aids China’s military.
The US has placed Chinese groups accused of building supercomputers to help the Chinese military on an export blacklist, the first such move by the Biden administration to make it harder for China to obtain US technology. Three companies and four branches of China’s National Supercomputing Center were added to the US government “entity list,” which bars American companies from exporting technology to the groups without a license. The US commerce department said the groups were involved in building supercomputers used by Chinese “military actors” and facilitating programs to develop weapons of mass destruction.That's okay. They've already stolen all our designs anyway, lol.
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@dafyre said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
US adds Chinese supercomputing companies to export blacklist
Biden administration tightens controls on tech that aids China’s military.
The US has placed Chinese groups accused of building supercomputers to help the Chinese military on an export blacklist, the first such move by the Biden administration to make it harder for China to obtain US technology. Three companies and four branches of China’s National Supercomputing Center were added to the US government “entity list,” which bars American companies from exporting technology to the groups without a license. The US commerce department said the groups were involved in building supercomputers used by Chinese “military actors” and facilitating programs to develop weapons of mass destruction.That's okay. They've already stolen all our designs anyway, lol.
Stolen sure, the biggest challenge is understanding the technology. That is why many things are poor copies of the original.
These industries steal a design and copy it but cut corners due to a lack of understanding.
At the same time the chinese government and industry is learning from us, and making their own equipment.
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@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dafyre said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
US adds Chinese supercomputing companies to export blacklist
Biden administration tightens controls on tech that aids China’s military.
The US has placed Chinese groups accused of building supercomputers to help the Chinese military on an export blacklist, the first such move by the Biden administration to make it harder for China to obtain US technology. Three companies and four branches of China’s National Supercomputing Center were added to the US government “entity list,” which bars American companies from exporting technology to the groups without a license. The US commerce department said the groups were involved in building supercomputers used by Chinese “military actors” and facilitating programs to develop weapons of mass destruction.That's okay. They've already stolen all our designs anyway, lol.
Stolen sure, the biggest challenge is understanding the technology. That is why many things are poor copies of the original.
These industries steal a design and copy it but cut corners due to a lack of understanding.
At the same time the chinese government and industry is learning from us, and making their own equipment.
I wonder if that's true?
I think it's more likely that they are cheap copies to save money. They are knock-offs, pretty sure the only goal is squeezing them for as much profit as possible. -
@dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dafyre said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
US adds Chinese supercomputing companies to export blacklist
Biden administration tightens controls on tech that aids China’s military.
The US has placed Chinese groups accused of building supercomputers to help the Chinese military on an export blacklist, the first such move by the Biden administration to make it harder for China to obtain US technology. Three companies and four branches of China’s National Supercomputing Center were added to the US government “entity list,” which bars American companies from exporting technology to the groups without a license. The US commerce department said the groups were involved in building supercomputers used by Chinese “military actors” and facilitating programs to develop weapons of mass destruction.That's okay. They've already stolen all our designs anyway, lol.
Stolen sure, the biggest challenge is understanding the technology. That is why many things are poor copies of the original.
These industries steal a design and copy it but cut corners due to a lack of understanding.
At the same time the chinese government and industry is learning from us, and making their own equipment.
I wonder if that's true?
I think it's more likely that they are cheap copies to save money. They are knock-offs, pretty sure the only goal is squeezing them for as much profit as possible.You honestly believe that these people aren't learning? Look at Alibaba or Huawei.
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@dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I think it's more likely that they are cheap copies to save money. They are knock-offs, pretty sure the only goal is squeezing them for as much profit as possible.
You do realize that at this point, China is way ahead of us on a lot of core tech, right? It's our lack of access to their processors that holds us back in some cases. Sure, overall, the US is still leading in the processor market. But the gap is closing, fast, and they have some components ahead of us.
Don't confuse toy manufacturing and other low end, unimportant stuff, with China's world class engineering capabilities.
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@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dafyre said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
US adds Chinese supercomputing companies to export blacklist
Biden administration tightens controls on tech that aids China’s military.
The US has placed Chinese groups accused of building supercomputers to help the Chinese military on an export blacklist, the first such move by the Biden administration to make it harder for China to obtain US technology. Three companies and four branches of China’s National Supercomputing Center were added to the US government “entity list,” which bars American companies from exporting technology to the groups without a license. The US commerce department said the groups were involved in building supercomputers used by Chinese “military actors” and facilitating programs to develop weapons of mass destruction.That's okay. They've already stolen all our designs anyway, lol.
Stolen sure, the biggest challenge is understanding the technology. That is why many things are poor copies of the original.
These industries steal a design and copy it but cut corners due to a lack of understanding.
At the same time the chinese government and industry is learning from us, and making their own equipment.
I wonder if that's true?
I think it's more likely that they are cheap copies to save money. They are knock-offs, pretty sure the only goal is squeezing them for as much profit as possible.You honestly believe that these people aren't learning? Look at Alibaba or Huawei.
And Xiaomi, Huomi, OnePlus, and on and on.
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@dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dafyre said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
US adds Chinese supercomputing companies to export blacklist
Biden administration tightens controls on tech that aids China’s military.
The US has placed Chinese groups accused of building supercomputers to help the Chinese military on an export blacklist, the first such move by the Biden administration to make it harder for China to obtain US technology. Three companies and four branches of China’s National Supercomputing Center were added to the US government “entity list,” which bars American companies from exporting technology to the groups without a license. The US commerce department said the groups were involved in building supercomputers used by Chinese “military actors” and facilitating programs to develop weapons of mass destruction.That's okay. They've already stolen all our designs anyway, lol.
Stolen sure, the biggest challenge is understanding the technology. That is why many things are poor copies of the original.
These industries steal a design and copy it but cut corners due to a lack of understanding.
At the same time the chinese government and industry is learning from us, and making their own equipment.
I wonder if that's true?
I think it's more likely that they are cheap copies to save money. They are knock-offs, pretty sure the only goal is squeezing them for as much profit as possible.https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/12/intel-ceo-hopes-us-can-reclaim-one-third-of-chip-manufacturing.html
US makes only 12% of chips today, with Intel being a big player. Intel only has 10nm process which makes them a virtual backwater player.
