Miscellaneous Tech News
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Scam City: The unlicensed 'forex trader' who lost £3.8 million
In his four-part series, journalist Mobeen Azhar finds out how investors lost millions of pounds after getting caught up in forex - foreign exchange - schemes.
In Autumn 2020, a video clip of a man handing out cash to strangers on Plymouth High Street went viral. "You're an angel," one person in the crowd said. That clip of Gurvin Singh Dyal, a bio-med student, even made the local paper in Plymouth. But in trying to track down the 20-year-old (pictured above), it turned out there were different versions of the story. To many, he was simply handing out money to strangers because he'd made it big in the world of online trading and he wanted to give something back. To others, it was a publicity stunt and there were a string of questions to be answered. -
Fedora moving to libera.chat
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@eddiejennings said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Fedora moving to libera.chat
Ubuntu as well.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/05/ubuntu-irc-moves-to-libera-chat -
Tesla cameras will monitor driver awareness
A new software update for Tesla cars appears to include monitoring of drivers through the car's internal cameras when Autopilot is in use.
The "self-driving" feature requires drivers to pay attention at all times, but has been criticised as easy to fool. Users have been able to activate the assist feature and leave the driver's seat, and video themselves doing so. But the new feature will detect how attentive the driver actually is. Tesla's cars have relied on sensors in the wheel to make sure the driver's hands remain on it. Some other car manufacturers have used internal sensors to observe where a driver's eyes are looking. That means the vehicle can slow down or switch off automated driving features if the driver starts looking at their phone, for example. -
Someone has got a high electric bill:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/15096237/cops-find-bitcoin-mine/COPS were stunned to find a Bitcoin "mine" stealing thousands of pounds of electricity during a suspected warehouse drug raid.
Officers in the West Midlands thought they were about to bust a cannabis farm - but were met with the advanced tech scam instead.
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@stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Someone has got a high electric bill:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/15096237/cops-find-bitcoin-mine/COPS were stunned to find a Bitcoin "mine" stealing thousands of pounds of electricity during a suspected warehouse drug raid.
Officers in the West Midlands thought they were about to bust a cannabis farm - but were met with the advanced tech scam instead.
I've seen professional mining rigs that look just like that in datacenters, legal though. I wonder if that is a homebuilt case that is common or if someone makes them like that.
It's a completely different form-factor compared to a standard 19" server, or a 19" server made specifically for GPU workloads like machine learning or even a gaming PC.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/NINTCHDBPICT000656007836.jpg
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@pete-s said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Someone has got a high electric bill:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/15096237/cops-find-bitcoin-mine/COPS were stunned to find a Bitcoin "mine" stealing thousands of pounds of electricity during a suspected warehouse drug raid.
Officers in the West Midlands thought they were about to bust a cannabis farm - but were met with the advanced tech scam instead.
I've seen professional mining rigs that look just like that in datacenters, legal though. I wonder if that is a homebuilt case that is common or if someone makes them like that.
It's a completely different form-factor compared to a standard 19" server, or a 19" server made specifically for GPU workloads like machine learning or even a gaming PC.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/NINTCHDBPICT000656007836.jpg
They are made like that.
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@obsolesce even have a built in exhaust lol
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@obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@pete-s said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Someone has got a high electric bill:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/15096237/cops-find-bitcoin-mine/COPS were stunned to find a Bitcoin "mine" stealing thousands of pounds of electricity during a suspected warehouse drug raid.
Officers in the West Midlands thought they were about to bust a cannabis farm - but were met with the advanced tech scam instead.
I've seen professional mining rigs that look just like that in datacenters, legal though. I wonder if that is a homebuilt case that is common or if someone makes them like that.
It's a completely different form-factor compared to a standard 19" server, or a 19" server made specifically for GPU workloads like machine learning or even a gaming PC.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/NINTCHDBPICT000656007836.jpg
They are made like that.
Thanks! I learned something new.
When you wrote that I started to search for it and found that it's a dedicated hardware mining rig using an ASIC and not a GPU. Aka ASIC miner.
So that's why it's much smaller. And if I got it right, also more expensive, more high performance and more energy efficient compared to computers using GPUs.
The one in the pic that the criminals used, is an older model, a Bitmain Antminer S9. It's for mining bitcoin.
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@pete-s Yeah, those are antminers.
https://www.amazon.com/antminer-Antminer-S9-Bitcoin-Miner/dp/B078P8B9JD
https://shop.bitmain.com/ -
https://acloudguru.com/blog/news/pluralsight-to-acquire-a-cloud-guru
My Linux Academy account completed its transition to A Cloud Guru just a couple of weeks ago.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252501665/Exagrid-pays-26m-to-Conti-ransomware-attackers
Misleading link makes you think they paid 26M, but actually they paid 2.6M
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@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252501665/Exagrid-pays-26m-to-Conti-ransomware-attackers
Misleading link makes you think they paid 26M, but actually they paid 2.6M
lol
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Norton antivirus adds Ethereum cryptocurrency mining
In a surprise move, one of the world's best-known anti-virus software makers is adding cryptocurrency mining to its products.
Norton 360 customers will have access to an Ethereum mining feature in the "coming weeks", the company said. Cryptocurrency "mining" works by using a computer's hardware to do complex calculations in exchange for a reward. It is not clear what the business model for Norton Crypto is, or if Norton will take a cut of earnings. The company pitched the idea as a safe and easy way to get into mining, an "important part of our customers' lives". In a press release, Norton LifeLock - once called Symantec - said: "For years, many coin miners have had to take risks in their quest for cryptocurrency, disabling their security in order to run coin mining." -
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Norton antivirus adds Ethereum cryptocurrency mining
In a surprise move, one of the world's best-known anti-virus software makers is adding cryptocurrency mining to its products.
Norton 360 customers will have access to an Ethereum mining feature in the "coming weeks", the company said. Cryptocurrency "mining" works by using a computer's hardware to do complex calculations in exchange for a reward. It is not clear what the business model for Norton Crypto is, or if Norton will take a cut of earnings. The company pitched the idea as a safe and easy way to get into mining, an "important part of our customers' lives". In a press release, Norton LifeLock - once called Symantec - said: "For years, many coin miners have had to take risks in their quest for cryptocurrency, disabling their security in order to run coin mining."So now instead of taking a small risk, they take a huge one by installing Norton products. WTF
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Facebook suspends Trump accounts for two years
Facebook Inc has suspended former US President Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts for two years.
He was barred indefinitely from both sites in January in the wake of posts he made on the US Capitol riots, but last month Facebook's Oversight Board criticised the open-ended penalty. Facebook said Mr Trump's actions were "a severe violation of our rules". Mr Trump said the move was "an insult" to the millions who voted for him in last year's presidential election. Facebook's move comes as the social media giant is also ending a policy shielding politicians from some content moderation rules. It said that it would no longer give politicians immunity for deceptive or abusive content based on their comments being newsworthy. -
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Norton antivirus adds Ethereum cryptocurrency mining
In a surprise move, one of the world's best-known anti-virus software makers is adding cryptocurrency mining to its products.
Norton 360 customers will have access to an Ethereum mining feature in the "coming weeks", the company said. Cryptocurrency "mining" works by using a computer's hardware to do complex calculations in exchange for a reward. It is not clear what the business model for Norton Crypto is, or if Norton will take a cut of earnings. The company pitched the idea as a safe and easy way to get into mining, an "important part of our customers' lives". In a press release, Norton LifeLock - once called Symantec - said: "For years, many coin miners have had to take risks in their quest for cryptocurrency, disabling their security in order to run coin mining."So now instead of taking a small risk, they take a huge one by installing Norton products. WTF
Sound like they're dusting off an old idea.
There were a similar thing many years ago where the PC would do some kind of processing when it was idle in exchange for some kind of reward. Can't for the life of me remember what it was for though. But it was the first time I saw this. I think there are now others doing something similar.
I wonder if the average user realizes that they are paying for electricity and air conditioning when the PC is working hard.
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@pete-s said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Norton antivirus adds Ethereum cryptocurrency mining
In a surprise move, one of the world's best-known anti-virus software makers is adding cryptocurrency mining to its products.
Norton 360 customers will have access to an Ethereum mining feature in the "coming weeks", the company said. Cryptocurrency "mining" works by using a computer's hardware to do complex calculations in exchange for a reward. It is not clear what the business model for Norton Crypto is, or if Norton will take a cut of earnings. The company pitched the idea as a safe and easy way to get into mining, an "important part of our customers' lives". In a press release, Norton LifeLock - once called Symantec - said: "For years, many coin miners have had to take risks in their quest for cryptocurrency, disabling their security in order to run coin mining."So now instead of taking a small risk, they take a huge one by installing Norton products. WTF
Sound like they're dusting off an old idea.
There were a similar thing many years ago where the PC would do some kind of processing when it was idle in exchange for some kind of reward. Can't for the life of me remember what it was for though. But it was the first time I saw this. I think there are now others doing something similar.
I wonder if the average user realizes that they are paying for electricity and air conditioning when the PC is working hard.
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