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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Is Windows 11 the beginning of the end for Skype?
Microsoft has officially announced Windows 11, its new operating system which will replace the current version over the next few years.
Among all the new features are two seemingly small but related things that jumped out. First - Microsoft Teams, the video-calling app which saw a boom during 2020's pandemic, will be integrated into Windows 11 by default. And second - Skype will not be, for the first time in years. That seems to suggest that Teams is the new favourite child, and many pundits think this is the beginning of the end for what was once the king of calling apps. "Looks like Microsoft is killing off Skype," wrote the Irish & SunSkype still exists?
Skype is the entire backend for Microsoft Teams, granted Microsoft may have finally rebuilt everything from the ground up, but the last that I recall on it, was that Teams is Skype with a new face...
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@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Is Windows 11 the beginning of the end for Skype?
Microsoft has officially announced Windows 11, its new operating system which will replace the current version over the next few years.
Among all the new features are two seemingly small but related things that jumped out. First - Microsoft Teams, the video-calling app which saw a boom during 2020's pandemic, will be integrated into Windows 11 by default. And second - Skype will not be, for the first time in years. That seems to suggest that Teams is the new favourite child, and many pundits think this is the beginning of the end for what was once the king of calling apps. "Looks like Microsoft is killing off Skype," wrote the Irish & SunSkype still exists?
Skype is the entire backend for Microsoft Teams, granted Microsoft may have finally rebuilt everything from the ground up, but the last that I recall on it, was that Teams is Skype with a new face...
MS has been saying that there is nothing of Skype left in Teams.
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Google tracking cookies ban delayed until 2023
Google has delayed its plan to block third-party cookies from its Chrome internet browser.
Cookies track users' internet activity and allow digital publishers to target advertising. They are already blocked by a number of Google's rivals, including Apple, Microsoft and Mozilla. But critics say Google's ban forces ad sellers to go direct to the tech giant for this information instead - giving it an unfair advantage. This is because it plans to replace the system with another one of Google's own design, which it claims is better for privacy but still allows marketing. Its proposals are already under investigation by the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). -
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I think Windows 8.1 was the end for Skype, lol.
Skype was dead when first purchased by Microsoft.
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@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I think Windows 8.1 was the end for Skype, lol.
Skype was dead when first purchased by Microsoft.
Yeah, It’s been dead for years.
When was the last time anyone heard of innovative new additions to Skype? -
@nadnerb said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I think Windows 8.1 was the end for Skype, lol.
Skype was dead when first purchased by Microsoft.
Yeah, It’s been dead for years.
When was the last time anyone heard of innovative new additions to Skype?The same could be said for Teams
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Google launches a new medical app—outside the United States
The dermatology AI app won approval for use in the EU but not with the FDA.
Billions of times each year, people turn to Google’s web search box for help figuring out what’s wrong with their skin. Now, Google is preparing to launch an app that uses image recognition algorithms to provide more expert and personalized help. A brief demo at the company’s developer conference last month showed the service suggesting several possible skin conditions based on uploaded photos. -
Hackers exploited 0-day, not 2018 bug, to mass-wipe My Book Live devices
Western Digital removed code that would have prevented the wiping of petabytes of data.
Last week’s mass-wiping of Western Digital My Book Live storage devices involved the exploitation of not just one vulnerability but a second critical security bug that allowed hackers to remotely perform a factory reset without a password, an investigation shows. The vulnerability is remarkable because it made it trivial to wipe what is likely petabytes of user data. More notable still was that, according to the vulnerable code itself, a Western Digital developer actively removed code that required a valid user password before allowing factory resets to proceed. -
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Hackers exploited 0-day, not 2018 bug, to mass-wipe My Book Live devices
Western Digital removed code that would have prevented the wiping of petabytes of data.
Last week’s mass-wiping of Western Digital My Book Live storage devices involved the exploitation of not just one vulnerability but a second critical security bug that allowed hackers to remotely perform a factory reset without a password, an investigation shows. The vulnerability is remarkable because it made it trivial to wipe what is likely petabytes of user data. More notable still was that, according to the vulnerable code itself, a Western Digital developer actively removed code that required a valid user password before allowing factory resets to proceed.That sucks. Like ransomware but without the hope...
And the same problem too - vulnerabilities don't care about your carefully planned zero trust architecture and short-lived tokens and what not.
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Pop_OS 21.04 has been released
https://blog.system76.com/post/655369428109869056/popos-2104-a-release-of-cosmic-proportions -
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https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/30/ibm_email_outage/
Absolutely no one surprised.
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Starlink’s “next-generation” user terminal will cost a lot less, Musk says
Musk expects near-global coverage in August and up to 500,000 users in one year.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said his company's Starlink division is trying to cut the price of its user terminal from $500 to as low as $250. Starlink has been charging $99 a month for Internet service during its beta phase, plus $500 up front for the user terminal/satellite dish, and it's losing money on the sale of each dish. -
Tim Berners-Lee sells web source code NFT for $5.4m
The original source code for the world wide web has been sold as a non-fungible token, making $5.4m (£3.9m).
NFTs are certificates of ownership for digital assets, which often do not have a physical representation. They do not necessarily include copyright control - and critics say they are get-rich-quick schemes that are bad for the environment. World-wide-web creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee sold the NFT to an unidentified buyer, through auction house Sotheby’s. The highest bid stood at $3.5m for most of the last day of the auction - but there were a flurry of bids in the closing 15 minutes. -
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/01/ibm_email_disruption_sales/
From the little I know about IBM, they are the poster child for SNAFU, just happening in the public eye for once.
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OpenZFS 2.1 is out—let’s talk about its brand-new dRAID vdevs
dRAID vdevs resilver very quickly, using spare capacity rather than spare disks.
Friday afternoon, the OpenZFS project released version 2.1.0 of our perennial favorite "it's complicated but it's worth it" filesystem. The new release is compatible with FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE and up, and Linux kernels 3.10-5.13. This release offers several general performance improvements, as well as a few entirely new features—mostly targeting enterprise and other extremely advanced use cases. -
Microsoft’s Windows 11 blue screen of death to become black
Microsoft’s so-called blue screen of death (BSoD) will turn black in the new Windows 11 operating system, according to those with access to a preview of the software.
The screen appears when users have a problem on their computer, often prompting a restart. A black background will replace blue, matching the logon and shutdown screens in the new system, the Verge reported. The BSoD allows IT professionals to diagnose hardware and memory issues. -
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