Miscellaneous Tech News
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
FCC panel wants to tax Internet-using businesses and give the money to ISPs
A Federal Communications Commission advisory committee has proposed a new tax on Netflix, Google, Facebook, and many other businesses that require Internet access to operate.
If adopted by states, the recommended tax would apply to subscription-based retail services that require Internet access, such as Netflix, and to advertising-supported services that use the Internet, such as Google and Facebook. The tax would also apply to any small- or medium-sized business that charges subscription fees for online services or uses online advertising. The tax would also apply to any provider of broadband access, such as cable or wireless operators.
TL;DR FCC wants to tax Americans to fund private companies.
The Actual answer is
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Report: FBI opens criminal investigation into net neutrality comment fraud
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating the use of stolen identities in public comments on the government's repeal of net neutrality rules, BuzzFeed News reported Saturday.
The investigation focuses on "whether crimes were committed when potentially millions of people's identities were posted to the FCC's website without their permission, falsely attributing to them opinions about net neutrality rules," the report said.
But they aren't investing Pai and his claims?
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Interesting tidbit from Wikipedia about Halloween in the west: "In contrast to Japan, the wearing of costumes in public is more accepted in the United States and other western countries. These countries have a longer tradition of Halloween costumes, fan costuming and other such activities. As a result, for example, costumed convention attendees can often be seen at local restaurants and eateries, beyond the boundaries of the convention or event."
Speaking of that - a friend attended the Star Wars Con in Tokyo about 8 years ago - He said from the outside - you had no clue there was a convention going on, let alone a Star Wars one happening.
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Good - kill SMS and any other carrier based messaging!
Good lucking getting them to get tax info for the likes of What's App or FB Messenger.
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The Windows 10 October 2018 Update is now fully available—for “advanced” users
The rollout of Microsoft's beleaguered update will become a little faster now.
Microsoft is saying that this upgrade route is for "advanced" users. Everyone else should wait for the fully automatic deployment, which doesn't seem to have started yet. That'll have its own set of throttles and perhaps even new blacklists if further problems are detected. A number of the remaining compatibility problems are more likely to strike corporate users, as they involve corporate VPN and security software. Companies will need to apply the relevant patches for the third-party applications before they can roll out the Windows 10 update.
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Researchers make RAM from a phase change we don’t entirely understand
Two ways to switch tiny patches of a material from semiconducting to metallic.
We seem to be on the cusp of a revolution in storage. Various technologies have been demonstrated that have speed approaching that of current RAM chips but can hold on to the memory when the power shuts off—all without the long-term degradation that flash experiences. Some of these, like phase-change memory and Intel's Optane, have even made it to market. But, so far at least, issues with price and capacity have kept them from widespread adoption.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
The Windows 10 October 2018 Update is now fully available—for “BETA TESTERS” users
The rollout of Microsoft's beleaguered update will become a little faster now.
Microsoft is saying that this upgrade route is for "advanced" users. Everyone else should wait for the fully automatic deployment, which doesn't seem to have started yet. That'll have its own set of throttles and perhaps even new blacklists if further problems are detected. A number of the remaining compatibility problems are more likely to strike corporate users, as they involve corporate VPN and security software. Companies will need to apply the relevant patches for the third-party applications before they can roll out the Windows 10 update.
FTFY since Microsoft has clearly gone from "let's develop and release a product that is usable to let's develop anything and just release that"
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
The Windows 10 October 2018 Update is now fully available—for “advanced” users
The rollout of Microsoft's beleaguered update will become a little faster now.
Microsoft is saying that this upgrade route is for "advanced" users. Everyone else should wait for the fully automatic deployment, which doesn't seem to have started yet. That'll have its own set of throttles and perhaps even new blacklists if further problems are detected. A number of the remaining compatibility problems are more likely to strike corporate users, as they involve corporate VPN and security software. Companies will need to apply the relevant patches for the third-party applications before they can roll out the Windows 10 update.
But, ... it's not.
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Microsoft issues emergency update to fix critical IE flaw under active exploit
Memory corruption vulnerability allows drive-by attacks.
The memory-corruption flaw allows attackers to remotely execute malicious code when computers use IE to visit a booby-trapped website, Microsoft said Wednesday. Indexed as CVE-2018-8653, the flaw affects all supported versions of Windows. The vulnerability involves the way Microsoft's scripting engine handles objects in memory in Internet Explorer.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Microsoft issues emergency update to fix critical IE flaw under active exploit
Memory corruption vulnerability allows drive-by attacks.
The memory-corruption flaw allows attackers to remotely execute malicious code when computers use IE to visit a booby-trapped website, Microsoft said Wednesday. Indexed as CVE-2018-8653, the flaw affects all supported versions of Windows. The vulnerability involves the way Microsoft's scripting engine handles objects in memory in Internet Explorer.
That explains why my computers rebooted last night.
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Microsoft unveils Windows Sandbox: Run any app in a disposable virtual machine
First leaked a few months ago, the new feature should be coming to insiders imminently.
A few months ago, Microsoft let slip a forthcoming Windows 10 feature that was, at the time, called InPrivate Desktop: a lightweight virtual machine for running untrusted applications in an isolated environment. That feature has now been officially announced with a new name, Windows Sandbox.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Microsoft unveils Windows Sandbox: Run any app in a disposable virtual machine
First leaked a few months ago, the new feature should be coming to insiders imminently.
A few months ago, Microsoft let slip a forthcoming Windows 10 feature that was, at the time, called InPrivate Desktop: a lightweight virtual machine for running untrusted applications in an isolated environment. That feature has now been officially announced with a new name, Windows Sandbox.
Every VM is disposable if you don't care about it.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Microsoft unveils Windows Sandbox: Run any app in a disposable virtual machine
First leaked a few months ago, the new feature should be coming to insiders imminently.
A few months ago, Microsoft let slip a forthcoming Windows 10 feature that was, at the time, called InPrivate Desktop: a lightweight virtual machine for running untrusted applications in an isolated environment. That feature has now been officially announced with a new name, Windows Sandbox.
I wonder what the licensing implications are, or perhaps there are more limitations that a traditional VM wouldn't have such as no networking or something.
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@Donahue said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Microsoft unveils Windows Sandbox: Run any app in a disposable virtual machine
First leaked a few months ago, the new feature should be coming to insiders imminently.
A few months ago, Microsoft let slip a forthcoming Windows 10 feature that was, at the time, called InPrivate Desktop: a lightweight virtual machine for running untrusted applications in an isolated environment. That feature has now been officially announced with a new name, Windows Sandbox.
I wonder what the licensing implications are, or perhaps there are more limitations that a traditional VM wouldn't have such as no networking or something.
There are none, it's a built in application VM, not an OS VM. Windows has always allowed that under the licensing as is.
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Xen Orchestra 5.30
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Windows 10 will make it easier to ¯∖_(ツ)_/¯ and (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
The emoji panel is getting expanded to include symbols and kaomoji.
Kaomoji ("face characters") is, apparently, the name for those complicated faces made up of sequences of Japanese symbols. While some, such as shrugging ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, have become widespread (Slack's /shrug surely having at least some of the blame there), there is in fact a rich variety of faces that are used. So while sometimes you might be table flippingly mad (╯°益°)╯彡┻━┻ other times you might just want to flip the bird ┌∩┐(◣_◢)┌∩┐. If that's all a bit shocking you might be a little surprised (⊙_⊙) and perhaps you'll even run away ε=ε=┌( >_<)┘.
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Linux Mint 19.1 “Tessa” Cinnamon released!
https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3669Linux Mint 19.1 “Tessa” Xfce released!
https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3671Linux Mint 19.1 “Tessa” MATE released!
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AT&T 5G goes live this week with ridiculously overpowered hotspot
Early 5G compatibility gives us a Snapdragon 855 in a mobile hotspot!
The era of 5G mobile networks is quickly approaching, and while there isn't any smartphone out yet sporting the new network connectivity, AT&T says that "select" early adopters will soon be able to jump on AT&T's mobile 5G mmWave service with a mobile hotspot. AT&T's 5G service kicks in on December 21 in some cities, which AT&T says makes it "the first and only company in the US to offer a mobile 5G device over a commercial, standards-based mobile 5G network."
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Some iPad Pros ship a little bent, and Apple says that’s normal
The quarter-inch-thin device may bend as a result of its manufacturing process.
When The Verge reached out to Apple for comment, the company told the publication that the bending is "a side effect of the device’s manufacturing process and shouldn’t worsen over time or negatively affect the flagship iPad’s performance in any practical way." (The Verge's words.) Apple says the bending happens as a result of a cooling process used on the components when the device is manufactured.
