Miscellaneous Tech News
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
“Severe” ransomware attack cripples big aluminum producer
Infection that started in the US shuts down network worldwide; company scrambles to recover.
Norsk Hydro of Norway said the malware first hit computers in the United States on Monday night. By Tuesday morning, the infection had spread to other parts of the company, which operates in 40 countries. Company officials responded by isolating plants to prevent further spreading. Some plants were temporarily stopped, while others, which had to be kept running continuously, were switched to manual mode when possible. The company’s 35,000 employees were instructed to keep computers turned off but were allowed to use phones and tablets to check email.
Price of aluminum should go up nicely.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
“Severe” ransomware attack cripples big aluminum producer
Infection that started in the US shuts down network worldwide; company scrambles to recover.
Norsk Hydro of Norway said the malware first hit computers in the United States on Monday night. By Tuesday morning, the infection had spread to other parts of the company, which operates in 40 countries. Company officials responded by isolating plants to prevent further spreading. Some plants were temporarily stopped, while others, which had to be kept running continuously, were switched to manual mode when possible. The company’s 35,000 employees were instructed to keep computers turned off but were allowed to use phones and tablets to check email.
Thank you VPN connections for making it all one big network.
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D3D raytracing no longer exclusive to 2080, as Nvidia brings it to GeForce 10, 16
RTX cards will still offer the best experience, but GTX cards will support simple effects.
Microsoft announced DirectX raytracing a year ago, promising to bring hardware-accelerated raytraced graphics to PC gaming. In August, Nvidia announced its RTX 2080 and 2080Ti, a pair of new video cards with the company's new Turing RTX processors. In addition to the regular graphics-processing hardware, these new chips included two extra sets of additional cores, one set designed for running machine-learning algorithms and the other for computing raytraced graphics. These cards were the first, and currently only, cards to support DirectX Raytracing (DXR).
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews what a terrible idea. It'll be killed off in eight years and no one will remember it.
Everyone seems to be getting into streaming gaming. The whole Client server thing is still very much alive - or is it better to say - server/dumbtube?
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Google will implement a Microsoft-style browser picker for EU Android devices
All EU Android users will get the option to turn down Google Search and Chrome.
If you remember all the way back in 2009, the EU's European Commission said Microsoft was harming competition by bundling its browser—Internet Explorer—with Windows. Eventually Microsoft and the European Commission settled on the "browser ballot," a screen that would pop up and give users a choice of browsers. Almost 10 years later, the tech industry is going through this again, this time with Google and the EU. After receiving "feedback" from the European Commission, last night Google announced it would offer Android users in the EU a choice of browsers and search engines.
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Apple’s updated AirPods are here, cost $199 with new wireless charging case
Existing AirPod owners can buy the wireless charging case for $79, too.
After announcing new iPads and iMacs earlier this week, Apple has released details about its next-generation AirPods. The new wireless earbuds, which are available for preorder today starting at $159, come with an updated, Apple-designed chip, more battery life, and "Hey Siri" voice-command support. Apple also debuted a new wireless charging case for AirPods that can be charged with any Qi wireless charger.
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Guidemaster: The best Windows ultrabooks you can buy right now
Ars tests out the biggest flagship laptops to see which are worth your money.
Buyers looking for premium Windows laptops today have plenty of choices; every few months sees some splashy launch of a new high-end PC. Ultrabooks have become the standard design for most premium Windows laptops, and they represent the best of what companies like Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Microsoft have to offer in terms of design, power, and innovation.
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More mid-range Google Pixel rumors include updated specs, OLED display
We're almost at one year of mid-range Pixel rumors. Will it ever come out?
It's amazing that, despite originally hitting the rumor mill almost a full year ago and putting out pictures four months ago, Google's mid-range Pixel phone is still the subject of rumors. The latest report comes from 9to5Google, which has a new round of specs.
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Windows 10 version 1903 heads for the finish line
But anti-cheat software is apparently still an issue.
It's clear that Microsoft is in the very final stages of development of Windows 10 version 1903, the April 2019 Update. The fast distribution ring has seen two builds arrive this week after two last week, bringing with them no new features but a slowly whittled-down bug list following the development pattern we've seen in previous updates. In the past, the company has tried to release Windows 10 feature upgrades on Patch Tuesday, the second Tuesday of each month, meaning there's just under three weeks left to go.
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“Energizing Times”: Microsoft to “go big” at E3 in response to Google Stadia
Microsoft gaming chief impressed but unsurprised by Google's announcement.
Microsoft announced its Xcloud game-streaming service last August, with the ambition of streaming console-quality games to gamers wherever they are—on their tablets, smartphones, PCs or even consoles. Yesterday, Google joined the streaming gaming fray with its announcement of Google Stadia, one-upping Redmond by offering the assembled press limited hands-on access to Stadia games.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
console-quality games to gamers
that's enough to make you not interested right there.
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Windows Defender antivirus coming to macOS, renamed Microsoft Defender
Microsoft is expanding the reach of its device management services.
Microsoft is bringing its Windows Defender anti-malware application to macOS—and more platforms in the future—as it expands the reach of its Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) platform. To reflect the new cross-platform nature, the suite is also being renamed to Microsoft Defender ATP, with the individual clients being labelled "for Mac" or "for Windows."
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@mlnews that's pretty cool. As a shop that uses that, that's a pretty nice expansion.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews that's pretty cool. As a shop that uses that, that's a pretty nice expansion.
I didn't read the link - is it the free version? or only the paid version?
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I didn't read the link - is it the free version? or only the paid version?
There is a paid version?
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I didn't read the link - is it the free version? or only the paid version?
There is a paid version?
Pretty sure APT is the paid version. The version on Windows 10 is just called
WindowsMicrosoft Defender. The Defender APT is what you get with Microsoft 365 - or as a stand alone product (or perhaps part of Intune). -
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Pretty sure APT is the paid version.
Oh, I see. The article mixes the two as if they are the same - bad reporting.
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ATP is "agentless", which means they define ATP as the cloud portion that can't "come to" macOS or whatever. So what we saw in the article has to be Defender, not ATP, or else that have to redefine what ATP is.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsforbusiness/windows-atp
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Windows Virtual Desktop now in public preview
Preview is now available in two Azure regions.
The service brings together single-user Windows 7 virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and multi-user Windows 10 and Windows Server remote desktop services (RDS) and is hosted on any of Azure's virtual machine tiers. Microsoft is pricing WVD aggressively by charging only for the virtual machine costs; the license requirements for the Windows 7- and Windows 10-based services will be fulfilled by Microsoft 365 F1/E3/E, Windows 10 Enterprise E3/E5, and Windows VDA subscriptions.
