Miscellaneous Tech News
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@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/03/lvfs-linux-firmware-service-success
https://www.fwupd.org/If you either read really fast, or go look at the boot log, one of the first things you'll see is "Applying firmware updates". I guess getting the word out is good, but it's not really news. Maybe this is the new UEFI mode?
UEFI mode looks a look different on my OptiPlex 3050 after installing Fedora compared to my older machines that is also in UEFI mode.
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Google and Walmart team up to let users buy groceries with voice commands
Amazon's Alexa has a new competitor in the voice-controlled shopping space.
In its latest attempts to battle Amazon, Walmart teamed up with another tech giant to introduce a new way for its customers to buy groceries. According to a blog post by Walmart's senior vice president of digital operations Tom Ward, Walmart will now let those with Google Assistant devices buy groceries just by using their voices. Dubbed Walmart Voice Order, the feature will roll out over the next few weeks to those with Google Home devices along with other Google Assistant-enabled devices including Android smartphones and iPhones.
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Visual Studio 2019 goes live with C++, Python shared editing
Microsoft's venerable IDE receives its biannual update.
A new version of Microsoft's integrated development environment (IDE) goes live today with the release of Visual Studio 2019 and its cousin Visual Studio 2019 for Mac.
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Xen Orchestra forum to merge into XCP-ng forums
As suggested by @DustinB3403 a while back, this makes perfect sense, they just didn't seem to have enough activity over at the XO forum to justify separating the communities. Separate logins, people somehow confused about where to post... This is a good move IMO
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Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 v3 Released
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Ubiquiti Halts Production of additional units of the USG-XG-8
https://community.ubnt.com/t5/UniFi-Updates-Blog/USG-XG-8-Product-Status-Update/ba-p/2734268
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@wrx7m said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Ubiquiti Halts Production of additional units of the USG-XG-8
https://community.ubnt.com/t5/UniFi-Updates-Blog/USG-XG-8-Product-Status-Update/ba-p/2734268
Saw that yesterday. Sounds to me like they are close to a new version.
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@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@wrx7m said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Ubiquiti Halts Production of additional units of the USG-XG-8
https://community.ubnt.com/t5/UniFi-Updates-Blog/USG-XG-8-Product-Status-Update/ba-p/2734268
Saw that yesterday. Sounds to me like they are close to a new version.
How long has the USG-XG-8 been out?
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@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@wrx7m said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Ubiquiti Halts Production of additional units of the USG-XG-8
https://community.ubnt.com/t5/UniFi-Updates-Blog/USG-XG-8-Product-Status-Update/ba-p/2734268
Saw that yesterday. Sounds to me like they are close to a new version.
More likely there was no mass market.
Ubiquiti has to make money on volume since they don't over charge.
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@bnrstnr said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Xen Orchestra forum to merge into XCP-ng forums
As suggested by @DustinB3403 a while back, this makes perfect sense, they just didn't seem to have enough activity over at the XO forum to justify separating the communities. Separate logins, people somehow confused about where to post... This is a good move IMO
I actually posted on this on their forums to drive the point.
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Fedora 30 Beta
https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-the-release-of-fedora-30-beta/Fedora 30 Beta includes two new options for desktop environment. DeepinDE and Pantheon Desktop join GNOME, KDE Plasma, Xfce, and others as options for users to customize their Fedora experience.
Deepin and Pantheon, that's pretty awesome.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Fedora 30 Beta
https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-the-release-of-fedora-30-beta/Fedora 30 Beta includes two new options for desktop environment. DeepinDE and Pantheon Desktop join GNOME, KDE Plasma, Xfce, and others as options for users to customize their Fedora experience.
Deepin and Pantheon, that's pretty awesome.
Not available yet?
https://spins.fedoraproject.org/prereleaseRequires the use of the netinstaller?
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BBC News - Twitter blocks French government with its own fake news law
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Intel’s new assault on the data center: 56-core Xeons, 10nm FPGAs, 100gig Ethernet
Intel wants to sell you more than just some CPUs for your servers.
The star of the show is the new Cascade Lake Xeons. These were first announced last November, and at the time a dual-die chip with 48 cores, 96 threads, and 12 DDR4 2933 memory channels was going to be the top spec part. But Intel has gone even further than initially planned with the new Xeon Platinum 9200 range: the top-spec part, the Platinum 9282, pairs two 28 core dies for a total of 56 cores and 112 threads. It has a base frequency of 2.6GHz, a 3.8GHz turbo, 77MB of level 3 cache, 40 lanes of PCIe 3.0 expansion, and a 400W power draw.
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@mlnews let's order a few of those!
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@mlnews Wow, 400w thermal load for those top end CPU parts. I wonder when AMD will respond with a 64 core count CPU?
Nice to see Intel being forced to compete a bit!
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Deepin 15.9.3 is out.
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Google’s second Android Q Beta brings us “Bubbles” multitasking
Minimize apps to a floating, always-on-top bubble.
Google is releasing the second Android Q Beta today. As we learned with the first release, Android Q is bringing support for foldable smartphones, better privacy and permissions controls, and a grab bag of other features. We've yet to install the second beta on one of our own devices, but Google's release blog post promises "bug fixes, optimizations, and API updates," as well as a crazy new multitasking feature and an emulator for foldables.
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https://gizmodo.com/facebook-is-just-casually-asking-some-new-users-for-the-1833764891
There is more nuance in the article than the title, "Facebook Is Just Casually Asking Some New Users for Their Email Passwords", might suggest, but this is never ok imo.
