Miscellaneous Tech News

[momurda]

https://www.engadget.com/2018/10/01/aist-humanoid-robot-installs-drywall/

[DustinB3403]

@stuartjordan yeah I think @JaredBusch posted a link about this the other day. The rules that exist today someone exclude everyone who isn't a straight white male from contributing. . .

If I was a more daring person I might actually have an opinion of this. . .

This is news to me. .

[black3dynamite]

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/10/hardware-acceleration-chrome-linux

[scottalanmiller]

@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/10/hardware-acceleration-chrome-linux

Basically... use Firefox.

[StuartJordan]

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/10/hardware-acceleration-chrome-linux

Basically... use Firefox.

I'm surprised Google wont work on this considering people want this for youtube which is their product lol.

[Obsolesce]

@stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/10/hardware-acceleration-chrome-linux

Basically... use Firefox.

I'm surprised Google wont work on this considering people want this for youtube which is their product lol.

I don't mind opening up FF if something feels too choppy in Chrome, otherwise I will use Chrome.

[Obsolesce]

I just tested it....

In red is when I was playing a YouTube video in Chrome:

In red is when I was playing a YouTube video in FF:

[dbeato]

https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/windows-10-october-update-problems-wiped-docs-plus-intel-driver-warning/

[black3dynamite]

@stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/10/hardware-acceleration-chrome-linux

Basically... use Firefox.

I'm surprised Google wont work on this considering people want this for youtube which is their product lol.

You mean Linux people? Because its all good for Windows, Mac and ChromeOS users.

Is this is an issue for Opera and Vivaldi browser?

[dbeato]

Stack overflow down for maintenance

[DustinB3403]

Super Micro possibly compromised with "spy chips" Apple and others say no.

[JaredBusch]

@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Super Micro possibly compromised with "spy chips" Apple and others say no.

There are two sides to this really.

1. it did not happen
2. it did, but the Amazon, Apple, & Supermicro are barred from stating as much by the top secret investigation going on.

[DustinB3403]

@jaredbusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Super Micro possibly compromised with "spy chips" Apple and others say no.

There are two sides to this really.

1. it did not happen
2. it did, but the Amazon, Apple, & Supermicro are barred from stating as much by the top secret investigation going on.

Yeah, and the counter argument to it happening is the verbose nature in which Apple and other large companies are discussing it not happening.

[dbeato]

https://venturebeat.com/2018/10/04/google-activates-g-suite-email-security-alerts-for-state-sponsored-attacks/

[nadnerB]

I guess this could also go under the Cisco Vulnerabilities thread:
https://www.itnews.com.au/news/cisco-automatically-deleted-vms-hosting-webex-teams-513511

Cisco has revealed why its WebEx Teams cloud collaboration service went down: it deleted its own virtual machines.

[scottalanmiller]

@nadnerb said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

I guess this could also go under the Cisco Vulnerabilities thread:
https://www.itnews.com.au/news/cisco-automatically-deleted-vms-hosting-webex-teams-513511

Cisco has revealed why its WebEx Teams cloud collaboration service went down: it deleted its own virtual machines.

Now that's pretty funny.

[DustinB3403]

@nadnerb said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

I guess this could also go under the Cisco Vulnerabilities thread:
https://www.itnews.com.au/news/cisco-automatically-deleted-vms-hosting-webex-teams-513511

Cisco has revealed why its WebEx Teams cloud collaboration service went down: it deleted its own virtual machines.

How. . . ?!

[travisdh1]

@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@nadnerb said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

I guess this could also go under the Cisco Vulnerabilities thread:
https://www.itnews.com.au/news/cisco-automatically-deleted-vms-hosting-webex-teams-513511

Cisco has revealed why its WebEx Teams cloud collaboration service went down: it deleted its own virtual machines.

How. . . ?!

Yeah, I don't have a minute to go read the article right now.

[JaredBusch]

@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@nadnerb said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

I guess this could also go under the Cisco Vulnerabilities thread:
https://www.itnews.com.au/news/cisco-automatically-deleted-vms-hosting-webex-teams-513511

Cisco has revealed why its WebEx Teams cloud collaboration service went down: it deleted its own virtual machines.

How. . . ?!

Automation with a failed safety check. It happens all the time.

[StuartJordan]

Latest feature release 1809 has been pulled:

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/techcrunch.com/2018/10/06/microsoft-suspends-windows-10-update-citing-data-loss-reports/amp/

I'd say the old service pack method was more reliable then this windows as a service crap.