Miscellaneous Tech News
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Apple walks Ars through the iPad Pro’s A12X system on a chip
Apple's Anand Shimpi, Phil Schiller talk silicon—"This is really an Xbox One S class GPU."
Apple made some big claims about the A12X during its presentation announcing the product: that it has twice the graphics performance of the A10X; that it has 90 percent faster multi-core performance than its predecessor; that it matches the GPU power of the Xbox One S game console with no fan and at a fraction of the size; that it has 1,000 times faster graphics performance than the original iPad released eight years ago; that it's faster than 92 percent of all portable PCs.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Apple walks Ars through the iPad Pro’s A12X system on a chip
Apple's Anand Shimpi, Phil Schiller talk silicon—"This is really an Xbox One S class GPU."
Apple made some big claims about the A12X during its presentation announcing the product: that it has twice the graphics performance of the A10X; that it has 90 percent faster multi-core performance than its predecessor; that it matches the GPU power of the Xbox One S game console with no fan and at a fraction of the size; that it has 1,000 times faster graphics performance than the original iPad released eight years ago; that it's faster than 92 percent of all portable PCs.
Yet only the top 1% of the world can afford it
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Police decrypt 258,000 messages after breaking pricey IronChat crypto app
Weakness allowed cops to monitor encrypted messages for some time.
Police in the Netherlands said they decrypted more than 258,000 messages sent using IronChat, an app billed as providing end-to-end encryption...
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Samsung’s foldable phone is real, and it launches next year
It was veiled in darkness, but Samsung showed off its first folding phone
...After a lot of talk about Bixby and Samsung's Android Pie update, the company cut the lights and showed off a folding smartphone veiled in darkness and hidden in a case. It wasn't a full device announcement, but we're still able to glean some information from Samsung's tease.
Samsung is calling this hardware the "Infinity Flex Display," and it will come as part of the company's first foldable smartphone. As you would expect from Samsung, the display is still OLED. The cover is no longer glass, of course, because glass isn't flexible. Samsung says it developed "an advanced composite polymer"—plastic—to cover the display instead....
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Negotiating with ISPs: Don’t accept broadband price hikes without a fight
[Your bill rose $40 because the promotional rate expired—here's what to do next](link url).
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Facebook open-sources new suite of Linux kernel components and tools
POSTED ON OCT 30, 2018
An integral part of Facebook’s engineering culture has always been our development work on open source solutions that solve real-world production issues and address key challenges in modern large-scale cloud computing. Today, we are announcing a suite of open source Linux kernel components and related tools that address critical fleet management issues. These include resource control, resource utilization, workload isolation, load balancing, measuring, monitoring, and much more.
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@NerdyDad said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Facebook open-sources new suite of Linux kernel components and tools
POSTED ON OCT 30, 2018
An integral part of Facebook’s engineering culture has always been our development work on open source solutions that solve real-world production issues and address key challenges in modern large-scale cloud computing. Today, we are announcing a suite of open source Linux kernel components and related tools that address critical fleet management issues. These include resource control, resource utilization, workload isolation, load balancing, measuring, monitoring, and much more.
Wow, that's awesome.
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@NerdyDad said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Facebook open-sources new suite of Linux kernel components and tools
POSTED ON OCT 30, 2018
An integral part of Facebook’s engineering culture has always been our development work on open source solutions that solve real-world production issues and address key challenges in modern large-scale cloud computing. Today, we are announcing a suite of open source Linux kernel components and related tools that address critical fleet management issues. These include resource control, resource utilization, workload isolation, load balancing, measuring, monitoring, and much more.
Good to hear about Btrfs. Hopefully this will convinced Red Hat to support it again.
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@NerdyDad said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Facebook open-sources new suite of Linux kernel components and tools
POSTED ON OCT 30, 2018
An integral part of Facebook’s engineering culture has always been our development work on open source solutions that solve real-world production issues and address key challenges in modern large-scale cloud computing. Today, we are announcing a suite of open source Linux kernel components and related tools that address critical fleet management issues. These include resource control, resource utilization, workload isolation, load balancing, measuring, monitoring, and much more.
Good to hear about Btrfs. Hopefully this will convinced Red Hat to support it again.
RH doesn't support it because they are trying to create a competitor. Not because they didn't think that it was good.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@NerdyDad said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Facebook open-sources new suite of Linux kernel components and tools
POSTED ON OCT 30, 2018
An integral part of Facebook’s engineering culture has always been our development work on open source solutions that solve real-world production issues and address key challenges in modern large-scale cloud computing. Today, we are announcing a suite of open source Linux kernel components and related tools that address critical fleet management issues. These include resource control, resource utilization, workload isolation, load balancing, measuring, monitoring, and much more.
Good to hear about Btrfs. Hopefully this will convinced Red Hat to support it again.
RH doesn't support it because they are trying to create a competitor. Not because they didn't think that it was good.
Stratis?
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@NerdyDad said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Facebook open-sources new suite of Linux kernel components and tools
POSTED ON OCT 30, 2018
An integral part of Facebook’s engineering culture has always been our development work on open source solutions that solve real-world production issues and address key challenges in modern large-scale cloud computing. Today, we are announcing a suite of open source Linux kernel components and related tools that address critical fleet management issues. These include resource control, resource utilization, workload isolation, load balancing, measuring, monitoring, and much more.
Good to hear about Btrfs. Hopefully this will convinced Red Hat to support it again.
RH doesn't support it because they are trying to create a competitor. Not because they didn't think that it was good.
Stratis?
Might be, I can't remember the name.
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@Reid-Cooper I started playing with Stratis last week.
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@jmoore said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Reid-Cooper I started playing with Stratis last week.
How are you finding it?
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Red Hat's Stratis Storage Project Reaches Its 1.0 Stable Milestone
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Stratis-1.0-Released -
Will Stratis be available when RHEL 8.0 is released?
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Red Hat's Stratis Storage Project Reaches Its 1.0 Stable Milestone
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Stratis-1.0-ReleasedThis looks kinda interesting.
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Red Hat's Stratis Storage Project Reaches Its 1.0 Stable Milestone
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Stratis-1.0-ReleasedA simplified storage stack would be nice. I wish I was optimistic about anyone actually accomplishing said goal. Still, even if they just have automatic provisioning of different cache tiers, that'd be worth moving to.
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Surface Go with integrated LTE available for preorder now, from $679
Consumers have one LTE variant available; corporate users have two.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Surface Go with integrated LTE available for preorder now, from $679
Consumers have one LTE variant available; corporate users have two.
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