Miscellaneous Tech News
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Mini-review: 24 hours with Dell’s fanciest Chromebook yet
At $599 and 3.9 pounds, this Chrome OS convertible has clear pros and cons.
This device isn't the penny-pinching plastic laptop that so many think of when they hear "Chromebook." Instead, it follows the new trend of high-end Chrome OS devices designed to offer alternatives to Google's own $999 Pixelbook. Since Dell already makes numerous Chromebooks that are generally solid, I was curious to see how the company would fare making a premium Chromebook. These are niche devices that have to tick certain boxes to even come within the same range as Google's own Chrome OS devices, so I spent one day with the Inspiron Chromebook 14 to see just how premium the convertible actually is and if it's worth the extra money.
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@mlnews I'd struggle to justify a $599 Chromebook that only has 4GB of RAM.
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Comcast set mobile pins to “0000,” helping attackers steal phone numbers
Xfinity Mobile deploys fix after weak PIN system fueled number-porting attacks.
To port a phone line from Comcast to another wireless carrier, a customer needs to know his or her Comcast mobile account number. Carriers generally use PINs to verify that a customer seeking to port a number actually owns the number. But Comcast reportedly set the PIN to 0000 for all its customers, and there was apparently no way for customers to change it. That means that an attacker who acquired a victim's Comcast account number could easily port the victim's phone number to another carrier.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews I'd struggle to justify a $599 Chromebook that only has 4GB of RAM.
According to what I've seen of HP lately, which is a lot, they think 4GB is fine and what everyone wants.
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OnePlus 7 renders show pop-up camera and blemish-free display
Who needs a notch when you can just make the camera disappear into the phone?
So far in 2019, most manufacturers are moving beyond the notch display cutout for front camera placement (well, unless you are LG). On most new devices we would expect something like the Galaxy S10's "hole punch" display, but OnePlus appears to be throwing us a real curveball and putting a pop-up front camera in a mainstream device. On the top of the phone, a square block pops up when it's time to take a picture, leaving no blemishes on the front display at all. The leak puts the display at 6.5 inches, which would be a small increase from the 6.41-inch display on the OnePlus 6T.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
be throwing us a real curveball and putting a pop-up front camera in a mainstream device. On the top of the phone, a square
yeah - something else to break off.
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
be throwing us a real curveball and putting a pop-up front camera in a mainstream device. On the top of the phone, a square
yeah - something else to break off.
Or just break in general.
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Google temporarily shuts down Android TV photo sharing after privacy bug
A user was apparently able to see hundreds of Google Photo accounts.
Google has temporarily disabled Android TV photo sharing after reports of a brutal bug popped up on Twitter. Through the Google Home app, Android TV has a "linked accounts" feature that lets several people (like, say, you and your spouse) share photos from multiple Google Photos accounts to the TV. Apparently something went horribly wrong with this feature earlier, as pictures and videos show hundreds of accounts from strangers listed under "linked accounts."
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Linux 5.0 Released
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@black3dynamite /sigh
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@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite /sigh
In the 2.6 era Linux said that they could foresee no justification for a major revision update. Everything after 2.6 is a running joke. If we were following the traditional path, we'd still be on 2.8.
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@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Unifi 5.10.19 Released
https://community.ubnt.com/t5/UniFi-Updates-Blog/UniFi-Network-Controller-5-10-19-Stable-has-been-released/ba-p/2695209Must have been out a little while, we are already on it
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Unifi 5.10.19 Released
https://community.ubnt.com/t5/UniFi-Updates-Blog/UniFi-Network-Controller-5-10-19-Stable-has-been-released/ba-p/2695209Must have been out a little while, we are already on it
Yes, 6 days ago.
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Mystery as Quadriga crypto-cash goes missing
Efforts to recover millions in crypto-cash from the digital wallets of a man who died without revealing passwords to access them have hit a snag.
The master key to unlock the wallets was held on Mr Cotten's laptop but he died without letting anyone else know the passphrase to unlock the device. Most of the digital cash that customers deposited with the exchange was supposed to be kept in "cold storage" to prevent it being hacked or stolen.
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Chromium-based Edge screenshots might as well be Chrome
It's early days yet, but so far Microsoft has done little to distinguish its browser.
In many ways the browser is what one would expect of a Microsoft Chromium browser: in those places where Chrome would use a Google account for syncing or a Google store for extensions, Edge-on-Chromium uses a Microsoft account and a Microsoft store. Similarly, the homepage is similar to that of Edge, using Bing pictures and Microsoft News links. Perhaps the biggest change is the settings page, which adopts a similar look-and-feel to the Windows 10 settings app—section headings down the left, the actual settings on the right.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Chromium-based Edge screenshots might as well be Chrome
It's early days yet, but so far Microsoft has done little to distinguish its browser.
In many ways the browser is what one would expect of a Microsoft Chromium browser: in those places where Chrome would use a Google account for syncing or a Google store for extensions, Edge-on-Chromium uses a Microsoft account and a Microsoft store. Similarly, the homepage is similar to that of Edge, using Bing pictures and Microsoft News links. Perhaps the biggest change is the settings page, which adopts a similar look-and-feel to the Windows 10 settings app—section headings down the left, the actual settings on the right.
If you can't beat it, copy it and join it?
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Chromium-based Edge screenshots might as well be Chrome
It's early days yet, but so far Microsoft has done little to distinguish its browser.
In many ways the browser is what one would expect of a Microsoft Chromium browser: in those places where Chrome would use a Google account for syncing or a Google store for extensions, Edge-on-Chromium uses a Microsoft account and a Microsoft store. Similarly, the homepage is similar to that of Edge, using Bing pictures and Microsoft News links. Perhaps the biggest change is the settings page, which adopts a similar look-and-feel to the Windows 10 settings app—section headings down the left, the actual settings on the right.
Here I thought Microsoft will Chromium but keep Edge interface.
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Here I thought Microsoft will Chromium but keep Edge interface.
Damn that really is close. It has the obligatory high definition photograph of some natural space which Microsoft also uses on bing.com to distinguish itself from google.com
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China’s “democracy” includes mandatory apps, mass chat surveillance
Researcher discovers servers in China collecting data on 364 million social media profiles daily.
That system of democracy apparently involves mass surveillance to tap into the will of the people. While China's growth as a surveillance state has been well-documented, the degree to which the Chinese leadership uses digital tools to shape the national political landscape and to control Chinese citizens has grown even further recently. That's because authorities have been tapping directly into Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members' and other Chinese citizens' online activities and social media profiles.
