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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Website drive-by attacks on routers are alive and well. Here’s what to do
Researchers detect 4.6 million attempts over 2 months in Brazil alone.
Website drive-by attacks that try to booby trap visitors’ routers are alive and well, according to antivirus provider Avast, which blocked more than 4.6 million of them in Brazil over a two-month span.Gotta love this
Besides watching out for spoofed sites, people can protect themselves by keeping router firmware updated or, when updates are no longer available, replacing the router.
OK how is a user supposed to know the vendor has stopped providing updates versus they just haven't had a reason to supply an update recently?
They have to have raised an IT person. At least for my parents, I just show up with a new thing and they go "Oh, I'm glad you know we need that."
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Microsoft Teams is now officially bigger than Slack
It's the first official milestone for Microsoft's group chat, and it's a big one.
Microsoft Teams may have only been around for two years, but the group-chat platform is already larger than one of its main competitors.Wow, that's actually really surprising.
Is it? Anyone and everyone who has O365 has Teams - so, do those who don't bother to use Teams still count simply because they have it?
I suppose the article does say this
Microsoft announced that Teams has more than 13 million daily active users. The amount rises to 19 million when looking at weekly active users.
So maybe it's actually true in a meaningful way.
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System76's Linux-Powered Thelio Desktops Now Available with AMD Ryzen Gen 3 CPUs
System76, the US-based maker of powerful Linux computers, announced on Twitter that its Thelio desktop line-up can now be configured with 3rd-generation AMD Ryzen processors.
System76's Thelio line-up offers customers out-of-this-world handcrafted desktop systems powered by the company's in-house developed Pop!_OS Linux operating system or Canonical's Ubuntu Linux -
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dafyre said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Microsoft Teams is now officially bigger than Slack
It's the first official milestone for Microsoft's group chat, and it's a big one.
Microsoft Teams may have only been around for two years, but the group-chat platform is already larger than one of its main competitors.Wow, that's actually really surprising.
My first thought was were they counting active users or just everybody who is subscribed to O365, lol. The article says they claim 13mil daily users.
That does seem very suspicious.
Ya I find it hard to believe. I'd like to see WHAT that are counting, exactly.
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The latest barrier to 5G speeds? The summer
Hands-on report says "persistent overheating" issues plague 5G hardware.
Thermal throttling is a fact of life for smartphones. SoCs generate a lot of heat, and when this heat can't be dissipated, processors react by slowing down and thereby generating less heat. -
Mayors around the country join forces to fight hacker ransoms
Twenty-two cities have been targeted in 2019 alone
Over 225 mayors across the US have backed a resolution to not pay ransoms to hackers, as reported by The New York Times. -
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Mayors around the country join forces to fight hacker ransoms
Twenty-two cities have been targeted in 2019 alone
Over 225 mayors across the US have backed a resolution to not pay ransoms to hackers, as reported by The New York Times.Then the hackers, if they get in and are successful in encrypting the data have zero reason to not just leave it all encrypted.
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Third parties confirm AMD’s outstanding Ryzen 3000 numbers
AMD debuted its new Ryzen 3000 desktop CPU line a few weeks ago at E3, and it looked fantastic. For the first time in 20 years, it looked like AMD could go head to head with Intel's desktop CPU line-up across the board. The question: would independent, third-party testing back up AMD's assertions?
Interesting.
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller and @dafyre take it with a grain of salt, they forced all of the smaller customers onto Teams. So a lot of people really had no choice as one day they were SfB users the next it was Teams only.
Yeah... SFB users basically had Teams installed by default in preparation for them killing SFB
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Mayors around the country join forces to fight hacker ransoms
Twenty-two cities have been targeted in 2019 alone
Over 225 mayors across the US have backed a resolution to not pay ransoms to hackers, as reported by The New York Times.Maybe they should instead hire actual IT pros and just not get hacked in the first place. Cart before the horse people.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Mayors around the country join forces to fight hacker ransoms
Twenty-two cities have been targeted in 2019 alone
Over 225 mayors across the US have backed a resolution to not pay ransoms to hackers, as reported by The New York Times.Maybe they should instead hire actual IT pros and just not get hacked in the first place. Cart before the horse people.
Yeah, they need to invest in better solutions and people. It's not an if situation, it's a when.
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Intune Admin Templates and Security Baselines Now Available
IT pros using Microsoft Intune to manage devices got some polished tools from Microsoft this week.
Administrative templates for Microsoft Intune are now at the "general availability" commercial release stage for managing Windows 10 devices, Microsoft disclosed in a Thursday announcement. -
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Mayors around the country join forces to fight hacker ransoms
Twenty-two cities have been targeted in 2019 alone
Over 225 mayors across the US have backed a resolution to not pay ransoms to hackers, as reported by The New York Times.Maybe they should instead hire actual IT pros and just not get hacked in the first place. Cart before the horse people.
Yeah, they need to invest in better solutions and people. It's not an if situation, it's a when.
I saw a sign outside of our CIO's office a few days ago. I like it. It says something like this:
CEO: What if we invest in our people and they leave?
CIO: What if we don't invest in them and they stay?
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@dafyre said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Mayors around the country join forces to fight hacker ransoms
Twenty-two cities have been targeted in 2019 alone
Over 225 mayors across the US have backed a resolution to not pay ransoms to hackers, as reported by The New York Times.Maybe they should instead hire actual IT pros and just not get hacked in the first place. Cart before the horse people.
Yeah, they need to invest in better solutions and people. It's not an if situation, it's a when.
I saw a sign outside of our CIO's office a few days ago. I like it. It says something like this:
CEO: What if we invest in our people and they leave?
CIO: What if we don't invest in them and they stay?
Sadly, many won't get what it means.
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Microsoft Lists Some Organizational Obstacles to Eliminating Passwords
Organizations wanting a future without passwords will likely face some hurdles getting there, Microsoft admitted in an announcement this week.
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What is Silverblue?
Fedora Silverblue is becoming more and more popular inside and outside the Fedora world.
Silverblue is a codename for the new generation of the desktop operating system, previously known as Atomic Workstation. -
Firefox 68 available now in Fedora
Earlier this week, Mozilla released version 68 of the Firefox web browser.
Firefox is the default web browser in Fedora, and this update is now available in the official Fedora repositories. -
@mlnews already on it thanks to automatic Fedora updates.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews already on it thanks to automatic Fedora updates.
Already on it as well thanks to automatic FF updates on Windows.
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Facebook just released this new open source JavaScript engine
Facebook releases Hermes to improve app performance on low-end Android phones.
Facebook has released a new open source JavaScript engine, Hermes, to speed up start times for native Android apps built with Facebook's own React Native JavaScript framework.
