Miscellaneous Tech News
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Alphabet in bid to buy Fitbit
https://www.itnews.com.au/news/google-owner-alphabet-in-bid-to-buy-fitbit-533092Google owner Alphabet Inc has made an offer to acquire US wearable device maker Fitbit Inc , as it eyes a slice of the crowded market for fitness trackers and smartwatches, people familiar with the matter said on Monday.
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50 years ago today, the Internet was born. Sort of
The precursor to the Internet carried its first login request on October 29, 1969.
On October 29, 1969, at 10:30pm Pacific Time, the first two letters were transmitted over ARPANET. And then it crashed. About an hour later, after some debugging, the first actual remote connection between two computers was established over what would someday evolve into the modern Internet. Funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (the predecessor of DARPA), ARPANET was built to explore technologies related to building a military command-and-control network that could survive a nuclear attack. But as Charles Herzfeld, the ARPA director who would oversee most of the initial work to build ARPANET put it: The ARPANET was not started to create a Command and Control System that would survive a nuclear attack, as many now claim. To build such a system was, clearly, a major military need, but it was not ARPA's mission to do this; in fact, we would have been severely criticized had we tried. Rather, the ARPANET came out of our frustration that there were only a limited number of large, powerful research computers in the country, and that many research investigators, who should have access to them, were geographically separated from them. -
Apple releases macOS Catalina 10.15.1 and watchOS 6.1
Both follow closely after iOS, iPadOS, and tvOS updates yesterday.
Apple yesterday released software updates for macOS and watchOS—10.15.1 and 6.1, respectively. Apple's habit of late has been to release most of its operating system updates for each platform all on the same day. But in this instance, though, macOS and watchOS came a single day after iOS, iPadOS, and tvOS updates.The macOS update mainly adds features we already saw yesterday in iOS and iPadOS 13.2. That includes support for AirPods Pro, the ability to opt in or out of sharing Siri recordings with Apple, new emoji, and new HomeKit feature support. There are also a number of macOS-specific bug fixes and the restoration of some lost Photos features. -
FreePBX 15 released.
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
FreePBX 15 released.
I barely downloaded 14 yesterday.
how do you barely download something?
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New Google Chrome Security Alert: Update Your Browsers As ‘High Severity’ Zero-Day Exploit Confirmed
https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2019/11/01/new-google-chrome-security-alert-update-your-browsers-as-high-severity-zero-day-exploit-confirmed/#7b9f293070b3"Here's what is known so far
The October 31 disclosure from Google confirmed that the "stable channel" desktop Chrome browser is being updated to version 78.0.3904.87 across the Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms. This urgent update will start rolling out "over the coming days/weeks," according to Google. " -
NordVPN users’ passwords exposed in mass credential-stuffing attacks
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/11/nordvpn-users-passwords-exposed-in-mass-credential-stuffing-attacks/As many as 2,000 users of NordVPN, the virtual private network service that recently disclosed a server hack that leaked crypto keys, have fallen victim to credential-stuffing attacks that allow unauthorized access to their accounts.
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@wrx7m said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
NordVPN users’ passwords exposed in mass credential-stuffing attacks
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/11/nordvpn-users-passwords-exposed-in-mass-credential-stuffing-attacks/As many as 2,000 users of NordVPN, the virtual private network service that recently disclosed a server hack that leaked crypto keys, have fallen victim to credential-stuffing attacks that allow unauthorized access to their accounts.
NSA needed to know.
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Why in a phone, i don't know?
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@hobbit666 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Why in a phone, i don't know?
I wonder what's the size of avg 108MP image, it's probably near 100MB. TB+ storage in phone would be in order too.
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@marcinozga said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@hobbit666 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Why in a phone, i don't know?
I wonder what's the size of avg 108MP image, it's probably near 100MB. TB+ storage in phone would be in order too.
Up to 40MB per image.
But 108 megapixel is just a big number for marketing. Most people don't know the difference between pixel count and image resolution.
Simplified, image resolution is how much detail is visible. And that is really what you are after, but not what you are going to get. You'll simply get a lot of pixels without much detail.
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@Pete-S said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@marcinozga said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@hobbit666 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Why in a phone, i don't know?
I wonder what's the size of avg 108MP image, it's probably near 100MB. TB+ storage in phone would be in order too.
Up to 40MB per image.
But 108 megapixel is just a big number for marketing. Most people don't know the difference between pixel count and image resolution.
Simplified, image resolution is how much detail is visible. And that is really what you are after, but not what you are going to get. You'll simply get a lot of pixels without much detail.
huh? The more pixels, the better the detail - how are you not getting more detail?
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@Pete-S said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Simplified, image resolution is how much detail is visible. And that is really what you are after, but not what you are going to get. You'll simply get a lot of pixels without much detail.
They describe it in the article like it's almost entirely for digital zoom. The software crops the images and rarely, if ever, saves a full size photo.
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@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@hobbit666 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Why in a phone, i don't know?
...and 108% pointless.
Without some sort of optical zoom, this seems most likely, not sure what value there is in such a high pixel density - though, that said, things like portraits for billboards, it could be useful, printing anything that large definitely benefits from having more details.
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Pete-S said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@marcinozga said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@hobbit666 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Why in a phone, i don't know?
I wonder what's the size of avg 108MP image, it's probably near 100MB. TB+ storage in phone would be in order too.
Up to 40MB per image.
But 108 megapixel is just a big number for marketing. Most people don't know the difference between pixel count and image resolution.
Simplified, image resolution is how much detail is visible. And that is really what you are after, but not what you are going to get. You'll simply get a lot of pixels without much detail.
huh? The more pixels, the better the detail - how are you not getting more detail?
Because it's like upgrading your NIC from 1 gigabit to 10 gigabit and then find out that when you surf the web nothing is faster than before.
The actual image resolution is a chain of things. The biggest bottleneck is the lens. The lens can't resolve the amount of detail that a 108 megapixel sensor can. Also to make the lens compact and light you have to make optical compromises and then fix those in the camera software. That will also lower the resolution.
The next problem is that 108 megapixels on a small sensor means very small pixels. A pixel converts photons into electrons. A small pixel will have a lot of noise because it can not collect a lot of photons. Unfortunately noise obscures details so more noise means lower resolution.
Also to actually get high resolution you have to hold the phone extremely still during exposure. That's why you see landscape photographers using tripods and remote triggers to take pictures without touching the camera.
Just a few things. That being said, in a lot of situations it's better to have more pixels rather than less even if the difference might not be what you think.
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@Pete-S said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@marcinozga said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@hobbit666 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Why in a phone, i don't know?
I wonder what's the size of avg 108MP image, it's probably near 100MB. TB+ storage in phone would be in order too.
Up to 40MB per image.
But 108 megapixel is just a big number for marketing. Most people don't know the difference between pixel count and image resolution.
Simplified, image resolution is how much detail is visible. And that is really what you are after, but not what you are going to get. You'll simply get a lot of pixels without much detail.
Also, the optics and sensor are more important than the Mp count.
