Miscellaneous Tech News
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Coronavirus: Mobile networks send 'stay at home' text
For the first time, all the UK's mobile networks are sending out a government message to their customers with details of the new shutdown measures.
The text reads: GOV.UK CORONAVIRUS ALERT. New rules in force now: you must stay at home. More info and exemptions at gov.uk/coronavirus Stay at home. Protect the NHS. Save lives. Some customers have already received the message, while others are set to get it later in the day. The network O2 told the BBC it was sending the texts in batches adding it could take until 22:00GMT to complete the task. The government has had to work with the operators to get the message sent because an emergency alert system, trialled seven years ago, was never put into practice. If it had been, the government could have bypassed the operators and sent messages directly to phone users, as has happened in countries such as South Korea and the Netherlands. -
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List of Free Software and Services During Coronavirus Outbreak
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/list-of-free-software-and-services-during-coronavirus-outbreak/ -
a good one for the haters...
European users reporting they're hitting Azure capacity constraints
Some Microsoft Azure cloud customers in Europe are reporting they are hitting capacity limits are unable to spin up virtual machines in their regions.
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@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
a good one for the haters...
European users reporting they're hitting Azure capacity constraints
Some Microsoft Azure cloud customers in Europe are reporting they are hitting capacity limits are unable to spin up virtual machines in their regions.
Xbox Live is getting hit hard too.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Coronavirus: Facebook blames bug for incorrectly marked spam
Facebook has said that a software issue was responsible for posts on topics including coronavirus being wrongly marked as spam.
The social media giant's head of safety said: "This is a bug in an anti-spam system." The statement was in response to widespread complaints from Facebook and Instagram users. It came a day after the firm said contract workers who review content would be sent home due to the outbreak. "We've restored all the posts that were incorrectly removed, which included posts on all topics - not just those related to COVID-19," Guy Rosen, Facebook's vice president for integrity, said on Twitter.Damn!
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So the risk to cloud... elastic capacity value that makes it make sense becomes a risk if you decrease capacity as demand decreases, someone else grabs the available capacity, and you can't expand again because the cloud is topped out.
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Coronavirus: Tracking app aims for one million downloads
An app that tracks the symptoms of Covid-19 in the UK has become one of the most popular downloads.
Its creators aim to deliver insights into why some people get the disease more severely than others.
They also hope to create a map showing where outbreaks are happening and help distinguish cases from those of the common cold. It is one of many such new apps. Experts have warned people to be cautious about which they download. At present, Covid Symptom Tracker is the third most popular app in Apple's UK store and second in Google Play's new releases chart for the country. Its developers are targeting one million downloads in 24 hours. -
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
So the risk to cloud... elastic capacity value that makes it make sense becomes a risk if you decrease capacity as demand decreases, someone else grabs the available capacity, and you can't expand again because the cloud is topped out.
Ya they need to monitor that more closely so that doesn't happen.
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@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
So the risk to cloud... elastic capacity value that makes it make sense becomes a risk if you decrease capacity as demand decreases, someone else grabs the available capacity, and you can't expand again because the cloud is topped out.
Ya they need to monitor that more closely so that doesn't happen.
Problems are... supply chain might not exist to protect against it, especially during a CPU shortage or, you know, a pandemic. Good monitoring likely didn't help now, but I bet that they had it.
Second is that the monitoring can't be done by the people affected. The only protection that the customer has is to own the infrastructure rather than using a public one.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
The only protection that the customer has is to own the infrastructure rather than using a public one.
Well, unless of course the person(s) managing the infrastructure is sick, or out, or has supply problems, or any other number of problems should they want to expand, or should something happen.
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@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amds-processors-power-microsoft-azure-135301244.html
They really are just so hard to beat.
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Coronavirus: Zoom is in everyone's living room - how safe is it?
Zoom, the video-conferencing app that has seen a huge rise in downloads since quarantines were imposed around the world, is now being used by millions for work and social gatherings.
This week Prime Minister Boris Johnson tweeted a picture of himself chairing a Cabinet meeting via the app. This led to questions about how secure it was for government meetings. Zoom has angrily defended its security record, saying it would answer any questions the government had. It was closely followed by reports that the Ministry of Defence (MoD) was suspending use of the app, something it strenuously denied. -
Food wholesalers offer online orders to sell stock
Food wholesalers are making online home deliveries in response to Covid-19 measures.
As bars, restaurants and hotels shut due to government restrictions, the wholesalers that usually provide them with food and drink, have seen a huge drop in business. But with stock to shift, they are determined to find new customers. Members of the Federation of Wholesale Distributors have seen a 70% decline in trade over the past two weeks, “Food distributors have seen their market disappear overnight,” says chief executive James Bielby. “Companies have bought in stock, and the vast majority of it is going to waste as they can’t sell it, and in a lot of cases they haven’t been paid. -
Coronavirus: Tech firm Bloom Energy fixes broken US ventilators
A Californian company that usually makes green-energy fuel cells is due to deliver 170 repaired ventilators to Los Angeles later on Monday after transforming its manufacturing process.
An engineer at Bloom Energy downloaded the service manual and taught himself how to dismantle and rebuild them in a day, the Los Angeles Times reported. They had been in storage since the H5N1 bird flu outbreak of the mid-2000s. Bloom says it is now working to find other stockpiles of disused machines. On Saturday, as California Governor Gavin Newsom visited the manufacturing plant, he said: “We got a car and a truck and had [them] brought here to this facility at 08:00 this morning. -
