Miscellaneous Tech News
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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. -
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Release of openmediavault 5 (Usul)
https://www.openmediavault.org/?p=2685 -
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
backups with RAM is pretty cool. Finally a way to get in flight systems!
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TechCrunch: Maybe we shouldn’t use Zoom after all.
https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/31/zoom-at-your-own-risk/Lots of security issues. Zoom was never meant to be used in such a wide scale. Interestingly, they called me in Feb for a job interview that never came to fruition.
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Coronavirus: Moscow rolls out patient-tracking app
Moscow is launching an app to track the movements of people in the capital diagnosed with coronavirus, who have been ordered to stay at home.
The city's IT chief said the service would become operational on Thursday. The move coincides with a separate initiative to help European health authorities create virus-tracing apps that communicate with each other. This could help relax border restrictions. Germany is expected to announce its own app that ties into the scheme shortly. NHSX, which is working on similar for the UK, has been in communication with those running the project but has yet to commit to interoperability. -
TSB customers hit by online banking outage
A number of TSB customers were left unable to access online banking and mobile app services for both Android and iOS on Wednesday.
Independent website DownDetector, which tracks social-media posts on how sites are performing, showed hundreds of customers complaining of an outage. Users were met with an "unexpected error" and some said they had been left with no way to access their accounts. TSB said that the issue had now be solved. In a statement it told the BBC: "We experienced intermittent issues with our mobile and internet banking services earlier today. All our services are now working, however if customers experience an error message they should try logging on again." -
Alleged, but a huge deal that it is in court.
Zoom sued for allegedly sharing users' personal data with Facebook
