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Northern Ireland to launch separate contact-tracing app
Northern Ireland is planning to release its own coronavirus contact-tracing app within weeks, the BBC has learned.
It follows the failure of the NHS app in England, which was trialled on the Isle of Wight. The NI app will be based on the Google/Apple model. It is designed to be compatible with an app due to be released soon in the Republic of Ireland. That app is also based on the toolkit provided by Apple and Google. The Apple and Google model is more privacy-focused, but provides less data to epidemiologists than the centralised version that England was trialling. "The Health Minister has commissioned work to develop a proximity app, based on the de-centralised Google/ Apple model, for use in Northern Ireland," said the Northern Ireland Department of Health in a statement. "This work includes examining the interoperability of apps and the sharing of information across the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic," it said. -
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-kills-one-of-its-best-windows-10-update-looph-1844180993
That's a good thing.
If we can test and keep many thousands of Windows PCs in many countries around the world that use many diverse apps current and updated, then I know anyone can. There's no excuse.
If you want to run a PC out of date for years just install Linux.
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@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
If you want to run a PC out of date for years just install Linux.
You mean distros like CentOS, Ubuntu LTS? Just saying Linux makes it sound like you are saying Linux in general.
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
If you want to run a PC out of date for years just install Linux.
You mean distros like CentOS, Ubuntu LTS? Just saying Linux makes it sound like you are saying Linux in general.
Yes, Linux in general. It will never update on its own unless you tell it to. You can choose to never update. With windows and Mac, and Android I think, you are pretty much forced to stay mostly current.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Grey said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
From the company that brought you "data loss" and "holy shit this screwed me" moments....
When is the last time you used it?
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@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
If you want to run a PC out of date for years just install Linux.
You mean distros like CentOS, Ubuntu LTS? Just saying Linux makes it sound like you are saying Linux in general.
Yes, Linux in general. It will never update on its own unless you tell it to. You can choose to never update. With windows and Mac, and Android I think, you are pretty much forced to stay mostly current.
Thats determined by distro and has no connection to Linux one way or the other.
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@VoIP_n00b said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Grey said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
From the company that brought you "data loss" and "holy shit this screwed me" moments....
When is the last time you used it?
I have no reason to run unsafe valueless hobby systems. I get to use it when I am brought in to save foolish companies who thought they could skip having IT skills or enterprise vendors for storage.
You are implying by this question that a fundamentally bad and unsafe idea and process without value has to be constantly tried to be understood- but that is not the case.
You dont have to stub your toe on each new piece of furniture once you understand that stubbing it itself hurts.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
You dont have to stub your toe on each new piece of furniture once you understand that stubbing it itself hurts.
But stubbing your toe on different pieces of furniture would certainly teach you to watch where you are walking.
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
You dont have to stub your toe on each new piece of furniture once you understand that stubbing it itself hurts.
But stubbing your toe on different pieces of furniture would certainly teach you to watch where you are walking.
That's my point, once you know how stubbing your toe works, you don't need to keep testing as you learn not to do it. FreeNas is like that. Once you know the pattern, you don't need to keep testing it since you already know the pattern isn't good.
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@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
If you want to run a PC out of date for years just install Linux.
You mean distros like CentOS, Ubuntu LTS? Just saying Linux makes it sound like you are saying Linux in general.
Yes, Linux in general. It will never update on its own unless you tell it to. You can choose to never update. With windows and Mac, and Android I think, you are pretty much forced to stay mostly current.
Yeah - forcing is a good thing, no matter what people say - without forcing, 90% would never upgrade/update - leaving the internet a hugely vulnerable place...
Wait wait wait - /sigh - it's still a hugely vulnerable place
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Could a boycott kill Facebook?
Boycotts can be extremely effective - as Facebook is finding out.
In the late 18th century, the abolitionist movement encouraged British people to stay away from goods produced by slaves. It worked. Around 300,000 stopped buying sugar - increasing the pressure to abolish slavery. The Stop Hate for Profit campaign is the latest movement to use boycott as a political tool. It claims that Facebook doesn't do enough to remove racist and hateful content from its platform. It's convinced a series of major companies - including Coca-Cola, Unilever and Starbucks - to pull advertising from Facebook and some other social media companies. Meanwhile, other online platforms, including Reddit and Twitch, have piled on more pressure by taking anti-hate steps of their own. -
Huawei: Ministers signal switch in policy over 5G policy
The government has signalled it is set to take a tougher line against Chinese telecoms equipment-maker Huawei.
A review is under way into how forthcoming US sanctions would affect the UK's continued use of its products. "Given that these sanctions... are extensive, it is likely to have an impact on the viability of Huawei as a provider for the 5G network," said Digital Secretary Oliver Dowden. He added he wanted Samsung and NEC to become 5G network kit providers. They would help make the UK's mobile networks become less dependent on the other two suppliers: Ericsson and Nokia. Mr Dowden said the current situation represented a "market failure". Defence Secretary Ben Wallace added that the sanctions - which are set to come into effect in September - had specifically been designed to force the UK into a rethink. -
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Could a boycott kill Facebook?
Boycotts can be extremely effective - as Facebook is finding out.
In the late 18th century, the abolitionist movement encouraged British people to stay away from goods produced by slaves. It worked. Around 300,000 stopped buying sugar - increasing the pressure to abolish slavery. The Stop Hate for Profit campaign is the latest movement to use boycott as a political tool. It claims that Facebook doesn't do enough to remove racist and hateful content from its platform. It's convinced a series of major companies - including Coca-Cola, Unilever and Starbucks - to pull advertising from Facebook and some other social media companies. Meanwhile, other online platforms, including Reddit and Twitch, have piled on more pressure by taking anti-hate steps of their own.I hope this kills facebook, or draws it back to a shell of it's former self.
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@Grey said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Could a boycott kill Facebook?
Boycotts can be extremely effective - as Facebook is finding out.
In the late 18th century, the abolitionist movement encouraged British people to stay away from goods produced by slaves. It worked. Around 300,000 stopped buying sugar - increasing the pressure to abolish slavery. The Stop Hate for Profit campaign is the latest movement to use boycott as a political tool. It claims that Facebook doesn't do enough to remove racist and hateful content from its platform. It's convinced a series of major companies - including Coca-Cola, Unilever and Starbucks - to pull advertising from Facebook and some other social media companies. Meanwhile, other online platforms, including Reddit and Twitch, have piled on more pressure by taking anti-hate steps of their own.I hope this kills facebook, or draws it back to a shell of it's former self.
One can hope. But seems unlikely.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Grey said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Could a boycott kill Facebook?
Boycotts can be extremely effective - as Facebook is finding out.
In the late 18th century, the abolitionist movement encouraged British people to stay away from goods produced by slaves. It worked. Around 300,000 stopped buying sugar - increasing the pressure to abolish slavery. The Stop Hate for Profit campaign is the latest movement to use boycott as a political tool. It claims that Facebook doesn't do enough to remove racist and hateful content from its platform. It's convinced a series of major companies - including Coca-Cola, Unilever and Starbucks - to pull advertising from Facebook and some other social media companies. Meanwhile, other online platforms, including Reddit and Twitch, have piled on more pressure by taking anti-hate steps of their own.I hope this kills facebook, or draws it back to a shell of it's former self.
One can hope. But seems unlikely.
If it does, something likely equally as bad will replace it. People what what it offers, with the general simplicity that it offers.
Forums are OK - but damn, they are a huge hassle when you just wanna scrolling feed of what people are up to.
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Nothing will happen to FB except some face-saving.
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University of California San Francisco pays ransomware gang $1.14 million.
The University of California, San Francisco (USCF) has paid a ransomware demand of more than $1.4m. A “limited number of servers” at the public health research facility were encrypted by Netwalker ransomware. UCSF disclosed the incident on June 3. BBC News was able to observe a live chat on the dark web involving UCSF ransom negotiations.
Comments by Neely @ SANS
The Netwalker operators used multiple techniques to entice UCSF into paying the ransom, including making both samples of exfiltrated data and the ransom negotiations visible to the press. For UCSF reputation risk is key to continued support as they are working on research to support the public good including a cure for C-19.
More insight into Netwalker ransomware
https://news.sophos.com/en-us/2020/05/27/netwalker-ransomware-tools-give-insight-into-threat-actor/ -
@Pete-S said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
University of California San Francisco pays ransomware gang $1.14 million.
You misspelled "funds".
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@Pete-S said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
University of California San Francisco pays ransomware gang $1.14 million.
The University of California, San Francisco (USCF) has paid a ransomware demand of more than $1.4m. A “limited number of servers” at the public health research facility were encrypted by Netwalker ransomware. UCSF disclosed the incident on June 3. BBC News was able to observe a live chat on the dark web involving UCSF ransom negotiations.
Comments by Neely @ SANS
The Netwalker operators used multiple techniques to entice UCSF into paying the ransom, including making both samples of exfiltrated data and the ransom negotiations visible to the press. For UCSF reputation risk is key to continued support as they are working on research to support the public good including a cure for C-19.
More insight into Netwalker ransomware
https://news.sophos.com/en-us/2020/05/27/netwalker-ransomware-tools-give-insight-into-threat-actor/I take it they did not have any backups, and the employees use their computers for LoB data storage.
