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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Could Google really leave Australia?
Google has threatened to pull out of the Australian market if a new law governing its relationship with news publishers goes ahead.
The government is introducing a law to address a long-bubbling row over whether tech giants should pay for news that appears in search or is shared on their platforms. The proposed law would mandate that Google has commercial agreements with every news organisation - or enter forced arbitration, something Google says is "unworkable". "If this version of the code were to become law, it would give us no real choice but to stop making Google Search available in Australia," the regional director, Mel Silva, said. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison told Google: "We don't respond to threats".Seems realistic. If they are going to make it too expensive to operate there, why not leave?
Well considering they've been getting it for free, of course it's going to seem unreasonable.
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@warren-stanley said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews as someone who is subject to the un-qualified whims, continual mis-steps and hamstringing of the Australian Govt on all things IT related, I can only shake my head. I used to use Dogpile back in the day, surely that still works
They seem a bit clueless about anything more technical than pen and paper.
IMO it's an ass kissing exercise becuase the governemnt will be targets of smear campaigns by the organisations that stand to benefit from the arrangement... as in it'll hurt their re-election chances. -
@warren-stanley said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I used to use Dogpile back in the day, surely that still works
I swapped to DuckDuckGo a while ago. So if Google decide to bail on us, my day to day habits are less impacted.
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@nadnerB said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@warren-stanley said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews as someone who is subject to the un-qualified whims, continual mis-steps and hamstringing of the Australian Govt on all things IT related, I can only shake my head. I used to use Dogpile back in the day, surely that still works
They seem a bit clueless about anything more technical than pen and paper.
IMO it's an ass kissing exercise becuase the governemnt will be targets of smear campaigns by the organisations that stand to benefit from the arrangement... as in it'll hurt their re-election chances.WHOA - slow down there with your "Pen" talk..... that's at least a decade away
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AWS, as predicted, is forking Elasticsearch
Amazon Web Services, however, isn't the only one who dislikes Elastic's move to relicense Elasticsearch under the non-open-source Server Side Public License.
When Elastic, makers of the open-source search and analytic engine Elasticsearch, went after Amazon Web Services' (AWS) by changing its license from the open-source Apache 2.0-license ALv2) to the non-open-source friendly Server Side Public License (SSPL), I predicted "we'd soon see AWS-sponsored Elasticsearch and Kibana forks." The next day, AWS tweeted it "will launch new forks of both Elasticsearch and Kibana based on the latest Apache 2.0 licensed codebases." Well, that didn't take long!
In a blog post, AWS explained that since Elastic is no longer making its search and analytic engine Elasticsearch and its companion data visualization dashboard Kibana available as open source, AWS is taking action. "In order to ensure open source versions of both packages remain available and well supported, including in our own offerings, we are announcing today that AWS will step up to create and maintain an ALv2-licensed fork of open-source Elasticsearch and Kibana."
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Fedora's Chromium maintainer suggests switching to Firefox as Google yanks features in favour of Chrome
'They're not closing a security hole, they're just requiring that everyone use Chrome'
Fedora's maintainer for the open-source Chromium browser package is recommending users consider switching to Firefox following Google's decision to remove functionality and make it exclusive to its proprietary Chrome browser.
The comments refer to a low-key statement Google made just before the release of Chrome 88, saying that during an audit it had "discovered that some third-party Chromium-based browsers were able to integrate Google features, such as Chrome sync and Click to Call, that are only intended for Google's use... we are limiting access to our private Chrome APIs starting on March 15, 2021."
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Twitter pilot to let users flag 'false' content
Twitter is asking its users for help in combating fake news.
It has announced a pilot that allows people to submit notes on tweets that may be false or misleading. The initiative, named 'Birdwatch', is being trialled among a small group in the US initially. The firm acknowledged the new system would have to be "resistant to manipulation attempts". Companies like Twitter are looking at how they can better moderate their platforms. Twitter said on Monday: "We know this might be messy and have problems at times, but we believe this is a model worth trying." Twitter, along with other large social media companies, has struggled to deal with disinformation on its platform. The pilot will allow users to flag tweets they believe to be "misleading or false", provide evidence to the contrary and discuss them with other - on a separate 'Birdwatch' site. Additional notes and flags would then be placed on to content. -
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Saw a link to this on Ars
https://www.theregister.com/2021/01/26/killing_centos/
A little perspective on the CentOS news from last month. -
Remember the discussion recently where I felt that security researchers and vendors being allowed to keep secrets from the people that they know are at risk is bad? Well I'm definitely not alone.
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Beware fake Covid vaccination invites, NHS warns
The NHS has warned people to be vigilant about fake invitations to have the coronavirus vaccination, sent by scammers.
The scam email includes a link to "register" for the vaccine, but no registration for the real vaccination is required. The fake site also asks for bank details either to verify identification or to make a payment. The NHS says it would never ask for bank details, and the vaccine is free. Cyber-security consultant Daniel Card told BBC News that traffic data indicates thousands of people had clicked the link to the fake site - although it is unclear how many then filled in the form. -
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Remember the discussion recently where I felt that security researchers and vendors being allowed to keep secrets from the people that they know are at risk is bad? Well I'm definitely not alone.
I don't see the connection between your comment and the article.
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Remember the discussion recently where I felt that security researchers and vendors being allowed to keep secrets from the people that they know are at risk is bad? Well I'm definitely not alone.
I don't see the connection between your comment and the article.
The connection to be made was between a previous discussion and the article. His comment was referring to the link between the two.
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Microsoft FY21 Q2: Earnings Reach $43.1B Revenue as Cloud, Xbox, and Surface Thrive
Microsoft FY21 Q2 earnings show the company continues to record growth across almost all its product and service divisions.
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Emotet botnet taken down by international police swoop
Police have seized thousands of computers running one of the most dangerous hacking networks worldwide.
The Emotet network obtains access to victims' computers, via malicious email attachments, then sells it to criminals who install more dangerous malware. Police from the UK, EU, US and Canada worked together to "disrupt" Emotet. Europol called it "one of most significant botnets of the past decade" and one of the main "door openers" for computer systems worldwide. "Once this unauthorised access was established, these were sold to other top-level criminal groups to deploy further illicit activities such data theft and extortion through ransomware," it said. -
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USA #9 on The World´s Top 10 automated countries
The average robot density in the manufacturing industry hit a new global record of 113 units per 10,000 employees. By regions, Western Europe (225 units) and the Nordic European countries (204 units) have the most automated production, followed by North America (153 units) and South East Asia (119 units).
https://ifr.org/ifr-press-releases/news/robot-race-the-worlds-top-10-automated-countries
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/01/ubuntu-21-04-will-use-wayland-by-default
Maybe this will help push OBS devs to make their app work natively with Wayland
