Miscellaneous Tech News
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After a decade of failure, LG officially quits the smartphone market
LG's mobile division calls it quits after 23 consecutive money-losing quarters.
After 12 years of being an Android OEM, LG has had enough. The Korean company announced late last night that it is officially quitting the smartphone market; it plans to close up shop on the entire business by July 31, 2021. The news doesn't come as much of a surprise, since LG has been preparing the public for this decision for some time. LG's mobile division has had 23 consecutive money-losing quarters, and its last profitable year was in 2014. In January 2020, LG Electronics' then-brand-new CEO Kwon Bong-seok promised that the troublesome division would be profitable by 2021. That message was apparently "profitability or bust" because by January 2021, LG was warning the public that it would have to make "a cold judgment" about the future of the mobile division. Local media reports claim that LG explored selling the division but couldn't find a buyer. -
To be honest, I kind of thought LG had already stopped making phones.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
To be honest, I kind of thought LG had already stopped making phones.
Me too.
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Russia’s Twitter throttling may give censors never-before-seen capabilities
Censorship based on deep packet inspection may work against Tor and VPNs.
Russia has implemented a novel censorship method in an ongoing effort to silence Twitter. Instead of outright blocking the social media site, the country is using previously unseen techniques to slow traffic to a crawl and make the site all but unusable for people inside the country. Research published Tuesday says that the throttling slows traffic traveling between Twitter and Russia-based end users to a paltry 128kbps. Whereas past Internet censorship techniques used by Russia and other nation-states have relied on outright blocking, slowing traffic passing to and from a widely used Internet service is a relatively new technique that provides benefits for the censoring party. -
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Russia’s Twitter throttling may give censors never-before-seen capabilities
Censorship based on deep packet inspection may work against Tor and VPNs.
Russia has implemented a novel censorship method in an ongoing effort to silence Twitter. Instead of outright blocking the social media site, the country is using previously unseen techniques to slow traffic to a crawl and make the site all but unusable for people inside the country. Research published Tuesday says that the throttling slows traffic traveling between Twitter and Russia-based end users to a paltry 128kbps. Whereas past Internet censorship techniques used by Russia and other nation-states have relied on outright blocking, slowing traffic passing to and from a widely used Internet service is a relatively new technique that provides benefits for the censoring party.Where "new" and "novel" are "techniques every IT shop has used against social media sites for almost twenty years."
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Microsoft Build OpenJDK
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/java/announcing-preview-of-microsoft-build-of-openjdk/
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T-Mobile 5G home Internet: $60 a month, 100Mbps speeds, and no data cap
30 million households are eligible; signups available "until capacity runs out."
T-Mobile yesterday launched a $60-per-month 5G home Internet service, saying that it will generally provide download speeds of 50 to 100Mbps and upload speeds of 10 to 25Mbps. The $60 monthly price includes everything, T-Mobile said, promising, "No added taxes or fees. No equipment fees. No contracts. No surprises or exploding bills." The service has no data cap, but T-Mobile's home Internet customers will get slower speeds than mobile customers in times of congestion. -
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
T-Mobile 5G home Internet: $60 a month, 100Mbps speeds, and no data cap
30 million households are eligible; signups available "until capacity runs out."
T-Mobile yesterday launched a $60-per-month 5G home Internet service, saying that it will generally provide download speeds of 50 to 100Mbps and upload speeds of 10 to 25Mbps. The $60 monthly price includes everything, T-Mobile said, promising, "No added taxes or fees. No equipment fees. No contracts. No surprises or exploding bills." The service has no data cap, but T-Mobile's home Internet customers will get slower speeds than mobile customers in times of congestion.my biggest is is the requirement to use their router, I don't believe you can put it into bridge mode.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
T-Mobile 5G home Internet: $60 a month, 100Mbps speeds, and no data cap
30 million households are eligible; signups available "until capacity runs out."
T-Mobile yesterday launched a $60-per-month 5G home Internet service, saying that it will generally provide download speeds of 50 to 100Mbps and upload speeds of 10 to 25Mbps. The $60 monthly price includes everything, T-Mobile said, promising, "No added taxes or fees. No equipment fees. No contracts. No surprises or exploding bills." The service has no data cap, but T-Mobile's home Internet customers will get slower speeds than mobile customers in times of congestion.I got 220Mb/s last week in Georgia!
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US adds Chinese supercomputing companies to export blacklist
Biden administration tightens controls on tech that aids China’s military.
The US has placed Chinese groups accused of building supercomputers to help the Chinese military on an export blacklist, the first such move by the Biden administration to make it harder for China to obtain US technology. Three companies and four branches of China’s National Supercomputing Center were added to the US government “entity list,” which bars American companies from exporting technology to the groups without a license. The US commerce department said the groups were involved in building supercomputers used by Chinese “military actors” and facilitating programs to develop weapons of mass destruction. -
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
US adds Chinese supercomputing companies to export blacklist
Biden administration tightens controls on tech that aids China’s military.
The US has placed Chinese groups accused of building supercomputers to help the Chinese military on an export blacklist, the first such move by the Biden administration to make it harder for China to obtain US technology. Three companies and four branches of China’s National Supercomputing Center were added to the US government “entity list,” which bars American companies from exporting technology to the groups without a license. The US commerce department said the groups were involved in building supercomputers used by Chinese “military actors” and facilitating programs to develop weapons of mass destruction.That's okay. They've already stolen all our designs anyway, lol.
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@dafyre said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
US adds Chinese supercomputing companies to export blacklist
Biden administration tightens controls on tech that aids China’s military.
The US has placed Chinese groups accused of building supercomputers to help the Chinese military on an export blacklist, the first such move by the Biden administration to make it harder for China to obtain US technology. Three companies and four branches of China’s National Supercomputing Center were added to the US government “entity list,” which bars American companies from exporting technology to the groups without a license. The US commerce department said the groups were involved in building supercomputers used by Chinese “military actors” and facilitating programs to develop weapons of mass destruction.That's okay. They've already stolen all our designs anyway, lol.
Stolen sure, the biggest challenge is understanding the technology. That is why many things are poor copies of the original.
These industries steal a design and copy it but cut corners due to a lack of understanding.
At the same time the chinese government and industry is learning from us, and making their own equipment.
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@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dafyre said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
US adds Chinese supercomputing companies to export blacklist
Biden administration tightens controls on tech that aids China’s military.
The US has placed Chinese groups accused of building supercomputers to help the Chinese military on an export blacklist, the first such move by the Biden administration to make it harder for China to obtain US technology. Three companies and four branches of China’s National Supercomputing Center were added to the US government “entity list,” which bars American companies from exporting technology to the groups without a license. The US commerce department said the groups were involved in building supercomputers used by Chinese “military actors” and facilitating programs to develop weapons of mass destruction.That's okay. They've already stolen all our designs anyway, lol.
Stolen sure, the biggest challenge is understanding the technology. That is why many things are poor copies of the original.
These industries steal a design and copy it but cut corners due to a lack of understanding.
At the same time the chinese government and industry is learning from us, and making their own equipment.
I wonder if that's true?
I think it's more likely that they are cheap copies to save money. They are knock-offs, pretty sure the only goal is squeezing them for as much profit as possible. -
@dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dafyre said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
US adds Chinese supercomputing companies to export blacklist
Biden administration tightens controls on tech that aids China’s military.
The US has placed Chinese groups accused of building supercomputers to help the Chinese military on an export blacklist, the first such move by the Biden administration to make it harder for China to obtain US technology. Three companies and four branches of China’s National Supercomputing Center were added to the US government “entity list,” which bars American companies from exporting technology to the groups without a license. The US commerce department said the groups were involved in building supercomputers used by Chinese “military actors” and facilitating programs to develop weapons of mass destruction.That's okay. They've already stolen all our designs anyway, lol.
Stolen sure, the biggest challenge is understanding the technology. That is why many things are poor copies of the original.
These industries steal a design and copy it but cut corners due to a lack of understanding.
At the same time the chinese government and industry is learning from us, and making their own equipment.
I wonder if that's true?
I think it's more likely that they are cheap copies to save money. They are knock-offs, pretty sure the only goal is squeezing them for as much profit as possible.You honestly believe that these people aren't learning? Look at Alibaba or Huawei.
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@dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I think it's more likely that they are cheap copies to save money. They are knock-offs, pretty sure the only goal is squeezing them for as much profit as possible.
You do realize that at this point, China is way ahead of us on a lot of core tech, right? It's our lack of access to their processors that holds us back in some cases. Sure, overall, the US is still leading in the processor market. But the gap is closing, fast, and they have some components ahead of us.
Don't confuse toy manufacturing and other low end, unimportant stuff, with China's world class engineering capabilities.
