Miscellaneous Tech News
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Reminders on rise as WhatsApp update deadline looms
Users yet to accept new terms and conditions for the messaging platform WhatsApp will start to get "persistent" reminders after the 15 May deadline.
The changes relate primarily to the way businesses interact with customers. Since they were announced, in January, there has been concern about the prospect of increased data sharing with WhatsApp's parent company, Facebook, but this will not be changing. Most of the app's two billion users had already accepted, the company said. Those who do not will start to lose functionality - beginning with being unable to see chat lists and ending with not receiving video calls and messages - but no accounts will be deleted. -
New Executive Order mandates Software Bill of Materials, naming open source specifically.
The executive order recognized the vital importance of open-source software. It reads in part: "Within 90 days of publication of the preliminary guidelines … shall issue guidance identifying practices that enhance the security of the software supply chain." Open-source software is specifically named.
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@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Security Researcher discovers plan text passwords used for Microsoft rdp
Clickbait headline. The url is much less alarmist.
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Much facepalm
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@nadnerb said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Much facepalm
️Not at all surprised that this occurred. During any sort of forklift operation of IT from one ITSP to another or to move a workload in-house that has historically been hosted that the people setting it up are guaranteed to not know how to setup these new systems up to 100%.
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Scam City: The unlicensed 'forex trader' who lost £3.8 million
In his four-part series, journalist Mobeen Azhar finds out how investors lost millions of pounds after getting caught up in forex - foreign exchange - schemes.
In Autumn 2020, a video clip of a man handing out cash to strangers on Plymouth High Street went viral. "You're an angel," one person in the crowd said. That clip of Gurvin Singh Dyal, a bio-med student, even made the local paper in Plymouth. But in trying to track down the 20-year-old (pictured above), it turned out there were different versions of the story. To many, he was simply handing out money to strangers because he'd made it big in the world of online trading and he wanted to give something back. To others, it was a publicity stunt and there were a string of questions to be answered. -
Fedora moving to libera.chat
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@eddiejennings said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Fedora moving to libera.chat
Ubuntu as well.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/05/ubuntu-irc-moves-to-libera-chat -
Tesla cameras will monitor driver awareness
A new software update for Tesla cars appears to include monitoring of drivers through the car's internal cameras when Autopilot is in use.
The "self-driving" feature requires drivers to pay attention at all times, but has been criticised as easy to fool. Users have been able to activate the assist feature and leave the driver's seat, and video themselves doing so. But the new feature will detect how attentive the driver actually is. Tesla's cars have relied on sensors in the wheel to make sure the driver's hands remain on it. Some other car manufacturers have used internal sensors to observe where a driver's eyes are looking. That means the vehicle can slow down or switch off automated driving features if the driver starts looking at their phone, for example. -
Someone has got a high electric bill:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/15096237/cops-find-bitcoin-mine/COPS were stunned to find a Bitcoin "mine" stealing thousands of pounds of electricity during a suspected warehouse drug raid.
Officers in the West Midlands thought they were about to bust a cannabis farm - but were met with the advanced tech scam instead.
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@stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Someone has got a high electric bill:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/15096237/cops-find-bitcoin-mine/COPS were stunned to find a Bitcoin "mine" stealing thousands of pounds of electricity during a suspected warehouse drug raid.
Officers in the West Midlands thought they were about to bust a cannabis farm - but were met with the advanced tech scam instead.
I've seen professional mining rigs that look just like that in datacenters, legal though. I wonder if that is a homebuilt case that is common or if someone makes them like that.
It's a completely different form-factor compared to a standard 19" server, or a 19" server made specifically for GPU workloads like machine learning or even a gaming PC.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/NINTCHDBPICT000656007836.jpg
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@pete-s said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Someone has got a high electric bill:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/15096237/cops-find-bitcoin-mine/COPS were stunned to find a Bitcoin "mine" stealing thousands of pounds of electricity during a suspected warehouse drug raid.
Officers in the West Midlands thought they were about to bust a cannabis farm - but were met with the advanced tech scam instead.
I've seen professional mining rigs that look just like that in datacenters, legal though. I wonder if that is a homebuilt case that is common or if someone makes them like that.
It's a completely different form-factor compared to a standard 19" server, or a 19" server made specifically for GPU workloads like machine learning or even a gaming PC.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/NINTCHDBPICT000656007836.jpg
They are made like that.
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@obsolesce even have a built in exhaust lol
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@obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@pete-s said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Someone has got a high electric bill:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/15096237/cops-find-bitcoin-mine/COPS were stunned to find a Bitcoin "mine" stealing thousands of pounds of electricity during a suspected warehouse drug raid.
Officers in the West Midlands thought they were about to bust a cannabis farm - but were met with the advanced tech scam instead.
I've seen professional mining rigs that look just like that in datacenters, legal though. I wonder if that is a homebuilt case that is common or if someone makes them like that.
It's a completely different form-factor compared to a standard 19" server, or a 19" server made specifically for GPU workloads like machine learning or even a gaming PC.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/NINTCHDBPICT000656007836.jpg
They are made like that.
Thanks! I learned something new.
When you wrote that I started to search for it and found that it's a dedicated hardware mining rig using an ASIC and not a GPU. Aka ASIC miner.
So that's why it's much smaller. And if I got it right, also more expensive, more high performance and more energy efficient compared to computers using GPUs.
The one in the pic that the criminals used, is an older model, a Bitmain Antminer S9. It's for mining bitcoin.
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@pete-s Yeah, those are antminers.
https://www.amazon.com/antminer-Antminer-S9-Bitcoin-Miner/dp/B078P8B9JD
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https://acloudguru.com/blog/news/pluralsight-to-acquire-a-cloud-guru
My Linux Academy account completed its transition to A Cloud Guru just a couple of weeks ago.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252501665/Exagrid-pays-26m-to-Conti-ransomware-attackers
Misleading link makes you think they paid 26M, but actually they paid 2.6M
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@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252501665/Exagrid-pays-26m-to-Conti-ransomware-attackers
Misleading link makes you think they paid 26M, but actually they paid 2.6M
lol
