Miscellaneous Tech News

Obsolesce

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Xiaomi Black Shark gaming phone... are we ready for these, yet?

It's just a regular smartphone.... how is it different than the latest Zenfone 4 Pro (or 5), Samsung Galaxys, or equivalent... (except the newer CPU and maybe an extra gig or two of RAM (as expected with newer phones))

https://www.asus.com/Phone/ZenFone-5-ZE620KL/Tech-Specs/

Danp

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/13/apple_google_microsoft_and_mozilla_kick_w3c_to_the_curb/

mlnews

Apple meta leak: Memo warning against leaks, gets leaked.

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Telegram founder says that privacy is not for sale.

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Facebook defends the mass surveillance of EU citizens by the US.

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Apple memo claims to have fired twelve employees for leaks, according to leaked memo.

dbeato

https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/13/elon-musk-says-humans-are-underrated-calls-teslas-excessive-automation-a-mistake/amp/

scottalanmiller

dbeato

https://threatpost.com/quant-loader-trojan-spreads-via-microsoft-url-shortcut-files/131081/

black3dynamite

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/04/ubuntu-in-maze-runner-film

black3dynamite

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/04/gnome-3-28-1-point-release

mlnews

Subversion gets a major update with 1.10 release. Now with LZ4 compression and a new conflict resolver.

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System76, the Linux computer people, have rolled out Pop!_OS 18.04 for testing.

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KDE Frameworks 5.45 released. Key feature is a Remote Access Interface for Wayland!

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Eight core coffee lake processor with integrated graphics found referenced on Intel's site.

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ZTE banned from buying Qualcomm processors as US begins crackdown on the company.

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Samsung Chromebook Pro updated with backlit keyboard.

Dashrender

@danp said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/13/apple_google_microsoft_and_mozilla_kick_w3c_to_the_curb/

Now we need the same to happen to the WiFi Alliance - dump their horrible security solutions.

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Intel and Microsoft looking at GPU resources for malware scanning.

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Facebook faces a class action suit in Illinois and potentially very large fines over collecting biometric data without consent.