Miscellaneous Tech News

scottalanmiller

@dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Seems like they are keeping the bloat, and removing useful things... wtf.

eh?
To me it appears they are trying to make a new OS - one they've had since Windows 8, but has gained no traction at all.

Nothing new or different, same OS just with fewer packages installed.

DustinB3403

Node.js released version 10. Version 8 is officially their LTS and required for XOCE community users.

Need people to test.

Worked for me, please confirm.

Obsolesce

Amazon's Route53 DNS service hijacked:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/bgp-leaks-and-crypto-currencies/

dbeato

@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Amazon's Route53 DNS service hijacked:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/bgp-leaks-and-crypto-currencies/

Yeah, @coliver told us about it and I was dealing with something similar on some AWS servers yesterday.

scottalanmiller

@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Amazon's Route53 DNS service hijacked:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/bgp-leaks-and-crypto-currencies/

Holy cow, that's pretty huge.

dbeato

https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2018/04/more-secure-sign-in-chrome.html

DustinB3403

In other news, Windows blows and essentially cripples great hardware.

Obsolesce

@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Amazon's Route53 DNS service hijacked:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/bgp-leaks-and-crypto-currencies/

Yeah, @coliver told us about it and I was dealing with something similar on some AWS servers yesterday.

ah, missed that

stacksofplates

Ubuntu 18.04 has been released:

https://www.ubuntu.com/download

scottalanmiller

@stacksofplates said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Ubuntu 18.04 has been released:

https://www.ubuntu.com/download

I installed it yesterday

PenguinWrangler

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@stacksofplates said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Ubuntu 18.04 has been released:

https://www.ubuntu.com/download

I installed it yesterday

First Impressions?

black3dynamite

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/04/apple-exits-wi-fi-game-airport-routers-discontinued-after-stock-sells-out/

black3dynamite

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/04/the-windows-10-april-2018-update-will-ship-this-april-but-only-just/

mlnews

Could your whole house become a coprocessor?

mlnews

The GPU price insanity might be ending.

mlnews

Google's WebP image format has released.

mlnews

Gimp 2.10 releases! The first major update in half a decade.

mlnews

Fedora 28 to release in a week.

NerdyDad

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Fedora 28 to release in a week.

That article was written last Thursday and says that the release should be tomorrow, May 1st.

mlnews

Pop!_OS 18.04 has released. System76's Linux OS is built from Ubuntu 18.04 and is moderately modified and is available to ship directly on System76's laptops and desktops.