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    • gjacobse
      gjacobse last edited by

      Indestructible 'Black Box' will record our planet's demise in minute detail

      By Cameron Duke
      The disaster recorder aims to set us on a better path by watching our every move.
      ...
      The solar-powered vault will be roughly the length of a school bus and the shape of an upside-down curb stop, and the entire thing will be encased in 3-inch-thick (7.5 centimeters) steel designed to withstand catastrophe, just as an airplane's black box is built to withstand an impact. And just like a black box is tucked away in the safest part of a plane, Earth's Black Box will be placed in the most secure location on Earth, which is Tasmania, apparently. When it goes online, Earth's Black Box will be filled with hard drives recording and storing climate-related information, ABC News Australia reported.
      ...

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      • scottalanmiller
        scottalanmiller @gjacobse last edited by

        @gjacobse said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

        Indestructible 'Black Box' will record our planet's demise in minute detail

        By Cameron Duke
        The disaster recorder aims to set us on a better path by watching our every move.
        ...
        The solar-powered vault will be roughly the length of a school bus and the shape of an upside-down curb stop, and the entire thing will be encased in 3-inch-thick (7.5 centimeters) steel designed to withstand catastrophe, just as an airplane's black box is built to withstand an impact. And just like a black box is tucked away in the safest part of a plane, Earth's Black Box will be placed in the most secure location on Earth, which is Tasmania, apparently. When it goes online, Earth's Black Box will be filled with hard drives recording and storing climate-related information, ABC News Australia reported.
        ...

        But.... why?

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        • Dashrender
          Dashrender @scottalanmiller last edited by

          @scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

          @gjacobse said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

          Indestructible 'Black Box' will record our planet's demise in minute detail

          By Cameron Duke
          The disaster recorder aims to set us on a better path by watching our every move.
          ...
          The solar-powered vault will be roughly the length of a school bus and the shape of an upside-down curb stop, and the entire thing will be encased in 3-inch-thick (7.5 centimeters) steel designed to withstand catastrophe, just as an airplane's black box is built to withstand an impact. And just like a black box is tucked away in the safest part of a plane, Earth's Black Box will be placed in the most secure location on Earth, which is Tasmania, apparently. When it goes online, Earth's Black Box will be filled with hard drives recording and storing climate-related information, ABC News Australia reported.
          ...

          But.... why?

          Aliens... that's why

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          • gjacobse
            gjacobse @Dashrender last edited by gjacobse

            @dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

            @scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

            @gjacobse said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

            Indestructible 'Black Box' will record our planet's demise in minute detail

            By Cameron Duke
            The disaster recorder aims to set us on a better path by watching our every move.
            ...
            The solar-powered vault will be roughly the length of a school bus and the shape of an upside-down curb stop, and the entire thing will be encased in 3-inch-thick (7.5 centimeters) steel designed to withstand catastrophe, just as an airplane's black box is built to withstand an impact. And just like a black box is tucked away in the safest part of a plane, Earth's Black Box will be placed in the most secure location on Earth, which is Tasmania, apparently. When it goes online, Earth's Black Box will be filled with hard drives recording and storing climate-related information, ABC News Australia reported.
            ...

            But.... why?

            Aliens... that's why

            No no no,… it’s like this:

            b0c2f304-07db-417f-bb74-802eda7aa62e-image.jpeg

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            • gjacobse
              gjacobse last edited by

              I challenge you-

              Just another surprising TikTok Challenge with a possible shocking outcome.

              -to do better.

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              • nadnerB
                nadnerB @gjacobse last edited by

                @gjacobse said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                I challenge you-

                Just another surprising TikTok Challenge with a possible shocking outcome.

                -to do better.

                Well, people did tide pods... it's just a natural progression really.

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                • DustinB3403
                  DustinB3403 @gjacobse last edited by

                  @gjacobse said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                  I challenge you-

                  Just another surprising TikTok Challenge with a possible shocking outcome.

                  -to do better.

                  Electric Shiffle Challenge.

                  Climb a high power transfer tower, and connect all 3 wires together using a copper wire AND SURVIVE the climb down.

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                  • DustinB3403
                    DustinB3403 last edited by

                    University loses 77TB of research data due to backup error

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                    • notverypunny
                      notverypunny @DustinB3403 last edited by

                      @dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                      University loses 77TB of research data due to backup error

                      Just saw it on slashdot.... talk about a bad way to end the year.

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                      • gjacobse
                        gjacobse last edited by

                        Microsoft fixes harebrained Y2K22 Exchange bug that disrupted email worldwide
                        A rookie programming error crashed servers because they couldn't process the year 2022.
                        DAN GOODIN - 1/3/2022, 4:47 PM

                        Microsoft has released a fix for a harebrained Exchange Server bug that shut down on-premises mail delivery around the world just as clocks were chiming in the new year.

                        The mass disruption stemmed from a date check failure in Exchange Server 2016 and 2019 that made it impossible for servers to accommodate the year 2022, prompting some to call it the Y2K22 bug. The mail programs stored dates and times as signed integers, which max out at 2147483647, or 231 - 1. Microsoft uses the first two numbers of an update version to denote the year it was released. As long as the year was 2021 or earlier, everything worked fine.

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                        • gjacobse
                          gjacobse last edited by

                          Backwards capacitor causes fiery failure for some high-end Asus motherboards
                          Asus has issued a statement and recall for affected Z690 boards.
                          ANDREW CUNNINGHAM - 1/3/2022, 3:44 PM

                          Intel's high-end 12th-generation Core processors use a lot of power and generate a lot of heat, but Asus' ROG Maximus Z690 Hero motherboard takes things to the next level. A "potential reversed memory capacitor" in some boards can cause them to catch on fire.

                          The problem was initially hunted down by the Actually Hardware Overclocking YouTube channel, which diagnosed the issue using images from Reddit users and posters on Asus' support forums whose boards had failed. The reversed capacitor causes increased current leakage, which generates heat that subsequently burns out the neighboring MOSFET transistors. Users with the flipped capacitors noted that they noticed a burning smell or even fire before their systems shut down. Once the MOSFETs have burned out, the motherboard's built-in status display will show error code 53, indicating that the motherboard doesn't detect any installed RAM.

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                          • gjacobse
                            gjacobse last edited by

                            OH MY GOD, JUST PAY THEM —
                            Google loses Sonos patent case, starts stripping functionality from speakers

                            Rather than pay royalty fees to Sonos, Google is sending downgrades to customers.
                            RON AMADEO - 1/7/2022, 11:43 AM

                            Following a preliminary ruling in August, the US International Trade Commission has issued a final decision saying that Google infringed five Sonos smart speaker patents. It would be possible for this ruling to result in some products like the Nest Audio, Chromecast, and Pixel line being banned in the US, but Google has prepared ITC-approved software downgrades, which remove the infringing features from users' products.

                            Sonos essentially invented the connected speaker category for streaming music, but the advent of voice assistants has led to Big Tech stomping all over Sonos' territory. Sonos says that while it was pitching Google for support of Google Play Music, Google got a behind-the-scenes look at Sonos' operations in 2013. Sonos says Google used that access to "blatantly and knowingly" copy Sonos' features for the Google Home speaker, which launched in 2016. Sonos sued Google in early 2020.

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                            • Dashrender
                              Dashrender @gjacobse last edited by

                              @gjacobse said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                              OH MY GOD, JUST PAY THEM —
                              Google loses Sonos patent case, starts stripping functionality from speakers

                              Rather than pay royalty fees to Sonos, Google is sending downgrades to customers.
                              RON AMADEO - 1/7/2022, 11:43 AM

                              Following a preliminary ruling in August, the US International Trade Commission has issued a final decision saying that Google infringed five Sonos smart speaker patents. It would be possible for this ruling to result in some products like the Nest Audio, Chromecast, and Pixel line being banned in the US, but Google has prepared ITC-approved software downgrades, which remove the infringing features from users' products.

                              Sonos essentially invented the connected speaker category for streaming music, but the advent of voice assistants has led to Big Tech stomping all over Sonos' territory. Sonos says that while it was pitching Google for support of Google Play Music, Google got a behind-the-scenes look at Sonos' operations in 2013. Sonos says Google used that access to "blatantly and knowingly" copy Sonos' features for the Google Home speaker, which launched in 2016. Sonos sued Google in early 2020.

                              I wonder if customers will now have a class action against Google because they bought the speakers with the expectation of those features. Now google should have to refund all of those people.

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                              • nadnerB
                                nadnerB last edited by

                                Avira A/V mining crypto currency on PCs
                                https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/01/500m-avira-antivirus-users-introduced-to-cryptomining/

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                                • nadnerB
                                  nadnerB @nadnerB last edited by nadnerB

                                  @nadnerb said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                                  Avira A/V mining crypto currency on PCs
                                  https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/01/500m-avira-antivirus-users-introduced-to-cryptomining/

                                  Haven’t we spent years clearing this crap off PCs?

                                  I never used avira but a lot of people did/do. So all I have to say is:

                                  89FD8010-0977-4369-BDFC-0DB9962663C7.jpeg

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                                  • nadnerB
                                    nadnerB last edited by

                                    https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/03/hackers-gaining-power-of-subpoena-via-fake-emergency-data-requests/

                                    Boils down to the usual scam exploiting known unpatched Layer 8 flaws.

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                                    • scottalanmiller
                                      scottalanmiller last edited by

                                      HP to acquire Poly (Polycom / Plantronics)

                                      https://press.hp.com/us/en/press-releases/2022/hp-inc-to-acquire-poly.html

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                                      • EddieJennings
                                        EddieJennings last edited by

                                        Curious to see how this ends.
                                        https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/03/ubiquiti-sues-journalist-alleging-defamation-in-coverage-of-data-breach/

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                                        • scottalanmiller
                                          scottalanmiller last edited by

                                          Rumour is (from someone in the pool) that 11% of Automox was laid off today. I guess I'm not surprised, COVID is a tough time to be growing a business and they aren't one that we hear about after their initial launch. Kind of lost the mindshare.

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                                          • scottalanmiller
                                            scottalanmiller last edited by

                                            That and every time they tell me about their product they talk about all the time I'd save... except it's all stuff already automated so no idea what time they are talking about. Seems like a solution seeking a problem.

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