PeterT

Another example of law abuse by corps... Welcome to Arasaka Tower ! 🤬

I wonder if ppl could sue them for theft because they falsely reporting the luggage as lost when in reality they have them in their possession..... 🤔

The point of news is finding out stuff that you might not know. Don't be insufferable just because you don't care about the topic.

Honestly a huge chunk (including me) will just hop back to Google. As much as i love the privacy addition of DDG and other search engines, their accuracy is laughable without the data Google soak up from adsense system.

Being strapped to the handlebars of a motorcycle isn’t a use case that often comes up for smartphones. Even with solud-state components, excessive vibrations and inertia can overcome the supporting underfill, and cause damage to solder joints and the like. 
 
Additionally, optical image stabilization is a moving component that can also be damaged from excessive motion. 
 
Simply put, use a device that is specifically built to withstand the conditions you intend to use it with. Smartphones are not intended to be used as action cameras. They’re a digital swiss-army knife, but a specialist tool they are not. There are GoPros and other such cameras for this purpose. 

yeah i figure it's got a gyroscope and should be able to tell pretty easy and shut itself down

I don't ride motorcycles, but I think it makes sense as you can use the phone as a GPS, and aren't risking the phone falling out of your pocket while riding.
IMO hardware image stabilization is a real drawback if it can be broken so easily, I think the phone should be able to detect that much vibration and disable image stabilization to avoid damaging the camera.

That's not something that should be true anymore we have solid state systems in phones now. No hdds to bump and before this dumb camera tech no hardware image stabilization. I guarantee this isn't going to just happen with motorcycle riders. I have a sports car with stiff shocks and it isn't no cloud that I'm driving in. I'd wager it's about as bad as a motorcycle depending on the road and speed. I mean honestly if something is this fragile in something that people move around a lot then it's not viable technology. Our phone cameras are meant to replace DSLR not become just as fragile.

I grew up in a time when a house fire was the loss of nearly everything.  If my house catches fire I have bigger problems than the loss of my pictures and a few programs.
 
Suffice to say, my point was not to be absolute in perfection, but simply to avoid malware and the more common data loss issues.

Absolutely. I remember tripping ransomware protection on a company computer once because I was trying to legitimately delete a large folder.  It stopped the file deletion and wouldn't let me go any further (I had already copied the data I needed to another drive). I ended up having to boot into Linux to fix the issue. 
 
An SSD with this kind of "feature" is a hard pass for me if it can't be disabled. I see what they are going for, but no. I'd rather just risk having to format my machine then have to deal with my PC telling me I can't do something. 

Boy at first blush this seems a lot like Neil DeGrasse Tyson's galaxy-brained "why don't they just make unhackable systems?" idea. If it was that easy to "detect malicious activity" then the problem would already be solved.

This actually sounds pretty interesting, though I could see it posing a problem in some applications. I'll have to keep an eye on this. 

Summary
An idea has stemmed from a team of researchers to help minimize ransomware attacks. How so? SSD firmware.
 
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While most of us techies may not go above and beyond to ensure our devices are patched and/or safe from ransomware attacks, I feel that todays "average" pc user might not even know what a ransomware attack is. Instead of having to create firewall rules and/or install "next-gen" antivirus, how could these researchers figure out a way to circumvent potential attacks for the average user? SSDs. Sure, there's still a bunch of people that have HDDs or companies that sell pre-builts with HDDs instead of SSDs.... this is a good step to help keep your data safe. With a supposed 100% success rate, I feel that this will definitely have a ton of support from small to medium sized businesses. And your "average" pc user might not even realize what's working on in the background, yet potentially keeping their data safe. You're welcome grandma.
 
We'll have to wait and see how this unfolds.
 
 
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https://www.techradar.com/news/your-ssd-may-soon-be-able-to-detect-ransomware-attacks

Summary
Last week, the Australian Parliament passed the Surveillance Legislation Amendment (Identify and Disrupt) Bill 2020, rushing the bill through in only 24 hours. This revision to the Australian government's data surveillance laws allows law enforcement to modify, add to, copy, or delete data of anyone, so long as they are a suspect in an investigation, as well as quietly taking control over the person's online accounts. In addition, it compels Australian businesses, sysadmins, etc. to comply with any such requests, who could face up to 10 years imprisonment if they fail to do so. While these new powers do require a warrant to use in most cases, the warrants are not issued by judges; additionally, there is an "emergency authorization" procedure that allows these requests to be executed without any warrant at all.
 
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Everything about this law screams 'bad idea', especially since the parliament went to the trouble of rushing it through in only 24 hours. The warrants required to execute the powers of this law can be authorized outside of the judicial system, and can be circumvented altogether by an "emergency authorization". I see almost no way that bad actors won't take advantage of these powers: they would enable the destruction or planting of evidence, as well as the ability to stalk someone at a level impossible in much of the world. The powers afforded by this law are far too broad and have nowhere near enough checks on them.
 
 
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https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/australia-surveillance-bill/
https://thenextweb.com/news/new-surveillance-laws-authorities-power-change-social-media-posts-syndication

Summary
The last few years have seen significant improvements in the performance of Arm-powered servers. And today's progress is no exception.  Today, STH (Serve the Home) has images of the an engineering sample of Ampere's Altra Max M128-30 processor with 128 Arm-based cores.

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So, this is interesting, ampere altra showing up in the wild on the heels of intel's rocketlake xeon announcement. Speaking of Intel, Intel, you really need to make a move quickly, AMD and Ampere now have 128-thread processors, you really need to step up your game. But yea, this processor is reall interestong, espically seeing as it is an arm processor that is socketable. I wish ampere all the best for their products and future products, since more competition is generallly always better, (not because I really like arm).
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Tom's hardware
ServeTheHome

The advantage of package managers is they better replace installation and uninstallation wizards which are famous for various problems.  If windows used a package manager DDU would never have even been a thing.

I tried using the windows store and it just simply wouldn't work most of the time. Pages wouldn't load, programs wouldn't download, etc. Its amazing how bad it is.

Does this mean they are going to drop store? Its about time they ditched that dead weight along with the preinstalled junkware phone apps.....

Summary
Microsoft has released it's first stable version of it's package manager called "winget". While package managers are no new thing for windows users(chocolatey), an official microsoft release might finally bring this beloved feature of *nix operating systems to the masses. winget has multiple commands, including install, search, uninstall and upgrade. It also the second microsoft provided way to install software(not counting edge). Also it also raises some questions about the windows store, as this method bypasses the windows store.
 
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I am also interested by the conflict b/w winget and windows store.
 
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Windows' winget package manager bypasses the Microsoft Store | PCWorld
Microsoft releases the Linux-style Windows Package Manager v1.0 (Winget) as a Store alternative (betanews.com)

Are they trying to achieve negative latency?
 
C'mon, we had enough brands shooting themselves in the foot because of ridiculous claims.

Summary
 Proton VPN claims that they have made a new feature called  VPN Accelerator wich claims to boost the vpn speed up to 400% by utilizing multithreading, shorter paths ( 300+300<600), and by using bare metal servers.
 
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 We will have to see if Proton VPN's 400% speed increase is actually true. I hope that more VPNs will make similar features evolving the VPN industry, and that the end users can see the benefit of the feature in real use cases.
 
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 Increase speeds by over 400% with VPN Accelerator (protonvpn.com)

Just wait for the next generation of 800nm+++++++++++

I can see those in laptops, melt in seconds.

Summary
 
As part of the next step in developing cheap and flexible electronics, ARM, the company most known for designing the processors that go into almost all mobile devices, has created a CPU that doesn't use silicon at all. Instead, the "PlasticARM" uses a polymer substrate with IGZO transistors. The architecture itself is based on the M0, ARM's lowest end design intended for extreme low power embedded uses.
 
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While I'm sure this sort of thing will be very important for certain applications, I'm not looking forward to the "Internet of Everything" future that products like this are leading towards.
 
Sources
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16837/plasticarm-get-your-next-cpu-without-silicon