Miscellaneous Tech News

black3dynamite

https://fossbytes.com/2018-intel-cpus-will-be-free-of-meltdown-and-spectre-bugs/

Dashrender

@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/len-15999

Lenovo at it again.

Is Lenovo really on anyone's buy list any more...

Someone here wired maybe said his company was required for state contracts

dbeato

Unifi 5.6.30 has been released
https://community.ubnt.com/t5/UniFi-Updates-Blog/UniFi-5-6-30-Stable-has-been-released/ba-p/2220761

mlnews

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Red-Hat-Acquiring-CoreOS

mlnews

Solaris 11.4 Beta has released. Now with Gnome 3.

mlnews

Solus adds new Linux Drive Management system.

mlnews

RHEL 7.5 is in public beta, and includes a preview of Wayland support.

mlnews

DOJ investigating Apple on slowdowns now.

mlnews

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/01/some-trump-officials-want-to-build-government-run-mobile-broadband-network/

mlnews

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/new-windows-patch-disables-intels-bad-spectre-microcode-fix/

mlnews

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/01/now-even-youtube-serves-ads-with-cpu-draining-cryptocurrency-miners/

stacksofplates

Red Hat to acquire CoreOS

mlnews

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=XFS-Features-For-Linux-4.16

mlnews

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/windows-defender-to-start-removing-optimizer-scareware/

momurda

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-31/fujifilm-to-cut-10-000-jobs-at-fuji-xerox-amid-reorganization
Xerox, inventor of the GUI and mouse, a company whose equipment name became a verb, one of the most influential technology companies of all time, is gone.

scottalanmiller

@momurda said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-31/fujifilm-to-cut-10-000-jobs-at-fuji-xerox-amid-reorganization
Xerox, inventor of the GUI and mouse, a company whose equipment name became a verb, one of the most influential technology companies of all time, is gone.

They are from my hometown. You can see Xerox tower from my dad's bedroom window. MangoCon was held just one block from there. My last corporate job was in the same building as Xerox HQ.

scottalanmiller

Interestingly, @dominica's first IT job was at Fujifilm.

dbeato

https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/01/telegram-apps-fall-foul-of-ios-app-store-content-rules/

scottalanmiller

@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/01/telegram-apps-fall-foul-of-ios-app-store-content-rules/

I've been considering leaving iOS, this certainly pretty much guarantees it.

dafyre

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/01/telegram-apps-fall-foul-of-ios-app-store-content-rules/

I've been considering leaving iOS, this certainly pretty much guarantees it.

Ha ha ha. That doesn't leave you with much. I thought you disliked Android?