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@EddieJennings said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

This is interesting.
https://fedoramagazine.org/coming-soon-fedora-on-lenovo-laptops/

That's really cool.

I just hate there's the taint of their backdoor nonsense from a while ago

scottalanmiller

@EddieJennings said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@EddieJennings said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

This is interesting.
https://fedoramagazine.org/coming-soon-fedora-on-lenovo-laptops/

That's really cool.

I just hate there's the taint of their backdoor nonsense from a while ago

Did you just casual drop "backdoor" and "taint" in the same technical sentence?

EddieJennings

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@EddieJennings said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@EddieJennings said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

This is interesting.
https://fedoramagazine.org/coming-soon-fedora-on-lenovo-laptops/

That's really cool.

I just hate there's the taint of their backdoor nonsense from a while ago

Did you just casual drop "backdoor" and "taint" in the same technical sentence?

tee-hee

popester

@EddieJennings said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@EddieJennings said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@EddieJennings said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

This is interesting.
https://fedoramagazine.org/coming-soon-fedora-on-lenovo-laptops/

That's really cool.

I just hate there's the taint of their backdoor nonsense from a while ago

Did you just casual drop "backdoor" and "taint" in the same technical sentence?

tee-hee

scottalanmiller

@EddieJennings said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@EddieJennings said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@EddieJennings said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

This is interesting.
https://fedoramagazine.org/coming-soon-fedora-on-lenovo-laptops/

That's really cool.

I just hate there's the taint of their backdoor nonsense from a while ago

Did you just casual drop "backdoor" and "taint" in the same technical sentence?

tee-hee

Those will be back ordered soon, I'm sure.

black3dynamite

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/04/ubuntu-20-10-codename-groovy-gorilla

scotth

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@EddieJennings said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@EddieJennings said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@EddieJennings said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

This is interesting.
https://fedoramagazine.org/coming-soon-fedora-on-lenovo-laptops/

That's really cool.

I just hate there's the taint of their backdoor nonsense from a while ago

Did you just casual drop "backdoor" and "taint" in the same technical sentence?

tee-hee

Those will be back ordered soon, I'm sure.

It's like Reddit bleed-over

EddieJennings

@scotth said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@EddieJennings said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@EddieJennings said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@EddieJennings said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

This is interesting.
https://fedoramagazine.org/coming-soon-fedora-on-lenovo-laptops/

That's really cool.

I just hate there's the taint of their backdoor nonsense from a while ago

Did you just casual drop "backdoor" and "taint" in the same technical sentence?

tee-hee

Those will be back ordered soon, I'm sure.

It's like Reddit bleed-over

One ought to see a physician about such bleeding.

black3dynamite

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=fedora32-ubuntu2004-perf

mlnews

NHS rejects Apple-Google coronavirus app plan

The UK's coronavirus contact-tracing app is set to use a different model to the one proposed by Apple and Google, despite concerns raised about privacy and performance.
The NHS says it has a way to make the software work "sufficiently well" on iPhones without users having to keep it active and on-screen. That limitation has posed problems for similar apps in other countries. Experts from GCHQ's National Cyber Security Centre have aided the effort. NCSC indicated that its involvement has been limited to an advisory role. "Engineers have met several core challenges for the app to meet public health needs and support detection of contact events sufficiently well, including when the app is in the background, without excessively affecting battery life," said a spokeswoman for NHSX, the health service's digital innovation unit.

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Virgin Media goes offline for thousands

Virgin Media, one of the UK's largest broadband providers, has gone offline for thousands of users, at peak time.
The outage began just after 17:00 on Monday, coinciding with the government daily coronavirus press briefing. The Downdetector service recorded more than 30,000 reports. Many said their service had come back online shortly after the outage but others reported ongoing problems nearly an hour later. Virgin said the problem had been fixed, despite ongoing complaints on Twitter. In a statement that followed, a company spokesman said: "We're currently investigating an intermittent broadband issue that lasted for a very short period of time earlier this evening.

mlnews

Coronavirus: UK contact-tracing app 'ready in two to three weeks'

Building a coronavirus contact-tracing app that might help the UK emerge from lockdown has been a titanic effort - and it has largely taken place in private.
But now the NHS chief responsible has told MPs he hopes the first version will be ready in a fortnight's time. Matthew Gould also disclosed plans to log the location of whenever two or more people are in close proximity for minutes at a time. That will disturb privacy campaigners. However, NHSX - the health service's digital innovation unit - has told BBC News this extra request will be "opt in" rather than the default setting.

mlnews

AI cannot be recognised as an inventor, US rules

An artificial intelligence system has been refused the right to two patents in the US, after a ruling only "natural persons" could be inventors.
The US Patent and Trademark Office rejected two patents where the AI system Dabus was listed as the inventor, in a ruling on Monday. US patent law had previously only specified eligible inventors had to be "individuals". And its creator, physicist and AI researcher Stephen Thaler, had argued that because he had not helped it with the inventions, it would be inaccurate to list himself as the inventor.