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  • Ethernet

    Ethernet Cables

    Fragen, die sich vor 2021 nicht gestellt hätten. Beantwortet von Business Insider für Business Insider. Für Menschen, die nie genug kriegen können.

    Via businessinsider.com

  • Valentinstag

    Rosen sind schon toll, Pralinen auch, aber erst Hazel Brugger bringt es so richtig auf den Punkt: Schönen Valentinstag euch.

  • to be optimistic about robots

    to be optimistic about robots

    The older of readers may recall the (similar) name of Financial Times‘ reporter, asking the right questions about robots. Sarah O’Conner may not share the exact same name with one of Terminator’s main characters, but still triggered a few thoughts with her headline.

  • Linux on Apple Silicon

    Chris Wade, CEO of Corellium

    The announcement is vague, the link gives 404. However, still somebody made a first move to port Linux to the recently announced M1 Chip, that will power future generations of Apple notebook devices. The community criticizes the approach: the port comes in a single patch with no documentation. Given the size of the patch this is pretty difficult to comprehend. Plus, the patch requires third party code, that apparently is not committed to git.

    To conclude, this is a twofold message: while it’s good to see such developments and have Linux ported to such hardware, the approach indeed is difficult. On a more positive note, there are other working groups still motivated enough to work on a more complete port.

  • Sicherheitsalbtraum: Vernetzte Türklingeln 

    Vernetzte Türklingeln: Das Internet der Dinge liefert. Auch zu Weihnachten.

    Günstige digitale Videoklingeln weisen schwere Sicherheitslücken wie Authentifizierungsprobleme auf und werden teils schon mit Softwarefehlern geliefert.

    Aus dem heise.de Artikel.
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  • Post Mortem

    Remember when the Cloud was off earlier this month? Google published a post mortem article and root cause analysis on their Cloud Status Blog.

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  • Palantir founding member of Gaia-X

    Palantir is an US based company specialising in Big Data, with a very particular focus on decision making for governental and corporate situations. The companies products have inspiring names like Gotham or Metropolis and have sparked ethical controversies, when it comes to their usage. In particular these two products provides capabilities to military and police, paving the way to what is referred to predictive policing. The company now is a founding member of Europe’s Gaia-X program, which Evgeny Morozov points out, is not compatible with European data sovereignty ideas.

  • The cloud is off.

    since about 13.00CET

    Google is down. That feels like the Internet is off. That is what was missing to make the year 2020 feel complete.

  • Oracle is moving Texas

    Oracle Building.

    Wow. This is a rather big announcement for the tech-industry and the entire Silicon Valley.

    Oracle is the latest tech company to relocate from California to Austin, Texas.

    reports CNBC.

    Source: Oracle is moving its headquarters from Silicon Valley to Austin, Texas

  • Pandemic Potato

    A new firmware, Pandemic Potato, for the card10 wristwatch was released. The device was released at the CCCamp19. New features include:

    • Improved Bluetooth compatibility (also for iPhones)
    • New battery saving default watch face (by @royrobotiks)
    • Automatic time synchronization with iPhones

    More detail in the twitter-thread.