Miscellaneous Tech News

[black3dynamite]

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/04/gnome-3-28-1-point-release

[mlnews]

Subversion gets a major update with 1.10 release. Now with LZ4 compression and a new conflict resolver.

[mlnews]

System76, the Linux computer people, have rolled out Pop!_OS 18.04 for testing.

[mlnews]

KDE Frameworks 5.45 released. Key feature is a Remote Access Interface for Wayland!

[mlnews]

Eight core coffee lake processor with integrated graphics found referenced on Intel's site.

[mlnews]

ZTE banned from buying Qualcomm processors as US begins crackdown on the company.

[mlnews]

Samsung Chromebook Pro updated with backlit keyboard.

[Dashrender]

@danp said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/13/apple_google_microsoft_and_mozilla_kick_w3c_to_the_curb/

Now we need the same to happen to the WiFi Alliance - dump their horrible security solutions.

[mlnews]

Intel and Microsoft looking at GPU resources for malware scanning.

[mlnews]

Facebook faces a class action suit in Illinois and potentially very large fines over collecting biometric data without consent.

[stacksofplates]

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@stacksofplates said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Hills ditches Salesforce for Microsoft

http://flip.it/MfGG-e

ha i thought you meant the Hills thay was bought by Ames.

Oh man, I remember this now...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hills_(store)

Ha I just saw these now for some reason.

[stacksofplates]

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@stacksofplates said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Hills ditches Salesforce for Microsoft

http://flip.it/MfGG-e

ha i thought you meant the Hills thay was bought by Ames.

Oh man, I remember this now...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hills_(store)

When I was a little kid we used to go to the Hill's in Butler to get a pretzel and a slushie after my dad was done playing basketball.

[DustinB3403]

T-Mobile faked it, and is now paying a $40 million dollar fine!

Youtube Video

[stacksofplates]

iptables to be replaced with BPF in the Linux kernel.

https://cilium.io/blog/2018/04/17/why-is-the-kernel-community-replacing-iptables/

[DustinB3403]

Telegram is banned in Russia, so Russian Press Staff start using Viber, which just means no-one, anywhere should be using Viber. . .

[black3dynamite]

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/04/microsoft-linux-custom-kernel-azure-sphere

[momurda]

@stacksofplates said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

iptables to be replaced with BPF in the Linux kernel.

https://cilium.io/blog/2018/04/17/why-is-the-kernel-community-replacing-iptables/

Long as ufw and firewall-cmd will still work, this is good.

[mlnews]

Cambridge Analytica employee says FB data breach may be far larger than the known 87 million number.

[black3dynamite]

@momurda said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@stacksofplates said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

iptables to be replaced with BPF in the Linux kernel.

https://cilium.io/blog/2018/04/17/why-is-the-kernel-community-replacing-iptables/

Long as ufw and firewall-cmd will still work, this is good.

In the article, it did say that it will be a non-disruptive transition for Linux users. Whatever that means for ufw and firewalld.

[dafyre]

@momurda said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@stacksofplates said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

iptables to be replaced with BPF in the Linux kernel.

https://cilium.io/blog/2018/04/17/why-is-the-kernel-community-replacing-iptables/

Long as ufw and firewall-cmd will still work, this is good.

Yeah. For now, at least, it looks like they're going to make it backwards compatible.

I just wonder what kind of syntax they'll use for things like NAT and such.