Miscellaneous Tech News
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Microsoft-led team retracts quantum 'breakthrough'
A Microsoft-led team has withdrawn a controversial research paper into quantum computing, published in 2018.
The research claimed to have found evidence of an elusive subatomic particle Microsoft suggested could help the development of more powerful computers. But it now says mistakes were made. The journal Nature has published a retraction. And the paper's authors have apologised for "insufficient scientific rigour". But the company has said it remains confident of its wider efforts on quantum computing. -
OVH Data Center in France Destroyed by Fire, All Staff Safe
Hosting company OVH says its staff are safe after a fire destroyed one data center and damaged another at the company’s campus in Strasbourg, France. All four data centers at the campus are offline this morning, but the company is working to restore some services once power can be restored to the site.
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@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
OVH Data Center in France Destroyed by Fire, All Staff Safe
Hosting company OVH says its staff are safe after a fire destroyed one data center and damaged another at the company’s campus in Strasbourg, France. All four data centers at the campus are offline this morning, but the company is working to restore some services once power can be restored to the site.
Wow, that's big. Not too much fun for the colo customers either...
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Beeple's NFT digital art nets £50m at Christie's auction
The first digital-only art auction by Christie's auction house has netted $69m (£50m) for the artist Beeple.
The digital art was sold as an NFT - the latest tech craze which has boomed in popularity in recent weeks. Beeple - real name Mike Winkelmann - creates a new piece of digital art every day, and was selling the first 5,000 days (13 years) of his work. That success puts Beeple "among the top three most valuable living artists", Christie's said. The company said the sale was the first NFT-based work of art sold by a "major" auction house, and set a new world record for digital art. The collection is a collage of the thousands of individual daily images which Beeple, an American graphic designer, started in early 2007 and has done every day since. Many of the individual pieces are surreal or unsettling, and he uses a variety of digital modelling and artistic programmes for them. -
Exchange email hack: Hundreds of UK firms compromised
Hundreds of UK companies have been compromised as part of a global campaign linked to Chinese hackers.
Cyber-security firm Eset said more than 500 email servers in the UK may have been hacked, and many companies are not aware they are victims of the attack. It comes as governments around the world warn organisations to secure their systems. But some experts fear it may be too late, as at least 10 hacking teams are capitalising on the chaos. The UK's National Cyber Security Centre has joined US authorities in issuing warnings about the hack, but says it is still assessing the situation for UK businesses. Meanwhile, the Norwegian cyber-authority is actively scanning for at-risk companies in the country and warning them directly. -
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/03/ubuntu-new-installer-designs
Is it just me, or is it that no matter how hard all Linux desktops try, it's still like the 90s compared to Win10.
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@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/03/ubuntu-new-installer-designs
Is it just me, or is it that no matter how hard all Linux desktops try, it's still like the 90s compared to Win10.
Just you. Windows 10 and most modern *nix distributions look very similar. They all share very similar UI elements that could easily move between operating systems.
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Was getting a weird error in Veeam Backup for O365 (signing key is invalid). Looks like MS is having issues with O365. From https://status.office365.com/ --
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@Danp said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Was getting a weird error in Veeam Backup for O365 (signing key is invalid). Looks like MS is having issues with O365. From https://status.office365.com/ --
Our company teams is borked right now.
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as is ours existing calls are ok but users can't start new ones.
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https://www.geekwire.com/2021/microsoft-365-authentication-issue-causes-microsoft-teams-services-go/
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At least one country is doing the right thing. Mining crypto is just a waste of energy.
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@Danp said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.geekwire.com/2021/microsoft-365-authentication-issue-causes-microsoft-teams-services-go/
It was more than just teams affected... FYI didn't read article.
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@marcinozga said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
At least one country is doing the right thing. Mining crypto is just a waste of energy.
I wonder if there is a way to keep crypto currency without the mining portion? Of course you still need the blockchain updated... and that of course will use power... and if that's only done by big corporations, then it's no more decentralized than other cash at that point (of course that's not correct, but I can't think of how to word it now).
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@marcinozga said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
At least one country is doing the right thing. Mining crypto is just a waste of energy.
I wonder if there is a way to keep crypto currency without the mining portion? Of course you still need the blockchain updated... and that of course will use power... and if that's only done by big corporations, then it's no more decentralized than other cash at that point (of course that's not correct, but I can't think of how to word it now).
No idea, but until we build Dyson Swarm around the Sun, for close to unlimited energy, all crypto should just be banned. Last I heard crypto mining energy consumption overtook entire country of Argentina. Let that sink in. All that energy to produce... nothing. We could be using that to produce antimatter for example
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@marcinozga said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@marcinozga said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
At least one country is doing the right thing. Mining crypto is just a waste of energy.
I wonder if there is a way to keep crypto currency without the mining portion? Of course you still need the blockchain updated... and that of course will use power... and if that's only done by big corporations, then it's no more decentralized than other cash at that point (of course that's not correct, but I can't think of how to word it now).
No idea, but until we build Dyson Swarm around the Sun, for close to unlimited energy, all crypto should just be banned. Last I heard crypto mining energy consumption overtook entire country of Argentina. Let that sink in. All that energy to produce... nothing. We could be using that to produce antimatter for example
What's a Dyson Swarm?
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@marcinozga said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@marcinozga said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
At least one country is doing the right thing. Mining crypto is just a waste of energy.
I wonder if there is a way to keep crypto currency without the mining portion? Of course you still need the blockchain updated... and that of course will use power... and if that's only done by big corporations, then it's no more decentralized than other cash at that point (of course that's not correct, but I can't think of how to word it now).
No idea, but until we build Dyson Swarm around the Sun, for close to unlimited energy, all crypto should just be banned. Last I heard crypto mining energy consumption overtook entire country of Argentina. Let that sink in. All that energy to produce... nothing. We could be using that to produce antimatter for example
What's a Dyson Swarm?
It's like Dyson Sphere, just not a solid sphere, as that simply would not work.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere#Dyson_swarm
