For those who are using, or interested in the decentralised social network Mastodon, the first London meet is coming up. Hosted at London Hackspace, from 7pm. Should be an interesting crowd, and there will be presentations from a couple of instances (UK hosted I assume). I’m hoping to make it along, though I’ve been flu ridden this …
Twitter won’t block world leaders
Twitter, on why they won’t suspend Trump (or other world leaders) accounts. Blocking a world leader from Twitter or removing their controversial Tweets would hide important information people should be able to see and debate. It would also not silence that leader, but it would certainly hamper necessary discussion around their words and actions. World …
Major bugs Meltdown and Spectre come with cute logos
Major flaw in CPUs around how they process data where revealed this week. From the offical news release. Meltdown and Spectre exploit critical vulnerabilities in modern processors. These hardware vulnerabilities allow programs to steal data which is currently processed on the computer. While programs are typically not permitted to read data from other programs, a malicious …
Apple and planned obsolescence
Apple was shown (and later admitted) to have used recent iOS updates to reduce the performance of the older iPhones (iPhone 6, 6s and SE, and iPhone 7 in latest release). This is only kicks in when the battery is getting old in terms of lifespan, and can be brought back up to speed with …
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