https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/21/22538240/google-chat-allo-hangouts-talk-messaging-mess-timeline
Google keeps falling into the same cycle, […], one that has repeated itself throughout the years. It’ll build out new services, integrating them into more areas of its product lineup, then try to wipe the slate clean, launch new services that (eventually) replace the old set, and start the cycle anew.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/24/technology/computer-energy-use-study.html
The giant tech companies with their power-hungry, football-field-size data centers are not the environmental villains they are sometimes portrayed to be on social media and elsewhere.
Shutting off your Zoom camera or throttling your Netflix service to lower-definition viewing does not yield a big saving in energy use, contrary to what some people have claimed.
Even the predicted environmental impact of Bitcoin, which does require lots of computing firepower, has been considerably exaggerated by some researchers.
Those are the conclusions of a new analysis by Jonathan Koomey and Eric Masanet, two leading scientists in the field of technology, energy use and the environment.
Systemleverandøren Axiell vart denne veka hacka, som har lamma tenestene til mange lokalbibliotek.
Kring halvparten av alle bibliotek i Noreg er råka av hackinga. Dei store bybiblioteka har eigne system, og er ikkje råka.
Hackarane har bedt om løysepengar, men det er uvisst kva sum det er snakk om. Hillestad har ikkje gått i dialog med hackarane.
– Det er ikkje eit alternativ å betala ut løysepengar for å få tilgang til eigne data. Me samarbeider ikkje med kriminelle på nokon som helst måte.
Dei jobbar no med å få på plass ei backup-løysing, som skal vera klar til bruk frå neste veke av.
Western Digital, maker of the popular My Disk external hard drives, is recommending that customers unplug My Book Live storage devices from the Internet until further notice while company engineers investigate unexplained compromises that have completely wiped data from devices around the world.
https://nrkbeta.no/2021/06/23/forbrukerradet-vil-forby-annonser-som-forfolger-deg/
I en ny rapport tar Forbrukerrådet oppgjør med det de kaller «overvåkningsbasert reklame», noe de ønsker å forby.
Høyesterett sier bruk av bevis fra amerikanske FBI i Trojan Shields-saker i norske domstoler ikke strider med grunnleggende norske verdier.
new paper shows that two old encryption algorithms still used in mobile networks can be exploited to spy on phones’ internet traffic.
The paper has sent shockwaves through the encryption community because of what it implies: The researchers believe that the mathematical probability of the weakness being introduced on accident is extremely low. Thus, they speculate that a weakness was intentionally put into the algorithm.
https://pxlnv.com/linklog/oculus-ads/
Facebook is an advertising company. From the moment it bought Oculus in 2014, there were questions about whether it was going to be used as yet another place where we cannot escape from companies trying to sell us crap — so much so that Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey promised in a Reddit Q&A that the headsets would not be used for advertising. Imagine my surprise when, under its creepy ad company ownership, that is turning out to be untrue.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/17/technology/apple-china-privacy-censorship.html
To stay on the good side of the Chinese authorities, the company has made decisions that contradict its carefully curated image.