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19/07/2024

Definitely the wrong week. 🥴

11/06/2024

Microsoft Bows to Public Pressure, Disables Controversial Windows Recall by Default

Amidst public pressure, Microsoft changes the set-up experience of Copilot+ PCs to disable the controversial Windows Recall feature by default.

https://www.securityweek.com/microsoft-bows-to-public-pressure-disables-controversial-windows-recall-by-default/

Amidst public pressure, Microsoft changes the set-up experience of Copilot+ PCs to disable the controversial Windows Recall feature by default.

10/06/2024

Gotta love Clonezilla. Always makes drive imaging easy peasy. 👌

10/06/2024

HP bricks ProBook laptops with bad BIOS delivered via automatic updates — many users face black screen after Windows pushes new firmware

HP / Microsoft seems to have removed the bugged BIOS download now.

08/06/2024

Advice for anyone having issues with installing Arc drivers or any general driver issues with Windows. This might be a possible reason for a percentage of the driver issues users experience.

Disable Fast Startup in Windows. When Fast Startup is enabled, shutting down the computer logs off all sessions and puts the system into hibernation mode. This process often leads to problems with Windows or general driver updates.

Fast Startup used to be generally recommended to assist with the slower startup times experienced with standard HDD platter drives. On modern PCs built easily within the past decade and equipped with much faster 2.5" SSDs and NVMe drives, this isn't as much of an issue as it used to be. An argument could be made that Fast Startup is beneficial for laptops from an energy consumption standpoint in that less power is required to return from hibernation.

When you install a new driver and the installer indicates that a restart is required, it is crucial to do so. If you choose to shut down or hibernate instead, the system will attempt to use the new drivers upon resuming. However, because the reboot was skipped, these drivers are not fully installed. This situation arises because the new drivers have overwritten the old ones, yet the computer is operating from the pre-shutdown state that references the old drivers.

I've had Fast Startup disabled on most of my machines for quite some time now (except laptops) and the startup time difference enabled vs disabled is nearly imperceptible.

07/06/2024

It's now a legit catchphrase.

'I use Arch by the way.'

05/06/2024

"Intel Arrow Lake Desktop CPU Whispers: Launching in October 2024, Core Ultra 200 Series, Lower Power than Raptor Lake

Intel's next-generation Desktop CPUs, codenamed Arrow Lake and launching under the Core Ultra 200 branding are expected to launch in October.

Intel Arrow Lake CPUs Coming To Desktop Platform In October, Z890 Motherboards With Core Ultra 200 Support & Lower Power Draw

https://wccftech.com/intel-arrow-lake-desktop-cpu-whispers-launching-october-2024-core-ultra-200-series-lower-power-than-raptor-lake/

05/06/2024

"Intel Core Ultra 200K in early Q4

Board partners confirm to Wccftech that Arrow Lake-S will be available in October.

If you expected Intel to provide a proper update on Arrow Lake architecture during the Computex keynote, you were probably disappointed. Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger only mentioned that the architecture will be released by the end of this year without going into further details. However, there was more happening behind the scenes. A real product was shown on the show floor: the Z890 motherboards. Interestingly, Intel has not allowed any company to officially call them the Z890 series yet, but Biostar seems to have broken that embargo"

https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-cor...

26/05/2024

5 things you should know about repowering coal plants 🏭 with nuclear power ⚛️.

1️⃣ The majority of U.S. coal plants could be converted

A 2022 DOE report found that more than 300 existing and retired coal power plant sites are suitable to host advanced nuclear power plants.

Each plant could match the size of the site being converted and help increase nuclear capacity by more than 250 GW—nearly tripling its current capacity of 95 GW.

2️⃣ They could preserve and create new jobs

Employment in the region associated with an incoming nuclear plant could increase by more than 650 permanent jobs spread across the plant, supply chain, and surrounding community.

Occupations seeing the largest gains include nuclear engineers, security guards, and nuclear technicians.

The plants could also leverage the existing coal plant workforce in the community to help transition their current skills and knowledge to work in nuclear energy with wages that are typically 50% higher than those of other energy sources.

3️⃣ They could drive economic growth

Long-term job impacts of a converted coal to nuclear power plant could lead to additional annual economic activity of $275 million.

This includes a 92% increase in tax revenue from the new nuclear plant for the local county when compared to prior tax revenue from a coal plant.

These tax payments would also increase the amount of money available to improve local schools, infrastructure projects, and public services.

4️⃣ They bring environmental benefits

Replacing unabated coal plants with nuclear power plants could see up to an 86% drop in carbon dioxide emissions in the surrounding region.

It would also directly improve the air quality in the region by avoiding other harmful byproducts produced by fossil fuel plants that are linked to asthma, lung cancer, and heart diseases.

5️⃣ They can save on new construction costs

New nuclear power plants could save up to 35% on construction costs depending on how much of the existing site assets could be repurposed from retired coal power plants.

These assets include the existing land, the coal plant’s electrical equipment (transmission connection, switchyard, etc.) and civil infrastructure, such as roads and buildings.

Want to learn more?

Check out three more facts about coal-to-nuclear transitions here: https://bit.ly/49Q6ZTA

07/05/2024

Sliger CX3150a 3U chassis with Thermalright AXP120-X67 low profile heatsinks sitting on an Intel i7-12700 and topped with Noctua 3000RPM iPPC industrial fans for that extreme airflow!

#12700

07/05/2024

Asus ROG Strix Z790 Gaming motherboards finally showed up for the new builds!

24/04/2024

And then the lot of 12th Gen Intel i7-12700 CPUs have finally arrived.

23/04/2024

A load of Noctua NF-F12 iPPC industrial 12v 3000 RPM PWM fans for an upcoming project.

With Noctua's famous SSO2 bearing technology guaranteeing an MTTF of over 150,000 hours of operation, nothing but the best!

16/04/2024

Recently completed fuel replacement of Sequoyah Unit 1. The beautiful blue glow of Cherenkov radiation from a new fuel assembly heading to the core.

23/02/2024

More complexity is always better. (not)

21/02/2024

"Intel's 288-Core Clearwater Forest Xeon CPU to Utilize Foveros 3D Stacking: Report"

This chip is supposed to arrive in 2025 on the company's 18A process.

20/02/2024

Want to help hack ransomware groups for a living?

"The new National Cyber Force (NCF) is helping to transform the UK’s cyber capabilities to disrupt adversaries and keep the UK safe, the Prime Minister announced today"

https://www.gchq.gov.uk/news/national-cyber-force

20/02/2024

Unraid will no longer be free.

https://unraid.net/blog/pricing-change

Unraid OS will soon have a new pricing model. This blog dives into some of those upcoming details.

15/02/2024

Well, it finally happened.

07/02/2024

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/02/critical-vulnerability-affecting-most-linux-distros-allows-for-bootkits/

Buffer overflow in bootloader shim allows attackers to run code each time devices boot up.

03/02/2024

Not today, Satan.

03/02/2024

The Computer Chronicles (1999) - Sega Dreamcast

02/02/2024

https://www.livescience.com/technology/computing/worlds-1st-fault-tolerant-quantum-computer-coming-2024-10000-qubit-in-2026

QuEra has dramatically reduced the error rate in qubits — with its first commercially available machine using this technology launching with 256 physical qubits and 10 logical qubits.

02/02/2024

The Computer Chronicles (1990) - Falcon AT

02/02/2024

The Computer Chronicles (1999) - Baldur's Gate

#1999

01/02/2024

Today in 1991 Sun Microsystems Starts Java Technology.

31/01/2024

On January 30th 2007 Windows Vista was released.

#2007

31/01/2024

"While testing their findings, Qualys confirmed that Debian 12 and 13, Ubuntu 23.04 and 23.10, and Fedora 37 to 39 were all vulnerable to CVE-2023-6246 exploits, allowing any unprivileged user to escalate privileges to full root access on default installations."

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-linux-glibc-flaw-lets-attackers-get-root-on-major-distros/?fbclid=IwAR0VWHLUYDB8WJXnUFdJ8OVOZmZXZr1IvjM36g3y-JE8H0bKKQz3sUl9h2Q

​Unprivileged attackers can get root access on multiple major Linux distributions in default configurations by exploiting a newly disclosed local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability in the GNU C Library (glibc).

29/01/2024

SR-71 Blackbird under construction in all of its titanium glory.

Most of the titanium used to construct the SR-71 was sourced from the Soviet Union, intentionally leading the Soviets to believe the titanium was to be used to build "pizza ovens".

29/01/2024

Poor Japanese SLIM lander.