GeekWire

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Team Xecuter created modification devices and specialized hardware for use with various video game consoles, for purposes of modifying and occasionally “jailbreaking” them. It also actually drew fire from within the piracy community in 2018 because its own software required a paid license to work.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Microsoft Pluton is a security processor that is built directly into future CPUs and will replace the existing Trusted Platform Module (TPM), a chip that’s currently used to secure hardware and cryptographic keys. This is a future thing we’re going to build in,” says Mike Nordquist, director of strategic planning and architecture at Intel.

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Cloud Musings

MARCH 9, 2018

2] The methodology itself should include: A detailed inventory of all hardware, operating systems, and applications that exist in the network a nd the creation of the process to keep the inventory up-to-date. A process to identify vulnerabilities in hardware, operating systems, and applications.

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The Verge

MAY 27, 2021

We’ve known for a while that Apple isn’t going to make iMessage available outside of iOS devices, but this trial showed exactly how thoroughly Apple has considered expanding iMessage into other operating systems — and exactly why the company doesn’t want to. Sony saw ‘Fortnite’ crossplay as a business liability.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Servers/Hardware. Serve The Home takes a critical look at the Bloomberg Supermicro stories, debunking or at least calling into question many details of the alleged hardware hack as reported by Bloomberg. Operating Systems/Applications. Many of these concepts had direct impacts on the design of Envoy. Good stuff!

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

The first step in making it a mainstream kind of experience is to put it in the operating system. February 2018: During Apple’s Q1 earnings call , Cook describes “great excitement” around augmented reality among customers. Apple’s AR hardware is perennially two years away. Even we can’t predict what’s going to come out.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

For many of my readers, VMworld 2018 in Las Vegas was “front and center” for them since the last Tech Short Take. Servers/Hardware. Greg Schulz discusses new Power9-based systems announced by IBM; see his post. Operating Systems/Applications. Welcome to Technology Short Take 104!

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The phone was originally announced to breathless hype in 2018, with a list of specs so over the top, they almost sounded fictional. None have managed to make much of an impact due to poorly designed operating systems and even poorer app support. The Verge ’s reviews have gotten considerably more polished since these early days.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 29, 2020

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Nicola Apicella has a nice, in-depth write-up discussing Docker images, overlay file systems, and the OCI specification. Former manager and colleague Paul Lundin penned this piece about working in a startup versus working in an enterprise back in June 2018.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 17, 2019

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Cindy Sridharan has a good article on health checks and graceful degradation in distributed systems. This is a slightly older article (August 2018), but an informative one (to me, at least). Networking. Michael Allen published an article on weaponizing the Yubikey.

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Kitaboo

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Basically, with DRM, publishers can control their data, software and hardware. However, platforms like KITABOO can give readers access to content on multiple devices across operating systems. Digital Publishing / June 21, 2018. Related Read: 6 Reasons Why You Need DRM Protected eBook. REQUEST DEMO READ MORE.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 6, 2018

Welcome to Technology Short Take 92, the first Technology Short Take of 2018. When you’re operating at the scale at which Netflix operates, this is no trivial feat. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Christian Kellner talks about work done on Thunderbolt 3 security levels for GNU/Linux.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

When I started writing my first book when gadgets betray us, IoT was still known as hardware hacking, or embedded security. That's because early IoT systems consisted mostly of dumb sensors on embedded systems out in the field. In 2018, we got some broader exemptions for all data, all devices all types of devices.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

When I started writing my first book when gadgets betray us, IoT was still known as hardware hacking, or embedded security. That's because early IoT systems consisted mostly of dumb sensors on embedded systems out in the field. In 2018, we got some broader exemptions for all data, all devices all types of devices.

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TM Forum

JULY 19, 2021

Put simply, Open RAN is an attempt to disaggregate radio access network (RAN) functionality, by splitting up the hardware and software thus opening up the architectures and diversifying the supply chain for the radio portion of the network. What is it? The graphic below, published by TIP in October 2020, shows deployments and trials: image.

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The Verge

MARCH 18, 2022

Universal Control is one of the coolest software tricks that Apple has come up with in years, and it’s a perfect example of what’s possible when a company has full control both over hardware and the software that runs on those devices. MacBook Air introduced in 2018 or later. Mac mini introduced in 2018 or later. Mac Studio.

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GeekWire

MARCH 8, 2021

News of Allard being lured back into the video game industry made a splash in May 2020 , as he was brought on at Intellivision to work on the Intellivision Amico, a new game console with a retro look and feel first announced in 2018 and intended to make gaming a family friendly affair again. He is still an advisor to this day as needed.”

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Kitaboo

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

In 1993, Adobe Systems launched the Portable Document Format (PDF) for easy document transfer and exchange. It offers a two-dimensional layout that maintains interface consistency irrespective of the operating system. Digital Publishing / October 30, 2018. Advantages. Improved Distribution. You May Also Like.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 11, 2019

Servers/Hardware. Need a curated list of KubeCon 2018 session content? Operating Systems/Applications. Jim Palmer has a detailed write-up on DHCP Option 51 and different behaviors from different DHCP clients. Niels Hagoort talks about some network troubleshooting tools in a vSphere/ESXi environment. Look no further.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 28, 2021

At DerbyCon in 2018 , Jose Quinones, Carlos Perez presented A Hacker's Cookbook based on their world in Puerto Rico the previous year. Daniel: You know, Bob dabit when he was at Lawrence Livermore, did the computer programs and computer operating systems for healthcare. It's an amazing archive to have.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Vamosi: In 2018, a group of researchers found that Intentional acoustic interference -- sound -- can produce unusual errors in the mechanics of magnetic hard disk drives. This, they said, could lead to damage in the integrity and the availability in both hardware and software such as file system corruption and operating system reboots.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Vamosi: In 2018, a group of researchers found that Intentional acoustic interference -- sound -- can produce unusual errors in the mechanics of magnetic hard disk drives. This, they said, could lead to damage in the integrity and the availability in both hardware and software such as file system corruption and operating system reboots.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Vamosi: In 2018, a group of researchers found that Intentional acoustic interference -- sound -- can produce unusual errors in the mechanics of magnetic hard disk drives. This, they said, could lead to damage in the integrity and the availability in both hardware and software such as file system corruption and operating system reboots.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

So very quietly around 2000, we became a services company with really no fanfare,” Jassy told a crowd at the re:Invent conference in 2018, according to TechCrunch. The operating system becomes the internet.”. “If That makes AWS effectively the engine of Amazon’s continuous reinvention, and Jassy is the spark that helps drive it.

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The Verge

MAY 19, 2021

inch iPad Pro with the M1 as on my 2018 iPad Pro. Seemingly every new iPad Pro inspires an admittedly exhausting but also necessary discussion about whether or not iPadOS is actually capable enough to justify the price of the hardware that runs it. I got the exact same export speeds in Premiere Rush on the brand new 12.9-inch

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Vox

DECEMBER 8, 2021

It’s also an outlier; rival mobile operating system Android allows pretty much any app, though app stores may have their own restrictions. You can buy a computer with a Microsoft operating system from a variety of manufacturers, and nearly 1,300 brands sell devices with Google’s Android operating system.

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Vox

AUGUST 11, 2020

Since 2018, Trump has waged a trade war with China over free trade policies that he feels disadvantage US manufacturing. And increasingly, tech has become tangled up in this war, involving Chinese-owned dating apps, drone companies, and telecom hardware makers. Huawei is a big deal outside of the US.

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