The Verge

JANUARY 21, 2021

A new Linux port allows Apple’s M1 Macs to run Ubuntu for the first time. While a number of M1 components are shared with Apple’s mobile chips, the non-standard chips made it challenging to create Linux drivers to get Ubuntu running properly. Linux is now completely usable on the Mac mini M1. Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Photo: Linux Mint. By the federal government’s Digital Analytics Program (DAP) count in October 2020, 3.2 If you have an older system but are worried that it won’t support Windows 10 — or if you simply don’t want to deal with Windows anymore — I have a suggestion: Switch to desktop Linux. Teams now runs on Linux.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 24, 2022

“The core reason for purchasing an IBM Z is these workloads that require massive amounts of transactions at very high speeds, but then the second reason is to use the modernizations on the system to do all these additional value-generating things with it,” he says. IBM LinuxONE III systems run only Linux at prices starting at $135,000.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

“GaryOPA” Bowser was initially indicted in Seattle in August 2020 alongside Max “MAXiMiLiEN” Louarn and Yuanning Chen. Team Xecuter created modification devices and specialized hardware for use with various video game consoles, for purposes of modifying and occasionally “jailbreaking” them.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 7, 2021

In this Technology Short Take, I’ve gathered some links for you covering topics like Azure and AWS networking, moving from macOS to Linux (and back again), and more. Servers/Hardware. These are older posts, from August 2020, and I honestly don’t know if the vulnerability still exists (or if it has been patched).

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 11, 2020

This will likely be the last Technology Short Take of 2020, so it’s a tad longer than usual. Servers/Hardware. Kay Singh collects some user comments on the new M1-powered Apple hardware. Wei Lien Dang discusses the recent MITM vulnerability in Kubernetes (assigned CVE-2020-8554). Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 15, 2021

Servers/Hardware. From early December 2020, there’s also this reminder about the security updates released by VMware to address a zero-day vulnerability in several products. Operating Systems/Applications. Ryan Blunden has authored a fairly comprehensive piece on environment variables in Linux and macOS.

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