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The Oculus Go’s operating system is being unlocked, John Carmack announces

The Verge

The Go was officially discontinued in 2020. This opens up the ability to repurpose the hardware for more things today, and means that a randomly discovered shrink wrapped headset twenty years from now will be able to update to the final software version, long after over-the-air update servers have been shut down.

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Modernizing the mainframe for the digital era

CIO Business Intelligence

“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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Technology Short Take 136

Scott Lowe

Servers/Hardware. The popular open source cryptography library known as Bouncy Castle has uncovered a severe authentication bypass vulnerability. The popular open source cryptography library known as Bouncy Castle has uncovered a severe authentication bypass vulnerability. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Technology Short Take 123

Scott Lowe

Welcome to Technology Short Take #123, the first of 2020! Servers/Hardware. dll , a core Windows cryptographic component) that was rumored to be fixed the next day (January 14) on the first “Patch Tuesday” of 2020. Now I really want to see hardware security key support in the desktop and mobile apps!

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How to switch an old Windows laptop to Linux

The Verge

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. Photo: Linux Mint. Gimp , for example, instead of Photoshop.

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Technology Short Take 134

Scott Lowe

Open source has become so critical to so many aspects of our computing infrastructure. Uh oh… more hardware exploits. I recently stumbled across Ricardo Sueiras’ “AWS open source news and updates” posts. Here’s number 43 , from 9 November 2020. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Technology Short Take 132

Scott Lowe

I think a fair number of folks may not be aware that the Nginx ingress controller for Kubernetes—both the community version and the Nginx-maintained open source version—do suffer from timeouts and errors resulting from changes in the back-end application’s list of endpoints (think pods being added or removed).