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Android is becoming a worldwide earthquake detection network

The Verge

Finally, once it has more confidence in the accuracy of the system, Google will begin actively sending out earthquake warnings to people who live in areas where there are not seismometer-based warning systems. Both the earthquake alerts and the detection system are opt-in, as well. So, we can’t really put a human in the loop.”.

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Windows turns 35: a visual history

The Verge

If you wanted to run multiple programs, then you needed a PC with a hard disk and 512 kilobytes of memory. Microsoft had already created its low-cost PC DOS operating system for IBM PCs, and was firmly positioned as a software company. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates with a boxed copy of Windows. Back in 1985, Windows 1.0

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Technology Short Take #81

Scott Lowe

Networking. Matt Oswalt has a great post on the need for networking professionals to learn basic scripting skills—something he (rightfully) distinguishes from programming as a full-time occupation. Further, he follows that up with a post on how automation is more than just configuration management ; it’s about network services.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: EP 69 Self-Healing Operating Systems

ForAllSecure

It’s time to evolve beyond the UNIX operating system. So while I was editing this podcast on self-healing operating systems, I was reminded of an article that I never finished for Fobes.com. It’s a radical rethinking of how we even view our current choices of UNIX-derived operating systems.

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Technology Short Take 133

Scott Lowe

Networking. In the last Technology Short Take , I mentioned that some testing with macOS Big Sur indicated that Apple had left itself a backdoor for network traffic from its own applications. How did I not know about Network Time Security (NTS)? Operating Systems/Applications. Programming.

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Apple stumbled into a war with the gaming industry, and the future of iOS is at stake

The Verge

At the same time, Apple is explicitly and purposefully excluding cloud gaming platforms that could bring the kinds of games that require a dedicated console or PC to those same gamers’ phones — by using the iPhone or iPad’s screen and network connection as mere conduits for a cloud gaming server instead.

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking Aerospace

ForAllSecure

FOX: Roberts: You basically have to understand how computer networks work, how avionics systems work, and then be able to translate communicate between those systems We've primarily focused on physically being in the airplane and hooking up to inflight entertainment. But it's also the air traffic management system.