TechSNAP

416: I.T. Phone Home

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Ubiquiti's troublesome new telemetry, Jim's take on the modern Microsoft, and why Project Silica just might be the future of long term storage.

Links:

  • Sure, we made your Wi-Fi routers phone home with telemetry, says Ubiquiti. What of it? — Ubiquiti Networks is fending off customer complaints after emitting a firmware update that caused its UniFi wireless routers to quietly phone HQ with telemetry.
  • UI official: urgent, please answer | Ubiquiti Community
  • Update: UniFi Phone Home/Performance Data Collection | Ubiquiti Community
  • Possible example data
  • Latest firmware with changes
  • Microsoft’s Project Silica offers robust thousand-year storage | Ars Technica — Silica aims to replace both tape and optical archival discs as the media of choice for large-scale, (very) long duration cold storage.
  • Project Silica
  • The Future of Data Storage
  • Microsoft Ignite 2019
  • Microsoft Edge is coming to Linux. But will anybody use it? | Ars Technica — At Microsoft Ignite a slide announced that Microsoft's project to rebase its perennially unloved Edge browser on Google's open source project Chromium is well underway. Sharper-eyed attendees also noticed a promise for future Linux support.
  • Has Microsoft Changed?
  • This isn’t your father’s Microsoft
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