Congrats, you survived into a post-GDPR world. Now what? This piece looks at what happens when you request, and get, all your personal information from Apple.
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Tangled Up in Blue Notes
Security researches have found that ultrasonic tones can crash your hard drive and even brick a system, because evidently we can’t have anything nice.
An Exegesis on Microsoft Hate
Ned Bellavance broke down the three types of Microsoft hates. The company has changed substantially under their new leadership, so question is now whether the company deserves their reputation.
Serverless is a Useful Lie
Serverless is a way to sound esoteric when talking about Functions as a Service. If you’re still not clear what Serverless is and where it’s useful, Ehi Kioya published a great introduction to get you started.
VPNFilter: Hey, Reboot Your Router!
The TL;DR on VPNFilter malware: reboot is good, reset is better.
MacOS Has Been Around Longer Than Classic Mac OS
MacOS (formerly OS X) has now been in production longer than the iconic Classic Mac OS. Whenever it’s time comes, will Apple throw another funeral?
HPE Buying Plexxi
HPE announced plans to acquire Plexxi. Since then, we’ve learned they’ll roll the assets into the HCI and Composable Infrastructure solutions. It’s an interesting move and shows HPE isn’t content with their previous HCI acquisitions.
StarWind Supports SMB3 – Did You Know?
With support for SMB3, StarWind Virtual SAN makes a cost-effective solution for those that need a scale-out file server. Vladan SEGET reviews the possibilities in this piece.
Random Numbers on a Raspberry Pi
Can you generate real random numbers with a Raspberry Pi? Johannes Weber investigates in this piece.
FPGAs are Coming for AI Workloads
Is the GPU stranglehold on AI workloads about to be disrupted by FPGAs and ASICs?