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Submission + - Meta plans to build a $10B subsea cable spanning the world, sources say (techcrunch.com) 1

Submitted by michelcultivo
michelcultivo writes: TechCrunch has confirmed with sources close to the company that Meta plans to build a new, major, fiber-optic subsea cable extending around the world — a 40,000+ kilometer project that could total more than $10 billion of investment. Critically, Meta will be the sole owner and user of this subsea cable — a first for the company and thus representing a milestone for its infrastructure efforts.

Submission + - Your AI Girlfriend Is a Data-Harvesting Horror Show (gizmodo.com)

Submitted by michelcultivo
michelcultivo writes: A lot of that AI chatbots that you spend days talking too push hard on getting more and more private information from you.
"The privacy mess is troubling because the chatbots actively encourage you to share details that are far more personal than in a typical app."

Comment Re:Telemedicine (Score 1) 165

Telemedicine is lacking a few home tools to actually be sufficiently effective, but it will come. (Ordered my pulse oxygen meter already...) Its current form though has been miserable from my experience though, although I imagine most of the blame lies on the patient.

I agree with you, but now you can check with the patient what are they feeling and if they can have a medicine at their home or if it is in need of a hospital. With the cases of Corona growing so fast, there is a lot of health insurance companies doing this so their customers will not be infected on going to a hospital looking for care.

Submission + - sel4 microkernel now Open Source (osnews.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: OSnews is reporting that the formally verified sel4 microkernel is now open source: "General Dynamics C4 Systems and NICTA are pleased to announce the open sourcing of seL4, the world's first operating-system kernel with an
end-to-end proof of implementation correctness and security enforcement. It is still the world's most highly assured OS."

Comment Slow (Score 1) 538

by michelcultivo (#36476488) Attached to: Why Businesses Move To the Cloud: They Hate IT
IT people don't known how to deal with departments, every talk that I need to have with my client IT department is a pain. They always have an excuse to not deliver the project, always have problems and don't wan't to work very closely to get a solution. I see it every day and every time, the Marketing department get some amount of their budget and buying IT services that were exclusive with the IT department. Thank you

Comment WebDAV (Score 2) 482

by michelcultivo (#36468676) Attached to: Open Source Alternative To Dropbox?
I've done some tests with WebDAV and it seems to be on the right way to let you store documents on your server (I hate the word cloud) and access it everywhere, you can use Linux, Windows, Android and iPhone/iPad. But you need a dedicated server (or VPS). Bye

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