Comment Re:Oh for fuck's sake (Score 1) 32
"The company is targeting primarily admin roles, the majority of which will be affected at its home base in Germany, as part of a broader restructuring strategy."
tf does US politics have to do with this?
Comment Re:Ho hum (Score 1) 39
Came here to make this exact comment.
Comment Seriously? (Score 1) 39
I use ChatGPT-5 constantly for assistance at work (cloud engineer) -- only because it's much quicker and efficient than googling and reading man pages -- and, while helpful, it constantly hallucinates "proper" answers and as a matter of course I need to double-check and verify what's being fed to me. Albeit, it's still faster and easier than doing the research myself, it's nowhere near human-replacement level. Anyone who's used it would know this.
Comment Undoing erroneouos mod (Score 1) 105
n/t
Comment Re: Sad (Score 1) 55
I resemble that comment, with MacOS as my daily-driver and work all day on Linux, w/FreeBSD for personal servers.
Comment Yet another reason to love Vivaldi (Score 1) 17
As if I needed another reason to have it as my daily-driver for almost ten years. Glad to hear they'll continue to do the sane, intelligent thing.
"If people want to use AI as those services, it's easily accessible to them without building it into the browser."
Exactly.
Comment Re:SimCity 2000 (Score 1) 107
Came here to make this comment haha. Dat nostalgia...now I need to give C:S1 a break and try SC2k for a minute lol
Comment Re:Same reason AMD got bailed out (Score 1) 23
As much as I enjoyed my last 40+ years as an x86 user, I don't think I need one to do my job or play the games I like to play.
I tend to agree (s/40+/30+), especially given my new company-purchased workstation is a Macbook Air M3 and I'm LOVING the performance, along with filling my need for gaming through Steam and playstation remote (of course requires a PS5 in my case, but still, doesn't matter that my workstation is on an ARM chip).
Comment tt-rss FTW (Score 1) 181
Have used it for years, running on one of my VMs, works fantastically...Slashdot is a big reason I check it everyday (along with ESPN, space news stuffs, etc.)
Submission + - VMware Prevents Some Perpetual License Holders From Downloading Patches (theregister.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Some customers of Broadcom’s VMware business currently cannot access security patches, putting them at greater risk of attack. Customers in that perilous position hold perpetual licenses for VMware products but do not have a current support contract with Broadcom, which will not renew those contracts unless users sign up for software subscriptions. Yet many customers in this situation run products that Broadcom continues to support with patches and updates.
In April 2024, Broadcom CEO Hock Tan promised “free access to zero-day security patches for supported versions of vSphere” so customers "are able to use perpetual licenses in a safe and secure fashion." VMware patches aren’t freely available; users must log on to Broadcom’s support portal to access the software. Some VMware users in this situation have told The Register that when they enter the portal they cannot download patches, and that VMware support staff have told them it may be 90 days before the software fixes become available.
In April 2024, Broadcom CEO Hock Tan promised “free access to zero-day security patches for supported versions of vSphere” so customers "are able to use perpetual licenses in a safe and secure fashion." VMware patches aren’t freely available; users must log on to Broadcom’s support portal to access the software. Some VMware users in this situation have told The Register that when they enter the portal they cannot download patches, and that VMware support staff have told them it may be 90 days before the software fixes become available.
Submission + - Brave browser blocks Microsoft Recall to protect user privacy (nerds.xyz)
BrianFagioli writes: Brave just made it even clearer that it puts privacy first, and I’m here for it. Starting with version 1.81 on Windows, the browser will now block Microsoft Recall from logging your activity. That means no sneaky screenshots of your browsing sessions will end up in Recall’s controversial database.
Microsoft’s Recall feature has faced heavy criticism since it was first introduced in 2024. The tool automatically captured full-screen images every few seconds and stored them locally in plaintext. It didn’t take long for privacy experts to sound the alarm. With such a setup, any malware or person with access to your machine could sift through your digital life with ease.
Microsoft’s Recall feature has faced heavy criticism since it was first introduced in 2024. The tool automatically captured full-screen images every few seconds and stored them locally in plaintext. It didn’t take long for privacy experts to sound the alarm. With such a setup, any malware or person with access to your machine could sift through your digital life with ease.
Submission + - Clorox Sues Its 'Service Desk' Vendor For Simply Giving Out Passwords (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Hacking is hard. Well, sometimes. Other times, you just call up a company's IT service desk and pretend to be an employee who needs a password reset, an Okta multifactor authentication reset, and a Microsoft multifactor authentication reset... and it's done. Without even verifying your identity. So you use that information to log in to the target network and discover a more trusted user who works in IT security. You call the IT service desk back, acting like you are now this second person, and you request the same thing: a password reset, an Okta multifactor authentication reset, and a Microsoft multifactor authentication reset. Again, the desk provides it, no identity verification needed. So you log in to the network with these new credentials and set about planting ransomware or exfiltrating data in the target network, eventually doing an estimated $380 million in damage. Easy, right?
According to The Clorox Company, which makes everything from lip balm to cat litter to charcoal to bleach, this is exactly what happened to it in 2023. But Clorox says that the "debilitating" breach was not its fault. It had outsourced the "service desk" part of its IT security operations to the massive services company Cognizant—and Clorox says that Cognizant failed to follow even the most basic agreed-upon procedures for running the service desk. In the words of a new Clorox lawsuit, Cognizant's behavior was "all a devastating lie," it "failed to show even scant care," and it was "aware that its employees were not adequately trained."
"Cognizant was not duped by any elaborate ploy or sophisticated hacking techniques," says the lawsuit, using italics to indicate outrage emphasis. "The cybercriminal just called the Cognizant Service Desk, asked for credentials to access Clorox’s network, and Cognizant handed the credentials right over. Cognizant is on tape handing over the keys to Clorox’s corporate network to the cybercriminal—no authentication questions asked." [...] The new lawsuit, filed in California state courts, wants Cognizant to cough up millions of dollars to cover the damage Clorox says it suffered after weeks of disruption to its factories and ordering systems. (You can read a brief timeline of the disruption here.)
According to The Clorox Company, which makes everything from lip balm to cat litter to charcoal to bleach, this is exactly what happened to it in 2023. But Clorox says that the "debilitating" breach was not its fault. It had outsourced the "service desk" part of its IT security operations to the massive services company Cognizant—and Clorox says that Cognizant failed to follow even the most basic agreed-upon procedures for running the service desk. In the words of a new Clorox lawsuit, Cognizant's behavior was "all a devastating lie," it "failed to show even scant care," and it was "aware that its employees were not adequately trained."
"Cognizant was not duped by any elaborate ploy or sophisticated hacking techniques," says the lawsuit, using italics to indicate outrage emphasis. "The cybercriminal just called the Cognizant Service Desk, asked for credentials to access Clorox’s network, and Cognizant handed the credentials right over. Cognizant is on tape handing over the keys to Clorox’s corporate network to the cybercriminal—no authentication questions asked." [...] The new lawsuit, filed in California state courts, wants Cognizant to cough up millions of dollars to cover the damage Clorox says it suffered after weeks of disruption to its factories and ordering systems. (You can read a brief timeline of the disruption here.)
Comment Re:Can it be turned off? (Score 1) 54
Long live Vivaldi
Comment Re:I have been using macs for 15 years now (Score 1) 27
Same, and is why I prefer iOS/macOS over my usual Linux workstations...ease of use, just works, elegance, still Unix-like. I've even been able to game enough for my liking with my most recent macbook (M3, Air)
Comment Re:Not planet 9 (Score 1) 149
I get what you're saying, but that particular Redditor is renowned, look her up.
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It's a naive, domestic operating system without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
