Daily Tech news 5 July 2021

• The Russian ransomware attack that had hit over five hundred companies a couple of days ago has now expanded to thousands of victims in 17 countries. (AP)
  
  The attack vector was managed services provider Kaseya. (Who?)
  
  I look on all such companies as disease vectors. I've had to integrate with some of them to meet customer requirements but those integrations live in their own little containers with tightly controlled access.
  
  Coincidentally, REvil, the group behind the attack, is also a managed services provider - of ransomware.
  
  
  

• How to install Windows 11 in a virtual machine. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  That's not a bad idea. It's very tempting, in fact.
  
  I'm not sure how well virtualisation handles gaming these days, not that I have time to play anything more demanding than Minecraft - and the last few weeks, not that either.
  
  
  
• Qualcomm might move to TSMC's 4nm node for the Snapdragon 895+. (WCCFTech)
  
  The other reason the 888+ is barely faster than the 888 is that Samsung hasn't made much with its fab technology in the past year. Qualcomm is using Samsung because - like Nvidia - they waited too long to book capacity at TSMC.
  
  Not that Samsung is bad; they're just a year or so behind the cutting edge.
  
  
  
• Well, you can't prove it wasn't a cosmic ray. (Google Groups)
  
  An SSL certificate chain got derailed by a single-bit error in one of the entries. The hashes used to verify this have no built-in error-checking or redundancy; that's expected to be handled at lower levels. So if a bit flip happens in a way to escape those checks, the whole thing falls over.
  
  Well, one copy of the whole thing. There are also multiple copies.
  
  
  
• PCIe 5.0 SSDs are on their way. (Serve the Home)
  
  For servers, anyway. Not for you just yet.
  
  One of the use cases is for redundant backplane links for high availability. These drives can provide two x2 connections to different controllers, each as fast as an existing PCIe 4.0 x4 interface.
  
  
  
• Windows on Arm is not great. (ZDNet)
  
  Microsoft's support is half-hearted, and Qualcomm's hardware is half-assed. And the devices are not designed to be fixed when they go wrong.
  
  Like Apple, only somehow worse.
  
  
  
• Rent seekers gonna rent seek. (TorrentFreak)
  
  "The Smart Fund is not a tax, as a tax would be paid to government. It's good old-fashioned extortion," The Smart Fund says.

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