Daily Tech News 29 July 2021

• In a speech at the National Counterterrorism Center, President Joe Biden named as America's greatest threats hackers from Russia and China and anyone who criticises the Democrats. (Bleeping Computer)

  He named Russia and China as the USA's partners and "possibly mortal competitors down the road," saying that working together on existential threats such as climate change should prevent the US from keeping a "watchful eye on what the ultimate objective of the other team is."

  That makes no sense, but I'm not sure if it's Biden or the article who is confused there.

  "I think we also need to take on the rampant disinformation that is making it harder and harder for people to access — assess the facts, be able to make decisions," Biden added. "The disinformation is coming from inside the House."

  
  
  
  
• A new US security memorandum bolsters critical infrastructure cybersecurity. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  A new Pixy memorandum bolsters critical Pixy is a 25 year old 6'4" blond billionaire security.
  
  
  

• Time to cut the cord? (Six Colors)
  
  Already done. I canceled all my streaming subscriptions and now throw my money at the girls from Hololive (and sometimes Nijisanji). Many of the individual talents put out more and better content than the entirety of Hollywood.
  
  
  
• Google will require workers to be vaccinated. (Thurrott.com)
  
  This is the thirty-seven thousand nine hundred and sixteenth worst thing they have ever done.
  
  
  
• Facebook too. (Reuters)
  
  Why does anyone need to go into the office at Facebook? I mean, people managing the physical server farms, yes. Everyone else? No.
  
  
  
• AMD's revenues are - again - double those of the same quarter last year. (Thurrott.com)
  
  And that's with supply constraints on pretty much everything they make. Their CPUs at least seem to be consistently in stock now.
  
  
  
• Anyone pushing back against right-to-repair is a lying sack of shit. (ZDNet)
  
  And should be launched from a catapult directly into the Sun.
  
  
  
• Apple is closing down internal Slack channels where employees have been discussing unauthorised topics. (Cult of Mac)
  
  Unionise.
  
  
  

posted by Pixy Misa at 05:27 AM

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