Daily Tech News 20 April 2022

• The Brave browser has introduced a new feature to bypass Google's AMP. (ZDNet)
  
  AMP was an effort by Google to improve search results and speed up page load times by, um, forcing you to host your content on Google's servers using Google's own proprietary platform.
  
  Since this wasn't universally supported you also had to host your content on your own severs using standards-based software. Brave deliberately bypasses the Google version of content and always takes you straight to the standard version.

• 100 models of Lenovo PCs have firmware bugs that let hackers install undetectable malware. (Ars Technica)
  
  Once in place, it would be invisible and immune to normal virus scanners. This type of malware is rare and only really deployed by intelligence agencies - it's too specific and too much trouble for hacker gangs just seeking a quick buck.
  
  
  
• Upgrading a 4TB PostgreSQL database from version 9.6 to 13 with 15 minutes of downtime. (Retool)
  
  Using replication, and a fair bit of manual fussing around.
  
  I'm about to deploy something like 20TB of PostgreSQL databases at my day job, so I've been looking for articles like this.
  
  
  
• If you're using a QNAP NAS together with a QNAP router both with default settings you might want to not do that. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Like, not do that right now.
  
  
  
• Google Cloud is making a big focus on security. (The Register)
  
  Google Cloud is third in a field of three, but given Amazons notable outages and Azure's security disasters over the last year, it's not necessarily the worst option.
  
  Just have all your data and apps backed up to an entirely different platform because while Google Cloud retains significant engineering talent, the company as a whole is rotting from within.

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