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Oracle says intruders definitely did not break into an Oracle cloud login server and steal details of six million customers. Security experts press F to doubt. (The Register)

Not only are six million records claimed to be from Oracle Cloud up for sale on the dark corners of the internet, but the hacker left an identifying file on the server and it was picked up by the Wayback Machine.

Oracle claims that Oracle Cloud was never breached, but someone planted that file on that server. Unless the Wayback Machine itself was breached, which... They also deny.

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Latency numbers every programmer should know, and some ridiculous lessons drawn from them. (Medium)

"Reading from RAM is 1000x faster than an SSD!" The example doesn't even measure SSD performance, or latency. It measures bandwidth, and a desktop PC might have 100GBps of main memory bandwidth and 10GBps from the SSD.

"HDDs are 30x slower than SSDs." Again measuring bandwidth and not latency. An SSD can not only produce latency hundreds of times lower than a hard drive; it can perform multiple operations at once, for a total performance thousands of times greater.
The Pentagon has axed an HR system upgrade that was six years behind schedule and 800% over budget. (The Register)

I can only dream of coasting for that long without encountering a short sharp shock.
The Ninkear MBOX 8 Pro is a mini-PC that slots into a dock that turns it into a mini-PC. (Liliputing)

Why?
The HP EliteBook Ultra G1i 14 is only about 300% overpriced. (Notebook Check)

And lacks the Four Essential Keys. And you can't upgrade the memory, though at least it has 32GB of it.

But at $3849 that's a big thumbs down from me.

Does HP still make anything worthwhile?

Hmm. The Pavilion Plus 14 actually looks good. Four Essential Keys, same 2880x1800 OLED display, same 32GB of soldered RAM, 16 core rather than 8 core CPU, and a much more reasonable $1249.

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