Why your external monitor looks awful on Arm-based Macs, the open source fix – and the guy who wrote it [Mon Dec 6 2021]

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Why your external monitor looks awful on Arm-based Macs, the open source fix – and the guy who wrote it

Q&A with the developer of BetterDummy: from macOS secrets to his motivations

 

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Not only was the UK Financial Ombudsman Service's Workday system months late, 38 IT workers' jobs are at risk

Questions remain over data warehouse dependencies and redundancies

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When it comes to renting tech kit, things can get personal, very quickly

Is hardware by subscription bad for customers? Readers have their say

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AWS adds another Arm CPU to its cloud: Apple's M1

Updates bare metal Macs-a-service and claims up to 60 per cent better price performance vs cloudy x86 Macs

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ByteDance launches a public cloud that offers TTaaS (TikTok as a service)

Volcano Engine also offers all the IaaS and SaaS you'd expect from a hyperscaler

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Microsoft 365 admins 'flooded' with bulk and bogus notifications for over an hour

Recent change to cloud services suspected as cause, any real messes will be advised in email only for now

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India reveals home-grown server that won't worry the leading edge

And a National Blockchain Strategy that calls for gov to host BaaS

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Two Chinese companies leave US: China Telecom told it can't stay, DiDi gets out of Dodge

Just being practical here, but maybe they can share a cab?

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How do you call support when the telephones go TITSUP*?

Fix the printer, fix the phones

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Qualcomm doesn't fear custom chips – in a weird way its modems matter more

Carriers covet fast, reliable modems, and when they're baked into SoCs it's hard to ignore 'em

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Democratising-storage

Storage innovations that meet the challenges of the new normal

How Huawei products and technologies let you support the workloads that matter

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Modernise applications with document databases

The advantages of Amazon DocumentDB

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American diplomats' iPhones reportedly compromised by NSO Group intrusion software

Reuters claims nine State Department employees outside the US had their devices hacked

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Utility biz Delta-Montrose Electric Association loses billing capability and two decades of records after cyber attack

All together now - R, A, N, S, O...

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Feds charge two men with claiming ownership of others' songs to steal YouTube royalty payments

Alleged scheme said to have netted $20m since 2017

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Netgear router flaws exploitable with authentication ... like the default creds on Netgear's website

Don't just install the patch, change your router passwords too

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Why-your-email

Why your email encryption solution is doomed

(And what you can do about it)

Software

Prisons transcribe private phone calls with inmates using speech-to-text AI

Plus: A drug designed by machine learning algorithms to treat liver disease reaches human clinical trials and more

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Hot not-Spot-bot spot: The code behind Xiaomi's CyberDog? Ubuntu

Your four-legged open-source friend? CIMON says 'Maybe'

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Why your external monitor looks awful on Arm-based Macs, the open source fix – and the guy who wrote it

Q&A with the developer of BetterDummy: from macOS secrets to his motivations

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AWS previews SDKs for Rust, Kotlin, Swift, and Amplify Studio for rapid web apps

Plus: Why company foresees growth of Rust, already widely used internally

NixOS and the changing face of Linux operating systems

As with packaging systems, lightweight efficient approaches look set to lose out

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Xen and the art of hypervisor upgrades

Version 4.16 adds first look at TPM 2.0 and better big.LITTLE support

Singaporean superapp Grab IPOs – badly – and promises to focus on maps and money

Shares fell over 20 per cent in its first day on NASDAQ

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Battlefield 2042: Please don't be the death knell of the franchise, please don't be the death knell of the franchise

Another terrible launch, but DICE is already working on improvements

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What will life in orbit look like after the ISS? NASA hands out new space station contracts

The end is coming, and nobody wants a homeless 'naut

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Chill out to the sounds of an expert typing on a variety of mechanical keyboards

A truly rare groove

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One white cat and a volcano short of a Bond villain: Rocket Lab's Peter Beck shows off the 'Hungry Hippo'

Neutron updated, but the Spectre of SpaceX looms

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Dev loses copyright appeal over forensic software after judges rule suite was owned by his employer

Did it during work time and got paid for it, affirms Court of Appeal

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A smarter alternative to password recognition could be right in front of us: Unique, invisible, maybe even deadly

Take your breath awayyyyyyyy

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When you think of a unit of length, do you think of Antony Gormley's rusty anatomy?

Angel of the North asteroid story upsets us mightily

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Alibaba exec accused of mishandling sexual assault case wants alleged victim to apologise

Manager was fired, now wants his reputation restored with post on a prominent website

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