Actually, except from the crap MS marketing keep pushing regarding changing defaults, Edge is my favourite chromium browser, for Windows. On Windows it is significantly ligther on system resources and battery life than Chrome (and FF), starts up faster, smooth scrolling, and has some useful features and options built in, like strict tracking prevention by default, good PDF reader with PDF editing capabilities, tab groups/vertical tabs, etc. I just wish they let the default setting dark pattern UX crap go.

Well, Crowdstrike did the excact same thing to Linux servers earlier this year, sending them into kernel panic. https://www.tomshardware.com/s...

As another poster commented, proving that a driver (or any software) won't ever fail under any condition is not normal QA, and next to impossible.

What caused the Crowdstrike outage wasn't a driver update, it was their version of a virus definition file (Crowdstrike call it channel files). This gets updated many times per day (can be hourly), is a normal data file pushed directly to the Crowdstrike data directory and read by Crowdstrike software, which requires a live connection to their "security cloud" to function. So everyone saying IT admins should have tested the update first don't really understand how this work, it isn't possible.

Unfortunately this particular definition file contained malformed data that provoked a malfunction in the already installed kernel level agent. And as anyone who has read Crowdstrike's PIR know it was entirely due to Crowdstrike''s test and release process being shockingly lacking in normal safeguards.

Btw. Crowdstrike did the exact same thing to Linux servers earlier this year (Debian and RH), so if this is a Microsoft issue it is a Linux issue as well.

The file doesn't have kernel level access, it is a data file stored in the Crowdstrike software data directory, where it is being read by an already installed kernel level agent. There is no signing procedure for this, and it would not really work to try to have it, as it is updated many times per day. The alternative is to have out of date protection, and risk this instead: https://apnews.com/article/los... . It is pick your poison, up until now malware has caused far more IT disruption than the cybersecurity solutions.

Crowdstrike did the excact same thing to Linux servers earlier this year, sending them into kernel panic with an update.

Because what caused the issue wasn't code to be installed in Windows at kernel level at all, it was "just" Crowdstrike's version of a virus definition file -- Crowdstrike call it a Channel File -- and it gets updated several times per day. Somehow corrupted data in this file triggered a fault in the already installed agent.

Source: https://www.crowdstrike.com/bl...

This isn't so much about Windows as it is about Crowdstrike quality control and rollout procedures. Crowdstrike did the exact same thing to Linux servers earlier this year, sending them into kernal panic at startup.

This. What people pointing to historic fluctuations being normal don't take into account is both the unprecedented extreme speed at which it is happening now, making it much much much harder for natures ecosystems to adopt. But also, humanity. The difference now is that there are 8 billions humans on this earth, with a fragile and inter-dependent ecosystems. Few are anywhere near food self sufficiency, and fewer still are self-supplied on all the elements and components needed for the products and lifestyle we take for granted. And that is ignoring the effects of mass-migration.

haha ha haha

Humans get things wrong all the time too, the bar isn't for the generative models to always be right, but to do at least as good a job (error/quality wise) as an average human doing the same work. There is a reason we have quality control already, also LLMs will need that.

EVs also require less service in general, with fewer moving parts and components. The maintenance on electric cars can be significantly lower and cheaper than maintaining a gas car. According to Consumer Reports, in 2020 electric cars cost about $900 per year to maintain, while gas cars cost about $1,200 per year. This is quite a bit of lost revenue for the dealers which is part of the resistance.

Win11 Notepad has multilevel undo, finally.

First time I have seen Slashdot consider the top legal counsel of a company as the voice of reason (I know he has a different title now, but that is the title he has had for ages and the role he still plays).

Would understanding that documentation be dependent on pixel-perfect rendering of the design? Because that is what you will lose with substitution fonts.

It doesn't have to be if implemented well by mobile provider. I'm not in the US but I have seen 1.5 Gbps actual speed (measured download from remote site) over 5G internet, beating that my home broadband is only 750 Mbps. Sure, the cable broadband speed is likely more stable and a bit faster ping (though the 5G ping is surpisingly good), but I'm basically unable to notice any diference on my laptop with built in SIM card whether I'm running on 5G or 750mbps cable even for bandwith heavy loads.

These stories have nothing to to with being alone in the universe or not. We might not be, but believing that might be a possibility is very far from having visitors that only the US government knows about (not visiting rest of the world for some reason, unless you believe alle the nations of the whole world have been able to collaborate on keeing this secret), without leaking any evidence for many decades (completely unprecedented for the government), and that the aliens somehow have managed to avoid any evidence from everyone having a high quality cloud connected camera recording device at all times, but still anal-probing Americans at the regular