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Comment Re:Trademark (Score 5, Informative) 67

Don Ho is correct about his trademark (yes, it's registered), and Andrey Letov appears to be showing the proper respect to Don by renaming and rebranding the port.

That's a charitable interpretation of what's been going on. If you read the GitHub issue, Don Ho has been asking Andrey Letov for days to rebrand, and Andrey has been stalling and deferring, and even after he started the rename, and was implying some sort of coordination between the projects or official support where none existed. Don was initially very polite with Andrey, giving him the benefit of the doubt, but it's become clear through his tactics that Andrey has been trying to ride Notepad++'s trademark into launch his vibe-coded MacOS port.

Comment Re:Account security 101 (Score 1) 82

by giesen (#64074129) Attached to: Beeper's iMessage App for Android is Back

Do not share your username and password with third parties.

FFS I can't believe a tech site like /. is trying to defend a company directly asking for username and password info, with what, a cross their fingers promise to keep it safe and secure from leaking?

Beeper (Mini) does not require an Apple ID or any credentials to be shared with Beeper. It performs validation via SMS

Submission + - Seagate To Pay $300 Million Penalty For Shipping Huawei 7 Million Hard Drives (reuters.com)

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An anonymous reader writes: Seagate has agreed to pay a $300 million penalty in a settlement with U.S. authorities for shipping over $1.1 billion worth of hard disk drives to China's Huawei in violation of U.S. export control laws, the Department of Commerce said on Wednesday. Seagate sold the drives to Huawei between August 2020 and September 2021 despite an August 2020 rule that restricted sales of certain foreign items made with U.S. technology to the company. Huawei was placed on the Entity List, a U.S. trade blacklist, in 2019 to reduce the sale of U.S. goods to the company amid national security and foreign policy concerns.

Seagate shipped 7.4 million drives to Huawei for about a year after the 2020 rule took effect and became Huawei's sole supplier of hard drives, the Commerce Department said. The other two primary suppliers of hard drives ceased shipments to Huawei after the new rule took effect in 2020, the department said. Though they were not identified, Western Digital and Toshiba were the other two, the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee said in a 2021 report on Seagate.

Comment Re:Is this really newsworthy? (Score 1) 53

Freedom Mobile has revenues less than 1M CAD. I'm guessing they aren't the same folks running the national infrastructure.

Not sure where you got that, but they are the 4th largest mobile operator in Canada. They have 1250 employees, which assuming we spread $1M evenly among them, means they make $800/each, excluding infrastructure costs. Some googling tells me they're up around the $800M/year mark.

Submission + - Red Hat Suffers Massive Data Center Network Outage

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An anonymous reader writes: According to multiple reports on Twitter, the Fedora Infrastructure Status page, and the #fedora-admin Freenode IRC channel, Red Hat is suffering a massive network outage at their primary data center. Details are sketchy at this point, but it looks to be impacting the Red Hat Customer Portal; as well as all their repositories (including Fedora, EPEL, Copr); their public build system, Koji; and a whole host of other popular services. There is no ETA for restoration of services at this point.

Submission + - US Appeals Court Dismisses AT&T Data Throttling Lawsuit (reuters.com)

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An anonymous reader writes: A federal appeals court in California on Monday dismissed a U.S. government lawsuit that accused AT&T Inc (T.N) of deception for reducing internet speeds for customers with unlimited mobile data plans once their use exceeded certain levels. The company, however, could still face a fine from the Federal Communications Commission regarding the slowdowns, also called "data throttling." The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said it ordered a lower court to dismiss the data-throttling lawsuit, which was filed in 2014 by the Federal Trade Commission. The FTC sued AT&T on the grounds that the No. 2 U.S. wireless carrier failed to inform consumers it would slow the speeds of heavy data users on unlimited plans. In some cases, data speeds were slowed by nearly 90 percent, the lawsuit said. The FTC said the practice was deceptive and, as a result, barred under the Federal Trade Commission Act. AT&T argued that there was an exception for common carriers, and the appeals court agreed.

Submission + - SETI has observed a "strong" signal that may originate from a Sun-like star (arstechnica.com) 1

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An anonymous reader writes: The RATAN-600 radio telescope in Zelenchukskaya, Russia has detected a strong signal around 11 GHz (which is very unlikely to be naturally-caused) coming from HD164595, a star nearly identical in mass to the Sun and located about 95 light years from Earth. The system is known to have at least one planet.

If the signal were isotropic, it would seem to indicate a Kardashev Type II civilization.

While it is too early to draw any conclusions, the discovery will be discussed at an upcoming SETI committee meeting on September 27th.

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