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jaa101 writes:
Cloudflare chose the AMD 64-core EPYC 7713 over Intel's Ice Lake Xeon alternatives to save on power consumption for its next generation server design. "Although Intel's chips were able to compete with AMD in terms of raw performance, the power consumption was several hundred watts higher per server."
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jaa101 writes:
The Australian state of South Australia is being sued for refusing to stop using CHIRON, MS-DOS-based software from the 90s that stores patient records. Their licence expired in March 2015 but they claim it would be risky to stop using it. The vendor, Working Systems, says SA Health has been the only user of CHIRON since 2008 when they declined to migrate to the successor product MasterCare ePAS.
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jaa101 writes:
ABC (Australia) reports Turkey has blocked access to Twitter and YouTube, officials say, over the publication of photographs of an Istanbul prosecutor held at gunpoint by far-left militants hours before he was killed in a shootout last week.
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jaa101 writes:
The Register (UK) and the Global Times (China) report Foreign VPN service unavailable in China. A quote sourced to "one of the founders of an overseas website which monitors the Internet in China" claimed The Great Firewall is blocking the VPN on the protocol level. It means that the firewall does not need to identify each VPN provider and block its IP addresses. Rather, it can spot VPN traffic during transit and block it. An upgrade of the Great Firewall of China is blamed and China appears to be backing the need for the move to maintain cyberspace sovereignty.
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jaa101 writes:
In Australia Uber is reportedly suspending the accounts used by government transport inspectors conducting sting operations. The article suggests that a new handset, credit card and email account are all needed to get a new, unblocked account. If inspectors can only issue one or two fines before they're blocked then the sting operations will cost more than the fines. Presumably the Uber app can block based on IMEI, SIM and/or phone number.
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jaa101 writes:
The owner of a drone, which fell and reportedly hit an athlete competing in a triathlon in Western Australia's Mid West, has said he believes the device was "hacked" into.
