Day: November 22, 2018

Groundhog Day comes early as Intel Display Drivers give Windows 10 the silent treatment

What’s that? You’ve installed 1809? No, sorry, can’t hear you The Windows 10 October 2018 Update woes continued for Microsoft last night with the announcement that Redmond had slammed the brakes for users of certain Intel display drivers.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Nintendo Switch Mario Kart Black Friday bundles in stock now — plus 2DS and Labo deals – CNET

Here’s where you can get that Mario Kart 8 Deluxe for the Switch now. Also — Labo is cheap! …read more Source:: CNet


CDC: Do Not Eat Any Romaine Lettuce Until Further Notice

Earlier this week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention put out an unusually strong statement telling Americans to toss any romaine lettuce in any form: whole, chopped, pre-bagged into Caesar salads, combined into spring mix, and so on. The warning covered not just homes but retailers and restaurants, and came with a recommendation to…


Peers to HMRC: Digital tax reforms 3 days after Brexit? Hold your horses, how ’bout 3 years…

Sweeping changes to VAT will hit small biz, says committee HMRC’s digital tax reforms to VAT – due to launch just three days after Brexit – will hit small businesses hard and should be delayed, peers have said.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


How Microsoft’s caricature AI turns photos into portrait cartoons

Microsoft’s AI can create caricatures that look like a real cartoon artist’s rendition of a human face. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Well now you node: They’re not known for speed, but Ceph storage systems can fly

Flashing seriously Analysis It has been revealed that open source Ceph storage systems can move a little faster than you might expect. For those who need, er, references, it seems a four-node Ceph cluster can serve 2.277 million random read IOPS using Micron NVMe SSDs – high performance by any standard.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Rowhammer attacks can now bypass ECC memory protections

Attack works against ECC memory included with DDR3 memory, but researchers believe DDR4 is also vulnerable. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Kind of the Opposite of a Lightsaber

Lightsabers are an elegant weapon for a more civilized age. Did you ever consider that cutting people’s hands off with a laser sword means automatically cauterized wounds and that lack of blood results in a gentler rating from the Motion Picture Association? Movie guidelines aside, a cauterizing pen is found in some first aid kits,…


In an Open Letter To EU’s Competition Commissioner, 14 European Shopping Comparison Services Say Google is Not Making the Search For Products Fairer

Google is not complying with European demands that it must make the search for products fairer, rivals say. In an open letter to the EU’s Competition Commissioner on Thursday, they wrote: We are writing to you as leading European comparison shopping services (CSSs) to express our collective view that Google’s “compliance mechanism” in the Google…


Microsoft squeezes a 2019 server out of the Azure DevOps pipeline

RC1 is here for devs without their heads in the cloud Microsoft has emitted the first release candidate for the on-premises version of Azure DevOps in the form of Azure DevOps Server 2019.… …read more Source:: TheRegister