Day: March 26, 2021

Red Hat pulls Free Software Foundation funding over Richard Stallman’s return

‘Many contributors have told us they no longer plan to participate in FSF events, and we stand behind them’ The chorus of disapproval over Richard M Stallman, founder and former president of the Free Software Foundation (FSF), rejoining the organisation has intensified as Linux giant Red Hat confirmed it was pulling funding.… …read more Source::…


Facebook will start reopening offices on May 10 – CNET

Its headquarters and other Bay Area locations will open at 10% capacity. …read more Source:: CNet


Biden Sets New Covid Vaccine Goal of 200 Million Shots Within His First 100 Days

President Joe Biden on Thursday announced a new goal of having 200 million Covid vaccination shots being distributed within his first 100 days in office. From a report: “I know it’s ambitious — twice our original goal — but no other country in the world has come close … to what we’re doing,” Biden told…


Bare-Metal STM32: Please Mind The Interrupt Event

Interruptions aren’t just a staple of our daily lives. They’re also crucial for making computer systems work as well as they do, as they allow for a system to immediately respond to an event. While on desktop computers these interrupts are less prominent than back when we still had to manually set the IRQ for…


Facebook completes 77-mile fiber deployment in Indiana to connect data centers

The build will connect Facebook’s data centers in Iowa and Nebraska to facilities in Ohio, Virginia and North Carolina. …read more Source:: ZDNet


The Solution of the Zodiac Killer’s 340-Character Cipher

Sam Blake, writing at Wolfram Blog: The Zodiac Killer (an unidentified American serial killer active during the 1960s and 70s) sent numerous taunting letters to the press in the San Francisco area with regard to a local murder spree. In these letters, the killer took responsibility for the crimes and threatened to commit further murders….


Microsoft pivots on Pivot, admits that yanking touch control from WinUI 3 toolset ‘was obviously poor judgment’

Wow, Redmond actually said soz! As Project Reunion – Microsoft’s latest scheme to tempt developers back to Windows – lumbers closer to the finish line, the company has admitted it made a whoopsie in the deprecation of the Pivot control.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


The Suicide Squad trailer is here and it looks wonderfully bonkers – CNET

From Harley Quinn to Bloodsport, James Gunn’s DC flick is jam-packed with wild convicts. And a humanoid shark. …read more Source:: CNet


Insurance Giant CNA Hit with Novel Ransomware Attack

The incident, which forced the company to disconnect its systems, caused significant business disruption. …read more Source:: Threatpost


Sierra Wireless partially restores network following ransomware attack

Production lines are operating again at the IoT device manufacturer, but internal IT systems remain down following a cyber attack on March 20. …read more Source:: ZDNet