mort2h ago

You know how the #1 rule for using e-mail safely is "don't click suspicious links"? And that the way you check for suspicious links from an otherwise legit looking website is by hovering over it so that you see the href?

Well #Outlook has an amazing feature where their e-mail servers change all links in incoming e-mail to be some unreadable 'safelinks.protection.outlook.com' garbage! So you literally can't check where a link points to before clicking! Genious!

#email #microsoft #computers

Computers8h ago

UNIVAC 1050, Second Generation Mainframe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIVAC_1050

#computers #tech #technology

Bruce MacDonald10h ago

Music and tai chi were Neumann’s lifelong counterweights to computing. As an undergraduate, he played in the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, sang on RCA’s recording of Berlioz’s Damnation of Faust with the Boston Symphony, co-founded the Harvard Opera Guild—playing bassoon in the pit orchestra of its production of The Barber of Seville—and conducted and performed Gilbert and Sullivan.a ACM Fellow and former ACM president Peter J. Denning recalled, “Dorothy [Denning] and I were recorder players, and we occasionally got together with Peter and friends to play music. Peter surprised us once by playing a duet on two recorders, one on each side of his mouth. He had great fun doing this thing, which no one else could come close to.” Neumann played multiple instruments and was active in several musical groups. At computer security conferences, it was a tradition for him to lead his colleagues in song.
—Communications of the ACM

In Memoriam: Peter G. Neumann (1932-2026)
https://cacm.acm.org/news/in-memoriam-peter-g-neumann-1932-2026/

#computers #obituary #music

In Memoriam: Peter G. Neumann (1932-2026)

Communications of the ACM
Tomáš13h ago

COM
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#unix_surrealism #computers #art #mastoart

Gizmodo14h ago

Dell's Massive XPS Price Hikes Spell the Doom of Cheap PCs

https://gizmodo.com/dells-massive-xps-price-hikes-spell-the-doom-of-cheap-pcs-2000760080

#Tech #Computers #Gadgets

Dell’s Massive XPS Price Hikes Spell the Doom of Cheap PCs

Welcome to the age of high-end lightweight laptops costing $3,000 or more.

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Hacker News15h ago

Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling – Alex Plescan

https://alexplescan.com/posts/2025/08/16/kvm/

#HackerNews #computers #monitor #KVM #tech #AlexPlescan #multitasking

Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling

How to switch inputs between desktop and laptop on one monitor using built-in KVM and DDC

Alex Plescan
Computers20h ago

Compaq Presario, series of desktop computers and notebooks from Compaq.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq_Presario

#computers #tech #technology

Aptivi1d ago

Ubuntu Concept expands its efforts to support CIX Technology P1!

#Ubuntu #Linux #UbuntuLinux #Computers #Laptops #TechNews #TechUpdates #Minisforum #CIX #CIXP1 #OrangePi #Radxa #RadxaOrion #OrangePi6

https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/2026/05/18/ubuntu-concept-expands-to-cix-technology-p1/

Ubuntu Concept expands to CIX Technology P1

Ubuntu Concept was first released for Snapdragon X Elite systems, and it got lots of positive and strong reception due to the hard work that they’ve done, starting from November 2024. It was …

Aptivi
Aptivi1d ago

Linux 7.1 RC4 is now available!

#Linux #Kernel #LinuxKernel #Computers #Laptops #TechNews #TechUpdates

https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/2026/05/18/linux-7-1-rc4-released/

Linux 7.1 RC4 released!

Linux 7.1 RC4 is now live for developers and curious users to try out. All the interesting changes from performance improvements to bug fixes have been integrated to this release candidate. The off…

Aptivi
Aptivi1d ago

Linux 7.1 RC4 released!

Linux 7.1 RC4 is now live for developers and curious users to try out. All the interesting changes from performance improvements to bug fixes have been integrated to this release candidate.

The official announcement from the kernel mailing list says:

You all know the drill by now - another week, another release candidate.

Things continue to look fairly normal (where "normal" is the "new normal" with a fair amount of changes). Drivers are about half the patch, with GPU leading the way as is tradition. But there's a little bit of everything in driver land.

The rest is mostly networking, core kernel, filesystems, and arch updates.

Some of the documentation updates might be worth highlighting: the continued flood of AI reports has basically made the security list almost entirely unmanageable, with enormous duplication due to different people finding the same things with the same tools. People spend all their time just forwarding things to the right people or saying "that was already fixed a week/month ago" and pointing to the public discussion.

Which is all entirely pointless churn, and we're making it clear that AI detected bugs are pretty much by definition not secret, and treating them on some private list is a waste of time for everybody involved - and only makes that duplication worse because the reporters can't even see each other's reports.

AI tools are great, but only if they actually help, rather than cause unnecessary pain and pointless make-believe work. Feel free to use them, but use them in a way that is productive and makes for a better experience.

The documentation may be a bit less blunt than I am, but that's the core gist of it. So just to make it really clear: if you found a bug using AI tools, the chances are somebody else found it too. If you actually want to add value, read the documentation, create a patch too, and add some real value on *top* of what the AI did. Don't be the drive-by "send a random report with no real understanding" kind of person. Ok?

Why not try out this awesome pre-release of Linux 7.1?

#Computer #Computers #Kernel #Laptop #Laptops #Linux #LinuxKernel #news #Tech #Technology #update