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Sloppy practises by Gigabyte reveal one of the problems with UEFI, why Slack refuses to implement end to end encryption, a familiar bug ruins people’s uptime, and XFS vs ext4.
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FreeBSD or Linux – A Choice Without OS Wars)
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Millions of Gigabyte Motherboards Were Sold With a Firmware Backdoor)
Millions of Gigabyte PC motherboards backdoored? What’s the actual score?)
90+ orgs tell Slack to stop slacking when it comes to full encryption)
AMD’s EPYC Rome Chips Crash After 1,044 Days of Uptime)
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