Great positive fun!


Apple's Macintosh 128K on a Pi Pico gets thumbs-up from Upton
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Just because you could definitely means you should

The Raspberry Pi has long been popular with retrocomputing enthusiasts, and its microcontroller – the RP2040 – can also be used for various emulation purposes, now including the original Apple Macintosh 128K.

Compared to the $2.5k Apple wanted for the Mac in 1984 – around $7.5k in today's money – a Pi Pico with the RP2040 costs around $4...

Just pulled out my green Apple invoice from 1984 and my 512K Mac was $1600.00, external drive $347.00 and a carrying case for $69.00

Great positive fun!


Apple's Macintosh 128K on a Pi Pico gets thumbs-up from Upton
wrote:

Just because you could definitely means you should

The Raspberry Pi has long been popular with retrocomputing enthusiasts, and its microcontroller – the RP2040 – can also be used for various emulation purposes, now including the original Apple Macintosh 128K.

Compared to the $2.5k Apple wanted for the Mac in 1984 – around $7.5k in today's money – a Pi Pico with the RP2040 costs around $4...

Just pulled out my green Apple invoice from 1984 and my 512K Mac was $1600.00, external drive $347.00 and a carrying case for $69.00

Being a Pommy news site I'd say that that price is based on the Pound's exchange rate at the time plus handling and freight. ;-)

Great positive fun!Apple's Macintosh 128K on a Pi Pico gets thumbs-up from Upton wrote:

Just because you could definitely means you should
The Raspberry Pi has long been popular with retrocomputing enthusiasts, and its microcontroller – the RP2040 – can also be used for various emulation purposes, now including the original Apple Macintosh 128K.
Compared to the $2.5k Apple wanted for the Mac in 1984 – around $7.5k in today's money – a Pi Pico with the RP2040 costs around $4...

Just pulled out my green Apple invoice from 1984 and my 512K Mac was $1600.00, external drive $347.00 and a carrying case for $69.00

Being a Pommy news site I'd say that that price is based on the Pound's exchange rate at the time plus handling and freight. ;-)

As I looked it again, it was direct from Apple, hence it was wholesale prices. <whitespace removed>

https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/06/21/cve-2024-0762/
Persistent BIOS backdoor. The five eye are having a wet dream.

What happens when your connected cars are old enough to become unconnected.

Car companies say ‘nothing can be done’ about a change that could increase emergency response times to serious smashes.

Motorists are worried potentially lifesaving technology that can call an ambulance following a crash will be disconnected from some models when data service providers deactivate the 3G mobile network. Many cars have an ‘SOS’ feature that can call for help and relay precise information including how many passengers were on board, whether airbags were triggered, and a description of the car and its location, following a crash........

Apparently it's stiff sh^%.

These inefficient 3G remnants waste valuable frequencies for 5G. The people need video streaming, TikTok, online games... everywhere, everytime. Who cares about automatic distress calls?

There's some skepticism about the truth of the claim....
Ransomware group threatens Federal Reserve—claims it hacked America’s ‘banking secrets’

The cybercrime group claims it grabbed ’33 terabytes’ of data from the Fed.

In a post to the dark web this week, the criminal organization alleged that it had been in talks with the bank in order to secure a ransom in exchange for keeping the data private.

“33 terabytes of juicy banking information containing Americans’ banking secrets,” the group wrote. “You better hire another negotiator within 48 hours, and fire this clinical idiot who values Americans’ bank secrecy at $50,000.”

Cybersecurity experts, however, are skeptical of claims regarding the Federal Reserve and note that LockBit has not released any sample data.

... 3G shut down ....

Already done did that in the USA back on early 2022:
https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/plan-ahead-phase-out-3g-cellular-networks-and-service

CISA: Most critical open source projects not using memory safe code

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published research looking into 172 key open-source projects and whether they are susceptible to memory flaws.

The report, cosigned by CISA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), as well as Australian (ASD, ACSC) and Canadian organizations (CCCS), is a follow-up to the 'Case for Memory Safe Roadmaps' released in December 2023, aimed at raising awareness about the importance of memory-safe code.

Well that should've warned people off right from the start.

‘Google rival’ start up in the Gold Coast on brink of collapse amid fraud accusations.

......Gold Coast entrepreneur Alan Metcalfe launched Safe Worlds in 2010 and managed to raise $49 million from a pool of 600 people, mostly Australian mum and dad investors.

Alan claimed he had stumbled across the secret code to artificial intelligence while he was reading the bible.

With this code, he told investors his tech was going to revolutionise the global economy, and that his invention was going to be a combination of Google, YouTube and Amazon, only bigger and better.....

While the fix is in theory, simple - updating systems physically from backup disks - in practice this is now more difficult in a cloud computing world.
Governments face serious questions about how resilient our economic infrastructure is to this sort of epic failure.
Does it make sense to allow significant concentration on one company or product?

Ain't techology grand. :-)

Wirh the constant mantra "Keep your system update & keep it safe & secure.

All good & well until we get days like today.

Gotta feel sorry for Crowdstrike the cybersecurity company as it just lost $16bn off its value.

Simply:

Microsoft: Linux Is the Top Operating System on Azure Today


IT is what we make it...
Martin

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CrowdStrike says in not too many ways Sorry, not sorry.
After crashing 8.5 million computers, CrowdStrike says sorry to its partners with a $10 Uber Eats gift card, which was also broken.

Yet again an update goes wrong.

Just weeks after a major global IT outage caused chaos around the world, a cloud-based accounting software company has gone down.

Just weeks after a major IT outage brought businesses around the globe to a grinding halt, a cloud-based accounting software company has gone down.

Just before 8am AEST on Wednesday, software company Xero experienced a global outage affecting about 4.2 million small business users in Australia, New Zealand and the UK.

The company said it was related to a third party provider and it was investigating the issue with “urgency.”

“We have identified what is impacting some customers trying to log in and navigate Xero,” a spokesperson said.

“We thank customers for their patience while we investigate and apologise for any inconvenience.”.......

Let the lawsuits begin against CrowdStrike!
I wonder if CrowdStrike will eventually file for bankruptcy protection?
Delta CEO says CrowdStrike-Microsoft outage cost the airline $500 million
KEY POINTS

• Delta CEO Ed Bastian said the massive IT outage earlier this month that stranded thousands of customers will cost it $500 million.
  
  
• The airline canceled more than 5,000 flights in the wake of the outage, which was caused by a botched CrowdStrike software update and took thousands of Microsoft systems around the world offline.
  
  
• Bastian said the carrier would seek damages from the disruptions, adding, “We have no choice.”
  

I wonder what is in the T&Cs...?

Can responsibility and consequences really be 'outsourced'?...


Can a CEO be a "CEO-without-responsibility"?


... And then we have the examples for Boeing...

IT is what we allow it to be...
Martin

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See new freedom: Mageia Linux
Take a look for yourself: Linux Format
The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3)

We all knew it was and now it's official.

A US judge has found that Google has a monopoly on search in a groundbreaking antitrust case that could have huge implications.

A US judge on Monday handed Google a major legal blow, ruling in a closely-watched anti-trust case that it has a monopoly with its dominant search engine.

The landmark decision against a “big tech” giant could alter how the sector operates in future.

District Court Judge Amit Mehta found that Google maintained a monopoly for search and for text ads through exclusive distribution agreements that made it the “default” option that people were likely to use on devices.

“After having carefully considered and weighed the witness testimony and evidence, the court reaches the following conclusion: Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly,” Mehta wrote in his ruling........

WordStar 7, the last ever DOS version, is re-released for free

The preferred tool of Arthur C Clarke, Anne Rice and George R R Martin

WordStar 7.0d was the last-ever DOS release of the classic word processor, and it still has admirers today. A notable enthusiast is Canadian SF writer Robert J Sawyer, who wrote the book that became the TV series Flashforward.

Here’s the link to the full 680-megabyte archive:
https://sfwriter.com/ws7.htm

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I remember using WordStar to write all my source code/computer programs and a few class/term papers in college.

I also had to learn to use other word processors of the 80's such as Easy Writer (an awful IBM product) and Word Perfect as part of my dual college degree in programming & business administration but always preferred WordStar over the others.

Did I read this right, a zero day for everything except windows?
https://www.pcmag.com/news/zero-day-exploit-hackers-attack-mac-linux-chrome-safari-firefox