https://web30.web.cern.ch/home Sir Tim Berners-Lee wrote a proposal in March 1989 called “Information Management: A Proposal“. By 1991 this vision of universal connectivity had become the World Wide Web. Today web turns 30 years old. Let’s celebrate the day by remembering the old days when we used dial-up modems and most web pages were not bloated →
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/03/11/eu_directive_ban_rf_radio_firmware_tinkering/ EU plans to ban the sale of user-moddable radio frequency devices – like phones and routers. The controversy centres on Article 3(3)(i) of the EU Radio Equipment Directive, which was passed into law back in 2014. →
https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/04/with-usb-4-thunderbolt-and-usb-will-converge/ The USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) has unveiled the specifications of USB 4.0, as Engadget reports. And USB 4.0 looks a lot like Thunderbolt 3. Specifications won’t be finalized until later this year, but it seems that one port and one cable type to rule them all. With Thunderbolt 3, Intel added USB 3.1 Gen →
UDP Joke https://nixcraft.tumblr.com/image/171545096187 TCP Joke http://devhumor.com/media/want-to-hear-a-tcp-joke →
I had a small box full of USB cables that I did not know if they were good or not after use. Those were taken out of use when they did not seem to work OK, and nothing is more annoying than unreliable USB charging cable. I found this 3-In-1 Micro USB Type-C Data Mini →
https://www.cyberciti.biz/linux-news/linux-kernel-5-0-released-how-to-install/ Linus Torvalds the creator and the principal developer of the Linux kernel announced the release of Linux kernel version 5.0. This release increases the major kernel version number to 5. from 4.x. There are not any major changed in features but still normal set of changes you can expect from version to another. On →
https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/27/open-source-communities-fight-over-telco-market/ The Linux Foundation (LF) had its own booth at MWC. The booth is shared by the three LF projects: the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), Hyperleger and Linux Foundation Networking, the home of many of the foundational projects like ONAP and the Open Platform for NFV(OPNFV) that power many a modern network. With the →
This posting is here to collect cyber security news in March 2019. I post links to security vulnerability news to comments of this article. If you are interested in cyber security trends, read my Cyber security trends 2019 posting. You are also free to post related links. →
What if a jolt of electricity could make you happy? http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2019/02/22/new-experiment-scientists-used-jolts-electricity-spark-actual-joy/#.XHeCgmnks0P People all around the world have been exhausting themselves of late trying to “spark joy” in their lives. Any emotion we feel has a physical cause inside our brains: Electrical charges pass from neuron to neuron. It seems that what we call happiness is →