A snapshot of links shared on my Twitter account @WinObs for today
- Amazon moving off Oracle #DBfreedom
- What Google Cloud, G Suite and Chrome customers need to know about the industry-wide CPU vulnerability
- Official webpage for the Meltdown and Spectre CPU vulnerabilities, which has links to research papers and an FAQ (Meltdown and Spectre)
- Intel Says Range of Chips Vulnerable to Hack, Denies `Bug'
- Researchers say there is no known fix for Spectre CPU flaw; Meltdown flaw affects almost all Intel CPUs, requires software patch that could cause slowness (New York Times)
- ARM says some high-end processors, including its Cortex-A processors, are affected by CPU flaws; Cortex-M processors often used in IoT devices aren't impacted (Ina FriedAxios)
- Researchers discover vulnerabilities in most Intel chips and some ARM chips, named Meltdown and Spectre, that let hackers steal data from running apps (Zack WhittakerZDNet)
- Episode 36 Building a C# & Netduino Connected Coffee Maker with Bryan Costanich | The Xamarin Show
- North Carolina School District Pays $314k to Restore Systems
- New Office Insider Preview build for iOS adds Mobile View and more
- Developers Build apps faster with new Time Series Insights tools
- Windows Mixed Reality grabs 4% of Steam's VR market as Oculus tops the list
- A&E Networks signs deal with Verizon's Oath to make some of its programming available to stream for free on Yahoo and AOL (Todd SpanglerVariety)
- Microsoft Acquires Hybrid Cloud Storage Vendor Avere Systems
- Speedy SO-DIMMs G.Skill Launces 64 GB Kit at DDR4-3466 CL17
- Plan for Change Use Intune on Azure now for your MDM management
- AT&T sued over layoffs—after promising more investment because of tax cut
- NVIDIA Wants to Block Use of Cheaper Consumer GPUs in Data Center
- iMac Pro teardown reveals what you can upgrade and what you can’t
- Sources Spotify confidentially filed IPO documents with the SEC at the end of December; indications are the company wants to list in Q1 (Dan PrimackAxios)
- Microsoft BOT and AI URL Whitelists
- Updated Cloud vendors secretly scramble to patch critical flaw in Intel chips, performance hits expected
- Samsung looks to push Thunderbolt 3 with new 34-inch curved monitor
- Toshiba Samples AL15SE HDDs Up to 2.4 TB, 10K RPM, SAS
- Windows 10 Tip Browse full screen in Microsoft Edge
- Former Microsoft and Amazon exec Brian Valentine takes helm of Wiserg, raises $19.2M for startup that turns food scraps into fertilizer
- RegistrarStats.com to shut down next month
- Quadrantid meteors reach their peak, upstaged by a supermoon’s afterglow
- #5 in 2017 The Chinese trademark scam
- Google Sets Dates for G Suite Customers to Get The New Google Calendar
- Savill's FAQs Using Microsoft Azure AD Domain Services
- IBM sues Expedia, alleging online travel giant built its business on Big Blue’s patents
- What’s behind the Intel design flaw forcing numerous patches
- After beating cable lobby, Colorado city moves ahead with muni broadband
- Azure Analysis Services Scale Out & Diagnostics | Azure Friday
- Consequences of SLO violations — CRE life lessons
- RIP Kinect 2010-2017(ish)
- AMD Soars After Rival Intel Said to Reveal Processor Flaw
- From Mercury Mark II to Project Gemini
