• Windows 2004 vs. Ubuntu 2004.  (Phoronix)
  
  Microsoft have clearly been busy, and manage to win 40% of the benchmarks.  The geometric mean of all results has them neck-and-neck.
  
  
  
• External provider used BGP poisoning.  It was particularly effective!  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  One bad packet and IBM Cloud went offline, worldwide.  Nice work.
  
  
  
• China takes down Castro.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Even naming your app after a communist dictator won't save you.
  
  Oh, and Pocket Casts too.  Which is a great app that I use almost every day.
  
  
  
• Twitter is going full Karen.  (Business Insider)
  
  It will apparently now nag you if you retweet a post containing a link, without first clicking on that link.  Which is a direct assault on Twitter's core audience.

Posted by: Mauser at Friday, June 12 2020 12:47 PM (Ix1l6)

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