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Google wants you to use a selfie video for account recovery, LG will stop apps turning their smart TVs into residential proxy nodes, we disagree about how serious OpenAI’s agent hacking Hugging Face is, FreeBSD removes the last bits of GPL software and suffers an embarrassing git flub , and backing up to an encrypted NAS without ZFS.

 

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Introducing selfie for sign-in: a new, easy way to access your Google Account

LG to Ban Residential Proxies from Smart TV Apps

OpenAI says its AI agent broke out of testing sandbox to hack Hugging Face

FreeBSD 16 Retires The Last Of Its GPL Code From Its Base System

Ports Repository Freeze

 

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A new HTTP caching standard looks promising but might struggle to get adopted, a terrible space mirror idea is actually happening, cars will spy on us all, and picking a VPN for use with an IP that doesn’t change very often.

 

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HTTP gets a QUERY method so complex searches can stop pretending to be POST

FCC grants approval for sun-reflecting space mirror that’s been widely criticized by astronomers

Feels like all of us need to pay way more attention to the new rules affecting EU and US folk, requiring all new cars to include a driver monitoring camera aimed at your face

 

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Microsoft really wants your Windows settings data, secure boot has been useless for a decade, our thoughts on (the idea of) Incus and IncusOS, and configuring ZFS for a Lightning Memory Mapped Database.

 

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Jails, Not Containers: FreeBSD Isolation Done Right

 

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Microsoft flips Windows Backup to on by default unless you’re in the EU

Microsoft’s Secure Boot has been broken for a decade and no one noticed until now

IncusOS

Incus

 

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Follow-up on rebooting to update, portable power stations, glass storage, and objective news sources. Plus whether to use one ZFS pool per vdev, or just one large pool.

 

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Native inotify in FreeBSD

 

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Anker SOLIX EV Charger Adapter (For F3000, J1722 only)

EcoFlow EV Charger to Portable Power Station Adaptor (SAE J1772 to 5P8 Port, 50A)

WattCycle First-to-Market: WattLINK – EcoFlow Delta 2/3 Series PPS E

 

 

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Why setting up commercial email and VPN services is incredibly hard, avoiding TrueNAS’s move from FreeBSD to Linux, why we avoid virtualising storage systems, and bridging WiFi to an external building.

 

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Using Object Storage with OpenZFS and SeaweedFS

 

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Jeff Moss explains why setting up private email and VPN services are so difficult

 

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XigmaNAS

 

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Point-to-point Wi-Fi bridging between buildings—the cheap and easy way

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The one tool in our IT tool belt that we value the most. This is a short episode because Joe is having a summer break.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Wiring up a house for networking including cables, access points, connectors, and racks. Plus Google is found liable for what its AI overviews say.

 

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Managing Cache and DirectIO for Databases on ZFS

Webinar: June 30th @ 11am EDT: FreeBSD After Hours AMA

 

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Landmark German ruling declares Google’s AI Overviews are Google’s own words and makes it liable for false answers

 

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Jim’s guide to Wi-Fi AP placement

Monoprice 24-port Cat5e Patch Panel

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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People were locked out of their password managers to stop a brute force attack, Coreutils come to Windows, a FreeBSD PR effort backfires, and the best simple consumer WiFi gear.

 

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Why ZFS Is the Ideal Filesystem for Multi-User/Department Media Production

Webinar: June 30th @ 11am EDT: FreeBSD After Hours AMA

 

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Password manager Dashlane suspends customer accounts amid brute-force attacks

Microsoft Announces Coreutils For Windows: Derived From Rust Coreutils

Coreutils for Windows

FreeBSD Foundation Executive Director Tries Daily Driving FreeBSD On Laptop

 

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Microsoft threatens a security researcher for disclosing vulnerabilities publicly, bricks old versions of Office, and announces their version of OpenClaw. Plus keeping up with the latest technology.

 

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Which ZFS Storage Metrics Matter for Database Performance

Webinar: June 25th @ 11am EDT: Understanding AnyRAID with Jon from HexOS

 

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Microsoft under fire for threatening security researcher with criminal investigation

The researcher is a former MS employee says Krebs

Microsoft reaches for olive branch after public dustup with 0-day researcher

Microsoft is intentionally bricking all Office for Mac 2019/2021 installations

Introducing Microsoft Scout: Your always-on personal agent

 

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It looks like Bitlocker had a back door in it, how a listener accidentally broke Gitea for users of the snap version, Google accidentally published an unpatched exploit for Chromium-based browsers, why people are starting to ditch Bitwarden, and moving a tech stack away from large corporations.

 

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How Klara and TrueNAS fixed ZFS’s longest standing limitation

Webinar: June 25th @ 11am EDT: Understanding AnyRAID with Jon from HexOS

 

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YellowKey Bitlocker Bypass Vulnerability

Microsoft shares mitigation for YellowKey Windows zero-day

How I Broke Gitea for Everyone

Google publishes exploit code threatening millions of Chromium users

The Quiet Renovation at Bitwarden

 

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