today's leftovers
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iTWire - VMware pays fine to settle SEC charge of misleading investors
Multi-cloud services provider VMware has paid a fine of US$8 million (A$11.6 million) following a settlement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission over a charge of misleading investors about its order backlog management practices.
In a statement issued on Monday, the SEC said these practices meant the company could "push revenue into future quarters by delaying product deliveries to customers, concealing the company’s slowing performance relative to its projections".
It found that these practices had begun in fiscal 2019. "VMware began delaying the delivery of licence keys on some sales orders until just after quarter-end so that it could recognise revenue from the corresponding licence sales in the following quarter," the SEC said.
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Diffusion Bee 1.0: Easy to Install Stable Diffusion for Apple Silicon Macs [Ed: Apple easy to use? No!]
It’s been a bit tricky to get running on Apple Silicon Macs, because (among other factors) the Python situation is complex.
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iTWire - Apple fixes 10 bugs including two zero-days under exploit
Apple has released fixes for 10 bugs in macOS Big Sur, including two zero-days that are being exploited in the wild.
Both the zero-days, CVE-2022-32894 and CVE-2022-32917, were attributed to an anonymous researcher and affect the kernel of the operating system.
Apple offered no details about these issues, merely saying, "An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited."
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Use Rust To Reduce The Size Of Your SQLite Database
Meet sqlite-zstd, a Rust library that compresses your database many fold, leading to great savings in size while conserving its search capabilities intact.