Linux Foundation and Microsoft
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Linux Group Shares Its First Open Dataset for Creating Real Google Maps Alternatives [Ed: No connection to Linux. Misuse of the trademark.]
Google regularly spends billions of dollars on its mapping initiatives, like its recent return to recording street views in Germany. Other companies both big and small are working together to create a open source dataset that everyone can draw from.
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Linux is consorting with tech behemoths to improve ethernet standards
Just yesterday, I was a suit-wearing Musk-eteer, deep in thoughts of “wow, what a world we live in. With artificial intelligence (AI) definitely sluiced into the public consciousness with good intentions, and the continued persistence of cloud computing trading on the thrown scrap of convenience and cost-effectiveness against the dark ‘service-as-a-service’ whims of any company comically evil enough to enter into a consortium.”
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Microsoft Message Queuing Vulnerabilities Allow Remote Code Execution, DoS Attacks
Cybersecurity firm Fortinet has published details on three critical- and high-severity vulnerabilities patched recently in the Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) service.
Two of these flaws, tracked as CVE-2023-21554 and CVE-2023-28302, could lead to remote code execution (RCE) and denial-of-service (DoS) and were addressed by Microsoft with its April 2023 Patch Tuesday updates. No CVE identifier has been provided for the third issue.
A proprietary messaging protocol, MSMQ supports communication between applications running on separate systems. It places messages that did not reach their destination in a queue and resends them as soon as the destination becomes reachable.
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Windows TCO: Dozens of Organizations Targeted by Akira Ransomware
The Akira ransomware gang has compromised at least 63 organizations since March 2023, mostly focusing on small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), cybersecurity firm Arctic Wolf reports.
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Microsoft is in serious EU antitrust trouble for the first time in a decade and a half—and this time it’s because of its Slack rival
Microsoft has mostly managed to stay in the good books of the EU’s competition regulators since the late aughts, when it received a record $1.3 billion fine in 2008 for failing to properly comply with an earlier antitrust decision about interoperability, and settled another major antitrust investigation in 2009 by giving Windows users a choice of default browser when they fired up the operating system.
However, Microsoft’s cultural transformation into a supposedly less aggressive entity has recently been called into question. The company has started ignoring Outlook and Teams users’ browser choices by opening links in its Edge browser. It might soon face a British antitrust probe over contractual terms that arguably lock customers into its cloud (rival Amazon is also in those crosshairs). And now it’s under investigation by the EU antitrust directorate again.