today's leftovers
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Feedback from ELCE 2023: selection of talks #1
As we reported in previous blog post, almost the entire Bootlin engineering team was at the Embedded Linux Conference Europe in Prague in June.
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mintCast 417 – All Hail Avrecon
First up in the news: Mint 21.2 Victoria released, Canonical’s Leading LXD Engineer Quits, Ubuntu Plans to Ditch its ‘Minimal’ Install Option, a new BlendOS v3, SUSE forks Red Hat
In security and privacy, Avrecon malware affects 70,000 Linux servers, turns them into a botnet, and we meet RCE Flaw and PyLoose Malware
Then in our Wanderings Joe has a bad reaction, Moss forgot to write something here, Bill more of the same, Majid pretends to be a socialist
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Jonathan Riddell: OpenUK Awards 2023 Open for Nominations
The OpenUK Awards are open for nominations for 2023.
- Nominations open 28th July 2023
- Nominations close midnight UK 19th September 2023 (this will not be extended)
- Shortlist of up to 3 nominees per category announced 18th October 2023
- Winners Announced 20th November 2023: Black Tie Awards Ceremony and dinner at House of Lords sponsored by Lord Vaizey, 6-10.30pm, tickets limited
Self nominations are very welcome. If you know fit into the categories or have a project or company which does or know anyone else who does then fill in the form and say why it’s deserved. You might get fame and glory or at the least a dinner in the house of lords.
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What leaked court docs tell us about AWS, Azure and Google cloud market shares
Recently leaked court documents during Microsoft Corp.’s ActivisionBlizzard hearing require us to revisit our cloud forecasts and market share data. The poorly redacted docs, which have since been removed from public viewing, suggest that Microsoft’s Azure revenue is at least 25% lower than our previous estimates.
As a result, we’ve cut and revised our Azure revenue figures, which in turn increases Amazon Web Services Inc.’s Big Four hyperscale cloud market share. Our new estimates show that AWS maintains a greater than 50% share of revenue through 2023. Although the change also helps Google Cloud, its market share is only modestly affected.
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Tackling the labor shortage in cybersecurity [Ed: Windows impact on Total Cost of Ownership]
The U.S. has nearly 700,000 job vacancies in cybersecurity, which members of a House Homeland Security Committee subpanel said they find troubling in a hearing last month.
“We need not only enough people, but the right people with the right skills in the right jobs to meet the growing cyber threat,” Rep. Andrew Garbarino (R-N.Y.) said.