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Western Digital (WDC) announces quarterly dividend payouts

Western Digital Corporation (NASDAQ: WDC), a leading global provider of data storage solutions, has officially ...

By Claudio Kuenzler

May 15, 2025

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Suddenly listed on ix.dnsbl.manitu.net? This DNSBL has seized its operations.

In the following weeks your monitoring might alert you that your mail server(s) got listed ...

By Claudio Kuenzler

March 7, 2025

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Western Digital's (WDC) Flash spin-off now in effect (SNDK)

In March 2024, Western Digital Corp (WDC) announced a company separation, to separate its Hard ...

By Claudio Kuenzler

February 24, 2025

Skype update required

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Skype stopped working on Linux (if not installed as SNAP package)

It already caused a controversial discussion last year, as Microsoft decided to get rid of ...

By Claudio Kuenzler

January 30, 2025

rsync regression

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Recent rsync security update introduced a regression (bug)

On January 14 2025, the rsync package received important security updates, which fixed serious and ...

By Claudio Kuenzler

January 17, 2025

Firefox vertical tabs

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Vertical tabs are here in Firefox (and how to switch back)

After my (Linux Mint bundled) Firefox was updated to version 133, I got the following ...

By Claudio Kuenzler

December 19, 2024

Google Maps Timeline

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Google Maps moves Timeline history to your device

Google announced a change in the Timeline feature of Google Maps. The Timeline feature, in ...

By Claudio Kuenzler

December 7, 2024

elasticsearch

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Elasticsearch is Open Source, again (with AGPL license)

Yesterday, on August 29th 2024, Elastic announced the switch back to being fully Open Source ...

By Claudio Kuenzler

August 30, 2024

crowdstrike

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Windows Blue Screen crash caused by bad Crowdstrike update

Reports are currently rolling in from all over the world, that Windows machines, running Crowdstrike, ...

By Claudio Kuenzler

July 19, 2024

PostgreSQL adds MySQL compatibility

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PostgreSQL announces MySQL compatibility with upcoming extension

MySQL (and its fork MariaDB) have been used for many many years, especially by web ...

By Claudio Kuenzler

April 25, 2024

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