Can you believe November is already over? It’s been a wild year with lots of surprises (some better than others) but surely some of the best were brought to all of us by the tech industry, which never stops!\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here are the highlights of the November 2020 tech news:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The next release of Ubuntu Linux is Ubuntu 21.04 code-named Hirsute Hippo development begins. And the daily build .iso images are now available. We tried to find out the expected new features.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The new feature is part of Otter Live Notes, which was integrated into Zoom for some subscribers earlier this year. The feature will transcribe the speaker’s words and display them on screen in almost real-time, with a delay of about two seconds. Transcriptions can be browsed, highlighted and annotated live during the meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The supposed 14th-gen range will have Gen13 graphics, the same as Intel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s DG3 discrete graphics card (which is also mentioned in the leak \u00e2\u20ac\u201c remember that DG1 is just out in the form of Intel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Iris Xe Max GPU for laptops, and DG2 will run with Xe high-performance gaming architecture next year, so it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not yet clear where DG3 will fit in). Obviously, treat all this with a suitable degree of caution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You can always count on the good folks at Tom\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Hardware to test out the latest CPUs and give a detailed review of their features and performance. this time it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the turn of AMD\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Ryzen 9 5950X and 5900X that according to the review has \u00e2\u20ac\u0153set the new benchmark for high-end gaming and application performance, all while delivering incredible power efficiency\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
WordPress\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Core systems team had an eventful day when an error in the auto-update system caused sites to update to WordPress 5.5.3-alpha-49449, including live production sites with no auto-update constants defined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sites that were accidentally updated also installed all the default themes released over the last decade, as well as Akismet. Developers will need to manually delete the bundled themes that they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The latest tech hearing was a study in contrasts. Contrasts between lawmakers who made an effort to stay on topic in a hearing ostensibly about social media and the 2020 election and those who\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 just talked about whatever was on their minds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Also contrasts between then and now. Social media companies previously treated any attempt at Section 230 reform as radioactive; now, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve come around to cooperating so they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not cut out of the conversation altogether. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The newly announced CPU is Arm’s first serious contender in the high-performance CPU market, currently dominated by Intel and AMD. The Arm Cortex-A78C is part of the Cortex-A78 family of CPUs that Arm unveiled earlier this year in May 2020. But while the A78 was pitched for mobile devices, the A78C is designed specifically for high-performance, always-on devices such as laptops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A notice on Amazon Web Services\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 status page said it was experiencing problems with Kinesis, its service that processes large streams of data, causing \u00e2\u20ac\u0153increased error rates\u00e2\u20ac\u009d for a number of websites. The outage also impacted its ability to post updates to the status page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Among the services that reported issues as a result of the outage were Amazon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s smart security subsidiary Ring, Roku, software maker Autodesk, fintech lending company Affirm, Target\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Shipt delivery service, and the subway status site operated by New York City\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Tribune Publishing properties the Baltimore Sun and the Chicago Tribune also reported errors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The latest 2020 Business Threat Landscape report from security firm Bitdefender has said that this could be the worst year in cybersecurity history, as, despite multiple warnings, many firms still aren’t ready to protect themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bitdefender’s report found that the “new normal” of remote working had led many businesses to face difficulties in ensuring their online protection, with 50% of organizations “completely unprepared” to face a scenario in which they had to migrate their entire workforce in working from home environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thank you for reading. See you again in our December 2020 Tech News Roundup!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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