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jankalon Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available

When you wish the S. to be an N.

jankalon UK Government scans all web servers hosted in the UK for vulnerabilities

The German government also does that through their BSI (federal office for information security).

It’s just not widely known and they don’t have any good information on their website about it. The only thing I found was this (in German, there does not seem to be an English version): https://www.bsi.bund.de/DE/Themen/Unternehmen-und-Organisati...

jankalon Why can’t I play Ultra HD Blu-ray movies on my new Intel CPU platform?

It's the same problem I was facing trying to play Netflix Ultra HD on my AMD CPU. Fortunately Netflix now also works without Intel SGX so I can watch my stuff on my PCs now.

On the other hand: It is still not possible to play Amazon Prime Ultra HD on AMD CPUs and probably also on the new Intel 12th gen as of now.

The one thing I hate about these limitations is the amount of detailed knowledge that is required to know what is happening. As an average consumer I would have never thought of such bullshit. I only read about the problem wehn I had already bought my CPU...