 This is Tech Talker Buona episode 303 Super Hot Ice What? Welcome to Tech Talk with Buona this technology podcast covers tech news and reviews for the entire week And now here's your host me Buona McCall Thanks folks and welcome to episode 303 of Tech Talker Buona got a great show lined up for you Hope you guys had a great great Mother's Day and Mother's Day weekend and and I hope you all Said hi or called your mother Hashtag call your mom as a Verizon would say in their ads that they're putting out We've got a great show lined up for you I hope you guys caught game chat with one of this past Wednesday. It's a good episode I think still haven't got a chance to record. I still haven't got another chance Still haven't got a chance to record Be rants another be rants. I got it in the hopper. I may do it tonight after tonight stream After tonight's podcast, I should say it's 10 30 p.m. Now. So time is not on my side New video up on Elite Dangerous on YouTube. You guys can check that out. 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Let's go If our first story we're gonna talk about the FCC and the aftermath of Hurricane Michael This story comes by way of ours technica Dot-com the FCC says carriers failed Florida after the hurricane But they're letting them off the hook mobile carriers response to hurricane was so bad That even FCC chairman a Jeep pie who normally avoids any criticism of the industry has paid to regulate That he's paid to regulate called it completely unacceptable according to the article He called it completely unacceptable in the 20 2018 The report recommends changes that carriers can make to improve the future hurricane responses the the outcome of it was that Communication was just bad between cell phone carriers and the other people working to restore things the way They should be calling on wireless phone companies and other communication providers and power companies to quickly implement the recommendations contained in the report They find a lack of cooperation the poor level of service Several days after landfall by some wireless providers cannot simply be attributed to Unforeseeable circumstances specific to those providers a lack of coordination and cooperation between certain wireless service providers on the other hand and Utilities and debris clearance crews on the other Unnecessarily prolonged the critical backhaul repairs and full restoration of functional Wireless service. So being a part of a hurricane is rough, especially You know, if you've gone through one, you know that going through it is rough, but the aftermath can be even rougher depending on power utilities restoration whatever debris lots of things to get life back to normancy and If you are employed your employee may require you to come in and you may not even have a way to get out of your neighborhood because of debris so it's a lot of stress a lot of stress and Mobile wireless carriers these days because a lot of you a lot of us Don't have landlines and I think this is kind of a plea. It's kind of a Reason that you should have a landline for emergencies like this But I know I can't budget both a Landline and mobile a lot if I can get rid of my landline completely I will but sadly sadly my situation calls for Landline and mobile and if I can get rid of one I'd like to but an emergencies like this landlines can be can be a better Can give you a better outcome sometimes sometimes I say sometimes because there's there's cases where mobile comes up before Your traditional phone lines But in my experience In my experience, it's always been the landlines come up first But I've only been through a few hurricanes. I haven't been through a lot of them so hopefully This will change next time Let's see the FCC's hurricane Michael report serves as another painful reminder to Puerto Ricans of the FCC's inexcusable failure To count to conduct a comprehensible investigation into the collapse of communication networks on the islands islands following hurricane Maria This is from free press senior director Joseph Torres he was talking to ours about this and The report also shows that carriers have a credible problem. So I don't think I Don't think that The FCC is wrong in this case. I think the report is accurate But I think there should be more of An urgency put on it. It looks like it's gonna be a slap on the wrist Because they recommend They their recommendation is kind of like eh The Bureau further concludes that a lack of coordination cooperation Themselves inhibit their ability to increase service availability some problems appear to not have been reported by the Wireless resilience cooperative framework the voluntary the voluntary commitment that several nationwide service providers proposed and committed to abide by in 2016 Specifically appears that some wireless providers Demure it from seeking assistance from potential roaming partners and therefore remain inoperable. They didn't want to play ball This field to comply with voluntary commitments meant that tens of thousands of wireless customers had to wait days unnecessarily for their mobile service to be restored So this this recommendation is that they need to continue This voluntary thing, but they just need to do it right and I think a lot of us including myself want them to you know, put some more stipulations on this Because voluntary is a very very loose word if you're talking about dollars and cents you're talking about money a lot of times These these corporate guys they just go oh voluntary We don't have to do it then So, yeah It's gonna be rough it's gonna be rough and I hope that the next hurricane that happens Doesn't have to go through this I hope all the red tape or the bureaucracy is put under the table that these companies can cooperate a little bit more I hope the FCC has a stronger arm for failure to to meet certain I guess you could say certain Guidelines and meet certain To meet certain minimum requirements. Wow my brain broke there for a second just some minimum requirements Otherwise, they'll be fines. They'll be fees. There'll be things that you have to do In order to get past this check it out guys over in ours technical They got the details about the FCC and how wireless carriers failed to perform after Hurricane Michael and they even mentioned Hurricane Maria Hurricane Maria as other examples and for our next story We're gonna talk about hackers and bit coin hackers stole 41 million dollars Worth of Bitcoin from the Binance cryptocurrency exchange This was actually on Reuters and that comes my way of Hong Kong Hacker stole Bitcoin worth 40 million dollar 41 million dollars from Binance one of the world's largest Cryptocurrency exchanges the company said on Wednesday The latest in a string of tests from cryptocurrency exchanges across the world. They sold 7,000 Bitcoin that is that may not sound like a lot on the surface, but 41 million you can do the math 7,000 Bitcoin equals 41 million Dollars they use a variety of techniques including phishing viruses and other attacks According to a post on Binance's website by the chief executive officer Xiao Shang Ping The post said user funds would not be affected because the company would use a secure asset fund to cover The law so it comes at the time right now where a lot of people looking at Bitcoin seriously more serious than before Especially since Bitcoin has somewhat rebounded from its downfall. It's many ups and downs and Now that JP Morgan and a lot of people I think Facebook is even getting into cryptocurrency Now that bigger companies are are integrating it into their into their business model There's a lot more eyes on Bitcoin As a possible investment platform or an impossible investment currency Xiao said on Twitter that other cryptocurrency exchanges including Coinbase had blocked deposits from addresses linked to The hack last year $950 million in cryptocurrencies was stolen from cryptocurrency exchanges and infrastructure services such as wallets Up to nearly 260% from the previous year. This is nuts. This is nuts. That's almost a billion dollars stolen And if you've done any kind of cryptocurrency One of the biggest rules you'll read is that Don't use and rely on online wallets You should get an offline wallet something that is physical and cannot be compromised remotely No connections at internet. Excuse me an offline wallet This is why if you keep all of your Bitcoin and all your cryptocurrency in one or maybe two locations online There's an extremely high chance because hackers love Bitcoin. They love cryptocurrencies There's a high chance that it could be compromised in more ways than one Think of it as a bank account Think of it as a bank account keep it safe. Keep it, you know highly protected Get a strong password two-factor if possible because They go after that stuff. It's hard to track It's hard for our law agencies to prosecute and to investigate Due to the nature of Bitcoin But the blockchain is inherently private, you know, it's anonymous For a lot of these cryptocurrency wallets and cryptocurrency exchanges So be careful if you get into Bitcoin this stuff is going to keep happening I don't see it stopping anytime soon, but that doesn't mean you don't have to do it A lot of people look at this as a reason not to get into Bitcoin and I don't think that's accurate I don't think that's accurate. I think Bitcoin can be a safe way to invest But you just have to be smart about it and not store all your stuff online Check it out guys. Routers.com has the details. Hacker still 41 million dollars worth of Bitcoin from Binance cryptocurrency exchange Expect more it's going to happen. And for our next story, we're going to talk about f5 and Enginx or nginx, so I don't know how you How you how you pronounce that anyway f5 requires the popular web server company nginx or in jinx and This story over on zdnet.com kind of discusses what to expect from the deal If you don't know what in jinx is and how it operates, you may have heard of things like Apache This is web server software that people employ to to this to serve up your websites If you go to a website, it's probably using some kind of web server And in jinx has been known as being very fast and somewhat secure It is a open source as well. I use it on my server if you've probably seen from my error messages when they pop up This is a 670 million dollar acquisition according to this article and F5 is best known for their high-end enterprise internet service providers out there So what should we expect from this honestly? I don't know I don't know how in f5. I was gonna say in five. I don't know how f5 is going to Going to take this and I don't know where they're going to take this because it looks like they just They're just getting on board something or using something to to compete against the apache HTTP server, which is the big dog that everybody knows of um, but in jinx is is definitely Gaining ground if you if you ask me, I don't have my ear to the ground as to this web server distribution numbers But I imagine in jinx still has a lot of numbers out there um This is what the article says let's make one thing clear immediately while speedy web servers all well and good This deal is not about web servers per se Nor is it about we had long seen as a rivalry between in jinx and the apache HTTP server No, frank françois local denoy I don't know if i'm pronouncing that right f5 ceo explained ahead of the deal's completion That the two companies will be about We'll be about providing dev ops for cloud networking Specifically the pair will bring together the modern open source applications developed in And for the cloud for the traditional mission critical applications That are often last to migrate out of the end prize data center So when I read that my initial response was well, how's it going to affect companies like digital ocean and Gosh digital ocean is who I use so i'm like how's it going to affect digital ocean? They have some packages out there for in jinx and an apache Hopefully it doesn't shun those guys or Hopefully there's nothing crafted In this in this deal to make things harder for competition Um the ceo in jinx the ceo kind of assures us that they're going to stick to their guns He said f5 is committed to the in jinx open source technology developers and community That's all the quote says I don't know I i'm always skeptical when it comes to these deals because you don't know Outside of the board room outside the meeting room what their true intentions are until they happen They'll promise nothing's going to change but it always ends up changing somewhat So as for in jinx's commercial products, he said This is what robertson had to say They said they're going to be infusing f5 security capabilities into in jinx products They're going to be extending the in jinx controller With additional control plane functionality to manage lightweight application delivery controllers adcs and load balancers They're going to be enhancing the in jinx controller api management module And they're going to be accelerating the development of a new in jinx controller server mesh module for microservices and kubernetes capabilities The first time i'm saying that word i gotta look that up when you put it all together You see two joining forces to create an open source based high-end network application services for today's cloud It world that sounds like some some some pr speak to me that did But either way either way i think This is good for in jinx, but i don't know if it's good for us yet So we'll be watching this one closely because when you get acquired You know that's financial That's some that's some financial backing. That's some financial guarantees I don't know how in jinx was doing before this deal, but it could be a bad thing It also could be i mean it could be a good thing, but it also could be a bad thing Depending on how they're going to restructure and reorg organizations because you know that always happens When the company buys out another there's some there's some There's some gaps and there's also some overlaps and overlaps usually was where the changes and the layoffs come Um So let's hope a lot of people don't lose their jobs in this acquisition. Check it out guys over on zdnet.com They got the details f5 networks has acquired in jinx Let's see how it pans out in the future and for our final story We're going to talk about an article on tech times.com And it made me raise an eyebrow because I was like science scientists flash freeze water To create super ionic ice Half as hot as the sun So when you read When you read that headline you're just like, okay, we got some hot ice That just happens to be as hot Half as hot as the sun Um, I I don't know where to start says for the first time in history scientists are able to generate hot Super ionic ice that's unlike any type of ice On earth this is ice that people have gotten from or that scientists have discovered may exist on urinus and neptune um In a paper published by the journal nature sciente explains they explain how they use giant lasers To flash freeze water and produce super ionic ice Taking a snapshot of the rare ice's atomic structure in the process This is crazy more than 30 years ago They predicted that the extreme pressures and temperatures of watery giant planets Such as urinus and neptune could turn water into super ionic ice Which is a bizarre state of matter consisting of solid lattice a solid lattice of oxygen and liquid like hydrogen This is the design. This is pretty cool right here six Giant laser beams generated shock waves of increasing intensity To compress a thin layer of liquid water to extreme pressure and temperature The conditions were very alien 100 to 400 giga pascals Which is one to four million times the planet's atmospheric pressure Jesus and the temperature of 1,600 to 2,800 celsius Which is 3000 to 5000 degrees Fahrenheit Then to document and observe the atomic structure of the super ionic ice. They shot it with x-rays Um This is crazy Analyzing the data the team found a previous unknown atomic structure for water ice that they call ice 18 Which is they got the roman numerals x v ii which is 18, right? That's nuts, man Findings offer particular insight about the internal makeup and evolution of planets like urinus and neptune such as that of super ionic ice Within urinus and neptune had a crystalline lattice which suggests it doesn't flow like earth fluid iron outer core So we're learning things about the internals of urinus and neptune through this discovery I think it kind of is further enhancing What was found out in the past It's probably this is a quote it's probably better to picture that super ionic ice Would flow similarly to the earth's mantle Which is made of solid rock yet flows and supports large-scale convective motions On the very long geological time scales It's a lot of scientific words right there. I'm still still I'm just still stuck on ice. That's how That's half as hot as the sun That's that's some that's some hot ice Icy hot check it out. Check it out guys tech times.com As the details, there's the artist rendering of it as well. I I have to check to see if this is a If this was like satire, but apparently it's not this is pretty interesting Super ionic ice half as hot as as a sun and that concludes tech talkable in episode 303 I want to thank you for listening to the show follow my live stream at buona dot live Which redirects you to twitch.tv slash buona. Also, if you want to support me and my endeavors Please hit up my patreon at patreon.com slash Buona where you can contribute as little as a dollar a month. We also have merchandise at Designbyhumans.com slash shop slash buona. We got a couple t-shirts and some stickers So go check that out if you can youtube.com slash buona twitter.com slash buona instagram Dot com slash buona. You can find this podcast and others at buona dot tv Slash podcast. This is tech talk with buona. I also produce game chat buona on wednesdays and Occasionally we'll throw in a new podcast that we call biran side. 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