2.5 Admins 147: EPYC Fail

Sloppy practises by Gigabyte reveal one of the problems with UEFI, why Slack refuses to implement end to end encryption, a familiar bug ruins people’s uptime, and XFS vs ext4.

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Millions of Gigabyte Motherboards Were Sold With a Firmware Backdoor

Millions of Gigabyte PC motherboards backdoored? What’s the actual score?

90+ orgs tell Slack to stop slacking when it comes to full encryption

AMD’s EPYC Rome Chips Crash After 1,044 Days of Uptime

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