2024 Links, Stories and News In Review -- What did you see?

We’re doing a 2024 “Year in Review” video in the style of links with friends – but to recap stories over the year and how they evolved.

If you had to pick one story that started, or concluded (or merely settled down) in 2024, what was it? What stands out in your mind?

We want to touch on some things.

So far we’ve got:

Intel - You okay there bud?
Nvidia - Delays, and yet, still meteoric rise
Qualcomm vs Arm
Broadcom / Vmware

What else?

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Crowdstrike outage
Solar winds hack
Tik Tok Ban

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XZUtils. It definitely felt like one of those “the world almost got nuked but this one person saved us all” stories from Cold War era.

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I only have a couple ones, maybe niche.

nailed my number 1
(don’t forget the Intel cards offering free partitioning)

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  1. Supermicro being delisted.

  2. The ongoing TP-Link saga. Working with NIST compliance, gotta remember TP-Link is/was NDAA compliant so this is a HUGE deal. We just got the new 800-171r3 standard for the first time in a decade and they addressed supply chain attacks for those doin .gov work, but this story may have blown that up.

  3. the Honey scandal and how L1T doesn’t push that crap, you’re typically sponsored by companies offering gear we actually use in the enterprise.

-EPYC on AM5

-Turin breaking all records

-Nvidia 4090 banned from China for bein too awesome

Any idea when this is scheduled to stream?

the CCP all up in our telecoms courtesy of the feds’ backdoor wiretaps

Would be great to hear more of your thoughts on the gpus sold by Nvidia to Microsoft, Tesla etc. What your thoughts on any new benefits to consumers, or is all this investment for more copilot and better self driving?

Boeing failure of an Alaska Airlines plane where door plug blew out (beginning of the companies down fall)

Super Micro Evidence Of Accounting Manipulation, Sibling Self-Dealing And Sanctions Evasion

Intel hiding details of the 12 & 13 chip power line oxidization

The leak of the Cellebrite Premium support list, which showed which phones were hackable (relatively recent OS versions due to lag being supported, versus ones that weren’t supported or hadn’t been for years). Cellebrite Device Unlocking List - April 2024 : Cellebrite : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Apple also added automatic reboots to phones for security, copying an open source OS. https://www.securityweek.com/new-ios-security-feature-reboots-devices-to-protect-user-data-reports/

This captures the mood pretty well xD www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH6OxlNDTk8