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In 1988, the international community had hoped Japan—then Rangoon’s biggest patron—would pressure the regime to use restraint. Today all eyes are on China, which in recent years has pumped billions of dollars worth of investments and aid into Burma, making their resource-rich neighbor a pillar of Beijing’s energy-security scheme. Chinese-built infrastructure and a sophisticated communications station have popped up in Burma, a critical outpost in China’s “string of pearls” strategy in the Indian Ocean and near the Malacca Straits, through which four fifths of Beijing’s oil imports pass....

The same sort of jitters swept through the crimson pavilions of Beijing’s Zhongnanhai leadership compound. Kim’s nuclear test not only defied and embarrassed his Chinese patrons; it also brought home to Chinese leaders in the most visceral way that the increasingly erratic Pyongyang regime could be playing with fire. In a meeting with foreign diplomats late last year, a senior Chinese official “railed on and on about how irrational Kim had become,” said one of the diplomats at the gathering, who requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the topic....

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What’s Changed in the Linux 6.0 Release Candidate 2? Torvalds once again downplayed the significance of the release. “Nothing particularly interesting here, rc2 tends to be fairly calm with people taking a breather and not yet having found a lot of bugs,” he wrote in a message to the Linux Kernel Mailing List Still, the release candidate does come with the usual round of bug fixes. Torvalds noted updates that smoothed out problems running tests on Google cloud virtual machines....

LinkedIn Is Working on Web Dark Mode Jane Manchun Wong, an online researcher and writer, tweeted that LinkedIn is working on Dark Mode for its web platform. If LinkedIn is working on dark mode for web, the platform will become the latest social platform to offer the theme. From Wong’s tweet, we get a good look at the Dark Mode that LinkedIn is testing. We can see that the background becomes completely black, replacing the previous white background....

LinkedIn will do this through Service Marketplace, a new feature to compete with the likes of Fiverr and Upwork, but does Marketplace stand a chance against these platforms? Let’s find out. LinkedIn Launches a Service Marketplace for Professionals LinkedIn has added a new feature, Service Marketplace, to help professionals get paid on its platform, and compete with popular freelance sites like Fiverr and Upwork. LinkedIn’s Service Marketplace is a freelance platform that allows users to advertise their services for short-term or freelance jobs....

Whether you’re aiming to upgrade yourself with some new lucrative skills or just looking to explore a topic, LinkedIn Learning and Udemy are the two most popular options to go for online learning. In this article, we’ll compare the differences between these two platforms to see what’s best for you. LinkedIn Learning vs. Udemy: Overview Founded in 2010, Udemy is known as one of the largest learning platforms, with 50,000 Instructors and 40 million students today....

Improvisations at a glance LinkedIn Product Management director, Mark Hull said that they have done everything required from the ground so that users can experience a much streamlined and cleaner appearance of the portal. Read More: Cisco And Apple Etch A Deal To Ensure Higher iDevice Inception Into Business Mainstream In his blog post, Hull even mentioned about adding “chat-style interface” to allow users in accessing messages at ease. The portal, which was earlier criticized for borrowing features from Twitter and Facebook has now got their desktop interface much similar to the popular messaging app, WhatsApp web....

Following the same business model established by its Windows counterpart, Linux ransomware encrypts local files and demands bitcoin payment to restore access to them. However, while Windows has been the target of continuous attacks, Linux threats have been somewhat fewer and not always that difficult to identify and remove. Fortunately, removing the Linux.Encoder – all four versions of the Linux ransomware – proved to be just as uncomplicated. What’s the big deal with Linux Ransomware?...

Let’s dive deep into the signaling mechanism in Linux and understand what goes on behind the scenes. Basic Signal Concepts in Linux On Linux, processes generate signals in three basic situations: When an exceptional situation occurs on the hardware side. For example, you can think of events such as the application trying to access a region outside the allowed address space (segmentation fault) or generating machine code that includes a division by zero operation....

But for some people this medium isn’t the best way to convey information, especially if they have a visual impairment, dyslexia, or simply too many other things to do. That’s where text-to-speech software comes in. These useful tools can automatically convert a page of prose into spoken word to which you can listen at your leisure. We show you the best free packages currently available for your PC. Windows Narrator It’s worth knowing that you don’t need to download any extra software to experience text-to-speech on your PC....

5.17 Was Delayed, But Linus Can Explain While the release of 5.17 was delayed, Linux kernel creator Linus Torvalds seems to be taking it in his stride, presenting it as an opportunity to polish the release and avoid embarrassing bugs in the release. Torvalds posted on the Linux Kernel Mailing List, the main hub of Linux kernel development, explaining the reason for the delay: In another message to the list, Torvalds attributed the delay to the need for more security fixes in the wake of the Spectre attacks....

With that in mind, here is our guide to tools that are important to have on hand when doing work on a computer. Phillips Screwdriver (Non-Magnetic) This tool is probably the most important to have. Pretty much all computer parts are fastened to the computer through some form of a screw. It’s important that the screwdriver not have a magnetic tip. Having a magnetized object inside of the computer case can damage some circuits or drives....

The referenced account is currently locked out and may not be logged on to: Now there are two ways via which you could customize the above settings via Local Security Policy or Command Prompt. Sadly, Windows 10 Home users can only use the Command Prompt as they don’t have Group Policy Editor. So without wasting any time let’s see How to Limit the Number of Failed Login Attempts in Windows 10 with the help of the below-listed guide....

If you’re wondering what exactly is new with the latest version of LineageOS 20, we’ve got you covered. Here’s a rundown of the major changes in this update. Aperture Replaces the Snap App in LineageOS 20 If you’ve used LineageOS before, you likely came across the Snap camera app, which disappointingly produced lower quality photos than the stock Android camera app or popular Google Camera ports. Thankfully, the biggest addition to LineageOS 20 is an overhauled camera app, now called Aperture....

The MacBook Air M1 2020? Wi-Fi 6. The Samsung Galaxy S21? Wi-Fi 6. The recently announced Xiaomi Mi 11? You get the idea. If you’re in the market for a new router to make better serve all these new devices, you’re spoiled for choice at the minute, as there are several Wi-Fi 6-ready routers on sale right now. The Linksys MR7350 is one of the cheaper Wi-Fi 6 routers going, and on top of that, it’s also designed to work with Linksys’s Velop-branded mesh Wi-Fi satellites....

Core Features of the Line App Like WhatsApp and Viber, Line registers users using their mobile phone numbers. It also offers paid calls to mobile devices and landline users, in addition to free user-to-user calls and text messages. Line offers several social networking features, such as a timeline feature that works like Facebook and Twitter timelines. Users can share multimedia files with other Line accounts, including voice recordings, video files, and pictures....