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• Embedded device developers prefer homegrown Linux over commercial solutions (arstechnica.com)
  A study shows that OEMs are choosing to roll their own embedded Linux …
• Bots sometimes pretending to be a “rape victim” were used in an unauthorized experiment on (theverge.com)
  Researchers claiming to be from the University of Zurich used bots to post 1,783 comments in the 3.8-million-member subreddit over four mon…
• Tennis star Alexander Zverev calls out automated line judging system (theverge.com)
  Tennis star Alexander Zverev questioned the accuracy of Hawk-Eye’s electronic line-calling system after pointing to the mark a ball left on…
• Social networks shed light on how genomes are organized (zdnet.com)
  DNA composes itself into communities, not unlike your Facebook friends.
• Twitter, OS X, and your home (arstechnica.com)
  If you're a home automation nerd and want some tips on how to set up a few …
• WhatsApp is working on video and voice calls on the web (theverge.com)
  WhatsApp’s web version may get video and voice call buttons soon.
• Preordained conclusions produce bad science (arstechnica.com)
  Physicists, economists, and applied mathematicians get tangled up in knots …
• Your home Wi-Fi network is going to be exposed by telecommuting, work at home (zdnet.com)
  Your cheap ass Wi-Fi router is being exposed by glitches and delays in video calls... and you've only been telecommuting for a few hours.
• ChatGPT is getting better for shopping (theverge.com)
  OpenAI is improving ChatGPT’s web search capabilities to make the AI chatbot a more useful tool for shopping, including with product cards…
• Microsoft readies its small business phone system software (arstechnica.com)
  Microsoft launches new Ready Point phone system...
• Samsung Display engineers allowed to enter Vietnam without 14-day quarantine (zdnet.com)
  Some 700 of Samsung Display's engineers from South Korea have been made exempt from Vietnam's quarantine requirements, but they will work s…
• The Kickstarter you backed may soon ask for more money to cover Trump’s tariffs (theverge.com)
  Kickstarter will soon let creators charge an extra fee after their campaign has ended to cover the cost of President Donald Trump’s tariffs.
• Department of Defense seeks to reevaluate JEDI cloud-contract bids after Microsoft win paused (zdnet.com)
  The Pentagon is seeking to obtain revised bids from AWS and Microsoft for its winner-take-all $10 billion JEDI contract, in the latest twis…
• Adobe launches Apollo, its web application runtime for the desktop (arstechnica.com)
  Adobe has released the first build of its cross-platform application runtime...
• A pirated iOS port of Blue Prince fooled people into paying $10 (theverge.com)
  Blue Prince’s developer and publisher say they have received reports about unofficial versions of the game available on the iOS App Store.…
• New Zealand blitzes high-end broadband affordability (zdnet.com)
  While Australia beats its Kiwi cousins at lower and mid tiers.
• Recovering from smoking (arstechnica.com)
  A new study shows that long-term smoking cessation reverses the stiffening of …
• Nan Ya PCB grabs slice of iPhone pie (arstechnica.com)
  Nan Ya PCB is "expected" to provide 30 percent of the required circuit boards …
• All the right-wingers are in Marc Andreesen’s Signal group chats (theverge.com)
  Marc Andreesen put his tech peers and MAGA pundits in the same Signal group chats… and now we’re here.
• Optus partners with James Cook University on IoT (zdnet.com)
  The seven-year agreement will see Optus' NB-IoT network rolled out at JCU's innovation centres in Cairns and Townsville.
• The Blue Prince iOS clone we found is gone. (theverge.com)
  Shortly after we published this story about an unofficial Blue Prince iOS app on the App Store, the app was removed. I’ve updated the story…
• State-sponsored hackers are now using coronavirus lures to infect their targets (zdnet.com)
  Chinese, North Korean, and Russian government cyberspies caught using COVID-19-themed emails to infect victims with malware.
• On the eve of the Apple TV (arstechnica.com)
  With the release of the Apple TV imminent, analysts are talking it up, and …
• The Chicken Jockey screenings are here. (theverge.com)
  For folks who absolutely need to lose it when the Chicken Jockey shows up in A Minecraft Movie, Warner Bros. is rolling out new “Block Part…
• Microsoft cancels its in-person Build 2020 developers conference due to COVID-19 coronavirus (zdnet.com)
  Microsoft's Build 2020 developers conference, planned for Seattle in mid-May, will be a virtual-only event due to health concerns around CO…
• Federal Court rules Telstra does not need council permission to build payphones (zdnet.com)
  In doing so, the telco receives the court's seal of approval to install 1,800 more payphone cabinets across Australia.
• AT&T/Cingular blocks cellular customers from free conference call services (arstechnica.com)
  AT&T/Cingular customers are starting to report that they can no longer make …
• Sam Altman says ChatGPT’s latest update is ‘sycophant-y and annoying’ (theverge.com)
  The Open AI CEO said the latest update to GPT-4o’s personality and intelligence ‘glazes too much’ and will be dialed back.
• Hearings on politics and climate science: politics wins, science lost in the shuffle (arstechnica.com)
  A US House Committee attempts to explore political interference with climate …
• DSL providers get their day in court, ask for leased lines back (arstechnica.com)
  A long-running lawsuit filed against the FCC finally featured oral arguments …
• Telecommunications International Production Orders Bill sent to PJCIS (zdnet.com)
  If passed, the Bill will allow for Australia and the United States to bilaterally access communications data in each country under the CLOU…
• High-speed academic networks kiss, make up, then merge (arstechnica.com)
  Internet2 and National LamdbaRail have agreed to merge after more than a year …
• Suncorp Group on the hunt for a new CIO (zdnet.com)
  Current CIO Sarah Harland has announced she will be leaving before the end of March.
• BBSes are back, bbs. (theverge.com)
  IEEE Spectrum wrote about running an old-school bulletin-board system (BBS) from a Raspberry Pi 3 over LoRa, using the off-grid mesh-networ…
• Work from home darling Slack reports solid Q4, but billings outlook disappoints (zdnet.com)
  The company said it had 70 paid customers with annual recurring revenue of more than $1 million.
• Nightreign nears. (theverge.com)
  FromSoftware has shared the minimum and recommended PC specs for Elden Ring Nightreign ahead of the game’s May 30th release. Personally, I…
• Look for the Home panel. (theverge.com)
  The smart home control panel found on the Google TV Streamer is, as promised, now rolling out to other Google TV devices, 9to5Google report…
• Fujitsu LifeBook gets flash option (arstechnica.com)
  Fujitsu embraces solid-state storage, announcing that two of its LifeBook …
• The cross-platform conundrum: which do you choose? (arstechnica.com)
  A discussion about the upcoming TMNT game has led us to devise a series of …
• DocuSign delivers strong Q4, sees momentum for its Agreement Cloud (zdnet.com)
  Larry Dignan Template
• Deal alert: AMD unveils time-limited third-gen AMD Ryzen CPU price cuts (zdnet.com)
  Up to $50 off third-gen AMD Ryzen CPUs.
• Sakaguchi talks Blue Dragon, Xbox 360, and Final Fantasy (arstechnica.com)
  Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi sat down with Gamespot and talked …
• Adobe reports strong Q1 results, adjusts outlook on coronavirus uncertainty (zdnet.com)
  The company expects enterprise customers to defer bookings, delay consulting services and cut spending amid the worsening global pandemic.
• Oracle touts growing subscription revenues in Q3 (zdnet.com)
  Oracle's momentum in subscription sales "would've been even more obvious [in Q3] but for the early impact of" the coronavirus, CEO Safra Ca…
• The DJI Phantom is no more (theverge.com)
  DJI produced its last Phantom in 2018, and it will now suspend service for those final models on June 1st, 2025.
• Add motion-sensing to your DualShock (while keeping rumble) for $30 (arstechnica.com)
  A peripheral that adds motion-sensing to your PlayStation 2 controller may be …
• For $17 you too can chain smoke near your PlayStation 3 (arstechnica.com)
  Smoke can kill a system, and it can certainly make it smell bad. Time for …
• Studio Ghibli’s movie stills remain as lovely as ever. (theverge.com)
  Kottke.org reminds us today about that time in 2020 when the famed animation studio published hundreds of stills from its animated films. G…
• DHL restarts deliveries of international packages worth more than $800 (theverge.com)
  DHL is resuming shipments on packages sent to US consumers valued over $800 after a pause last week due to Trump tariffs.
• SmartWeb brings semantic web search to cars (arstechnica.com)
  A German-funded research project hopes to make your car respond to voice …