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• Microsoft investigates how the most prolific ransomware attacks work (zdnet.com)
  Ransomware attackers are using common tools to take down big enterprise with 'human-operated' attacks.
• Lockdown: Anti-tracking app for iPhone, iPad and Mac (zdnet.com)
  Two former Apple engineers joined forces to create a free app that blocks tracking, ads, badware and more.
• Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5: What we expect in next-gen consoles (zdnet.com)
  In another Jason Squared episode, Jason Cipriani and Jason Perlow compare gaming platforms from Microsoft, Sony, and Apple, and what they w…
• iPhone components on their way (arstechnica.com)
  New reports say that Apple has asked component manufacturers to deliver very …
• GOG is adding some classic Star Wars games to its preservation program (theverge.com)
  GOG is adding several new classic Star Wars titles to its game preservation program, which aims to maintain old games to make them playable…
• How I learned to stop worrying and love the update (arstechnica.com)
  Details on how a Mac OS X system updates can render your machine unbootable...
• Microsoft patches SMBv3 wormable bug that leaked earlier this week (zdnet.com)
  Emergency out-of-band fix for CVE-2020-0796 is now rolling out to Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019 systems worldwide.
• EU may force single mobile TV standard on cellular carriers (arstechnica.com)
  The EU Telecom Commissioner is concerned about the pace of mobile TV …
• GitHub Education rolls out new features for teachers (zdnet.com)
  The new GitHub Teacher Toolbox gives teachers access to more than three dozen popular, real-world developer tools for free.
• ˜Video games are not manufactured in China,’ Playasia reassures tariff-wary customers (theverge.com)
  The company says that ‘video games are currently primarily manufactured in Japan.’
• "I'll take a stolen ID and a small fry." "That'll be $14." (arstechnica.com)
  Symantec's most recent Internet Security Threat Report tracked, for the first …
• Burger King Games now for sale directly online (arstechnica.com)
  You can now pick up the Burger King games without clogging your arteries.
• Will consumers be convinced to upgrade to 5G? (zdnet.com)
  Although 5G has gone from hype to reality, the technology isn't close yet to taking over its predecessor. And 5G's biggest impact will be o…
• This is Hugging Face’s 3D-printable robot arm. (theverge.com)
  The AI development platform Hugging Face has partnered with The Robot Studio to release the documentation for the SO-101 robotic arm that w…
• Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI (theverge.com)
  Duolingo cofounder and CEO Luis von Ahn says that the company will “gradually stop using contractors to do work that Al can handle” as part…
• The Official Nintendo Magazine teases with new game announcement (arstechnica.com)
  Is NiGHTS coming back, or are we all hyping a big plate of nothing? It's okay …
• Some good updates for YouTube on TV. (theverge.com)
  The app on TVs now has a dedicated podcasts tab and the ability to loop all VOD content. Check out more details about those changes and mor…
• Zendure SuperHub hands-on: Compact charging hub with dual power delivery (zdnet.com)
  The Zendure SuperHub will solve the problems of carrying several power supplies round with you when you travel.
• Google ads coming to a video game near you as Adscape deal closes (arstechnica.com)
  Google has purchased Adscape, a small in-game advertising company that has …
• Take It Down Act heads to Trump’s desk (theverge.com)
  The Take It Down Act, which requires platforms notified of nonconsensual intimate images to take it down within 48 hours, passed the House…
• Peer-to-peer poisoners: A tour of MediaDefender (arstechnica.com)
  Ars profiles MediaDefender, a company that decoys, spoofs, blocks, and swarms …
• New Starlink subscription drops hardware price to $0 (theverge.com)
  New 12-month Starlink Residential subscriptions drop the hardware costs to $0 but are subject to terms, including a potential demand surcha…
• Card data from the Volusion web skimmer incident surfaces on the dark web (zdnet.com)
  In September-October 2019, hackers planted malware to steal card data from 6,589 online stores.
• Apple and the Palms team up for original content. Old news becomes new news! (arstechnica.com)
  Apple and the Palms are teaming up for original content to be made available …
• Bring on the bling with Beryl: a look at a new Linux window manager (arstechnica.com)
  Ars looks at a new window manager for Linux that add new functionality and 3D …
• Web creator Berners-Lee: Here's why the web is failing women and girls (zdnet.com)
  Tim Berners-Lee urges governments, business, and citizens to do more for women online to stop threats and violence.
• Red Hat Ceph Storage 4 arrives (zdnet.com)
  The new Red Hat Ceph Storage can handle petabytes of data for all your enterprise cloud and datacenter storage needs.
• The Microsoft-TellMe hook-up: it's about beating Google (arstechnica.com)
  It's easy to overlook this acquisition as "yet another Microsoft buy," but …
• Nvidia issues yet another GPU hotfix driver to address crashes and bugs (theverge.com)
  Nvidia is releasing another GPU driver after lots of reports of bugs and crashes. This latest hotfix addresses problems with the RTX 50-ser…
• Agile and DevOps: How you can help your business to collaborate (zdnet.com)
  Collaborative CIOs must create blended IT and business teams that work in an agile way to deliver digital products and services quickly to…
• Amazon launches its first satellites to rival Starlink (theverge.com)
  Amazon’s Kuiper broadband internet constellation is starting to take shape, with its first batch of satellites shipped and deployed into sp…
• God of War 2 sex minigame found! M-rated goodness inside (arstechnica.com)
  The first God of War had a minigame that allowed you to show off your prowess …
• Spotify’s growth continues. (theverge.com)
  Monthly active users have increased 10 percent year-over-year to 678 million, up from 615 million, while subscribers jumped by 12 percent t…
• Musicload: 75% of customer service problems caused by DRM (arstechnica.com)
  One of Europe's largest online music stores says that DRM is bad business all …
• Some help from Yelp. (theverge.com)
  Yelp’s AI assistant will now be able to match you up with a local service professional with help from AI-powered photo recognition. Seems l…
• Amazon: Linux-based Bottlerocket is our new OS for hosting containers in the cloud (zdnet.com)
  Open-source Bottlerocket from AWS aims to break the bottleneck of installing package updates on containerized apps.
• Turning water into very hot ice, very, very quickly (arstechnica.com)
  Using the immense power of Sandia National Nuclear Lab's Z machine researchers …
• Coronavirus social distancing got you down? Tips and tricks to help you get through it (zdnet.com)
  The coronavirus pandemic has meant some sudden changes in the way we live our lives, and one of those is the advice that we practice social…
• Empty shelves. (theverge.com)
  That’s what the chairman of one of Apple’s major manufacturers says the US risks within two months, suggesting stores “might resemble those…
• Can satellites be used as a service? (zdnet.com)
  Tonya Hall and Jeremiah Owyang, industry analyst & founding partner, talk about potential ways that satellites can become services and how…
• Minireview: Papers for OS X (arstechnica.com)
  Papers is a new app for Mac-using scientists to help organize PDFs in new...
• Twitter: All our employees must now work from home (zdnet.com)
  Social media giant says all its employees will work remotely in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
• Starlink’s got company — and Earth’s orbit is getting crowded (theverge.com)
  Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellite mega constellation is just the beginning.
• Origins of the neural crest (arstechnica.com)
  Researchers push back the origins of a tissue that gives rise to everything …
• Cookiethief Android malware uses proxies to hijack your Facebook account (zdnet.com)
  Cookiethief Trojan infections are on the rise and Facebook cookies appear to be a prime target.
• Vista vulnerabilities should receive separate severity rating, says security expert (arstechnica.com)
  A senior Microsoft security program manager feels that some bugs, which exist …
• You have two months left to update your old LG phone (theverge.com)
  LG is preparing to shut down its Android update servers for good on June 30th, 2025.
• Bluesky is having an up and down Tuesday morning (theverge.com)
  Bluesky is currently experiencing an outage that’s preventing feeds from loading.
• Effectiveness of a YouTube video takedown: zilch (arstechnica.com)
  Shut it off one place, it just appears somewhere else. Take out a major player …
• Digital identities: Why this Balkan country aims to match Estonia's successes (zdnet.com)
  North Macedonia teams up with Mastercard to boost its economy with digital IDs.