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Radio station spent two years advising listeners how to stash child porn
“Always use an external drive and hide it where nobody will ever find it.”
Spotify and—no joke—iTunes are coming to the Windows Store
Apple's music app is a major get for Microsoft and Windows 10 S.
Cloudflare, sued by its first “patent troll,” hits back hard
Blackbird Technologies, owned by its own lawyers, has filed over 100 lawsuits.
Windows 10 fall update will restore (and improve) OneDrive’s best feature
Feature restores and improves upon the way OneDrive worked in Windows 8.1.
Judge Dredd TV series is one step closer to happening
The long campaign for a Dredd sequel looks to have paid off.
Xamarin Live Player (almost) takes the Mac out of iOS development
The dev/deploy/debug cycle can now be done without an Apple system.
And the name of the next Windows 10 update is… the Fall Creators Update
Microsoft is sticking with the creative theme.
New Windows look and feel, Neon, is officially the “Microsoft Fluent Design System”
New "design system" will span everything from phones to virtual reality.
Verizon outbids AT&T for nationwide “5G” spectrum
Verizon to buy Straight Path and its millimeter-wave spectrum for $3.1 billion.
Live now: Previewing Windows 10 Redstone 3’s new look, at Microsoft Build 2017 day 2
Join us Thursday, May 11, at 11:30am EDT.
Pirates upset that popular graphics mod won’t work for them
User-made graphical fix for Nier Automata comes with Steam API check
Uber will likely need to follow same rules as taxi companies in Europe
Nonbinding opinion in Europe's top court puts crimp in Uber's plans for EU expansion.
Op-ed: A new tool to further deter smartphone theft
"Think of it as Carfax for phones."
World’s largest aircraft takes first flight since crash-landing last year
Airlander 10 dirigible puttered around the UK skies for almost three hours.
Bouncing electrons off a time mirror
A quantum time mirror puts wave packets back together.
Ex-feds confident Comey’s devices and files are safe, even if FBI won’t confirm
"E-mail accounts and individual hard drives should be archived."
Nvidia Tesla V100: First Volta GPU is one of the largest silicon chips ever
21-billion-transistor Volta GPU has new architecture, 12nm process, crazy performance.
Ubuntu 17.04 review: Don’t call it abandonware, per se
Technically, Ubuntu 17.10 is coming—but how much development will go into a dead desktop?
Microsoft’s bid to bring AI to every developer is starting to make sense
The APIs are getting good enough to be built into production systems.
Report: Ban on laptops in planes may expand to Europe
Electronics larger than cell phones might be barred on US-bound flights.
To mitigate major Edge printing bug, use a Xerox copier, baffled user advises
Truly bizarre printer error completely changes look and contents of printed PDFs.
About a third of FDA-approved drugs go on to have major safety issues
Amid calls for faster reviews, researchers look for ways to catch dangerous drugs.
Tesla starts pre-orders on solar roof for $1,000, rolls out calculator for costs
Tesla is banking on a “fully installed cost” to be attractive to home owners.
Drones: Is the Sky the Limit showcases drone tech from earliest stages to now
Any drone lover will want to check out the Intrepid Museum's latest exhibit.
The FCC has received 128,000 identical anti-net neutrality comments
There might be a bot faking widespread net neutrality opposition.
In a surprise about-face, US Senate votes to keep Obama-era methane rule
The rule orders oil and gas companies to limit methane emissions on federal land.
Rare dinosaur with preserved skin and bone-crushing tail found in Montana
Named after Zuul from Ghostbusters, this ankylosaurid grew spines from its flesh.
Mozilla and Thunderbird are continuing together, with conditions
E-mail client needs to reduce its technical and operational reliance on Mozilla.
EA goes from cautious to “bullish” on Nintendo Switch support
Mega-publisher is "looking at other titles" to bring to hot-selling hardware.
AT&T could be punished for unlimited data throttling after all
Ajit Pai cheers court decision, says case to overturn Title II is strengthened.
Azure goes database crazy with one new NoSQL and two new SQL services
There's also a nifty new browser-based admin shell.
Windows 10 hits 500 million devices, growing by two-thirds in a year
Original estimate anticipated phone growth that never materialized.
Wi-Fi router used to make hologram
Wi-Fi transmitter used to create hologram, potentially sees through walls.
Given the hazards of landing on Mars, SpaceX may send two Dragons in 2020
Elon Musk has spoken favorably about NASA's Mars Exploration Rover missions.
Macron campaign team used honeypot accounts to fake out Fancy Bear
Digital team filled fake accounts with garbage data to slow information operation.
How the Space Pope is helping to find real exoplanets by playing Eve: Online
Project Discovery's latest citizen science experiment goes from proteins to exoplanets.
Apple buys Beddit, a sleep-tracking company with existing Apple Watch app
Could the Apple Watch track your Zs soon?
Opera Reborn “rethinks” the browser… with integrated WhatsApp and Facebook
Opera Reborn gets new design, VPN, and ad-blocking (except for Google's ads).
Possible human ancestor turns out to have shared Earth with us
A recent small-brained, early-looking hominid shakes up the family tree.
President Trump fires FBI Director James Comey over Clinton e-mail probe
Move comes as FBI investigates Trump campaign for possible collusion with Russia.
Minecraft on Nintendo Switch does the trick, hides most of its compromises
Visual and rendering compromises are totally fine, but do you have enough controllers?
After net neutrality comment system fails, senators demand answers
John Oliver caused big comment increase, but FCC blames DDoS attacks.
SpaceX proves Falcon Heavy is indeed a real rocket with a test firing
Flying the Falcon Heavy would be a significant engineering achievement.
Cisco kills leaked CIA 0-day that let attackers commandeer 318 switch models
Fix neutralizes attack code that was put into the wild in early March.
Vacant tunnel at nuclear site collapses in Washington state
Nearby roadwork may have caused the collapse.
Megaupload users still can’t get data back
The answer for users waiting five years for their seized data? Keep waiting.
Microsoft’s recent success in blocking in-the-wild attacks is eerily good
Company neutralizes a series of attacks that took control of targeted computers.
Dealmaster: Get a 15-inch Dell Inspiron 5000 laptop with 512GB SSD for just $599
Plus deals on Amazon’s newest Echo device, tablets, thermostats, and more.
DOD needs cyberwarriors so badly it may let skilled recruits skip boot camp
Shortage of skilled “cyber operators” has services scrambling to find ways to recruit.
Enterprise hard disks are faster and use more power, but are they more reliable?
After scoring a pricing deal, Backblaze now has a couple thousand enterprise spindles.
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