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India’s contact-tracing app unleashes KaiOS on feature phones
https://reg.cx/2ZHz 

Absolutely loving how an administrative org in the UK's electrical power grid is hacked, to a degree, and it's a blip on the radar

"The attack is to our internal IT systems and Elexon's laptops only ... we are unable to send or receive any emails"
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/05/15/elexon_cyber_attack/ …

Beer gut-ted: As many as '70 million pints' spoiled during the coronavirus pandemic must be destroyed in Britain
https://reg.cx/2ZHw 

If American tech is used to design or make that chip, you better not ship it to Huawei, warns Uncle Sam
https://reg.cx/2ZHt 

Google is the Chocolate Factory. IBM is Big Blue. Intel is Chipzilla. Oracle is Big Red, etc. But what about Microsoft? We asked readers to vote; the poll is still open on suggestions, such as:

Micros~1
Team Clippy
The Monopolist Formerly Known As Evil
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/05/15/microsoft_regism/ …

Tales from the crypt-oh: Nvidia accused of concealing $1bn in coin-mining GPU sales as gaming revenue
https://reg.cx/2ZHr 

It appears @TeamBlind is asking the right questions. It polled 2,000 of its users in the tech industry and says it found:

32.6% of polled professionals drink alcohol while working from home. 50% of Lyft respondents, 40% of Salesforce...pic.twitter.com/o0CslNg5qA

Rust marks five years since its 1.0 release: The long and winding road actually works
https://reg.cx/2ZHp 

It's Azure thing: Software AG hoists application integration platform into Microsoft's cloud
https://reg.cx/2ZHh 

Cyber attack against UK power grid middleman Elexon sparks in-house IT recovery efforts
https://reg.cx/2ZHf 

Everything OK with Microsoft? Windows giant admits it was 'on the wrong side of history' with regard to open source
https://reg.cx/2ZHd 

You can't have it both ways: Anti-coronavirus masks may thwart our creepy face-recog cameras, London cops admit
https://reg.cx/2ZHb 

Openreach boss denies BT selling stake in UK's national broadband plumber
https://reg.cx/2ZH9 

Looking for a new tech gig? Here are vacancies for web devs, games programmers, server engineers and more
https://reg.cx/2ZH7 

If you don't LARP, you'll cry: Armed fun police swoop to disarm knight-errant spotted patrolling Welsh parkland
https://reg.cx/2ZH5 

Micros~1? ClippyZilla? BSOD Bob? There can be only one winner. Or maybe two
https://reg.cx/2ZH3 

UK, Ireland users call on SAP to extend indirect licensing deadline again as COVID-19 ravages project plans
https://reg.cx/2ZH1 

ALGOL 60 at 60: The greatest computer language you've never used and grandaddy of the programming family tree
https://reg.cx/2ZGZ 

We're going underground, and this time it's not an inebriated banker crapping themselves, but Transport for London
https://reg.cx/2ZGX 

Facebook to surround all of Africa in optical fibre and tinfoil
https://reg.cx/2ZGU