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ICYMI: Campaigners have warned Britain's surveillance nerve-center GCHQ can re-identify phones running the nation's supposedly anonymized coronavirus contact-tracing app
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/05/21/gchq_contact_tracing_spying/ …

Linux desktop org GNOME Foundation settles lawsuit with patent troll
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Capture the horrors of war in razor-sharp quality with this ruggedised Samsung phone – or just lob it at enemy forc…
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[Promo] Dell, VMware, Intel invite you to Make AI Real: A two-day virtual event next month
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Campaign groups warn GCHQ can re-identify UK's phones from COVID-19 contract-tracing app data
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Hooray! It's IT Day! Let's hear it for the lukewarm mugs of dirty water that everyone seems to like so much
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Far-right leader walks free from court after conviction for refusing to hand his phone passcode over to police
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Bionic eyes to be a thing in the next decade? Possibly. Boffins mark sensor-density breakthrough
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UKgov splashes out on 40,000 new devices amid COVID-19-fuelled homeworking boom
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Document? Library? A new kind of component? Microsoft had a hard time explaining what its Fluid Framework is
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DNS this week stands for Drowning Needed Services: Design flaw in name server system can be exploited to flood mach…
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Railway cables overpowered errant drone's compass and flung it back to terra firma
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Vodafone woes far from over for Xiaomi Mi 9 owners amid complaints of leaky batteries and voicemails in Romanian
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Internet of Tardiness: Microsoft puts on a brave face as IoT boat prepares to set sail
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COVID-19 sparks new wearables to push the pandemic away
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Meet ScrAPIr, MIT's Swiss army-knife for non-coders to shake data out of APIs (It's useful for pro devs, too)
https://reg.cx/31KT 

Apple, Google begin to spread pro-privacy, batt-friendly coronavirus contact-tracing API for phone apps
https://reg.cx/31KQ 

Zoom continues its catch-up security sprint with new training, bug bounty tweaks and promise of crypto playbook
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NASA renames dark-energy telescope after its first Chief of Astronomy and Mother of Hubble: Nancy Grace Roman
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Alibaba to serve up Kentucky Fried smart speaker, with a $1.4bn side of e-commerce integration
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