A ransomware attack took The Weather Channel off the air theverge.com #
Saturday, April 20, 2019
Marcus “MalwareTech” Hutchins (Now a security researcher) pleads guilty to entering a conspiracy to distribute the Kronos malware, aiding and abetting its distribution zdnet.com #
Mozilla relaunches open source IoT platform Project Things as WebThings venturebeat.com #
Microsoft acquires Express Logic for its real-time internet of things operating system venturebeat.com #
How Xi Jinping became a networked authoritarian thanks to his little red app theguardian.com #
Turpin captivity case - Children forgive parents for torture - 13 Children in captivity for years and starved them bbc.com #
420 - Seven charts on how cannabis use has changed bbc.com #
An interesting factoid about Winston Churchill that I did not know - "In 1945, George VI offered to make Churchill the Duke of Dover - the first non-Royal dukedom to be created since 1874 - as well as a Knight of the Garter; Churchill turned down both" - I don't know I'm just some smuck, but isn't that a bit rude, I mean the bloke won the war for us and you offer him to be the country's doorman, maybe it's an honour white cliffs of dover and all that, politics is a fucking minefield en.wikipedia.org #
How Selective Empathy Can Chip Away At Civil Society kqed.org #