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Today’s links:

• A ransomware attack took The Weather Channel off the airwww.theverge.com #

• Marcus “MalwareTech” Hutchins (Now a security researcher) pleads guilty to entering a conspiracy to distribute the Kronos malware, aiding and abetting its distributionwww.zdnet.com #

• Mozilla relaunches open source IoT platform Project Things as WebThingsventurebeat.com #

• Microsoft acquires Express Logic for its real-time internet of things operating systemventurebeat.com #

• How Xi Jinping became a networked authoritarian thanks to his little red appwww.theguardian.com #

• Turpin captivity case - Children forgive parents for torture - 13 Children in captivity for years and starved themwww.bbc.com #

• 420 - Seven charts on how cannabis use has changedwww.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 minefielden.wikipedia.org #

• How Selective Empathy Can Chip Away At Civil Societywww.kqed.org #

• The Rise and Fall of Internet Art Communitieswww.artsy.net #

• My internet got cut off a few minutes after I made that post about Google and old devices, and only just got reconnected now - just making a note of that hereen.wikipedia.org #

• Software Heritage and GNU Guix join forces to enable long term reproducibility - Has a logo that looks a bit satanticwww.softwareheritage.org #

• Where pinball machines live forever - Some great bits of pinball history in this short, quelle collection!boingboing.net #

• There's definitely a devil / satan thing going on todaywww.bbc.com #