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• Half of UK homes could get faster broadband - BBC News - Technology
  Fri, 14 Dec 2018
  New research suggests that people have not taken up faster services, even though they are available.
  
• How to Configure LDAP Client to Connect External Authentication - LinuxToday News
  Fri, 14 Dec 2018
  

  TecMint: LDAP (short for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) is an industry standard, widely used set of protocols for accessing directory services.

  
  
• Grace Millane: New Zealand anger over Google naming murder suspect - BBC News - Technology
  Thu, 13 Dec 2018
  Google named the man accused of killing UK backpacker Grace Millane in an email, which could be illegal.
  
• Bieber fans help YouTube Rewind become 'most disliked' - BBC News - Technology
  Thu, 13 Dec 2018
  Beliebers voting against YouTube Rewind seem to have helped the video rack up negative feedback.
  
• Apple to create $1bn Texas base - BBC News - Technology
  Thu, 13 Dec 2018
  The company says it expects to become Austin's biggest private employer.
  
• Uber told self-drive cars unsafe days before accident - BBC News - Technology
  Thu, 13 Dec 2018
  A leaked email sent to Uber bosses by a staff member arrived days before a car hit and killed a pedestrian.
  
• Tigera Looks To Improve Cloud-Native Kubernetes Networking - LinuxToday News
  Thu, 13 Dec 2018
  

  EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet: With $30 million in new funding the container networking startup to continuing to expand its platform.
  
  

  
  
• Top Five Reasons Why Kubernetes Is Changing the Cloud Landscape - LinuxToday News
  Thu, 13 Dec 2018
  

  eWEEK Data Points: Kubernetes is more than just vendor hype, it's real technology that helps to enable the modern cloud-native paradigm. Here are five reasons why Kubernetes is winning.

  
  
• Amazon uses dummy parcels to catch thieves - BBC News - Technology
  Thu, 13 Dec 2018
  The online retailer has teamed up with police in New Jersey to fight parcel theft with dummy packages.
  
• How to Configure FreeIPA Client on Ubuntu 18.04 / CentOS 7 for Centralize Authentication - LinuxToday News
  Thu, 13 Dec 2018
  

  Learn how to how to Configure FreeIPA Client on Ubuntu 18.04 and CentOS 7 for Centralize Authentication

  
  
• How to Create Users in Linux Using the useradd Command - LinuxToday News
  Thu, 13 Dec 2018
  

  Learn how to create users in Linux systems using the useradd command.

  
  
• Jellyfin: Free Software Emby Media Server Fork Is Announced After Emby Becomes Proprietary - LinuxToday News
  Thu, 13 Dec 2018
  

  LinuxUprising: After the news that Emby server is now proprietary, with only some plugins being open source, a free software fork of Emby was created, called Jellyfin.

  
  
• An introduction to Kubeflow - LinuxToday News
  Thu, 13 Dec 2018
  
  
• 40 top Linux and open source conferences in 2019 - LinuxToday News
  Thu, 13 Dec 2018
  

   opensource.com: We've rounded up a few favorite picks for conferences to attend in 2019.

  
  
• Tech Fix: Yes, You Can Be an Ethical Tech Consumer. Here’s How. - NYT > Personal Tech
  Thu, 13 Dec 2018
  Products that we enjoy continue to create privacy, misinformation and workplace issues. We can do better at getting the industry to do better.
  
• 15 Best Linux Games on Steam - LinuxToday News
  Thu, 13 Dec 2018
  

  LinuxConfig: Before Valve ported their popular Steam gaming platform to Linux, gaming on the operating system seemed like a hopeless pursuit.

  
  
• How this supercolony of 1.5 million penguins stayed hidden for nearly 3,000 years - FOX News
  Thu, 13 Dec 2018
  This year, scientists announced an incredible discovery by looking at poop stains in satellite images — 1.5 million Adélie penguins were living and thriving on a little patch in Antarctica surrounded by treacherous sea ice called the Danger Islands.
  
• Cannibalism? Nope, this 8,000-year-old man was likely burned in a ritual - FOX News
  Thu, 13 Dec 2018
  The shattered skull of a hunter who lived about 8,000 years ago isn’t evidence of cannibalism, as scientists previously thought.
  
• Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo tourism rocket reaches space for the first time - FOX News
  Thu, 13 Dec 2018
  Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo tourism rocket reached space for the first time during a major test flight on Thursday.
  
• Megalodon may have been killed off by an exploding star - FOX News
  Thu, 13 Dec 2018
  If the megalodon didn't cause itself to go extinct, it may have been the work of an ancient exploding star, a shocking new study theorizes.
  
• Comet 46P/Wirtanen visible this weekend: How to watch - FOX News
  Thu, 13 Dec 2018
  Comet 46P/Wirtanen should be visible on December 16.
  
• Skeleton of ancient marsupial lion, ‘Tasmanian devil on steroids,’ reconstructed for first time - FOX News
  Thu, 13 Dec 2018
  For the first time, scientists have reconstructed the full skeleton of the predatory, prehistoric animal known as the “marsupial lion” that once roamed Australia thousands of years ago.
  
• The rubber ducky comet blasted a magnetic path through space - FOX News
  Thu, 13 Dec 2018
  Rosetta's comet sent a magnetic shock wave screaming out in front of it, blazing a trail through the stellar wind.
  
• 8,300-year-old stone snake heads reveal Stone Age ritual ceremonies - FOX News
  Thu, 13 Dec 2018
  What might be passed over as two oddly shaped rocks are the work of Stone Age artisans who sculpted the rocks into beady-eyed snake heads, archaeologists have found.
  
• Elf on the shelf is living on the International Space Station - FOX News
  Thu, 13 Dec 2018
  If you're a parent with young kids, you've probably struggled where to put The Elf on a Shelf and may eventually run out of places. Here's an idea – how about putting it in space?
  
• Geminid meteor shower peaks this week: What to know about the 'strongest meteor shower of the year' - FOX News
  Thu, 13 Dec 2018
  Stargazers, get ready to bundle up as you catch one of the best meteor shows of the year — the Geminid meteor shower.
  
• Is US military cloud safe from Russia? Fears over sensitive data - BBC News - Technology
  Wed, 12 Dec 2018
  The BBC investigates a $10bn (£8bn) Pentagon contract to store sensitive data in a cyber-cloud.
  
• Instagram tightens eating disorder filters after BBC investigation - BBC News - Technology
  Wed, 12 Dec 2018
  The photo network’s filters don’t always halt posts that can promote anorexia and bulimia.
  
• Meng Wanzhou: Trump could intervene in case of Huawei executive - BBC News - Technology
  Wed, 12 Dec 2018
  The president says he could act for the good of US trade, as Canada releases Meng Wanzhou on bail.
  
• Ghana drones: Row over blood-delivery devices - BBC News - Technology
  Wed, 12 Dec 2018
  A government-backed scheme for supplying medicine brings accusations of a "high-tech vanity project".
  
• Dixons Carphone posts £440m loss in first half - BBC News - Technology
  Wed, 12 Dec 2018
  The struggling retailer posts a £440m loss after it writes down the value of its Carphone Warehouse brand.
  
• 'Meghan Markle' most googled person in UK in 2018 - BBC News - Technology
  Wed, 12 Dec 2018
  Firm's UK search results also featured the World Cup, Bitcoin and Black Panther highly.
  
• Streets with UK's slowest and fastest broadband named - BBC News - Technology
  Wed, 12 Dec 2018
  But uSwitch survey says homes in a Birmingham avenue have the fastest access.
  
• When out-of-date code causes chaos - BBC News - Technology
  Wed, 12 Dec 2018
  What is a digital certificate and why do they expire?
  
• Tech We’re Using: The Most Important Kitchen Tools This Holiday (or Any Season, Really) - NYT > Personal Tech
  Wed, 12 Dec 2018
  Tech has brought innovation, convenience and smarts to the kitchen. Here’s what Melissa Clark uses and the tools she finds indispensable.
  
• Google hearing sees 'idiot' trending - BBC News - Technology
  Wed, 12 Dec 2018
  A question about why typing "idiot" into Google throws up pictures of President Trump sees the term trend.
  
• Word processor pioneer Evelyn Berezin dies aged 93 - BBC News - Technology
  Wed, 12 Dec 2018
  Evelyn Berezin put the Data Secretary on sale in 1971, creating a new industry.
  
• Robot turns out to be man in suit - BBC News - Technology
  Wed, 12 Dec 2018
  A robot has featured on Russian TV but turns out to be a man in a suit.
  
• Bereaved mother criticises Facebook over baby ads - BBC News - Technology
  Wed, 12 Dec 2018
  The woman says if companies were able to spot she had been pregnant, they should also have realised she was bereaved.
  
• Twitter's Jack Dorsey answers critics of Myanmar meditation retreat - BBC News - Technology
  Wed, 12 Dec 2018
  Twitter's chief executive says he needs to learn more about the plight of the Rohingya in Myanmar.
  
• The Fix: Spying on the Dog (or Cat) - NYT > Personal Tech
  Tue, 11 Dec 2018
  Do you really want to know what your pets are doing while you’re away?
  
• Google chief denies political bias claims - BBC News - Technology
  Tue, 11 Dec 2018
  US lawmakers accused firm of "programming" bias against conservative views into its algorithms.
  
• Child advice chatbots fail to spot sexual abuse - BBC News - Technology
  Tue, 11 Dec 2018
  Two leading chat apps also struggled with questions about drugs and bulimia.
  
• Broadband customers to get automatic compensation - BBC News - Technology
  Tue, 11 Dec 2018
  The automatic compensation code will apply only when the fault takes longer than two days to fix.
  
• Brexit: More than £100K spent on Facebook and other ads for May's deal - BBC News - Technology
  Tue, 11 Dec 2018
  The government bought ads on Facebook, Twitter, Google and LinkedIn before Brexit vote was cancelled.
  
• Amazon sackings 'follow sales data leaks' - BBC News - Technology
  Tue, 11 Dec 2018
  Amazon reportedly believes the staff had been abusing their access to an internal database.
  
• Apple denies iPhone sales ban in China - BBC News - Technology
  Mon, 10 Dec 2018
  Chip-maker Qualcomm says it has won an injunction against Apple in a continuing dispute over intellectual property.
  
• Elon Musk has 'no respect' for US regulator - BBC News - Technology
  Mon, 10 Dec 2018
  Tesla's co-founder says he has no respect for the regulator, which fined him over tweets about making the company private.
  
• Huawei Honor View20 and Samsung A8s have hole-punch cameras - BBC News - Technology
  Mon, 10 Dec 2018
  Two smartphones with cameras encircled by their screens are launched within hours of each other.
  
• Evelyn Berezin, 93, Dies; Built the First True Word Processor - NYT > Personal Tech
  Mon, 10 Dec 2018
  Her device freed secretaries from the typewriter. But as word processing became ubiquitous, it helped eliminate their jobs.
  
• VR helps investigate fires - BBC News - Technology
  Thu, 06 Dec 2018
  A system developed by RiVR can scan a scene of real fire damage and then re-create the fire in VR.
  
• Corner Office: James Dyson: ‘The Public Wants to Buy Strange Things’ - NYT > Personal Tech
  Thu, 06 Dec 2018
  He made billions selling vacuums. Now he is backing Brexit, building an electric car — and making antiquated comments on ‘racial differences.’
  
• Tech Fix: I Tried to Make My Dog an Instagram Celebrity. I Failed. - NYT > Personal Tech
  Thu, 06 Dec 2018
  Becoming an influencer is hard, as our columnist found out when he tried creative photography, consultations and even bots to propel his food-obsessed corgi to fame.
  
• Biohackers: ‘My hand chip could unlock my car door’ - BBC News - Technology
  Wed, 05 Dec 2018
  Biohackers want to make their bodies and brains function better by "hacking" their biology.
  
• Tech We’re Using: How the Digital Era Has Changed the Daily Crossword - NYT > Personal Tech
  Wed, 05 Dec 2018
  Puzzle design programs, word databases and web searches to help vet an answer: These are some of the tools that Sam Ezersky, assistant puzzles editor, uses in his job.
  
• Should You Buy Someone a Phone for the Holidays? - NYT > Personal Tech
  Wed, 05 Dec 2018
  The answer is yes, if you can make sure you get them something they like, and you’re not saddling your loved one with a monthly bill. Here’s how to do it right.
  
• Are these robots the future of warfare? - BBC News - Technology
  Tue, 04 Dec 2018
  The Ministry of Defence is carrying out its biggest ever exercise using autonomous vehicles in battle scenarios.
  
• Do You Know What You’re Breathing? - NYT > Personal Tech
  Sun, 02 Dec 2018
  As distrust in the government grows, personal pollution monitors are the hot gift this holiday season.
  
• Sending Lewd Nudes to Strangers Could Mean a Year in Jail - NYT > Personal Tech
  Fri, 30 Nov 2018
  The New York City Council has introduced a bill with bipartisan sponsorship aimed at curtailing technology-enabled sexual harassment.
  
• Tech We’re Using: Covering a White House Where News Is Always Just a Tap Away - NYT > Personal Tech
  Wed, 28 Nov 2018
  Katie Rogers’s beat is full of real-time digital moments. One tip to keep on top of it: If you call insiders from a blocked number, they’ll think you’re the White House and answer.
  
• Tech Fix: Make Your Friends and Family Less Irksome This Holiday Season - NYT > Personal Tech
  Wed, 28 Nov 2018
  Getting a big group together this time of year can be a hassle. So spare everyone the endless phone notifications and email threads and try these methods instead.
  
• How to Get the Most Out of Black Friday and Cyber Monday (Even if You’re Not Into Tech) - NYT > Personal Tech
  Sat, 24 Nov 2018
  Black Friday and Cyber Monday may be known for hot gadgets and electronics, but there are great deals on other things, too. Here are a few to watch out for.
  
• Tech We’re Using: You Don’t Have to Be a Journalist to Want to Keep Chats Private - NYT > Personal Tech
  Wed, 21 Nov 2018
  It’s easy to leave behind digital evidence when talking to sources — or to friends. Here’s how Kate Conger, a tech reporter, reduces that exposure.
  
• Tech Tip: Record and Share Your Family History in 5 Steps - NYT > Personal Tech
  Wed, 21 Nov 2018
  Holiday gatherings offer a great time to create a multimedia digital archive of interviews with your relatives so they can share their memories with the current — and future — branches of the tree.
  
• How to Tell if Those Black Friday Deals Are Actually Worth Buying - NYT > Personal Tech
  Thu, 15 Nov 2018
  Black Friday and Cyber Monday mean hundreds of online deals, discounts, and in-person doorbusters, but these tips will help you tell which ones are really worth your money.
  
• Tech Fix: What’s Hot (and What’s Not) This Black Friday - NYT > Personal Tech
  Wed, 14 Nov 2018
  To help shoppers get started, here’s a cheat sheet of the products to track, and the ones to ignore.
  
• Tech We’re Using: The Essentials for Covering Silicon Valley: Burner Phones and Doorbells - NYT > Personal Tech
  Wed, 14 Nov 2018
  Reporting on secretive technology companies sometimes means finding people who don’t want to be found. Jack Nicas, who covers Apple, relies on some old-school methods.