The teaser trailer for Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker has been viewed 13,665,350 times since its release Friday. Collider reminds us that while George Lucas oversaw the original Star Wars trilogy and worked on its prequel trilogy, the final three movies in the franchise had moved ahead without direct involvement from…

Commentary: Pedro Pascal’s magnificently charming Dornish prince was the show’s best character, and one of its paragons of justice. …read more Source:: CNet

Fly the friendly skies with an airplane sporting a Star Wars look. …read more Source:: CNet

The maker of Apex Legends and Titanfall will unveil their Star Wars game today. …read more Source:: CNet

Microsoft “has been quietly lobbying against Right to Repair legislation, which would prevent Microsoft from penalizing customers when they open up their devices,” claims MSPoweruser: Jeff Morris, Democratic member of the [Washington state] House of Representatives claims Microsoft has blocked legislation from being passed despite strong bipartisan support. In an interview on iFixit’s Repair Radio…

Life is what happens while you wait for the next season of event TV, and then you die. …read more Source:: CNet

arnieswap quotes TFIR’s report on the black hole image: Free and Open Source software was at the heart of this image. The team used three different imaging software libraries to achieve the feat. Out of the three, two were fully open source libraries. The source code of the software is publicly available on GitHub. Richard…

An anonymous reader quotes Reuters: China’s largest stock images provider, Visual China Group, shut its website and apologized on Friday after it falsely claimed copyright of images such as the first photo of a black hole and China’s national flag. The company, which partners with U.S. photo agency Getty Images, said in a post on…

Responsible for protecting a large, complex and federated network of city systems, NYC Cyber Command built its own, open-source data pipeline. …read more Source:: ZDNet

“New York City officials on Tuesday declared a public health emergency and ordered mandatory measles vaccinations” in an area where most of the state’s 285 measles cases have occurred. The Washington Post reports: New York’s mandatory vaccination order in four Brooklyn zip codes is by far the toughest action to date by state or local…