Commentary: The Pentagon’s upcoming UFO report has people excited about alien spacecraft, but don’t expect to meet extraterrestrials anytime soon. …read more Source:: CNet

Customizing your browser should be easier and safer. …read more Source:: CNet

US president calls China’s military-industrial complex ‘a threat’ and condemns surveillance technology for human rights abuse US president Joe Biden has issued an executive order to expand the Trump-era ban preventing Chinese tech and defence companies from receiving American investment, upping it from 31 to 59 named entities.… …read more Source:: Register

The latest Conjuring flick is out tonight. …read more Source:: CNet

Some 150 birds named for people tied to slavery and white supremacy could eventually get new monikers as part of an ongoing reckoning with racism within the world of birding. The Verge: That includes Jameson’s firefinch, named for a British naturalist who bought a young girl while in Africa “as a joke” and then drew…

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Blame Rightmove instead It would be fair to say that the recent decades have not been kind to the newspaper industry.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Amazon’s massive cloud-computing unit is aggressively recruiting U.S. government officials as it pushes to make itself essential to branches such as the military and the intelligence community, POLITICO reported Friday. From the report: Since 2018, Amazon Web Services has hired at least 66 former government officials with acquisition, procurement or technology adoption experience, most hired…

As we await Amazon Prime Day (and the wealth of other sales that tend to accompany it), check out these models on sale now. …read more Source:: CNet

Plaintiffs claim they would’ve gone for cheaper cloud storage A US judge has approved a limited class action against Apple for breach of contract following allegations it used third-party servers including “cloud storage facilities belonging to Amazon, Microsoft, or Google” to host customers’ data instead of its own premium iCloud service.… …read more Source:: TheRegister