An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet, written by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: Microsoft now has its very own, honest-to-goodness general-purpose Linux distribution: Common Base Linux, (CBL)-Mariner. And, just like any Linux distro, you can download it and run it yourself. Microsoft didn’t make a big fuss about releasing CBL-Mariner. It quietly released the code…

More games are arriving on Apple Arcade almost every week. Here’s what you can look forward to. …read more Source:: CNet

Space Jam: A New Legacy is out now. …read more Source:: CNet

The Juno spacecraft’s recent flybys are rendered as an astonishing tour. …read more Source:: CNet

Season 2 of historical drama El Cid is out now. …read more Source:: CNet

While attackers in protected jurisdictions continue to get massive sums for continuing to breach organizations, the ransomware threat will only continue to grow. …read more Source:: DarkReading

Good news this morning from low Earth orbit, where the Hubble Space Telescope is back online after a long and worrisome month of inactivity following a glitch with the observatory’s payload computer. We recently covered the Hubble payload computer in some depth; at the time, NASA was still very much in the diagnosis phase of…

Have we been smoking something? Queen Maxima of the Netherlands enlisted the help of a small robot to open a 12m (40ft) 3D-printed steel bridge across a canal in Amsterdam’s red-light district earlier this week.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed a new bill into law Thursday barring police from lying to underage kids during interrogations. From a report: Commonly used interrogation tactics, such as promising leniency or insinuating that incriminating evidence exists, are banned when questioning suspects younger than 18 under the new law, which goes into effect Jan. 1….

Go behind the scenes to see how the game’s developers take real-world car audio and match it to digitalized versions of the cars. …read more Source:: CNet