https://news.sky.com/story/scientist-stephen-hawking-has-died-aged-76-11289119

MyFitnessPal breach compromising 150 Million User accounts
https://threatpost.com/under-armour-reports-massive-breach-of-150-million-myfitnesspal-accounts/130863/

AMD CPU vulnerabilities?! Say it ain't so!
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/03/a-raft-of-flaws-in-amd-chips-make-bad-hacks-much-much-worse/
And the plot...
https://www.anandtech.com/show/12525/security-researchers-publish-ryzen-flaws-gave-amd-24-hours-to-respond
Thickens…
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16577433
https://www.anandtech.com/show/12536/our-interesting-call-with-cts-labs

Microsoft going Windowless?
https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/30/17179328/microsoft-windows-reorganization-future-2018

Let's Encrypt wildcard certs go live
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/03/lets-encrypt-takes-free-wildcard-certificates-live/

Oracle Vs Google Round 3? Could go all the way to supreme court
https://mashable.com/2018/03/30/google-vs-oracle-explainer/#4snSc6_KePqW

Microsoft to begin banning a variety of “obscenities” on multiple platforms:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/28/microsoft_services_agreement_bars_offensive_language/

First android go phone available in SU, $80
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/03/you-can-officially-buy-an-android-go-phone-in-the-us/

Sierra Leone Just Ran the first Blockchain-based election
https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/14/sierra-leone-just-ran-the-first-blockchain-based-election/

Generic AOSP image running on new Galaxy S9 thank ti Project Treble
https://www.xda-developers.com/samsung-galaxy-s9-aosp-android-oreo-project-treble/
More googs… New Fuschia OS goes all in on “instant apps”
https://9to5google.com/2018/02/16/fuchsia-friday-instant-apps/

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/03/tesla-recalls-123000-model-s-electric-cars-for-faulty-power-steering-bolts/

UK passes bill to create foundation for commercial space travel:
https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/29/as-uk-fires-up-private-space-industry-space-camp-accelerator-launches/

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/3/30/17180042/macos-external-gpu-support-graphics-card

Microsoft seeks damages against e’waste recycler Eric Lundgren:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2018/02/15/eric-lundgren-e-waste-recycling-innovator-faces-prison-for-trying-to-extend-lifespan-of-pcs/?utm_term=.722f77067106

Disney loses to Redbox in suit over re-selling download codes
https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/21/17036932/disney-redbox-lawsuit-star-wars-marvel-pixar-digital-downloads
Disney and Redbox might accidently reshape copyright law
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/02/judge-slaps-down-disney-effort-to-stop-resale-of-star-wars-download-codes/

Facebook’s VPN service is exactly as intrusive as you (hopefully) think it is:
https://gizmodo.com/do-not-i-repeat-do-not-download-onavo-facebook-s-vam-1822937825

FCC says space startup launched satellites without permission
https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/10/17102888/the-fcc-says-a-space-startup-launched-four-tiny-satellites-into-orbit-without-permission

Twitter battles the bot barrage:
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/02/twitter-suspends-thousands-of-accounts-for-bot-behavior-some-cry-censorship/

Anroid P Dev Preveiew 1 Released
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/03/hands-on-with-android-p-is-this-the-beginning-of-a-new-design-language/

GitHub survived the Largest DDOS attack in history
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/03/us-service-provider-survives-the-biggest-recorded-ddos-in-history/

Ghostery is now open source
https://github.com/ghostery/ghostery-extension

Copyright vs. Historical Preservation:
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/02/preservation-or-theft-historians-publishers-argue-over-dead-game-servers/

Goodyear develops tires for Electric Cars’ Torque problems
https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/goodyear-tire-concept-electric-car-problems-ev/

Linux Apps for ChromeOS
https://www.developer-tech.com/news/2018/feb/27/project-crostini-chrome-os-support-linux-apps/

Artifact “First of several new games” from Valve according to Gabe
https://www.bleedingcool.com/2018/03/10/artifact-the-first-of-several-new-games-from-valve-according-to-gabe-newell/

Cellebrite claims ability to unlock ANY iphone
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/02/cellebrite-can-unlock-any-iphone-for-some-values-of-any/

Vulkan Coming to macOS and iOS, not by Apple
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/02/vulkan-is-coming-to-macos-ios-but-no-thanks-to-apple/

California Allows Driverless Cars without Human Babysitters
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/02/california-now-allows-driverless-cars-without-any-human-safety-drivers/