Following the US crackdown on Chinese technology companies, Google has cut off Huawei’s Android license, dealing a huge blow to the besieged phonemaker. Huawei is now restricted to using the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), cutting the company off from critical Google apps and services that consumers outside of China expect on Android devices. Update, 5/19/19, 5:18 PM: This story has been updated with confirmation of the Reuters story, plus some additional detail about Google’s suspension of business with Huawei.

In late April of 2019 Adam Bradley and Chris Blackburn were sitting in a pub on a Monday night when Chris happened across a somewhat unusual eBay listing for an IBM 360 Model 20. This eBay listing was unusual mainly because it didn’t actually list the computer as an IBM 360, but rather as an “seltene Anlage “Puma Computer IBM 2020” which roughly translates from German into “rare plant “Puma Computer IBM 2020”. The content of the advert text was similarly odd:

we offer you a relatively rare plant Puma Computer IBM 2020 probably from the 1980s in red with accessories, shelf with rolls u.a. on.

On top of all the changes queued for Linux 5.2 is an interesting last-minute performance improvement for the vmalloc code.The Linux kernel’s vmalloc code has the potential of performing much faster on Linux 5.2, particularly with embedded devices. Vmalloc is used for allocating contiguous memory in the virtual address space and saw a nice optimization merged today on the expected final day of the Linux 5.2 merge window.As part of a pull merged minutes ago from Andrew Morton are “large changes to vmalloc, yielding large performance benefits. “The principal change to the vmalloc code is keeping track of free blocks for allocation.With this patch from Uladzislau Rezki, calling vmalloc() can take up to 67% less time compared to the behavior on Linux 5.1 and prior, at least with tests done by the developer under QEMU.Linux 5.2 is shaping up to be a very exciting kernel release.

Larimer did open the bottle in 1972 to water the plant. Saying that he felt David’s sealed garden was indeed the perfect cycle of life and a great example of plants recycling ability. Saying:

As stated earlier a bottle garden works by creating a ecosystem that is self-sustaining.

The Trump Administration recently celebrated the first anniversary of the President’s Management Agenda to modernize government — by highlighting VA.gov, the new simplified and consolidated website that provides Veterans with a much-improved experience to find and access the benefits and services they deserve. Yet, the recently released President’s 2020 Budget more than halves the budget of the tech team that helped rebuild VA.gov — the U.S. Digital Service (USDS). It’s not just the VA.gov project that is showing results — the U.S. Digital Service has worked on important projects like making it easier for our military families to relocate around the world as they work to keep us safe and protected, making government systems more secure by launching bug bounty programs to identify technology vulnerabilities before they can be exploited, and working with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the healthcare industry to improve patient access to data and care.

Amanda Miller, a spokeswoman for the Trump Organization, the umbrella company for the Trump family’s many business interests, said: “We have no knowledge of any ‘flagged’ transactions with Deutsche Bank.” Deutsche Bank’s decision not to report the transactions is the latest twist in Mr. Trump’s long, complicated relationship with the German bank — the only mainstream financial institution consistently willing to do business with the real estate developer. Mr. Trump and his family sued Deutsche Bank in April, seeking to block it from complying with the congressional subpoenas.

Software cracking was especially prevalent in the C64 gaming community and when a new game was released crackers would race to become the first to remove copy protection so that the game could be modified and copied. According to Tamás Polgár, a scene veteran and the author of FREAX: The Brief History of the Demoscene, at the same time that software crackers were exploring the technical possibilities latent in the C64, gatherings known as “copyparties” began springing up all over Europe. A new generation of powerful and affordable PCs, most notably the Commodore Amiga, coupled with the development of tracking, which allowed for complex electronic music composition, allowed software crackers to create artistic programs that would’ve been unthinkable when the C64 was released a decade earlier.

The future-facing idiom of the Bauhaus, the German design school founded, in 1919, by Walter Gropius, is now antique, but its distinct vision of modern life is not a thing of the past. Fiona MacCarthy’s “Gropius: The Man Who Built the Bauhaus” (Harvard) is a comprehensive biography of the figure whom the painter Paul Klee, a teacher at the Bauhaus, called “the silver prince.” Gropius fused the city’s arts-and-crafts school and its fine-arts academy under a new name, the Bauhaus, which he adapted from the Bauhütte, the medieval stone mason’s guild.

“One major reason Bluetooth is involved in so many cases is just how complex this protocol is,” says Ben Seri, one of the researchers who discovered BlueBorne and vice president of research at the embedded device security firm Armis. In February, researchers from the security firm McAfee reported Bluetooth Low Energy misconfiguration issues in a smart padlock known as BoxLock. Researchers emphasize that the risks of Bluetooth security—and potential rewards for malicious hackers—are only growing, as Bluetooth spreads from being used largely in consumer settings, like smart home devices and wearables, to being adopted more and more by enterprises and governments for large-scale deployment in corporate offices, hospitals, and industrial control environments.

The conversations, of which many were conducted on the condition of anonimity, showed that Népszabadság, a paper long suffering from the universal newspaper crisis and from some of its own management’s wrong decisions, has become a victim of power games of well-connected businessmen and the apparently politically orchestrated redrawing of Hungary’s media landscape. “They built a wall around themselves, which made it impossible to change the internal structure,” said a former senior employee of the Swiss publishing company Ringier, which was a majority owner of Népszabadság for years. According to the employee, Ringier tried to modernize the paper but

Népszabadság’s senior editors felt, however, that the editorial team’s autonomy in certain decisions and even the presence of the Socialist Party as a minority owner were important guarantees that “the paper cannot be pushed around.”