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<h4>Our stellar neighbor's biggest-ever belch would frazzle us Earthlings</h4> <p>Astronomers detected the most energetic solar flare ever seen from the Sun's closest stellar neighbor, Proxima Centauri. In fact, the cosmic belch was so intense, they doubt the star provides the righ… Full story >>>

<h4>One billboard outside Blairsville, Georgia</h4> <p><strong>Bork!Bork!Bork!</strong> Windows for Billboards appears to be a thing and, judging by this example of the breed, it is a little under the weather.…</p> Full story >>>

<h4>He was there the day Steve Jobs moved from Motorola to Intel, and says the Arm transition looks better</h4> <p><strong>Review</strong> I was three-quarters of the way through the third rewrite of this review before I remembered I was actually <i>at</i> A… Full story >>>

<h4>Too bad there's no suggested solution... oh, wait</h4> <p>Apple's AirDrop has a couple of potentially annoying privacy weaknesses that Cupertino is so far refusing to address even though a solution has been offered.…</p> Full story >>>

<h4>Improves integration and maturity, not quite the new-buzzword-worthy step-change Virtzilla wants</h4> <p>Throughout 2020, VMware told anyone who would listen that its end-user compute products enabled work from anywhere, on any device, with marvellous security, and were therefo… Full story >>>

<h4>Come inside, penguinistas, install that WSL GUI preview, yes, open source is totally winning here</h4> <p><strong>Video</strong> Microsoft this week released a preview version of Windows Subsystem for Linux GUI, or WSLg, which provides a way to run Linux application… Full story >>>

<h4>China already growing even faster than 13% regional acceleration</h4> <p>Asian businesses are set for a security spending spree, according to analyst firm IDC.…</p> Full story >>>

<h4>Court finds linked 'U' used on Smart Home app can't be confused with linked 'C' used on overpriced tat</h4> <p><strong>Logowatch</strong> Huawei has had a big intellectual property win in Europe, defeating an action brought by fashion house Chanel over a new logo it… Full story >>>

<h4>Come 2025, we're Putin this collaboration to bed</h4> <p>Russia's space agency hopes to launch its own orbiting science lab by 2030 after entering talks with NASA to pull out of the International Space Station in the coming years.…</p> Full story >>>

<h4>More a declaration of war than turning the tables</h4> <p><strong>Updated</strong> It is possible to hijack and manipulate Cellebrite's phone-probing software tools by placing a specially crafted file on your handset, it is claimed.…</p><!--#include virtu… Full story >>>

<img style="width:30%;float:left;" src="http://static.charlieharvey.org.uk/graphics/projects/smokeandmirrors.jpg"><p style="width:69%;float:left">Yesterday marked the launch of one of New Internationalist's first multimedia immersive long-form p… Full story >>>

<img style="width:30%;float:left;" src="http://static.charlieharvey.org.uk/graphics/reviews/2017-walkaway.jpg"><p style="width:69%;float:left">Doctorow is both an entertaining author and very much on the right (by which I mean left/anarchist) side of… Full story >>>

<img style="width:30%;float:left;" src="http://static.charlieharvey.org.uk/graphics/geekery/twatbegone.jpg"><p style="width:69%;float:left">A while ago, my buddy Oxguin was thinking about the blocking on Twitter, specifically because of Donald Trump.… Full story >>>

<img style="width:30%;float:left;" src="https://static.pexels.com/photos/6969/sunset-summer-hipster-pipe.jpg"><p style="width:69%;float:left">Since the world, or at least the UK, seems to have decided to Gastrate all its pubs and the hipsters have ta… Full story >>>

<img style="width:30%;float:left;" src="http://static.charlieharvey.org.uk/graphics/reviews/2017-pirate-utopia.jpg"><p style="width:69%;float:left">Bruce Sterling is that other cyberpunk author. He is back to writing counterfactual alternative histor… Full story >>>

<img style="width:30%;float:left;" src="http://static.charlieharvey.org.uk/graphics/geekery/ssh-book.jpg"><p style="width:69%;float:left">Here is a quick SSH tip that I only discovered a month or two ago despite years of using SSH on a daily basis. W… Full story >>>

<img style="width:30%;float:left;" src="http://static.charlieharvey.org.uk/graphics/geekery/binary-puzzle.jpg"><p style="width:69%;float:left">I first came across binary puzzles in early 2013 after finding a book of them in a Belgian supermarket, not… Full story >>>

<img style="width:30%;float:left;" src="http://static.charlieharvey.org.uk/graphics/reviews/anglo-saxons.jpg"><p style="width:69%;float:left">This is a pretty comprehensive 'brief' history of the Anglo-Saxons - from the decline of the Roman… Full story >>>

<img style="width:30%;float:left;" src="http://static.charlieharvey.org.uk/graphics/reviews/silas-marner.jpg"><p style="width:69%;float:left">This novel was one of a trove I inherited from my parents, a gift for my mother on her 20th birthday. It tel… Full story >>>

<img style="width:30%;float:left;" src="http://static.charlieharvey.org.uk/graphics/twitterfeed.jpg"><p style="width:69%;float:left">A few weeks ago, I received an email from Twitterfeed’s founder, a chap called Mario. In unnecessarily jolly p… Full story >>>