Grab your pitchforks: Ubuntu to switch to systemd on Monday

It's Debian all o'er agin, I tells ye!

The Ubuntu Project is set to move forward with a plan to make a controversial system management tool a key part of Ubuntu Linux.…

Bank of America wants to shove its IT into an OpenCompute cloud. What could go wrong?

Cheaper customized hardware is good for Facebook – and maybe your bank too

Selling hardware to the financial industry used to be a cash cow for big-name server makers, but they will be getting short shrift from Bank of America, which is shifting its IT into a white-box-powered cloud.…

What's up with these incredibly prolific twitterbots?

Old, highly-retweeted tweets in which I was @'ed keep getting RT'ed by fake twitterbots whose profile photos, bios and names are randomly composited from other Twitter users; they follow each other and spawn at an alarming rate. Read the rest

While You Were Offline: The George R.R. Martin/Taylor Swift Mashup of Your Dreams

It's been an up-and-down week on the web. "George R. R. Martin" sang some Taylor Swift and Twitter reacted to Harrison Ford's plane crash. Read it all here.

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Pentagon 'network intruder', dozens more cuffed in British cops' cyber 'strike week'

'Just the first step', chuckles fraudbust bigwig

A "strike week" against suspected hackers by the UK's National Crime Agency has resulted in 57 arrests.…

Photography: the weird dreamy world of wet ground

Over at Vantage, Manuel Plantin’s strange street photography of life reflected in puddles of water. Read the rest

The 16 Coolest Gadgets We Saw at Mobile World Congress

The world's biggest smartphone show just wrapped up in Barcelona. We look at the best handsets, wearables, and other mobile gadgets from the expo floor.

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