• Google has cut off Huawei's quiche supply.  (Android Authority)
  
  No new Android versions, no support, and no Play Store on new devices.  Existing devices will continue to work.  No official feature or security updates either, but Huawei didn't provide updates for very long anyway.
  
  This is big.  Huawei was fast becoming a dominant player in the handset market and now they are restricted to China, at best.
  
  This is pursuant to the Commerce Department's ban on sales of certain technology to Huawei and a list of partners.
  
  
• Realme (Who?  Oh, it's Oppo again.) announced the Pro 3, a mid-range phone based on Qualcomm's Snapdragon 710.  (AnandTech)
  
  6.3" 2340x1080 LCD display, 2 A75 and 6 A55 cores, so it's much faster than A53-based entry-level models if not as fast as A76-based flagships, ~4000mAh battery, and room for dual nano-SIMs plus a microSD card.
  
  Unfortunately there's a small camera notch and it has micro-USB rather than USB-C, but it has a real live headphone jack, dual cameras, and tops out at €249 (about $280) with 6GB of RAM and 128GB of flash.
  
  
• Paranoia is coming.  (WCCFTech)
  
  Happiness is mandatory.
  
  
• Or if you live in China, you can experience the NSVR version today.  (New York Post)
  
  
• Kraken is an open source peer-to-peer Docker registry from Uber.
  
  Born with three strikes and still better than Docker Hub.
  
  
• BuzzFeed is acting as self-appointed morality police for teenagers on YouTube  (One Angry Gamer)
  
  Again.
  
  
• South Korea's government plans to move to Linux instead of Windows 10.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  At this point it might actually work.  We'll see.
  
  

Posted by: J Greely at Tuesday, May 21 2019 11:52 AM (LGSd2)

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