Because it needed the capability in ChromeOS, Google has made it possible to watch Netflix in Chrome and this capability extends to Chrome on Linux, previously detected and blocked by Netflix.

Extremely interesting article from The Smithsonian that looks at a family found in the 1970s in the Siberian Taiga in Russia that had fled persecution prior to World War II and had been living in such extreme isolation that only one family member still spoke an intelligible language.

Really interesting read. Thanks to @thanksajdotcom for finding this one.

Don't forget, the US is currently switching into DST. Eastern, Central and Mountain times have already gone and Pacific will soon. We are now entering the window where the US skewed from every other country, anywhere. It's Spring Forward, so we all just lost an hour of sleep.

Unity, the cross platform gaming system, is working with Mozilla to get high performance gaming into the web browser.

Finally, Valve's Steam has opened the Steam Machine Store selling real Steam Machines, Steam Links and other gear.

On accident, ownCloud pushed its beta release test out as production 8.0.1 causing some issues. A quick fix was released and ownCloud is now stable and production ready on 8.0.2.

DNS and Content Delivery super power CloudFlare has released a new security service called Virtual DNS aimed at tackling Denial of Service attacks.

HP and Foxconn have announced a joint venture to manufacture open compute devices named CloudLine.

InfoWorld silly slideshow on Fifteen Open Source Gems for Windows from Microsoft's CodePlex.

More bad news for OpenSSL.

http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2015/04/truecrypt-report.html