cloud Terrifying "doomsday cloud" over Australia isn't actually end times Popkin

Technology Why deleted iPhone photos came back Rob Beschizza

beauty View of monster storm at sky level Kevin Reome

happy mutants Googlers circulate petition demanding a moratorium on contracts with US border agencies Cory Doctorow

crime A prolific credit-card theft ring is scanning for unsecured "buckets" in Amazon's cloud and has compromised 17,000 domains (so far) Cory Doctorow

web theory Amazon orders Signal to stop using AWS to defeat censorship Cory Doctorow

security NHS okays hospitals and doctors storing patient data on public cloud servers Cory Doctorow

scholarship Using structured encryption to search protected photos in the cloud Cory Doctorow

amazon That big Amazon S3 outage was caused by a typo, company admits Xeni Jardin

Boing Boing Gadgets The kickstarted Pebble smartwatch is now a division of Fitbit, so they may "reduce functionality" on all the watches they ever sold Cory Doctorow

security Iphones secretly send your call history to Apple's cloud, even after you tell them not to Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Kickstarting a tool to block robocalls and tie up scammers Cory Doctorow

Boing Boing Gadgets Vtech breach dumps 4.8m families' information, toy security is to blame Cory Doctorow

weather Incredibly strange and sublime cloud portal with a rainbow inside David Pescovitz