British firm to build world's first offshore automated ship

But crewless boats are a long way off In January, the British firm Automated Ships and its Norwegian partners Kongsberg Maritime will begin work on the first offshore vessel that can be run with no captain, crew, or engineers.…

Tokens of terror spark 'major security update' at GitLab

HackerOne's Jobert Abma spots import/export credential persistence problem The co-founder of HackerOne, Jobert Abma, has reported a critical GitLab vulnerability that allowed remote code execution on application servers.…

Samsung will ban the Note 7 from connecting to mobile networks in New Zealand

UK prison reform report wants hard-coded no-fly zones in drones to keep them out of jail

Ministry of Justice will hire 50 to decipher data from currently un-analysed illicit phones The UK's Ministry of Justice has revealed it is trying to have drone-makers hard code prison locations into their products, to ensure jails become no-fly zon…

We now know exactly how many DNA mutations smoking causes

Sony's new coloring book lets you take crayons to PlayStation mascots

Microsoft extends support for EMET security tool

Windows Vista, 7 and 8 users can keep using code Redmond says has 'serious limits' Microsoft has extended the support life of its enhanced mitigation toolkit (EMET) affording Windows 8 laggards an extra 18 months of protection.…

World's shortest international flight: now just 21km in 7 minutes

€40 St. Gallen-Altenrhein to Friedrichshafen hop takes you from Switzerland to Germany Austrian airline People's Viennaline this week started flying the world's shortest international flight: a 21km hop from the Swiss town of St. Gallen to the Germa…

Is password security at just $1/month too expensive for most?

LastPass' free tier now works on all devices, which used to cost a buck a month With major breaches regularly turning up a prevalence of laughably predictable passwords, you'd think that the likes of password locker LastPass should find it easy to s…

Steely Danzig mashup adds dad-rock to 'Mother'

AI boffins turn to StarCraft to train future neural networks

TorchCraft to build machine-learning agents from cosmic battles StarCraft could be the next battleground for AI, as researchers create an open framework that tests deep-learning methods in the real-time strategy game.…

Writer of planned Sandman movie quits, says Gaiman adaptation will only work on TV

Uncle Sam launches open source trove of government code

Code.gov is live and Gitting The United States government has made good on its policy of requiring agencies to release 20 per cent of their bespoke code as open source by making code.gov live, complete with lots of code.…

Amazon Rapids is a subscription-based story service for kids raised on texting

Google knifes Eclipse Android Developer Tools

Android Studio 2.2 beckons, because what choice is there? Google's lengthy deathbed vigil for its Eclipse Android Developer Tools plugin has finally ended. After announcing its intention to pull the plug on ADT at the end of 2015, the company on Wed…

Microsoft puts Windows Updates on a diet with 'differential downloads'

PCs and devices will only pull the changes you need, in theory Microsoft will begin public trials of a new update system it says will dramatically reduce the size of Windows updates.…

Onderzoekers demonstreren warflying-aanval via Zigbee en Hue-lamp

Onderzoekers hebben als proof-of-concept een worm ontwikkeld die zich van lamp naar lamp verspreidde. Ze demonstreerden een aanval met wardriving en warflying met een quadcopter om Philips Hue-lampen op grote afstand te infecteren.

Google maakt tijdelijke korting op abonnementen in apps mogelijk

Ontwikkelaars van Android-apps kunnen binnenkort abonnementen tegen tijdelijke introductieprijzen gaan aanbieden via de Play Store. Volgens Google zijn abonnementen de snelst groeiende inkomstenbron bij de Play Store.

Standing out from the crowd with an Android phone? You and 90 per cent of the market

Meanwhile, analysts say Blackberry and Windows Phone aren't even worth measuring Android smartphones currently account for nine tenths of what analysts say is now strictly a two-brand market.…

Away, fools, and leave me to my VR egg

LibreOffice 5.2.3

De Document Foundation heeft de derde update voor versie 5.2 van LibreOffice uitgebracht. Dit opensource-officepakket is ontstaan als afsplitsing van OpenOffice en wordt geleverd met tekstverwerker Writer, spreadsheetprogramma Calc, presentatieprogr…