Australia's metadata retention scheme costs telcos $500k per cuffing

Netadmin-general Brandis needs just one more vote to get telco-tweaking powers The Australian Government's telecommunications data retention scheme is racking up the bills for carriers, but government funding has fallen short of the industry's costs…

US prosecutors demand data to unmask every visitor to anti-Trump protest website

DreamHost refuses to hand over 1.3m IP addresses, and more, says warrant too broad Web hosting biz DreamHost is resisting a US government search warrant to turn over data about everyone who visited a website used to coordinate anti-Trump protests.…

Internet addict sent to an anti-addiction boot camp is no longer an addict. Because he's dead

Chinese clinic staff cuffed after 18-year-old gets ultimate cure Staff at one of China's internet addiction clinics have been arrested after a teenager sent there for rehabilitation was found dead after 48 hours.…

Macie slay: AWS touts S3 patrol bots to kill data-slurping hackers

Plus: Database Glue guns, more encryption, hardware key management, and config tools AWS kicked off its New York City summit with a handful of announcements on Monday.…

Macie slay: AWS touts S3 patrol bots to kill data-slurping hackers

Plus: Database Glue guns, more encryption, hardware key management, and config tools AWS kicked off its New York City summit with a handful of announcements on Monday.…

Chap behind Godwin's law suspends his own rule for Charlottesville fascists: 'By all means, compare them to Nazis'

We did Nazi that coming Mike Godwin, creator of Godwin's Law, has rescinded his own rule for those outraged by vile fascists marching the streets of Virginia, USA, at the weekend.…

Facebook is deleting links to a viral attack on a Charlottesville victim

Blizzard revives Battle.net and admits it made a mistake with rebranding

Facebook introduceert eigen marktplaats voor verhandelen spullen in Benelux

Facebook heeft bekendgemaakt Marketplace, een dienst voor het kopen en verkopen van tweedehands spullen, te gaan introduceren in onder meer Nederland en België. De dienst was sinds oktober 2016 al beschikbaar in de VS, maar komt nu ook uit in 17 Eur…

Sigh. Big Cable execs dominate FCC panel overseeing Big Cable's broadband upgrades

Deployment committee stacked with industry bods, says report In just the latest example of how far America's telecoms regulator is in the pockets of the cable giants, its panel scrutinizing US broadband rollouts has been heavily stacked with industr…

Raising minimum wage will raise something else: An army of robots taking away folks' jobs

Low-skill workers are under threat either way, it appears Raising the minimum wage increases the chance employers will automate low-skill jobs away, according to a paper published this week through National Bureau of Economic Research, a non-profit …

Apple changed the Maps icon to show its new spaceship campus

Ubisoft brengt update voor The Division uit die wereldwijde events introduceert

Ubisoft brengt op 15 augustus een grote update uit voor de game Tom Clancy's The Division. Via deze gratis beschikbare update worden er onder andere zogeheten Global Events toegevoegd, een nieuw eventsysteem van tijdelijk missies.

Cassini is begonnen aan de laatste serie van vijf scheervluchten langs Saturnus

Ruimtesonde Cassini is begonnen aan de laatste serie van vijf duikvluchten tussen Saturnus en diens ringen. Tijdens deze vluchten komt de sonde bijzonder dicht bij de planeet, om vervolgens aan het einde van de vijfde duikvlucht, op 15 september, te…

Nintendo Switch will be in stock at all GameStop stores on August 15th

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky says white supremacy has ‘no place in this world’

Apple reportedly in talks with Aetna to bring the Apple Watch to millions of customers

 Apple and Aetna have held several secret meetings to discuss offering the Apple Watch to Aetna’s 23 million customers, according to CNBC. Aetna could roll out the plan as early as next year. Read More

GeForce Game Ready Driver 385.28 WHQL

Nvidia heeft nieuwe stabiele GeForce-drivers uitgebracht. De drivers dragen versienummer 385.28 WHQL en zijn geschikt voor Windows 7 en hoger, met zoals gebruikelijk aparte downloads voor 32bit- en 64bit-omgevingen. De drivers kunnen worden gebruikt…

You could get up to $20,000 off the price of an electric car — if you live in San Diego

Here’s what a phone sees when it falls from a plane and survives

The next Apple Watch will probably come in both LTE and non-LTE versions