Some Google Home users are reporting problems with Philips Hue lights

Alphabet could soon be competing with Tesla in renewable energy storage

Rusland doet proxies, Tor en vpn's in de ban

De Russische president Poetin heeft een wet ondertekend die technologie verbiedt waarmee verboden websites te benaderen zijn. Providers moeten de toegang tot technieken als vpn's en Tor blokkeren vanaf 1 november.

nbn™ blames cheap-ass telcos for grumpy users, absolves CVC pricing

All this will pass says CEO Morrow, once ISPs consolidate and stop discounting nbn™, the entity building and operating Australia's national broadband network (NBN), has hit back at critics of its network and business plan in a pair of missives attri…

AI quickly cooks malware that AV software can't spot

Experiment used Elon Musk's OpenAI framework - no wonder he's so down on AI DEF CON  Machine learning tools can create custom malware that defeats anti-virus software.…

Hackers kraken stemmachines tijdens Defcon

Hackers hebben verschillende kwetsbaarheden gebruikt om oude Amerikaanse stemmachines van onder andere Diebolds, Sequoia en WinVote te kraken. Ze slaagden er in een WinVote-machine binnen twee uur op afstand binnen te dringen via wifi.

Windows Subsystem for Linux to debut in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update

Out of beta, still won't let you read Linux files from Windows Microsoft's head-turning Windows Subsystem for Linux will emerge from beta to become a fully-fledged-and-supported feature of the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update.…

Microsoft's Windows Phone keyboard for the iPhone is dead

AMD is back to challenge Nvidia for high-end gaming PCs

HomePod firmware reveals more secrets of Apple’s smart speaker

Scary news: Asteroid may pass Earth by just 6,880km in October

Good news: Chelyabinsk-sized rattler won't wipe us out, will let us test asteroid defences NASA's preparing another round asteroid defence tests, thanks to the October fly-by of a rock that may come within a cosmic whisker of the Earth.…

AMD introduceert Vega RX-videokaarten

Voorafgaand aan zijn Siggraph-evenement heeft AMD zijn nieuwe generatie videokaarten aangekondigd. De Radeon RX Vega-generatie kaarten zal vanaf 14 augustus verkrijgbaar zijn en zullen een startprijs van 399 dollar krijgen.

AMD introduceert derde Threadripper-cpu

AMD heeft meer details over zijn Threadripper-processors vrijgegeven, maar kondigde tevens een derde processor in de serie aan, waarover tot dusver niets bekend was. De nieuwe 1900X met acht cores krijgt een adviesprijs van 549 dollar en komt eind a…

Petition aims to save Adobe Flash by open-sourcing it

Dev thinks we need to keep notable .SWFs readable for the sake of posterity A group of developers have taken to GitHub with a petition to save Adobe Flash, despite the company's largely-welcomed decision to end support for the oft-reviled software i…

Boffins grudgingly admit they may have found an exomoon

Social media speculation forced their hand, hence the pre-press paper explaining their interest After Twitter-leaks, a trio of exoplanet-hunters have decided to go public with observations they reckoned weren't quite up to broadcast-quality but whic…

Linus Torvalds pens vintage 'f*cking' rant at kernel dev's 'utter BS'

Dev bounces back with 'fair enough' as rc3 for 4.13 lands Linux overlord Linus Torvalds has fired off an expletive-laden rant of the sort that only he seems to find acceptable.…

On Game of Thrones’ latest episode, the dead still drive the choices of the living

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg: crypto ban won't help trap terrorists

Tells Desert Island Disks that Indie apps don't hand over metadata Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg has reiterated the company's position that weakening the encryption of messaging apps isn't going to give governments what they want.…

Azure security boss tells sysadmins to harden up and properly harden Windows Server

You're leaving stuff ON that deserves to be OFF DEF CON  Windows Server admins keep making mistakes that let criminals target the OS, according to Microsoft's lead security architect for Azure management Lee Holmes, Redmond therefore wants you to ha…

Lore of Thrones: Explaining the history behind Game of Thrones’ big face-off

Another US government committee takes aim at Kaspersky Labs

Worries about 'espionage, sabotage, or other nefarious activities' cough - NSA! - cough A major US House of Representatives committee wants 22 government agencies to tell it where they've got Kaspersky products in their networks.…