Symbolic IO CEO cuffed by cops, vanishes from his storage startup

Tech boss denies any wrongdoing Symbolic IO CEO and founder Brian Ignomirello was arrested last week on outstanding warrants and for allegedly violating a restraining order, it is reported.…

G Suite admins have just one button to secure their sites, but don't

Another day, another cloudy data leak, as admins fail to get one setting right G Suite business users: go and check your configuration, and make sure you're not publishing enterprise information to the whole world.…

Microsoft Paint isn’t dead yet, will live in the Windows Store for free

Alphabet takes Euro antitrust fine in stride, spooks investors with rising Google ad costs

Meanwhile, 'Other Bets' group hemorrhages less than before Google parent company Alphabet says that its revenues in the past three months have grown by 21 per cent – while the European Commission's $2.7bn fine took a big bite out of its net income.…

Alphabet takes Euro antitrust fine in stride, spooks investors with rising Google ad costs

Meanwhile, 'Other Bets' group hemorrhages less than before Google parent company Alphabet says that its revenues in the past three months have grown by 21 per cent – while the European Commission's $2.7bn fine took a big bite out of its net income.…

Mac malware that went undetected for years spied on everyday users

Surveillance malware dubbed Fruitfly was easy to spot but flew under the radar anyway.

TechnologyOne says City of Brisbane ignored its own reviews

Big-bang software rollout goes bitterly bad, where have we heard that before? Australian ERP software vendor TechnologyOne has escalated a long-running row with Brisbane City Council, threatening to sling an AU$50 million sueball at the city.…

Apollo center fundraiser: That's one small check from man, one giant leap for our peace of mind

Everyone else did the 'Houston, we have a problem' headline An online fundraising campaign is asking for $250,000 to cover the costs of preserving and maintaining a historic control room used for NASA's Apollo missions.…

Pathetic patching leaves over 70,000 Memcached servers still up for grabs

And that’s months after patches released and warning emails sent – sort it out! If you're running the caching service Memcached, and particularly if you're exposing it to the public internet for some reason, please make sure you've patched it. Tens …

Satellietdata suggereert dat onder oppervlak van de maan veel water zit

Wetenschappers van de Amerikaanse Brown-universiteit beschrijven in een onderzoek dat uit satellietmetingen van vulkanische afzettingen op de maan, is gebleken dat er aanzienlijke hoeveelheden water aanwezig zijn onder het oppervlak van het hemellic…

Democrats (still a thing, apparently) are super unhappy about AT&T's Time-Warner merger

Busting up telcos is on LOSER party's agenda. SAD! Democrats in US Congress oppose AT&T's acquisition of Time-Warner and any other proposed big-time telco gobbles.…

China crams spyware on phones in Muslim-majority province

On-the-spot checks by cops to ensure creepy mass surveillance tool is installed The Chinese government is requiring citizens in Xinjiang province to install spyware on their mobile phones and is enforcing the policy with police spot-checks, accordin…

AT&T–Time Warner merger reportedly moving forward at Justice Department

Crims snatch 5.5 million social security numbers from Kansas govt box

A server where there isn't any trouble. Do you suppose there is such a server, Toto? Hackers have lifted not only the social security numbers and personal information of half a million jobseekers in Kansas – but also records on five million people f…

'Xbox One X heeft alle keuringen doorstaan en pre-orders beginnen binnenkort'

Phil Spencer, het hoofd van de divisie die de Xbox maakt, heeft op Twitter gezegd dat de Xbox One X op alle vlakken goedkeuring heeft gekregen en dat de aankondiging dat pre-orders geplaatst kunnen worden, niet lang meer op zich laat wachten.

SpaceX gaat mogelijk een kleinere raket gebruiken voor kolonisatie van Mars

Elon Musk, de topman van SpaceX, heeft op Twitter gehint op een mogelijke kleinere raket die gebruikt zal worden voor het plan om in of vanaf 2020 mensen naar Mars te sturen. De raket krijgt mogelijk een diameter van 9 meter, waardoor de productie e…

Apple posts new iOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS developer betas

Apple has released the fourth developer betas of iOS 11, macOS 10.13 High Sierra, tvOS 11, and watchOS 4. The new beta versions can be downloaded through the Apple Developer Center or through…

The Porsche Design Huawei Watch is a beautiful, useless device

This ring turns your finger into a phone

Game of Thrones' worst characters died as they lived — being useless

iOS 11 prevents your iPhone from automatically connecting to patchy Wi-Fi