The lady (or man) vanishes: The thorny issue of GDPR coding

The Devil is in the enhanced data model The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is now less than a year away, coming into effect in May 2018, and any legal or compliance department worth its salary should already have been making waves about w…

I hacked my body for a future that never came

Samsung lijkt Galaxy Note 8 op 23 augustus te gaan introduceren

Samsung houdt op 23 augustus een Galaxy Unpacked-evenement onder de noemer 'Do bigger things'. Het bedrijf maakt nog niet bekend wat er aangekondigd gaat worden, maar hoogstwaarschijnlijk gaat het om de Galaxy Note 8.

Activision presenteert co-opmodus Nazi Zombies van Call of Duty: WWII

Activision heeft de co-opmodus van Call of Duty: WWII met een trailer onthuld. Net als bij voorgaande games uit de serie kunnen spelers daarin samen zombies afknallen. Verschillende acteurs lenen hun stem en gelijkenis voor de modus.

Boffins back bubbles for better bonding with beautiful belongings

AKA how to watermark 3D printed stuff with air bubbles To mark and track 3D printed objects, boffins propose injecting them with air.…

User filed fake trouble tickets to take helpful sysadmin to lunches

Reg reader was shouted at for a problem the customer created, but won his respect and apologies ON-CALL  Hey, hey, it's Friday! Which means frolicsome weekend fun is just a day away … if you can survive work and this week's instalment of On-Call, Th…

Struggling shipping company Shyp retreats to San Francisco

Autonomous driving will bring forced obsolescence to cars

Microsoft haalt meer omzet uit Office 365-abo's dan uit Office-licenties

Microsoft heeft voor het eerst meer omzet gehaald uit Office 365-abonnementen dan uit zijn traditionele licentieverkopen voor het zakelijke pakket. Microsoft verkocht minder Surface- en Xbox-apparaten, maar zag zijn omzet uit clouddiensten flink sti…

Q. What's today's top language? A. Python... no, wait, Java... no, C

Just learn them all and stop worrying about the popularity contest Among developers, Python is the most popular programming language, followed by C, Java, C++, and JavaScript; among employers, Java is the most sought after, followed by C, Python, C+…

Burglary, robbery, kidnapping and a shoot-out over… a domain name?!

When transfers go really, really wrong, allegedly A home break-in that resulted in two men being shot – one of whom was later charged with burglary, robbery and kidnapping – was the result of a domain name dispute, cops have said.…

Moneysupermarket fined £80,000 for spamming seven million customers

Go compare the original opt-out request, firm told Price-comparison darling Moneysupermarket.com has been fined £80,000 for sending 7.1 million emails to customers who had opted out of receiving direct marketing emails.…

Authorities go hard on coffee maker for stiff Viagra-powered brew

Is that a DIMM in your pocket or have you been at this banned bean again? How's this for a stiff one to start the day? We now go live to America, where watchdogs have recalled a batch of coffee for containing an active ingredient very similar to Via…

Microsoft finally allows hosted desktops on multi-tenant hardware

Windows 10 enterprise licences to gain virtualization rights, plus roaming to personal devices Microsoft's dispensed with a licensing oddity that saw it prohibit hosted virtual desktops running on multi-tenanted hardware.…

Microsoft finally allows hosted desktops on multi-tenant hardware

Windows 10 enterprise licences to gain virtualization rights, plus roaming to personal devices Microsoft's dispensed with a licensing oddity that saw it prohibit hosted virtual desktops running on multi-tenanted hardware.…

Delta passengers can now use their fingerprints as a boarding pass

LG’s new airport robots will guide you to your gate and clean up your trash

Bluetooth makes a mesh of itself with new spec

Up to 32,000 nodes without routers in the middle and battery life measured in years The Bluetooth Special Interest Group has released the spec for Bluetooth Mesh, a many-to-many extension of the technology.…

ServiceNow stops over in Jakarta in its journey to AI-land

SaaS-y business process simplifier adds security chat rooms, cloud management and more to new release ServiceNow's Jakarta release went live on Thursday, bringing with it plenty of new toys for IT departments and hints of artificially intelligent th…

Bluetooth makes a mesh of itself with new spec

Up to 32,000 nodes without routers in the middle and battery life measured in years The Bluetooth Special Interest Group has released the spec for Bluetooth Mesh, a many-to-many extension of the technology.…

Stargate is coming back as a digital-only prequel series