IBM asks contractors to take a pay cut

Big Blue is 'shifting service delivery model to dedicated employee workforce' but clients aren't happy EXCLUSIVE  IBM is not just banning the hire of new contractors and telling existing contractors they won't get new gigs: now it is telling some cu…

Init freedom declared as systemd-free Devuan hits stable 1.0.0 status

Devuan 'Jessie' is done and will get long term support beyond the life of Debian Jessie POLL  The self-described “Veteran Unix Admin collective” that in 2014 promised to give the world a cut of Debian without systemd has delivered: Devuan 1.0.0 LTS …

Don't rely on fitness trackers to track number of calories burned

Study shows energy readings off over 90% Your fitness tracker might measure a heart rate accurately, but not the amount of calories burned, according to a study published in the Journal of Personalised Medicine.…

Juno's first data causing boffins to rewrite the text books on Jupiter

Sadly no black monolith found Scientists were expecting a lot of new data from the Juno space probe orbiting Jupiter, and they haven't been disappointed. The most massive planet in the Solar System is turning out to have a lot of surprises.…

T-Mobile goes Apple/Google route by separating phone numbers and devices

'Digits' marks a shift for the phone industry T-Mobile is taking a leaf out of the tech industry book and separating phones from their numbers.…

Congresscritters float benefits for gig workers

Bill would let contractors get unemployment and paid leave Two US legislators are drafting bills to provide "gig" contract workers many of the same benefits afforded to those who work full time.…

T-Mobile goes Apple/Google route by separating phone numbers and devices

'Digits' marks a shift for the phone industry T-Mobile is taking a leaf out of the tech industry book and separating phones from their numbers.…

Apple has finally found someone to support HomeKit

But Belkin's new bridge only reinforces the problem of a locked-down ecosystem It's been a year since Apple officially launched its internet-of-things smart-home service – an event that we noted at the time was somewhat undermined by the fact that t…

Three Nigerians sentenced to 235 years in prison for online scamming

Don't expect princely borrowing emails to stop any time soon A court in Mississippi has sentenced three Nigerian men to 235 years in prison for running online scams that duped people out of tens of millions of dollars.…

Capcom’s Monster Hunter series is coming to Nintendo Switch

US citizens complain their names were used for FCC robo-comments

Allegedly astroturfed Americans speak out over net neutrality filings Fourteen Americans (with the help of an advocacy group) are complaining to the FCC that their names were used without permission to file fake comments on the proposed net neutrali…

US citizens complain their names were used for FCC robo-comments

Allegedly astroturfed Americans speak out over net neutrality filings Fourteen Americans (with the help of an advocacy group) are complaining to the FCC that their names were used without permission to file fake comments on the proposed net neutrali…

Microsoft court victory prompts call for data-grabbing regime

Legislators mull over modernizing legal process for seizing cloud data The Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism on Wednesday held a hearing to explore the government's inability to have its cake and eat it too.…

Astroboffins spot a new type of galaxy bursting with stars

Star formation rate is a hundred times faster than our Milky Way A team of astronomers has stumbled across a new kind of galaxy that may be the missing piece of the puzzle regarding how ancient galaxies grew to such massive sizes.…

Microsoft court victory prompts call for data-grabbing regime

Legislators mull over modernizing legal process for seizing cloud data The Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism on Wednesday held a hearing to explore the government's inability to have its cake and eat it too.…

Venezuela increases internet censorship and surveillance in crisis

Latin American country going the China route Venezuela is increasingly censoring its internet and expanding online surveillance of citizens.…

Venezuela increases internet censorship and surveillance in crisis

Latin American country going the China route Venezuela is increasingly censoring its internet and expanding online surveillance of citizens.…

Netgear ReadyNAS 6.7.3

Netgear heeft ReadyNAS versie 6.7.1 uitgebracht. Deze software draait op de diverse nas-apparaten van Netgear, zoals de met een arm-processor uitgeruste RN102, RN104, RN202, RN204, RN212, RN214 en RN2120, en de met een x86-processor uitgeruste RN312…

Cloudflare doubles down on its troll-hunting crusade

Bounty for invalidating Blackbird Tech patents increases Cloudflare has today stepped up its efforts to run patent litigator Blackbird Technologies into the ground.…

Overwatch fandom ruled Tumblr over the last year

Kodi 17.3

Versie 17.2 van Kodi kon al een paar dagen geleden worden opgehaald, maar nu is wegens twee vervelende fouten ook alweer een opvolger beschikbaar gekomen. Deze crossplatform-mediacentersoftware wordt ontwikkeld voor Windows, macOS, Linux, Android en…