eBay dumps users into insecure authentication mechanism

Dump dongles and move to SMS, says tat bazaar, oblivious to deprecation advice Web tat bazaar eBay appears to be suggesting its readers adopt known-to-be-insecure practices when logging on to the service.…

US ordered ‘mandatory social media check’ for visa applicants who visited ISIS territory

How iTunes built, and then broke, my meticulous music-listening system

Chinese 'scheldende trojan' gebruikt nepzendmasten voor verspreiding

Chinese malware met de bijnaam 'Swearing Trojan' vanwege de scheldwoorden in de broncode, is gebruik gaan maken van nepzendmasten om gebruikers te verleiden op een link te klikken met sms'jes die afkomstig lijken van hun provider.

Apple koopt app voor automatiseren taken in iOS en stelt hem gratis beschikbaar

Apple heeft Deskconnect gekocht, het bedrijf achter de app Workflow. Die app, waarmee gebruikers taken in iOS kunnen automatiseren, stelt Apple nu kosteloos beschikbaar, terwijl de app tot nu toe juist geld kostte.

LinkedIn starts piping sales data to Salesforce and Dynamics

Remember when Marc Benioff said Microsoft buying LinkedIn was dangerous? LinkedIn has revealed a new version of its SaaSy Sales Navigator that pipes activities from the network into Salesforce.com.…

NASA to fire 1Gbps laser 'Wi-Fi' ... into spaaaaace

You may be struggling with crappy broadband – but future astronauts will be able to easily Netflix and chill in orbit NASA hopes to use lasers to shoot data to and from the International Space Station and Earth at gigabit-per-second rates by 2021.…

Microsoft's latest attempt to get into connected cars involves patents

Fake mobile base stations spreading malware in China

'Swearing Trojan' pushes phishing texts around carriers' controls Chinese phishing scum are deploying fake mobile base stations to spread malware in text messages that might otherwise get caught by carriers.…

Huawei picks SUSE for assault on UNIX big iron

Kit and code for those days when you need to hot-swap or memory Huawei's tightened its relationship with SUSE for extremely high reliability computing, while also denting Microsoft's and Red Hat's prospects.…

Huawei picks SUSE for assault on UNIX big iron

Kit and code for those days when you need to hot-swap or memory Huawei's tightened its relationship with SUSE for extremely high reliability computing, while also denting Microsoft's and Red Hat's prospects.…

SUMo 5.1.5

KC Softwares heeft versie 5.1.5 van SUMo uitgebracht. SUMo, wat voor Software Update Monitor staat, is een programma dat de computer scant op aanwezige software en vervolgens controleert of er nieuwere versies beschikbaar zijn. Door het installeren …

Apple says it hasn’t been breached after hacker group threatens to wipe millions of iPhones

TRAPPIST-1's planets are quiet. Quiet as the grave, in fact

Sorry, ET fans: these aren't the exoplanets you're looking for Boiled dry or extra-terrestrial snowballs, it turns out that the multi exoplanets orbiting the star dubbed TRAPPIST-1 are almost certainly inhospitable to life.…

Unbuntu splats TITSUP bug spread in update

Fat-thumbed DNS patch unpatched, time to re-patch A simple library update turned into a white-knuckle ride for Ubuntu sysadmins, who have lit up Reddit and StackOverflow to complain that their 'net connections went TITSUP (Total Inability To Support…

Vudu can turn your old DVDs into HD digital copies, and all you need is a smartphone

Strike that: 17,000 AT&T workers down tools in California, Nevada

I dreamed I called Joe Hill last night More than 17,000 workers for AT&T belonging to the Communications Workers of America downed tools and went on strike in California and Nevada on Wednesday after restructuring talks broke down.…

FBI evidence suggests Trump associates and Russians may have coordinated to sink Clinton

Apple has acquired Workflow, a powerful automation tool for iPad and iPhone

 Apple has finalized a deal to acquire Workflow today — a tool that lets you hook together apps and functions within apps in strings of commands to automate tasks. We’ve been tracking this one for a while but were able to confirm just now that the i…

Crowdfundcampagne voor 'domme tablet' die beeld van telefoon streamt haalt doel

Een Kickstarter-campagne voor een 'domme tablet' die het beeld streamt vanaf een telefoon heeft zijn doel behaald. De Superscreen had een doel van 50.000 dollar, maar heeft inmiddels meer dan een half miljoen dollar opgehaald.

It's happening! It's happening! W3C erects DRM as web standard

World has until April 19 to make its views known on latest draft The World Wide Web Consortium has formally put forward highly controversial digital rights management as a new web standard.…