It's patchin' time for devs using Virtzilla's desktop hypervisors

Get busy for the Critical one, nail the Important one while you are at it Time to patch your desktop hypervisors, folks: VMware Workstation and Fusion have a pair of problems apiece.…

Dungeons & Dragons finally going digital

Character sheets and bits of the rule books look like they're coming to the Web Seminal role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons looks to be going digital.…

Hyper-V guest escape, drive-by PDF pwnage, Office holes, SMB flaws – and more now patched

Secure programming is hard, kids Patch Tuesday  After taking a month off, Microsoft's Patch Tuesday is back – and it's a blockbuster edition. There are 18 bundles of patches covering 140 separate security vulnerabilities.…

US Marine Corps declares WAR on stolen sex snap sharing scum

'We have a problem and we intend to fix it' Video  In a hearing at the US Senate Armed Services Committee in Washington DC, the commandant of the Marine Corps, General Robert Neller, promised swift action against those swapping pornographic pictures…

Apple urged to legalize code injection: Let apps do JavaScript hot-fixes

Up your application policing, fruit-branded phone maker is told Faced with an existential threat to its hot patching service, Rollout.io is appealing to Apple to extend its app oversight into post-publication injections of JavaScript code.…

Oracle gives FCC a great big sloppy kiss: You're doing a great job axing net neutrality, privacy

But why? In a bizarre, fawning letter, Oracle has given America's broadband watchdog, the FCC, the equivalent of a telco reach-around.…

DTA: gov.au isn't dead, it's resting. Or pivoting, as digi-hipsters say

Look over here! Federated identity! Secure cloud! User-centred design! The former Digital Transformation Office's vaunted “gov.au” project collapsed because it duplicated work that other government departments were already doing for themselves, and …

Scientists need money so they’re yelling on Twitter

The Matrix is reportedly getting a reboot

Apple hires security researcher Jonathan Zdziarski

 Jonathan Zdziarski has been a leading expert on Apple and iOS security and forensics for years — and now he’s taking his expertise inside the company. Zdziarski, who has written several books on iOS and was an outspoken supporter of Apple during it…

Starbreeze investeert ruim 11 miljoen euro in System Shock 3

Ontwikkelaar OtherSide Entertainment maakt bekend dat het Zweedse gamebedrijf Starbreeze 12 miljoen dollar, omgerekend 11,3 miljoen euro, investeert in System Shock 3. Starbreeze zal de game uitgeven op de pc en 'andere platforms'.

Apple illegally fixed prices of iPhones in Russia, investigation finds

Apple contacted retailers who were selling the iPhone at "inappropriate" prices.

Japan takes a big step toward widespread drone delivery service

Remaster van avonturengame Full Throttle komt uit op 18 april

Double Fine Productions maakt bekend dat Full Throttle Remastered op 18 april uitkomt voor de pc, PlayStation 4 en PS Vita. De game is een opgepoetste versie van Tim Schafers avonturenspel dat in 1995 werd uitgebracht door LucasArts.

Germany to Facebook, Twitter: We are *this* close to fining you €50m unless you delete fake news within 24 hours

And hate speech, too The German government has formally proposed fining Facebook and Twitter up to €50m ($53m) for failing to remove slanderous fake news and hate speech within 24 hours.…

The SXSW chatbot doesn’t want me to die

Samsung vows to release monthly security updates for unlocked US Galaxy smartphones

Show Notes: What the world really needs is NFC payment sunglasses

Apple neemt beveiligingsonderzoeker Jonathan Zdziarski in dienst

Jonathan Zdziarski gaat aan de slag bij het Security Engineering and Architecture-team van Apple. Dat maakt hij bekend op zijn blog. De expert publiceerde de afgelopen jaren meerdere malen over beveiligingsproblemen en backdoors in iOS.

Intel's Clear Containers creep toward being useful: Now plays nicer with Docker, Kubernetes

Like virtual machines but, well, like virtual machines Intel has tweaked its Clear Containers software so that it is compatible with Docker Swarm and Kubernetes orchestration.…

Lenovo EMEA wakes up after five quarters of sliding sales, adds CEO

Le nom est Bornibus, Francois Bornibus Lenovo EMEA has dropped its top ops man into the CEO chair following five quarters of shrinking turnover and recent operating losses.…