Bill Nye has a few tips for President Trump on how to manage NASA

Naming computers endangers privacy, say 'Net standards boffins

'Richard's iPhone' could be anybody's, but it's easy to find out which Richard's it is If you must give your devices names, please don't leak them on the Internet.…

Tesla, Atlassian told to go through front door in effort to save Australian industrial civilisation

Recently-dimmed South Australia plans grid-scale batteries and gas, gas, gas Sorry, Elon Musk: if you want to ship 100 MW or so of battery so Atlassian's founder Mike Cannon-Brookes can save the Australian State of South Australia, you'll have to go…

NASA finds India's missing lunar orbiter with Earth-bound radar

Now that we can spot things the size of a fridge 380,000km away, dodging debris or asteroids should be easier In 2009, a lunar orbiter launched by India went quiet and never heard from again. Fast-forward eight years and NASA say it's spotted it usi…

Google briefly broke 'Droid Pay with last week's Android update

Which is why lucky Nexus owners have had two OS updates in a week Last week's Android security update broke Android's Pay for some Nexus 6 users, so it was pulled and re-posted.…

Apache Struts 2 bug bites Canada, Cisco

Canuck tax and stats outages revealed as patch pauses Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) says its online services were taken offline over the weekend so it could patch the Apache Struts 2 vulnerability.…

New York City sues Verizon for failing to provide fiber broadband to all households

Hailing frequencies open! WikiLeaks pings Microsoft after promise to share CIA tools

Windows giant approached, Google, Apple next, we hope Last week, WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange said he would hand over the CIA hacking tools that fell into his lap to various technology companies before making the exploits public. We're told he has…

Google’s Allo app can reveal what you’ve searched to your friends

Do you use .home and .mail on your network? ICANN mulls .corp, .mail, .home dot-word domains

'High risk' domains still being pondered by DNS overseer For five years, more than a dozen companies have been waiting to hear whether they will be able to run the internet top-level domains .corp, .home and .mail. And this month they finally got th…

Do you use .home and .mail on your network? ICANN mulls .corp, .mail, .home dot-word domains

'High risk' domains still being pondered by DNS overseer For five years, more than a dozen companies have been waiting to hear whether they will be able to run the internet top-level domains .corp, .home and .mail. And this month they finally got th…

Sad fact of the day: Most people still don't know how to protect themselves online

Greater transparency about snooping, tracking needed In light of the contrast between widely observed personal security routines such as locking the door at night and more carefree behavior online, Mozilla decided to interrogate its community to fin…

CA forks out $45m to make claims it screwed over US govt go away

Ex-employee turned whistleblower is $10m richer CA Inc will cough up $45m to end allegations it overcharged American taxpayers while offering discounts to companies.…

Sony voegt dit jaar PS4-games toe aan de streamingdienst PlayStation Now

Sony heeft bekendgemaakt dat de gamestreamingdienst PlayStation Now dit jaar wordt uitgebreid met de mogelijkheid om ook games voor de PlayStation 4 te kunnen spelen. Wanneer dit precies gaat gebeuren is nog onduidelijk.

Facebook verbiedt ontwikkelaars om data te gebruiken voor surveillancedoeleinden

Facebook heeft beleidsveranderingen doorgevoerd om te voorkomen dat ontwikkelaars data van Facebook mogen gebruiken voor middelen om gebruikers te kunnen monitoren. Het sociale medium heeft daartoe de gebruikersvoorwaarden voor ontwikkelaars aangepa…

Primary Data's metadata engine 'speeds up' NAS, saves 'millions'. Leaps burning buildings, too?

DataSphere's claims – make believe or real? Analysis  Primary Data has updated its storage silo-converging DataSphere product, and says it’s ready for mainstream enterprise use, not just test and dev. The new release can save millions of dollars, ha…

Facebook, Instagram: No, you can't auto-slurp our profiles (cough, cough, border officials)

Mining social media accounts is our job, Uncle Sam Facebook and its snap-sharing app Instagram have updated their terms and conditions to bar developers from scanning profiles for surveillance purposes.…

Primary Data's metadata engine 'speeds up' NAS, saves 'millions'. Leaps burning buildings, too?

DataSphere's claims – make believe or real? Analysis  Primary Data has updated its storage silo-converging DataSphere product, and says it’s ready for mainstream enterprise use, not just test and dev. The new release can save millions of dollars, ha…

CBO confirms that the GOP plan to replace Obamacare would cripple public health

Kids' risk of diabetes rises with too much screen time

Apple releases new ad with real-life iMessage stickers

 Apple just published a new video ad on its YouTube channel. I’ve been writing about recent Apple ads because they’ve been a bit more creative than your average consumer electronics ad. This time is no exception as Apple created a city-wide sticker …