Apple's macOS is the safer choice – but not for the reason you think

Eugene Kaspersky looks forward to a new darker dawn Apple's Mac operating system may be the safer choice – but only because cybercriminals can't get their hands on people who know how to exploit it.…

Google Chrome 56's crypto tweak 'borked thousands of computers' using Bluecoat security

Flawed TLS 1.3 takes down Chromebooks, PCs The availability of Transport Layer Security protocol version 1.3 was supposed to make network encryption faster and more secure.…

US Air Force terminates Predator drones. Now, you will fear the Reaper

Go to your brother, kill him with your gun. Leave him dying at his wedding, dying in the sun After more than 20 years of service, the US Air Force fly boys have announced that the MQ-1 Predator drone is going to be phased out within a year.…

Porsche Design, Intel en Microsoft presenteren 2-in-1-laptop

Porsche Design, Intel en Microsoft hebben maandagavond op een evenement tijdens Mobile World Congress in Barcelona een 2-in-1-laptop gepresenteerd. Het scherm kan 360 graden draaien en is daarnaast afneembaar. De convertible luistert naar de naam Po…

Netflix-ceo: onze videostreamingdienst helpt tegen piraterij

Netflix-ceo Reed Hastings heeft tijdens het Mobile World Congress gezegd dat Netflix helpt bij het bestrijden van piraterij. Volgens Hastings levert Netflix hier een bijdrage aan, omdat mensen via de dienst op een goedkope manier een alternatief heb…

Did you buy anything from Microsoft's glum Apple Store knockoff? You may be owed $100

Redmond tosses $1.2m to settle suit over leaky receipts Microsoft will cough up $1.2m to settle a class-action lawsuit after its retail stores leaked a little too much information about shoppers' payment cards.…

EA's Peter Moore is leaving to run his favorite soccer team

Nintendo Switch lijkt games te ondersteunen die niet via tv-dock zijn te spelen

De Nintendo Switch lijkt games te ondersteunen die alleen in de draagbare handheld-modus zijn te spelen. De tv-modus, waarbij de console in het dock wordt geplaatst dat is aangesloten op de tv, wordt bij de game Voez niet ondersteund.

81's 99 in 17: Still a lotta love for the TI‑99/4A – TI's forgotten classic

Retro computing fans mod ancient Texas Instruments machines Feature  The retro computing and gaming scene is seeing no shortage of interest these days. Old fans and curious millennials are flocking to take nostalgia trips on the popular consoles of …

Ricoh kondigt 360-gradencamera aan die 24 uur lang beelden kan streamen

Ricoh heeft tijdens het Mobile World Congress in Barcelona de Ricoh R Development Kit aangekondigd. Deze compacte camera is in staat om gedurende 24 uur beelden in 360 graden live te streamen.

Fujitsu staff will strike from midnight over pay, pensions and layoffs

ACAS conciliation service talks worked well, then Unionised staff at Fujitsu are downing tools for 24 hours from midnight in protest over cuts to jobs, pay and pensions. It appears the conciliation service ACAS failed to find a common ground that su…

Licence-fee outsourcer Capita caught wringing BBC tax from vulnerable

Enforcement officers bully their way to catching 28 offenders per week for £15,000 bonus Capita, to whom the BBC has outsourced its licence fee shakedown efforts, has been found to be targeting vulnerable people as part of an aggressive bonus scheme…

Show Notes: European mobile explosion

The millionaire tourists on SpaceX's Moon trip better document the whole thing

Why on earth would you pay millions of dollars to fly around the Moon?

SpaceX plans to send two people around the Moon

Wiko introduceert de 'high-end'-smartphone WIM met dubbele camera

De Franse smartphonemaker Wiko heeft op het Mobile World Congress in Barcelona de relatief hoogwaardige smartphone WIM gepresenteerd. Het toestel beschikt over een dubbele camera. Daarnaast kunnen met de WIM video's in 4K worden opgenomen.

NZBGet 19.0 r1903 bèta

Er is een nieuwe ontwikkelversie van NZBGet uitgebracht. Met dit programma kunnen bestanden van usenet gedownload worden. Het programma is vergelijkbaar met SABnzbd. Het kan onder meer automatisch bestanden repareren met par-bestanden en heeft een i…

Softbank gros fromage: ARM will knock out a billion IoT chips by 2040

Also foresees terrifying 10bn-strong robot army. Hey ho MWC  Japanese firm Softbank expects its subsidiary ARM to fire out a billion chips for the Internet of Things over the next two decades, its CEO told Mobile World Congress.…

Nimble offers AWS and Azure cloud-wrapper

Hybrid pipes and services for Amazon-sippers Nimble Storage claims Azure and AWS clouds aren't ideal for enterprise transaction apps but says it can fix that by wrapping them inside Nimble Cloud Volumes for a $0.10/GB/month starting price.…

Nimble offers AWS and Azure cloud-wrapper

Hybrid pipes and services for Amazon-sippers Nimble Storage claims Azure and AWS clouds aren't ideal for enterprise transaction apps but says it can fix that by wrapping them inside Nimble Cloud Volumes for a $0.10/GB/month starting price.…