This bot shorts stocks when Trump tweets (don't fret, the profit is used for good)

Software exploits presidential tantrums aimed at big biz US President Donald Trump's tweets about Boeing, General Motors, and Toyota have affected the companies' stock price – and creative agency T3 believes that consequence will be repeated.…

Ransomware avalanche at Alpine hotel puts room keycards on ice

If at first you succeed, try, try again, think extortionists A top Austrian hotel coughed up thousands in ransom to cybercrooks, who hacked its computer system and locked guests out of their rooms until the money was paid.…

'Six strikes' anti-piracy initiative ends after failing to scare off 'hardcore' pirates

Twitter VP promises ‘long overdue’ harassment fixes this week

Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian says Trump’s immigration ban is 'deeply un-American'

Apple revenue could grow again thanks to the iPhone 7

 Apple will report its holiday quarter earnings tomorrow. Once again, all eyes will be on the iPhone. The device now represents the vast majority of the company’s revenue. So anything that can affect iPhone sales is a big deal. And if you’ve been pa…

Proces stemmen tellen Nederlandse verkiezingen eenvoudig te hacken

Bij Nederlandse verkiezingen wordt achter de schermen software uit 2009 gebruikt om stemmen digitaal te tellen. Aan de computers waarop deze software draait, worden nauwelijks veiligheidseisen gesteld en deze kunnen dus zweer kwetsbaar zijn voor een…

Google employees staged a protest over Trump’s immigration ban

Fitbit ontslaat 110 werknemers na tegenvallende kwartaalcijfers

Fitnesswearablemaker Fitbit ontslaat zes procent van zijn personeelsbestand na tegenvallende verkoopcijfers uit het vierde kwartaal van 2016. Dat komt neer op 110 werknemers. In het afgelopen jaar heeft Fitbit zelf nog drie bedrijven overgenomen.

MacBook Touch Bar barred from bar test takers this February

Apple’s new ‘Shot on iPhone’ billboard ads were all shot during the same night

 Apple is introducing a new billboard campaign today. The various “Shot on iPhone” ads have been quite effective. Somehow, seeing a giant photo on a billboard and thinking that it was shot with the phone you could have in your pocket works quite wel…

Sony takes $1bn writedown: Streaming has killed the DVD star

Feeling pretty Blu-ray DVD and Blu-ray income has collapsed faster than Sony expected, obliging the company to take a $976m (Y112bn) impairment on its movie business. Sony’s movie and TV boss stepped down earlier this month.…

Flashy Intel sees the XPoint of solid state

NAND revenues top $800m/quarter with XPOint forecast to be a 2018 revenue driver Intel made $816m from flash memory products in the final 2016 quarter and sees XPoint contributing 10 per cent of revenues in 2018.…

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos: ‘we do not support’ Trump immigration order

Lyft surpasses Uber in app downloads for the first time ever

Apple should probably make black AirPods

Square encourages Apple Pay payments with processing credit

 Square partnered with Apple for a promotion when customers use Apple Pay. Starting today, Square merchants won’t pay any processing fee for the first $12,000 in Apple Pay transactions — that represents around $350 in fees. In addition to this promo…

Percentage middelbare scholen dat informatica geeft daalt

Het percentage scholen van het voortgezet onderwijs dat informatica aanbiedt, is in vijf jaar tijd gedaald van zo'n 57 à 58 procent tot 49 procent. Een van de redenen waarom minder scholen het keuzevak aanbieden, zou zijn dat er te weinig leraren zi…

Judge allows plan for Intel to re-animate McAfee. The brand, we mean

Apparently survived YouTube shooting The tech world's equivalent of Jarndyce and Jarndyce rolled back into a New York Court last week, with a judge refusing to grant John McAfee an injunction blocking Intel from transferring trademark rights to the …

Corn-based diet turns French hamsters into baby eating cannibals

Hammy eating pups alive French farmers’ embrace of modern farming is turning the already endangered local hamster population into black-tongued baby eating pyschos, scientists have found.…

Re-create Game of Thrones’ humongous, gory battles with this Total War mod