Notepad++ 7.3.1

Versie 7.3.1 van Notepad++ is uitgekomen. Deze uitgebreide teksteditor heeft diverse mogelijkheden die vooral voor programmeurs handig zijn, zoals syntax-highlighting voor onder andere C, C++, Java, html, xml en php. Ook biedt het programma de mogel…

Doctor AI: Good news, I'm better at predicting when you'll die of a heart attack. Bad news is...

You're still gonna die, probably Artificial intelligence can predict better than real doctors when patients with serious heart disorders are likely to die. That's according to a paper published this week in Radiology.…

Boffins link ALIEN STRUCTURE ON VENUS to Solar System's biggest ever grav wave

Akatsuki probe finds huge thing lurking in planet's clouds An enormous, mysteriously stationary structure high over the surface of Venus may be the largest gravity wave in the Solar System, according to Japanese astronomers.…

You know how online shops love to keep tabs on you? Now it's coming to the offline world

Intel taps IoT tech to gather stats on shoppers Intel promises to provide real-world retailers with the same analytics as online stores, with the release of a new internet-of-things retail platform.…

Wanted: An Amazon fridge that automatically reorders food

Solaris 12 disappears from Oracle's roadmap

Instead we're getting version '11.next', two new generations of SPARC and SPARC infrastructure-as-a-service In late 2016 The Register received credible-but-ultimately-unverifiable reports that Oracle was scaling back Solaris development, perhaps wit…

Well, that sucks: China's Tencent so sorry after vid emerges of faux blowjob office game

Cloud giant's staff party leaves little to imagination Video  China's biggest internet biz Tencent has apologized after women employees were filmed on their knees in front of male coworkers in a raunchy end-of-year party game.…

100 Gbps link to Europe lights up to delight researchers

AEConnect cable expands university research networking Researchers are getting another 100 Gbps of dedicated connectivity between America and Europe, courtesy of a link on the AEConnect cable activated by Indiana University.…

IPv6 vulnerable to fragmentation attacks that threaten core internet routers

Net boffins float RFC to fix the protocol before things turn nasty A trio of 'net experts argues that a key IPv6 protocol needs fixing to get rid of a fragmentation attack vector against routers in large-scale core networks.…

Solaris 12 disappears from Oracle's roadmap

Instead we're getting version '11.next', two new generations of SPARC and SPARC infrastructure-as-a-service In late 2016 The Register received credible-but-ultimately-unverifiable reports that Oracle was scaling back Solaris development, perhaps wit…

100 Gbps link to Europe lights up to delight researchers

AEConnect cable expands university research networking Researchers are getting another 100 Gbps of dedicated connectivity between America and Europe, courtesy of a link on the AEConnect cable activated by Indiana University.…

IPv6 vulnerable to fragmentation attacks that threaten core internet routers

Net boffins float RFC to fix the protocol before things turn nasty A trio of 'net experts argues that a key IPv6 protocol needs fixing to get rid of a fragmentation attack vector against routers in large-scale core networks.…

Microsoft is bringing Cortana to the Android lock screen

Hacker cracks Facebook with remote code execution bug

ImageMagick exploit earns chap US$40k bug bounty Facebook has paid US$40,000 to vulnerability hunter Andrew Leonov for disclosing how the hacker gained remote code execution on its servers through the widely-reported ImageMagick flaw.…

Microsoft to add ebook store to Windows 10

Surprise: Google is still tinkering with Google+

Ransomware scum infect cancer non-profit

Net scum lowers bar. Ransomware scum have hit a new low by infecting a not-for-profit cancer services organisation.…

What's big and red and needs 270 security patches?

Oracle software, that's what Oracle has revealed its quarterly Critical Patch Update Advisory for January 2017, which offers users a buffet of 270 fixes to apply.…

SOHOpeless routers offer hard-coded credentials and command injection bugs

Researcher says Zyxel and Billion kit in Thailand, and probably beyond, are rotten Yet again, home routers are the home of SOHOpelessness: Zyxel and Billion units distributed in Thailand by TrueOnline have backdoors, and the researcher who found the…

Julian Assange remains silent on extradition promise

Toshiba may sell silicon biz to contain fallout of nuke plant problems

Japanese company's foray into fission has been a fiscal flop that a RAM plant sale could fix A troubled nuclear power station strategy in the USA has Toshiba considering the partial sale of its Japanese semiconductor business.…