Stroomstoring Amsterdam leidt tot problemen bij TransIP

Een omvangrijke stroomstoring in Amsterdam heeft tot problemen bij het datacenter van TransIP geleid, waardoor diensten en sites van klanten tijdelijk offline waren. Ook de sites van onder andere de Telegraaf en Hardware.info hadden te maken met dow…

Consumentenorganisaties willen via rechter vergoeding Philips om beeldbuiskartel

De Nederlandse organisaties ConsumentenClaim en Consumentenbond willen via de rechter voor elkaar krijgen dat Philips en andere partijen schadevergoeding aan consumenten betalen. De bedrijven kregen een EU-boete opgelegd voor het deelnemen aan een k…

Gerucht: Apple verlaagt prijs MacBook Pro zonder Touch Bar

Apple zou de prijs van de MacBook Pro zonder Touch Bar willen verlagen, omdat de laptop het in de verkoop minder goed doet dan de fabrikant had verwacht. Het model kost bij Apple momenteel bijna 1700 euro, 300 euro minder dan het goedkoopste model m…

Japan tries to launch satellite on rocket the size of a telegraph pole

And fails: the launcher's second stage failed to ignite so it ditched into the sea From plants to pocket-sized radios, Japan has a long history of miniaturisation, but its first attempt to shrink a satellite-launching rocket has ended with the launc…

Dodgy Dutch developer built backdoors into thousands of sites

Then hoovered out users' personal data, stole identities galore and spent up big Dutch police are this week warning 20,000 users that their email accounts were hacked after a malicious web developer left backdoors in the sites he built.…

Auto emissions 'cheatware' scandal sparks war of words between Italy, Germany

EPA's allegations against Fiat Chrysler become sweary international incident The latest “cheatware” scandal to rock the auto industry has escalated to cause inter-government tension, with Germany and Italy trading snipes over Fiat Chrysler's claims …

Microsoft shows off its new Xbox One dashboard

Smartphonemaker Vivo presenteert telefoon met dubbele frontcamera

De Chinese smartphonemaker Vivo heeft een telefoon gepresenteerd met dubbele frontcamera. De primaire camera maakt de foto's, terwijl de secundaire camera diepte-informatie moet achterhalen en opslaan om de achtergrond van selfies te kunnen blurren.

Docker adds continuous integration to DataKit

Your code tested as soon as you send it to GitHub Here's a handy tool from Docker's GitHub repository: a continuous integration library to help manage DataKit projects.…

UK App Store prices will rise 25 percent following Brexit currency fluctuations

911 app is a joke, says security researcher Randy Westergren

'Panic Button' could be pressed by miscreants, repeatedly The Rave Panic Button app, designed to allow businesses to summon emergency services, allows miscreants to easily 'swat' targets by making false reports of emergencies says security researche…

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Dovecot mailserver graded 'nearly impenetrable'

Security audit of popular-with-service-providers package produces surprised smiles POP and IMAP mailserver suite Dovecot has passed an extensive audit by hackers, who were able to find only three minor vulnerabilities.…

Two new Raspberry Pi models emerge steaming from the oven

RPi 3 shrunk into normal and 'lite' Compute Modules for embedded applications The Raspberry Pi Foundation has baked two new Pi.…

New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick isn't on 'Snapface' or 'InstantChat'

Last man on the moon passes age 82

Vale Eugene Cernan, Apollo 10 and 17 astronaut, moonwalker, spacewalker, pioneer Eugene Cernan, the last man to leave footprints on the moon, has died aged 82.…

Laser beam sky mirage cannon can spy on enemies and generate Star Trek-style shields

Nice theory, BAE Systems, now where's the demonstrator? British defence contractor BAE Systems says it has developed a laser-powered "mirage on demand" which can be used to bend the very fabric of the skies to military commanders' whims.…

Balancing miners borks blockchains, say boffins

Blockchain consortia are like the early internet: everyone knows and trusts each other. But when you try to scale ... The financial sector's enthusiasm for blockchain technology might be misplaced, according to a pair of Australian distributed compu…

Trump fan Peter Thiel 'considering' CA Terminator role*

*California State Governor Peter Thiel, the only tech billionaire to back Donald Trump, is reported to be considering a run for governor of California.…

Stanford ontwikkelt brandwerend membraan voor in li-ion-accu's

De Amerikaanse Stanford-universiteit heeft een membraan ontwikkeld dat tussen de positief en negatief geladen zijdes van een accu zit en een brandwerende functie heeft. Een accu zou hiermee niet in brand kunnen vliegen en de toevoeging beperkt de ca…

DataGravity moves away from arrays to become a virtualised data guardian

Startup orbits security VM around vSphere and VSAN unstructured data Analysis  Startup DataGravity laid off staff in February last year and subsequently pivoted away from building and selling its Discovery Series array line to building a shipping vi…