Calls for UK.gov's tax digitisation plans to be put on the back burner

Timetable 'unachievable'. Now, where have we heard that one before? The UK government's tax digitisation plan could be delayed by at least a year after the Treasury Committee exposed "serious shortcomings" with the programme.…

Windows 10 Anniversary Update crushed exploits without need of patches

Microsoft security boffins throw fresh CVEs at unpatched OS, emerge smiling Microsoft says its Windows 10 Anniversary Update squashes more exploit delivery chains than ever.…

Microsoft patent reveals foldable phone that turns into a tablet

Arrival, La La Land, and others leak in annual ‘screener season’ tradition

Keuringsinstantie toont dat LG werkt aan rond horloge met Android Wear

Een rapport van de Amerikaanse keuringsinstantie FCC toont aan dat LG werkt aan nieuw rond horloge met Android Wear. Eerder zei de fabrikant nog dat het eerst wilde kijken wat zou aanslaan op het gebied van smartwatches voordat het met nieuwe modell…

NS: gebruik wifi in de trein is verdubbeld na snelheidsverhoging

Het gebruik van wifi in de trein is verdubbeld sinds de NS de snelheid vorig jaar september verhoogde van 300Kbit/s naar 450Kbit/s. Dat claimt de vervoerder. Reizigers blijven overwegend negatief over de dienst, zegt het treinbedrijf.

Google reveals its servers all contain custom security silicon

Even the servers it colocates (!) says new docu revealing Alphabet sub's security secrets Google has published a Infrastructure Security Design Overview that explains how it secures the cloud it uses for its own operations and for public cloud servi…

McDonald's forget hash, browns off security experts

Golden Arches website's security doesn't pass the sensible surfing taste test Dutch software engineer Tijme Gommers has revealed a still-active reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability and borked password controls in McDonald's main website that…

Light Alloy 4.9.1

Versie 4.9.1 van Light Alloy is uitgekomen. Deze uitgebreide mediaspeler van Russische makelij heeft geen aparte codecs of filters nodig om mediabestanden af te spelen. Ondersteuning is onder meer aanwezig voor verschillende geluidssporen, ondertite…

'Samsung Galaxy Note 7 vatte geen vlam door ontwerp of software telefoon'

Het ontwerp en de software waren niet de redenen dat de Samsung Galaxy Note 7 relatief vaak vlam vatte, maar het was de accu. Dat zou Samsung geconcludeerd hebben na het onderzoek. De smartphonemaker zou de resultaten van het onderzoek over een week…

Cloud hardware spend hits US$8.4bn/quarter, as traditional kit sinks

2017 forecast to see cloud kit clock $11bn every 90 days Abacus-shuffling outfit IDC has updated its Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Tracker with sales data for Q3 2016 and predictions for spend in 2017.…

Brilliant phishing attack probes sent mail, sends fake attachments

Strategy_Doc.PDF from the next cubicle is actually a portal to p0wnage An newly-detected Gmail phishing attack sees criminals hack and then rifle through inboxes to target account owners' contacts with thoroughly convincing fake emails.…

Cloud hardware spend hits US$8.4bn/quarter, as traditional kit sinks

2017 forecast to see cloud kit clock $11bn every 90 days Abacus-shuffling outfit IDC has updated its Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Tracker with sales data for Q3 2016 and predictions for spend in 2017.…

My headphone warranty demands ritual sacrifice

Samsung fans flames of burning Galaxy Note 7 mystery

Promises to reveal reasons for unfashionably phlammable phablet next week Samsung's figured out why its Galaxy Note 7 phablets burned up the mobile phone market last year, but won't say why until next week.…

Donald Trump will reportedly keep tweeting from his personal account

Windows 10 memory management changes to give Hyper-V more headroom

New VMs will use over-provisioned RAM reserved by other apps The Register's virtualisation desk is back from holidays, just in time to report changes to desktop Hyper-V before they go completely stale.…

Windows 10 memory management changes to give Hyper-V more headroom

New VMs will use over-provisioned RAM reserved by other apps The Register's virtualisation desk is back from holidays, just in time to report changes to desktop Hyper-V before they go completely stale.…

Just give up: 123456 is still the world's most popular password

Data diggers' dumpster dive demonstrates dumb and dumberer defences The security industry's ongoing efforts to educate users about strong passwords appears to be for naught, with a new study finding the most popular passwords last year were 123456 a…

Apple vs. Samsung goes back to court, again, to re-assess the value of a rounded corner

It's time to debate damages. To Apple and to common sense A US appeal court has opened the next round of the long-running Apple versus Samsung patent case, this time to recalculate the damages Sammy owes Cupertino.…

Prosecutor seeks arrest of Samsung head as part of spiraling corruption scandal