New Windows 10 privacy controls: Just a little snooping – or the max

Microsoft offers two settings – on and almost off – and a dashboard of collected data Microsoft has built an online dashboard of privacy controls in an attempt to soothe lingering anger over Windows 10 and its ability to phone home people's private …

France’s ‘right to disconnect’ is a nice idea, but it’s also pretty vague

The demand for AI is helping Nvidia and AMD leapfrog Intel

Amazon upgrades its Prime credit card with 5 percent cashback

Adobe Flash Player versie 24.0.0.194

Adobe heeft een update voor versie 24 uitgebracht van Flash Player. Deze browser-plugin maakt het mogelijk om Flash-content, waaronder zogenaamde rich Internet applications en streaming audio en video, af te spelen. Flash Player zit ingebakken in Go…

Adobe Acrobat Reader DC 15.023.20053

Adobe heeft een update van Acrobat Reader DC uitgebracht. Acrobat Reader DC is de opvolger van Acrobat XI en bestaat uit het commerciële pakket om pdf-documenten te creëren en de gratis Reader om ze te kunnen lezen. Met Reader is het overigens ook m…

digiKam 5.4

Versie 5.4 van digiKam is uitgekomen. Dit fotobeheer- en beeldbewerkingsapplicatie voor KDE heeft downloads voor Linux, BSD, macOS en Windows. Het bevat ondersteuning voor uiteenlopende bestandsformaten en kan daarnaast via plug-ins van meer mogelij…

Apple publiceert bètapatch die accuduur Macbook Pro's uit 2016 moet verbeteren

Apple heeft de problemen die leiden tot de opvallend korte accuduur in de nieuwste Macbook Pro's naar verluidt verholpen in een bèta-update. Dat meldt Consumer Reports, de Amerikaanse consumentenorganisatie die de laptop wegens het euvel niet volled…

For Fark's sake! Fark fury follows 5-week ad ban for 5-year-old story

The tale of the underage girl who wasn't and still isn't years later The owner of Fark.com is furious at Google and wants it to reimburse him for five weeks of lost ads – thanks to a five-year-old story that featured a picture of a girl wrongly beli…

Anti-smut law dubs PCs, phones 'pornographic vendor machines', demands internet filters

And there's a $20 charge to remove the block Over to North Dakota, US, now and a new front in the war against cyber-smut has opened up.…

Sundown exploit kit weaves Edge hack hole

Thankfully most users are patched Authors of the Sundown exploit kit have integrated a since patched and limited Microsoft Edge vulnerability from a security firm's public proof-of-concept.…

Volkswagen prepares to plead guilty and pay US regulators $4.3 billion

Windows 10 will soon lock your PC when you step away from it

Ansible patches 'own the farm' vulnerability

Just the Facts, sysadmins Ansible sysadmins, make with the patch-fingers because the project's just gone public with a high-severity bug.…

Norway becomes the first country to shut down national analogue radio

Crunch Report | Fitbit Acquires Vector Smartwatch

Fitbit acquires the Vector smartwatch, Marissa Mayer is resigning from Yahoo, Apple plans to consolidate server construction, Consumer Reports settles its differences with Apple and Ellen Pao joins Kapor Capital. All this on Crunch Report. Read More

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Juniper warns: Borked upgrade opens root on firewalls

Turn it off and turn it back on again. No, really Juniper is warning users of its SRX firewalls that a borked upgrade leaves a root-level account open to the world.…

'No more will I tailor Swift': project lead leaving Apple

Chris Lattner to head up Tesla's Autopilot software team Chris Lattner, head of Apple's Swift and XCode, is heading for pastures new.…

Airlines can stop warning passengers about the Galaxy Note 7 before boarding

The Coen brothers' first TV series is a western called the Ballad of Buster Scruggs