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VS vraagt Nederlanderse en Belgische reizigers naar accounts op social media

De Amerikaanse overheid is begonnen met het vragen aan reizigers uit 38 landen, waaronder Nederland en België, welke accountnamen ze gebruiken op social media. Het verzoek is momenteel vrijwillig. Met de informatie wil de overheid meer mogelijke ter…

Canonical maakt geen Ubuntu-uitgave meer voor 32bit-ppc-processors

Canonical laat met versie 17.04 ondersteuning vallen voor 32bit-ppc-processors. Dat heeft de organisatie bekendgemaakt. Volgens Canonical was er de afgelopen tijd al weinig interesse meer en dat was te zien in de aantallen downloads van de image.

This 'cloud storage' thing is going to get seriously big in 2017

Microsoft embiggens cloudy BLOBs from 195GB to 4.77 TB, blocks from 4MB to 100MB The waistline of Azure's storage service continues to expand, with Microsoft upping the size of the Binary Large Objects it can define.…

This 'cloud storage' thing is going to get seriously big in 2017

Microsoft embiggens cloudy BLOBs from 195GB to 4.77 TB, blocks from 4MB to 100MB The waistline of Azure's storage service continues to expand, with Microsoft upping the size of the Binary Large Objects it can define.…

Huawei very happy to be on Map Of Tasmania

Wins 7,000-core supercomputer build deal way down under Huawei's scored a nice HPC win in Australia, with the University of Tasmania selecting it to provide a 7,000-cores-plus machine.…

Huawei very happy to be on Map Of Tasmania

Wins 7,000-core supercomputer build deal way down under Huawei's scored a nice HPC win in Australia, with the University of Tasmania selecting it to provide a 7,000-cores-plus machine.…

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Apple drops requirement for apps to use HTTPS by 2017

Deadline for App Transport Security adoption delayed until time of Cupertino's choosing One of the initiatives Apple trumpeted at its 2016 WorldWide Developer Conference was a requirement for all iOS and OS X apps in its Store to use adopt App Trans…

Sneaky chat app Signal deploys decoy domains to deny despots

Reasonably secure messenger has, for now, outwitted those who would block it The latest update of Signal, one of the most well-regarded privacy-focused messaging applications for non-technical users, has just been revised to support a censorship cir…

Virgin America mid-flight panic after moron sets phone Wi-Fi hotspot to 'Samsung Galaxy Note 7'

What you really don't want to see at 20,000 feet A Virgin America flight from San Francisco to Boston was nearly diverted after someone onboard named their phone's Wi-Fi hotspot 'Samsung Galaxy Note 7'.…

Australia's future technology headlines … for 2018!

Vulture South does the prediction thing and sees Today's the last day anyone from Vulture South will show up for work until January 3rd. So while we're at the beach, cricket and bottom of a beer glass, we leave you with our almost-traditional predic…

Elon Musk says new version of Tesla's Autopilot could be coming next week

We've been Trumped! China's Alibaba is a 'notorious' knock-offs souk, says US watchdog

Auction site slapped on list as haven for counterfeit goods The United States Trade Representative (USTR) has put Alibaba's Taobao, the Chinese internet giant's online auction site, on its "notorious markets list" of sites that regularly deal in cou…

Uber's self-driving cars get kicked out of SF, seek refuge in Arizona

After registration revoked in Cali, upstart looks for less regulated climes Analysis  The California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) on Wednesday revoked the registration of 16 self-driving Uber vehicles, sending a signal to the regulation-averse…

Chinese boffins: We're testing an 'impossible' EM Drive IN SPAAAACE

Time NASA pulled its finger out A month after NASA published a paper suggesting a controversial electromagnetic engine design appears to work, Chinese eggheads claim they've had similar results – and have sent an EM Drive into space for testing.…

Google brengt begin 2017 twee 'Nexus-smartwatches' uit

Google brengt in het eerste kwartaal van 2017 twee high-end smartwatches met Android Wear 2.0 uit. De wearables zijn samen met een partner ontworpen en krijgen een nog onbekende naam. De release is volgens Google te vergelijken met die van Nexus-sma…

Who's been naughty and nice in IT storage – over to you, Gartner-claus

New magic quadrant plus other bits and bytes from the enterprise backup world Just another sweet week in storage with a blitz of news candy covering archiving, flash arrays, compression and removable disk backup.…

Who's been naughty and nice in IT storage – over to you, Gartner-claus

New magic quadrant plus other bits and bytes from the enterprise backup world Just another sweet week in storage with a blitz of news candy covering archiving, flash arrays, compression and removable disk backup.…

Niantic brengt Pokémon Go voor de Apple Watch uit

Niantic heeft zoals beloofd nog dit jaar Pokémon Go voor de Apple Watch beschikbaar gemaakt. Spelers kunnen met de wearable Pokémon vinden en items verzamelen bij PokéStops. Daadwerkelijk vangen van Pokémon kan niet met Apples slimme horloge.