Telenet werkt aan chatbot voor filmsuggesties

Telenet heeft 'Mr More' onthult: een chatbot die gebruikers op basis van een vraag-en-antwoord-conversatie suggesties voor films geeft. Telenet meldt de komst van de Facebook Messenger-bot tegelijk met een aanpassing van zijn Play More-kanalen.

Microsoft's Edge to flush Adobe Flash in Windows 10 Creator’s Update

It looks like you're trying to run Flash: would you rather fire it into the heart of a star? Microsoft's signalled it will join the crackdown on Adobe Flash in the forthcoming Windows 10 Creator’s Update, which won't even bother loading the pesky pl…

Scoor vandaag een earlybirdticket voor The Next Web 2017

Op 18 en 19 mei is The Next Web conference in Amsterdam. Zoals TNW zelf zegt: “Not your average tech event”. Nou weten we dat een aantal van jullie al reikhalzend uitkijkt naar dit evenement. Dat is ook niet zo gek als je naar het programma en de li…

Dishonored 2 krijgt New Game Plus-modus

Bethesda voegt middels een update een New Game Plus-modus toe aan Dishonored 2. Gamers die het spel hebben uitgespeeld kunnen daarmee opnieuw beginnen en direct gebruikmaken van alle eerder vrijgespeelde abilities.

Security! experts! slam! Yahoo! management! for! using! old! crypto!

Suits should have done more to protect users, rather than user numbers ANALYSIS  Fallen web giant Yahoo! has been branded negligent for failing to tackle the prodigious challenge of upgrading its MD5 password security before some one billion account…

Bluetooth-enabled safe lock popped after attackers win PINs

If you use one, stop now. If you write heist movies, write safe-crackers out of your script Attackers can locate and pop safes protected with high security commercial locks thanks to poor Bluetooth implementations, say researchers at Somerset Recon …

First Click: Quora is still the weirdest thing in my inbox

Gerucht: Nintendo Switch heeft Tegra-soc met Maxwell-gpu

De Nvidia Tegra-soc in de Nintendo Switch maakt gebruik van een gpu op basis van de Maxwell-architectuur. Dat zeggen twee anonieme bronnen tegen GamesBeat. De keuze voor de oude architectuur zou gemaakt zijn om de console snel uit te kunnen brengen.

Yahoo-hack trof meer dan een miljard accounts

Yahoo waarschuwt dat zijn systemen in augustus 2013 binnengedrongen zijn, waarbij de gegevens van meer dan een miljard accounts zijn buitgemaakt. Het gaat onder andere om e-mailadressen, telefoonnummers en met MD5 gehashte wachtwoorden.

Amazon's first live drone delivery flew two weeks ago in Cambridge, UK

Beta is available to two customers for now. More coming soon, promise Amazon.com has revealed that it's made its first delivery by autonomous aerial drone, to a chap named “Richard B” who lives somewhere in Cambridgeshire, England.…

BlackEnergy power plant hackers target Ukrainian banks

Follow the money – they did The same hackers who turned out the lights at Ukrainian utilities last December have been running attacks against the same country’s banks over recent months.…

Turn your stone age curtains into voice-controlled super-curtains with Slide

You can now control Netflix using Google Home

Windows Server 2016's VM migration tools broken by a patch

Good job almost nobody's had time to put it into production Microsoft's had to hurry out a fix for a problem that breaks live VM migration. And it's a problem Redmond brought upon itself with an Update Rollup to System Center 2016 Virtual Machine Ma…

Windows Server 2016's VM migration tools broken by a patch

Good job almost nobody's had time to put it into production Microsoft's had to hurry out a fix for a problem that breaks live VM migration. And it's a problem Redmond brought upon itself with an Update Rollup to System Center 2016 Virtual Machine Ma…

Valve adds full PS4 controller support to Steam

Arista takes a round off Cisco in long-running legal battle

Jury finds similar CLI syntax and manuals don't create Copyright claims Arista's taken a round from Cisco, as the two companies continue their long-running legal wrestle.…

HPE storage meltdown at Australian Tax Office lost no taxpayer data

But online services were down for days so maybe some tax office data is AWOL The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has revealed that no taxpayer data was lost as a result of the weird crash of Hewlett Packard Enterprise 3Par storage kit.…

.biz, .us, .co master Neustar grabbed by the privates in $2.9bn deal

Vote of confidence in company after losing critical contract Neustar has agreed to sell itself for $2.9bn to a San Francisco-based investment firm, taking the public company private.…

Telstra is filthy about being barred from spectrum auction

Big T wants to know why the government is going to let airspace sell cheap and competition cherry-pick Australia's dominant carrier Telstra has expressed its displeasure with yesterday's decision to exclude it from an auction for some useful-for-4G …

Yahoo! says! hackers! stole! ONE! BEELLION! user! accounts!

Purple Palace plundered in new breach unrelated to previous p0wnage Yahoo! says hackers have probably stolen details from more than a billion user accounts, including names, addresses, phone numbers, and weakly-hashed passwords in attacks dating bac…