Pwnfest drops a nasty surprise on VMware

Drag-and-drop let users escape their VMs VMware's rushed out a patch for the serious desktop hypervisor bug turned up at the Pwnfest hacker convention.…

Lyft is replacing the pink mustache with a psychedelic dash display that knows your name

WhatsApp opens up video calling to everyone

China gets mad at Donald Trump, threatens to ruin Apple

Tim Cook still trying to figure out how he got caught up in this China says the rhetoric of US President-elect Donald Trump could lead it to block the sale of products by Apple and other US tech companies.…

Stolen passwords integrated into the ultimate dictionary attack

Humans still the weakest link Targeted password guessing turns out to be significantly easier than it should be, thanks to the online availability of personal information, leaked passwords associated with other accounts, and our tendency to incorpor…

Quantum traffic jam of atoms could unlock origin of dark energy, physicists claim

Traffic can be both good and bad It may be possible to crack the mystery of why the universe is expanding at an accelerated rate, if gravity can be measured through a “quantum traffic jam” of ultracold atoms.…

Facebook follows Google in banning fake news sites from its ad network

The all-electric Jaguar I-Pace is aimed right at the Model X

'Ultimate Team' scheme: EA hackers charged for stealing in-game coins

Finally, a FIFA scandal you can't blame on Sepp Blatter A US man is facing felony wire fraud charges for allegedly stealing and reselling in-game currency for EA Sports' FIFA console games.…

UK Home Secretary signs off on Lauri Love's extradition to US

#OpLastResort hacker suspect on suicide watch It appears that appeals for clemency have come to naught after the UK Home Office confirmed that the extradition order for Lauri Love has been signed off by Home Secretary Amber Rudd.…

Fake election news meltdown vortex sucks in Google

Never believe what you read online – except this story, obviously Google has been sucked into the post-election scapegoat meltdown after it displayed a fake news story at the top of its rankings for election result searches.…

Microsoft leaks Visual Studio for Mac, then scrubs the news

Developers committed to C# have something to look forward to Microsoft Visual Studio, or something like it, will soon be available for macOS, a shift that reflects the company's effort to be more open toward non-Windows technology.…

Airbnb gives in to San Francisco’s registration demands

FBI: hackers hebben minstens 15 miljoen dollar verdiend aan 'valse' FIFA Coins

Volgens de Amerikaanse FBI heeft een groep hackers 15 tot 18 miljoen dollar verdiend aan het spoofen van FIFA-matches en het op de zwarte markt doorverkopen van de resulterende FIFA Coins. De zaak komt voor de rechter.

Edith Schippers en gemeente Rotterdam winnen Big Brother Awards 2016

Edith Schippers heeft dit jaar de Publieksprijs gewonnen tijdens de Big Brother Awards 2016 van Bits of Freedom. Die prijs wordt uitgereikt aan de grootste privacyschender van het jaar. De expertprijs gaat naar de gemeente Rotterdam.

PIR saves millions in .org rebid

And sticks with its previous backend operator The non-profit that runs all .org domains and provides the bulk of the funding for the Internet Society and Internet Engineering Task Force has just saved itself millions of dollars a year.…

PIR saves millions in .org rebid

And sticks with its previous backend operator The non-profit that runs all .org domains and provides the bulk of the funding for the Internet Society and Internet Engineering Task Force has just saved itself millions of dollars a year.…

Apple working on Google Glass-style AR glasses, says report

Facebook employees reportedly forming secret ‘task force’ to address fake news

Huawei sloeg productie Pixel-toestellen af om onenigheden over merkgebruik

In een interview met de Duitse site WinFuture stelt Colin Giles, vicepresident van Huawei's consumententak, dat het bedrijf door onenigheden over merkgebruik niet de fabrikant van Googles Pixel-toestellen is geworden. Deze rol viel uiteindelijk aan …

MIT wil vr-headsets draadloos maken door 'millimetergolven' te gebruiken

Naast HTC en TPCast werkt nu ook MIT aan een oplossing om vr-headsets draadloos te laten werken. Het Csail-team van de Amerikaanse Universiteit werkt aan een systeem genaamd 'MoVR', dat gebruikmaakt van radiogolven met frequenties van 24GHz en hoger.