'Extra-supermoon' to appear next week

Stay up Monday night because Luna's not going to be readier for a close-up for 18 years The Moon will looks a little bigger than usual next week, because it will be rather closer to Earth than usual – so close NASA says Monday, November 14th will be…

LG begint met updaten G5-smartphone naar Android 7.0

LG is begonnen met het updaten van zijn smartphone G5 naar Android 7.0. De update komt eerst uit in Zuid-Korea en moet in de komende weken ook naar Europa komen. De update arriveert over-the-air bij gebruikers van de telefoon.

Facebook 'fesses up to WhatsApp privacy blunder in UK

Chat app ponders procuring proper permissions from punters, Info Comish ponders punishment for non-compliance Facebook has “agreed to pause using data from UK WhatsApp users for advertisements or product improvement purposes” after a previously-anno…

Netflix flattens bug that allowed account p0wnage via voicemail

Netflix has reworked its password reset function after an Austrian security researcher demonstrated how an attacker could spoof it to take over a victim's account.…

Toblerone swears this perfect metaphor for Brexit has nothing to do with Brexit

Microsoft opens its Xbox feedback program to everyone

Was IoT DDoS attack just a dry run for election day hijinks?

Internet of things influencing important things The distributed denial of service attack that took down DNS provider Dyn, and with it access to a chunk of the internet, was one of the largest such assaults seen.…

Microsoft prises open Azure containers, pours in a little Kubernetes

Azure Container Engine is now open source Faced with an increasingly untidy template-base in the Azure Container Service (ACS), Microsoft's decided the best way to get things under control is to open source it and let the community handle things.…

Ransomware repulsion regimes revealed!

LogRhythm Webinar explains how to respond to the evolving ransomware threat Promo  Ransomware is a type of malware that sees criminals make your critical business data inaccessible by encrypting it and throwing away the decryption key … until you pa…

Android's Hover feature is a data HOOVER

Mouse-over-on-mobile feature intentionally allows data-stealing overlay attacks That took a while: Android's had Hover since Ice Cream, but boffins have taken until now to work out how to attack it.…

SETI scan saves 'scope used for first Moon landing comms

'The Dish' in Australia's Parkes gets much-needed cash injection from alien-hunters Australia's Parkes radio-telescope has found one of the white knights it needed, in the form of the search-for-intelligent-life Breakthrough Listen project.…

nbn™ aces the easiest construction target it will have for two years

ONE MEEELLION homes can now switch on fibre-to-the-node nbn™, the organisation building and operating Australia's National Broadband Network, has emitted new canned statements to describe its progress that, as always, have a slightly soviet feel to …

LeEco – the Chinese biz that said it'll topple US tech giants – has already hit the rocks

Top boss cuts salary to 15 cents a year amid mega-wobble Less than a month ago, Chinese media and electronics firm LeEco made its glitzy launch into the US market. However, its founder Jia Yueting has just told staff that the firm is in trouble.…

Tesco Bank halts online transactions after money taken from 20,000 accounts

Don't speak! AI can now see secrets through lipreading – kinda

LipNet's got potential but also a loooong way to go AI surveillance could be about to get a lot more advanced, as researchers move on from using neural networks for facial recognition to lipreading.…

Handling tech baggage: How American Airlines, US Airways merged IT

To bring the two airlines together, trust came before technology At the end of 2013, US Airways and American Airlines merged. But actually combining the IT systems of the two companies is expected to take from five to seven years, said Susanna Brown…

China passes new Cybersecurity Law – you have seven months to comply if you wanna do biz in Middle Kingdom

None of this is good news On Monday, the Chinese government officially passed its 2016 Cybersecurity Law. From June 2017, all companies doing business in the Middle Kingdom will have to obey the new rules.…

Kaminario's K2 mountain is about to be uplifted

Pumping up performance, price/performance and product virtualization +Comment  Kaminario is building its K2 all-flash array mountain higher in scale, performance and price/performance terms and adding dynamic composability.…

Chinese chap in the clink for trying to swap US Navy FPGAs with fakes to beat export ban

15 months for fishing chips A Chinese national starts a 15-month stretch behind bars for trying to swap reprogrammable chips destined for the US Navy with fakes, and smuggle the real gear out of the country.…

Kaminario's K2 mountain is about to be uplifted

Pumping up performance, price/performance and product virtualization +Comment  Kaminario is building its K2 all-flash array mountain higher in scale, performance and price/performance terms and adding dynamic composability.…

Apple picked up talent, tech from defunct music startup Omnifone in August

 As the race continues to pick up more subscribers for streaming music services, TechCrunch has learned that one of the most prominent players in the field quietly picked up some talent and tech to advance its position. Apple hired at least 16 emplo…