As Steve Jobs might say: You misunderstand 'design' Open Source Insider In all the years I have been using FOSS software, the most common complaint I've seen about FOSS software is that the "design" is "terrible", "laughable" or some witticism abou…
Lees meerEuropol: Cybercrims getting more devious Europol’s annual cyber-crime survey warns that the quality of spearphishing and other "CEO fraud" is continuing to improve and "cybercrime-as-a-service" means an ever larger group of fraudsters can easily com…
Lees meerBack to the '80s Ignite Microsoft this week promised to increase desktop users’ productivity by bringing resizeable overlapping windows to Windows™ – a feature notably missing today. A spokesman also expressed hope that Mr Gorbachev’s new policy of…
Lees meerMan vows to steer clear of outside dunnies, 'I'll hold on for dear life' An Aussie builder has endured the agony of being bitten on the todger by a redback spider for the second time in five months*.…
Lees meerA new Juniper Research (www.juniperresearch.com) study has found that consumer app revenues from augmented reality (AR) will remain below that of the enterprise sector through to 2021, despite the high visibility of games such as Pokémon GO. Juniper…
Lees meer£80m infringement? £30m? £10m? Claimant bought patent for £160k two years ago British Gas has won a patent infringement claim brought against it by Smart-Tech, the holder of a certain smart meter patent. Had BG lost, it would have had to pay out ten…
Lees meerCEO of Allen Institute of AI: Be realistic. Hype only hurts research Many speeches at AI conferences begin with AlphaGo, the Google-built AI that beat Lee Sedol - one of the highest ranked Go players in the world – to illustrate how far AI has progr…
Lees meerSky hooks, tartan paint ... U wot m8? Strange things are afoot among the developer team at Argos, it’s just not clear if an ill-judged lunchtime trip to the boozer, high jinx related to the recent £1.4bn takeover by Sainsbury’s or a rogue staffer ar…
Lees meerDe Nederlandse fabrikant van computeronderdelen X2 heeft een nieuwe behuizing aangekondigd. De eatx-behuizing valt op door de diagonale oriëntatie en de grote glazen zijpanelen. De kast heeft een adviesprijs van 260 euro.
Lees meerDe EU wil woensdag met een voorstel komen om de export van digitale spionagegoederen en -software aan banden te leggen. Voor het exporteren van dergelijke middelen moet daarmee van tevoren autorisatie verkregen worden.
Lees meerHoneywell introduceert de Lyric T6-thermostaat. Het product ondersteunt Samsung SmartThings en Apple HomeKit voor stembediening via Siri en er is geofencing-functionaliteit voor het automatisch instellen van de temperatuur als de bewoner binnen een …
Lees meerEuropol schrijft in zijn rapport met de naam 'Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment' dat veel malware voor mobiele apparaten inmiddels net zo geavanceerd is als pc-malware. Deze vorm van kwaadaardige software zou steeds vaker opduiken in onderz…
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Lees meerKnow when to opt for wet abrasive blasting or Self Polishing Copolymer? Mad mags The Ministry of Defence's naval arm maintains a regular publication focused entirely on types and shades of paint. It is not a spoof – or if it is, someone's gone to s…
Lees meerHelp find not-spots Telecoms regulator Ofcom has written a network tracking Android app so the great British public can help it sniff out not-spots.…
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Lees meerToshiba heeft een nieuwe serie sata-ssd's in het instapsegment aangekondigd. De OCZ-ssd's zijn gebaseerd op tlc-geheugen en komen in een 120- en 240GB-variant beschikbaar. De prijs bedraagt 45 euro voor de 120GB-versie, terwijl de 240GB-variant 65 e…
Lees meerSo what exactly did AU$800m buy? An option for bits of Optus network, says nbn™ nbn™, the entity building and operating Australia's national broadband network (NBN) has announced it will overbuild part of the hybrid fibre-coax network it acquired fr…
Lees meerAt least one department has no idea how much it's splurged Analysis If IT wasn't perceived to be such a boring topic by Joe Public, the amount the government still spends on expensive clunky technology would be viewed as a national scandal.…
Lees meerQueued up to self-certify Internet giant Google has signed up to the Privacy Shield, a framework designed to facilitate the transfer of personal data between the EU and US by businesses.…
Lees meerDe tweede bèta-uitgave van Ubuntu 16.10 met codenaam Yakkety Yak is na een uitstel van zes dagen vrijgegeven. Het is de laatste bèta voordat de release candidate op 9 oktober vrijgegeven moet worden. De uiteindelijke release moet op 13 oktober het d…
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