Apple Sponsoring Next Year's Fashion Met Gala for Second Year Running

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has shared details on its annual 2017 Gala and Costume Institute exhibition, where Apple will be a sponsor for the second year running. The 2017 event, which will take place on May 1, will have a focus on fashion de…

Samsung Still Doesn't Know What Made Note 7 Go Boom

After continued reports of the phones catching on fire when charged, Samsung finally put the Galaxy Note 7 out of its misery two weeks ago. But 2.5 million recalled devices and $2.3 billion in projected losses later, the company is apparently no clo…

Thanks, IoT vendors: your slack attitude will get regulators moving

Networks also need to grab a mirror and look at themselves Last Friday's Mirai botnet attack against Dyn must force everybody's hands – vendors, regulators, and Internet infrastructure operators.…

Apple Forgets to Celebrate the iPod's 15th Birthday

Today is the iPod’s 15th birthday, her Quiñceanera if you will. While some tech blogs celebrated—the International Business Times even coined it National iPod Day—the most important people appear to have forgotten: Apple, the iPod’s own daddy. No pr…

Microsoft drops tools to help ingest and model big datasets

Get your Rs into gear, data scientists Microsoft is expanding the analytic and visualisation capabilities of its R analysis package, with the launch late last week of IDEAR and AMAR.…

UK games retailer charges for its PSVR demos

Still not sold on VR? Got a PS4? But still not sure? Then you should probably test it out before laying down the hundreds of dollars (or pounds) the peripheral costs. But you probably shouldn't have to pay to do so. But that's exactly what …

We Finally Know Who Negan Killed on The Walking Dead

The answer to the year’s most irritating (and, to be fair, biggest) pop culture question has arrived. This is who the victim of Negan’s bat Lucille was:Read more...

What Does IMHO Stand For?

I always believed IMHO meant “in my humble opinion.” It has, however, come to my attention that many people think it stands for “in my honest opinion.” According to Slang.com, it could also stand for “in my holy opinion” or “is my hearing aid on?”Re…

Brute force cred crunchers gifted Username Anarchy

dpauli, darren.pauli, darrenp, pauli.darren, paulid Ruxcon  Melbourne security bod Andrew Horton has created a tool to automate the generation of usernames in a bid to round-out brute force account attacks.…

Setup a VPN server with macOS Sierra server 10.12

We have a lot of customers who use their Mac mini as a VPN server. This works great when you need an IP address in the US, or a secure internet connection on the road.

14 Real-Life Tech Horror Stories Scarier Than Black Mirror

Black Mirror season 3 warns viewers of a spoOooOoky technologically advanced future; its first episode depicting a society where everyone rates every person they interact with, no matter how minor, and your rating determines everything. The concept …

Kroll Ontrack acquired for US$410m by LDiscovery

Behold! A global titan of data retrieval is upon us Data recovery and discovery outfit Kroll Ontrack has been acquired, for US$410m.…

Kroll Ontrack acquired for US$410m by LDiscovery

Behold! A global titan of data retrieval is upon us Data recovery and discovery outfit Kroll Ontrack has been acquired, for US$410m.…

Adult Swim's latest game embraces cassette glitches

Does something look slightly off with picture you see above? Don't worry, that's on purpose. Adult Swim Games and Fire Face are launching the surreal puzzler Small Radios Big Televisions on November 8th for PC and PS4, and its hook is a t…

A human-sized NES is roaming Japan looking for Halloween candy

Elegant Physics (and Some Down and Dirty Linux Tricks) Threaten Android Phones

Researchers prove that a clever physical hack can compromise smartphones, too. The post Elegant Physics (and Some Down and Dirty Linux Tricks) Threaten Android Phones appeared first on WIRED.

UK spies paid a New Zealand firm to help tap key internet lines

It's no longer a secret that the UK's GCHQ was expanding its mass surveillance in the years before Edward Snowden's leaks. However, it hasn't really been clear as to who was helping it upgrade its spying campaign... until today. The Inter…

Watching a Slug Going Up a Wall in Timelapse Is the Only Way to Watch a Slug

Slugs should be so much cooler to watch. They have antennae that wriggle around and their method of forward motion is weird. But they are just so damn slow. You feel the slug’s pain and respect its patience but you don’t really want to look very lon…

Mozilla plots TLS 1.3 future for Firefox

Quicker handshake starts encrypting data sooner Mozilla has decided it needs to lift its HTTPS game, and will default to TLS 1.3 in next year's Firefox 52.…

Watch Clive Owen play tug of war with a helicopter in Neill Blomkamp’s BMW short

DARPA hands space junk spotting scope to Australian Air Force

Space Surveillance Telescope can spot specks of shiny 36,000km away The Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Space Surveillance Telescope (SST) is on track for its transfer to a site in Australia later this year.…