Category: IT News

Drone ban Down Under? Politicians call for halt in sales, citing security concerns

James Robinson
Drone ban Down Under? Politicians call for halt in sales, citing security concerns
In a rare display of bipartisanship, senators from both sides of parliament today asked for a freeze on the sale of small, or recreational, drones until stricter regulations can be put in place. The call for a freeze was prompted by concerns over a terrorist attack, with recent online videos demonstrating ISIS-owned drones dropping grenades, and reports of drones increasingly... Read More

Apple updates pitch to convince Android users to switch

James Robinson
Apple updates pitch to convince Android users to switch
Apple has unleashed a new weapon against Google to win over consumers using Android handsets. The Cupertino firm has launched a ‘Switch from Android’ website and a series of 16-second videos on its YouTube channel that essentially works as a FAQ for Android users, explaining how it thinks that iPhones and iOS are superior. Apple’s previous campaign targeted at Android... Read More

Home Entertainment On A Budget

James Robinson
Home Entertainment On A Budget
In my last post I described how the media center PC, running Microsoft Windows 7 Media Centre, was damaged during a lightning storm. This is much sadness for our household as all our entertainment is based around the media center – photos, videos, TV, music, and streamed media. Without the media center we are forced to suffer the poor quality... Read More

Hackers expose 453,000 credentials allegedly taken from Yahoo service

James Robinson
Hackers expose 453,000 credentials allegedly taken from Yahoo service
Hackers posted what appear to be login credentials for more than 453,000 user accounts that they said they retrieved in plaintext from an unidentified service on Yahoo. (sounds like it’s time to change your password if you use a Yahoo service). The dump, posted on a public website by a hacking collective known as D33Ds Company, said it penetrated the... Read More