May 2015

NASA has successfully upgraded the Curiosity rover currently on Mars. This allows the cart to better focus its camera for the chemical analysis of materials.NASA confirmed the successful software update on its website. Curiosity has a…

Version 1.5.0 of Scribus has been released. Scribus is an open source desktop publishing program. The program can be used to format and edit documents for printed matter, among other things, which can then be saved as a PDF or postscript…

Beta 14 of NewsBin Pro version 6.60 has been released. With this program files, such as photos, videos and programs, can be retrieved from usenet. It has everything you would expect from a usenet downloader, such as support for…

A developer using the pseudonym Jadacyrus has created a toolkit that can undo "hostage" by various types of ransomware. The toolkit is available for free and is primarily intended for security researchers and system administrators.The…

BlackBerry is going to lay off employees worldwide. It is not yet clear how many layoffs there will be. The reorganization should ensure that BlackBerry will focus less on smartphones and more on business applications.Reuters news agency…

In the United States, members of the Senate could not agree on a law that would limit the powers of the NSA. This allows the organization to continue tapping communication lines for the time being.During a session in the US Senate, the…

According to scientists, liquids can exist only an atomic layer thick. This is apparent from computer simulations with graphene and gold. Initially it was thought that such a thing could only be achieved with solid matter.The research…

Security questions for account recovery often provide a false sense of security. The questions should be easy to remember, but that ensures that malicious parties can quickly find out the answers. This is according to research by…

Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth considers listing his company. The company, best known for the popular Linux distribution Ubuntu, is not profitable enough. An IPO can change that.Shuttleworth indicated in an interview at the…

Macecraft Software has released an update to jv16 PowerTools X. This program is for tweaking all kinds of things in Windows. For example, there are modules to determine which programs are started when Windows boots and you can search…