November 2015

Researchers propose to use cosmic microwave background radiation as a random bit generator to generate encryption keys. The background radiation from the big bang effectively produces an infinite amount of random, one-time values.The idea…

Hosting provider Mijndomein.nl has been struggling with a malfunction since Monday morning, as a result of which various services are not or only poorly accessible. This includes web hosting and email. The outage is said to have started…

The Pakistani authorities have allowed the Blackberry Enterprise Service to function until the end of December. At the end of July, Pakistan decided that the BES services have to stop because the service is untraceable. Blackberry is…

Version 3.3.0 of qBittorrent has been released. This open source torrent client has versions for Windows, Linux, OS X and FreeBSD, and shows no ads. The program is with Qt4 developed and based on libtorrent (raster bar) and boost. The…

Release groups on torrent sites have started uploading a handful of movies and TV shows from Amazon Video and Netflix in 4k resolution. Until now it didn't seem possible to get around the copy protection on the 4k streams, but that…

Release groups on torrent sites have started uploading a handful of movies and TV shows from Amazon Video and Netflix in 4k resolution. Until now, it didn't seem possible to get around the copy protection on the 4k streams, but that…

Version 8.6.1 of MKVToolNix has been released. This collection of open source programs allows viewing, editing and conversion of Matroska files. For example, sound tracks and subtitles can be added, removed or set as default. They are…

Version 5.9.0 of PeaZip has been released. This archiving program is made available under an open source license, and downloads are available for Windows and Linux. The program aims to distinguish itself from the competition by…

Scientists from Nanyang Technological University have developed a chip that can say something about the health status of a battery. For example, a warning can be given if there is a fire risk due to poor battery condition.The university,…

The websites of the NPO and the NOS are offline due to a major DDO attack. The NOS reports that it would be one of the largest attacks to date. The NOS app cannot be used either. The Broadcast Missed app still works.around half past…