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11/06/09 15:26 hands on with Assassin's Creed 2 (arstechnica.com) During the half-hour or so I spent with the game, the major difference I saw was that of polish. The action flowed smoothly and organically, and bugs—which often seemed abundant in the first game—were almost nowhere to be seen. The large, open world you're given to explore also felt much more real thanks to small details, like the ability to throw money to beggars, causing a crowd to form, with greedy hands clamoring for cash. 11/06/09 09:43 Which antivirus is best at removing malware? (blogs.zdnet.com) None of the products performed “very good” in malware removal or removal of leftovers, based on those 10 samples. eScan, Symantec and Microsoft (MSE) were the only products to be good in removal of malware AND removal of leftovers. 11/06/09 09:38 Ow...my brain hurts... (www.aintitcool.com) Dan Aykroyd in talks to voice Yogi Bear, Justin Timberlake in talks to voice Boo-Boo and Anna Faris in talks to play a live-action documentary filmmaker I assume doing a feature in and around Jellystone. 11/06/09 07:57 Direct2Drive calls Steam 'Trojan Horse' (www.develop-online.net) IGN-owned digital games firm Direct2Drive is refusing to sell Modern Warfare 2 on PC because of its integration with Valve's Steamworks. 11/06/09 07:56 Google Helps With the Password Juggle (www.internetnews.com) The technology, called hybrid onboarding, was first employed by Plaxo and is already used by Facebook and Yahoo, said Eric Sachs, product manager at Google's security unit in a blog post. 11/06/09 07:55 Gumblar's home domain lives (www.computerworld.com) ScanSafe researchers are seeing renewed activity regarding Gumblar, a multifunctional piece of malware that spreads by attacking PCs visiting hacked Web pages. 11/06/09 07:55 Google Apps expands Postini security beyond Gmail (www.computerworlduk.com) The Postini technology that lets Google Apps Premier administrators control their e-mail environments by establishing and enforcing usage policies, rules and parameters will be extended to the other applications of the suite. 11/06/09 07:51 CRITICAL:Firefox 3.5.5 (www.mozilla.com) All users should upgrade. You can download it from Slug's Download Page. 11/06/09 07:47 email blocklist SORBS sold (www.theregister.co.uk) GFI Software has confirmed the purchase of sometimes controversial spam blocklist provider SORBS for a reported $451,000. 11/06/09 07:47 Dell details 'world's thinnest' laptop (www.theregister.co.uk) The XPS’ odd hinged design will be the first aesthetic point that catches your eye, we believe. 11/06/09 07:46 Facebook promises to cull the advertising scammers (www.theinquirer.net) SOCIAL NOTWORKING outfit Facebook has updated its developer platform terms of service to kill off ad networks that it says were running deceptive advertisements. 11/06/09 07:44 Flock 2.5.5 addresses security issues (www.h-online.com) The Flock developers have released version 2.5.5 of their social web browser based on Firefox 3, addressing several security issues. 11/06/09 07:43 Lose/Lose (www.h-online.com) Lose/Lose has real life consequences; each of the aliens in the game is based on a randomly selected file on the players computer and, when an alien is killed by the player, the file is actually deleted. 11/06/09 07:42 Ubiquiti Announces RouterStation Challenge Winners (tech.slashdot.org) Remember that $200,000 Contest For a Better Open-WRT Wireless Router GUI? Today Ubiquiti posted the winning entries to their support wiki. 11/06/09 07:42 Researchers Implant Neural-Monitoring RFID Into a Moth (science.slashdot.org) attached an RFID chip capable of sensing neural activity to a live moth, to pick up the spikes that occur as it beats its wings. 11/06/09 07:41 Twitter ReTweets (www.techcrunch.com) Twitter has just activated the retweet button a a small number of accounts, according to a blog post. 11/05/09 15:17 Kingston, Paramount Team Up on Movie Delivery Via Flash Memory (www.realtechnews.com) the movies will be supplied on Kingston media in as part of bundle packages and for sale. The first such movie, “Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen” is currently available at all OfficeMax stores for $29.99. 11/05/09 15:10 Majestic 12 (www.timesfreepress.com) Wednesday, landscapers put down grass outside the theater at Third and Broad streets while workers inside placed other finishing touches on the $12 million project that also includes tracts available for commercial use. 11/05/09 14:56 Mozilla Thunderbird 3 Offers Tabbed Email (www.eweek.com) Mozilla will roll out the newest version of its open-source email application, Thunderbird 3, on Nov. 10. Supposedly, Mozilla made over 2,000 improvements to the platform, although users are most likely to notice its more top-line features such as filtered search and tabbed email. 11/05/09 14:56 Microsoft to fix six holes in Windows, Office (news.cnet.com) Microsoft said on Thursday it will issue patches next week for six vulnerabilities, including three critical Windows holes and two important holes in Office. 11/05/09 14:55 Shockwave Vulnerabilities Affect More Than 450 Million Systems (it.slashdot.org) Researchers from VUPEN have discovered critical vulnerabilities in Adobe Shockwave, a technology installed on over 450 million Internet-enabled desktops. T 11/05/09 14:52 This is Why There are 100,000 Apps in the App Store (www.theappsmachine.com) How about that Lotto info for Alaska, Arizona, and the entire fifty states repackaged into 50 unique apps! Or that basketball game info for each individual NBA teams divided into 30 separate apps. 11/05/09 12:43 Facebook and MySpace Backdoors Found, Fixed (tech.slashdot.org) While indeed Facebook locked the front door from any non-Facebook domain access via Flash, a simple subdomain change allowed any flash application (domain="*") to access its domain data." 11/05/09 10:22 12 common Windows 7 problems solved (www.techradar.com) If you've moved to Windows 7 recently then you might have noticed various upgrade problems, interface issues and features that seem to have disappeared entirely, among many other complications with the new system. 11/05/09 08:17 New Sherlock Holmes Ad (www.aintitcool.com) 11/05/09 08:11 The 10 dumbest Firefox add-ons ever (crave.cnet.co.uk) 11/05/09 08:09 New tool seeks to block rootkits by protecting their targets (arstechnica.com) A paper describes a way of blocking rootkits by gathering all these functions in one place in memory, then locking down the memory. 11/05/09 07:58 Scramble on to fix flaw in SSL security protocol (www.computerworld.com) Late last year, researchers found a way to create fake SSL certificates that would be trusted by any browser, and in August researchers unveiled a handful of new attacks that could compromise SSL traffic 11/05/09 07:58 Google Helps With the Password Juggle (www.internetnews.com) Google today made available a technology aimed at allowing users to securely register at Web sites without having to go through a lengthy sign-up process. 11/05/09 07:55 LoroBot (www.h-online.com) LoroBot encrypts various files on a users hard drive, such as music, movies and documents, and asks them to pay $100 for the decryption key to retrieve their data. Thankfully, CA is providing a free decryption tool. 11/05/09 07:54 Apple App Store has over 100,000 Apps (www.techtree.com) Apple's App Store has crossed yet another landmark figure when the number of approved applications, available for download at the store went past the 100,000 mark. 11/05/09 07:52 Orb goes Mac - at last (www.theregister.co.uk) Orb, the Slingbox-in-software app that allows you to access your music, TV and photos on any device, has finally unleashed its long-awaited Mac version. 11/05/09 07:49 Asus delays 'smartbook' release (www.reghardware.co.uk) However, Judy Wu, a market specialist at Asus, today told Register Hardware that the company will now not unveil the netbook until Q2 2010. 11/05/09 07:48 Google launches privacy Dashboard service (www.theregister.co.uk) Google has launched a Dashboard service that's designed to show how much the search engine giant knows about its users online activities. 11/05/09 07:39 Google Betas Chrome 4, Touts 30% Speed Boost (tech.slashdot.org) (4.0.223.16) of its Chrome browser yesterday, boasting a 30% speed improvement over the current production edition and adding integrated bookmark synchronization. 11/05/09 07:38 Colleges Secretly Test Music-Industry Project (news.slashdot.org) music industry is still pushing Choruss, a controversial blanket-licensing scheme, but it is far less innovative than first described. 11/05/09 07:35 Mandriva Linux 2010 Is Finally Out (linux.slashdot.org) We still go on supporting in the same level of integration GNOME 2.28 and KDE 4.3.2. Support for netbooks is improved as users can now easily test Moblin 2.0 environment. 'Smart desktop' coming from European research is now fully integrated and is the first real working semantic desktop 11/05/09 07:34 new Mac OS X 10.6.2 build restores Atom support (digg.com) A newer build, 10C535, now appears to have brought the feature back and hints that the lack of Atom support may have been a bug or an otherwise temporary action. 11/04/09 21:11 PayPal API (it.slashdot.org) This enables developers to integrate PayPal payment processing services without forcing users to redirect to PayPal's website to enter payment information. 11/04/09 21:10 Comcast's New Throttling Plan Uses Trigger Conditions, Not Silent Blocking (tech.slashdot.org) Comcast's first traffic throttling trigger is tripped by using more than 70 per cent of your maximum downstream or upstream bandwidth for more than 15 minute 11/04/09 21:01 CRITICAL: Linux mmap_min_addr (www.h-online.com) A null pointer dereference in the Linux kernel can be exploited to access a system at root privilege level. 11/04/09 17:52 Mozilla plans major Firefox interface overhaul (www.computerworld.com) Considers 'tab-on-top' look; denies it will 'Chrome-ify' Firefox 11/04/09 09:58 Jailbroken iPhones hacked via UMTS network (www.h-online.com) Their iPhone screens displayed an "Important Warning" informing them they had been hacked. A teenager appeared to be behind the hack, initially charging 5 euros for instructions on how to clean and then protect the affected iPhones. 11/04/09 09:50 CRITICAL:Java 6 Update 17 (www.h-online.com) Sun Microsystems has released Java 6 Update 17, which fixes multiple security vulnerabilities. These include various buffer and integer overflows triggered by crafted audio and image files, 11/04/09 09:47 Firefox finally passes IE6 (arstechnica.com) Internet Explorer remains ahead of the rest of the competition, but since month after month it continues to lose ground to all other browsers, Firefox has now finally surpassed IE6, which is easily the most hated version of Microsoft's browser. 11/04/09 09:46 Parallels says new Mac virtualization app faster than VMware Fusion (www.infoworld.com) Parallels released the latest version of its Windows virtualization software for Mac computers on Wednesday, which it claims remains faster and more powerful than VMware's rival app. 11/04/09 09:44 Got HDTV? Get Ready For UHD-TV (digg.com) UHD will come in two resolution levels: 7680 x 4320 pixels (8K) and 3840 x 2160 pixels (4K) and provide four to 16 times the resolution of Blu-ray 11/03/09 21:08 AT&T sues Verizon Wireless over 3G ads (www.reuters.com) AT&T is suing Verizon Wireless in an effort to stop its bigger mobile rival from using "misleading" coverage maps in advertisements that AT&T says are causing it to lose "incalculable market share." 11/03/09 21:06 CRITICAL:Adobe Shockware Player (threatpost.com) "The update, which is rated "critical," addresses a total of five documented vulnerabilities. The most serious flaw could allow remote code execution attacks against Windows and Mac users." 11/03/09 21:03 Google Adds Longer Text Snippets and Image Previews to Search Results (thenextweb.com) If you open the left sidebar after a google search and select “more text”, the results will show a larger text snippet than previously allowed. |
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