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11/13/09 11:34 Google Chrome OS Launching Next Week? (www.pcworld.com) Google's much-anticipated operating system, Chrome OS, will be available for download next week, or so goes the latest buzz on the Internet. 11/13/09 07:46 3 minutes of Avatar (www.youtube.com) 11/13/09 07:37 Roomba Pacman (www.boingboing.net) 11/13/09 07:36 Office 2010 beta leaks early (news.cnet.com) Those who can't wait until next week for the beta of Office 2010 can apparently find the code already on torrent Web sites. 11/13/09 07:36 Internet ghost-towns (www.boingboing.net) When a block of IP addresses or a collection of domain names becomes associated with bad action -- spamming, jabbering, denial-of-servicing -- various ad-hoc Internet groups will add it to a blacklist of "rogue IPs" or "badware domains" that are blocked at a very low level in the network. 11/13/09 07:35 New Brain Cells May Knock Out Old Memories (www.wired.com) Clearing old memories from the hippocampus makes way for new learning, researchers from Japan suggest in the November 13 Cell. 11/13/09 07:35 Google gives Voice to 'open standard Skype' (www.theregister.co.uk) Google has acquired VoIP startup Gizmo5, intending to roll the company's engineers into the team that develops the telephony application/controversy magnet known as Google Voice. 11/13/09 07:32 Apple pen-tablet plan revives Newtonian handwriting (www.theregister.co.uk) And so if Mac OS X is ready for handwriting recognition, will an upcoming tablet incude it as an optional text-entry method? 11/13/09 07:31 Microsoft defends Hotmail's cookie requirement (www.theregister.co.uk) "[It also] helps protect user security, by separating the authentication cookies that are used for different services. If a cookie in one domain is compromised, it means that user assets in another domain won't be compromised." 11/13/09 07:26 Synthetic Stone DVD Claimed To Last 1,000 Years (hardware.slashdot.org) Data is laid down on the platter much in the same way as a standard DVD disc, but with DiamonDisc the burner etches much deeper pits. 11/13/09 07:26 Future Blu-ray Movies To Come With Playable Game Demos (games.slashdot.org) Sony is taking advantage of this by starting to offer game demos on their Blu-ray offerings. 11/13/09 07:25 eBay For Millionaires (yro.slashdot.org) Then you can join BillionaireXchange; just the place to find a 2006 Bugatti Veyron with a Start Bid of $1,050,000.00. 11/13/09 07:25 Microsoft Buys Teamprise, Will Ship Linux Tools (linux.slashdot.org) Teamprise is an Eclipse plugin (and related tools) for connecting to Team Foundation Server, Microsoft's source-control/project-management system. 11/13/09 07:17 HP, 3Com deal causes product headaches (news.techworld.com) But most of the rest – lowend, SMB and edge switching, plus wireless networking – faces considerable overlap. 11/13/09 07:16 Google Chrome Mac beta next month (news.techworld.com) A Google spokesman declined to confirm an exact date for the Mac beta, but noted that a release early next month "shouldn't sound too surprising," since the company had previously promised a public preview before the end of the year. 11/12/09 22:01 Twitter spam worm stealing user logons (www.stuff.co.nz) Once it has access to the session cookies, the worm can log on to Twitter and send direct messages to the followers of the user whose account has been compromised. 11/12/09 21:55 CRITICAL:Flash "uploader" vulnerability (www.computerworld.com) Hackers can exploit a flaw in Adobe's Flash to compromise nearly every Web site that allows users to upload content, including Google's Gmail, then launch silent attacks on visitors to those sites, security researchers said today. 11/12/09 15:51 Next Xbox Live update (www.neowin.net) Microsoft is ready to launch their next big update to Xbox LIVE dashboard, with Twitter, Facebook, Last.fm and Zune video will all be available. The update will be available to all Xbox LIVE members on November 17. 11/12/09 15:47 BlackBerry Storm2 hands-on and impressions (www.engadget.com) Ultimately, it's ended up taking the company just about a year to get the Storm2 to market, a product that attempts to tweak Waterloo's touchscreen strategy just enough to undo a few mistakes and send it down the right path. 11/12/09 15:45 AMD shakes up x86 CPU world with two new designs (arstechnica.com) The company unveiled two new-from-the-ground-up 86 designs aimed at the mobile and server markets. Architecturally, the new server design is a radical departure for the company. 11/12/09 15:43 Cain & Abel v4.9.35 (www.darknet.org.uk) It allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted passwords using Dictionary, Brute-Force and Cryptanalysis attacks, recording VoIP conversations, decoding scrambled passwords, recovering wireless network keys, revealing password boxes, uncovering cached passwords and analyzing routing protocols 11/12/09 15:37 Argh....MONOPOLY Movie (www.aintitcool.com) "He’s all groggy and he goes down to buy some coffee and he reaches into his pocket and all he has is Monopoly money. All this Monopoly money pours out. He’s confused and embarrassed and the girl reaches across the counter and says, ‘That’s OK.’ And she gives him change in Monopoly money. " 11/12/09 15:32 Ars reviews Modern Warfare 2 PC (arstechnica.com) Ars tackles the red-headed stepchild of the Modern Warfare 2 versions at home, on our own system. The verdict? There is as much good as bad. 11/12/09 15:28 XP Still Beats Windows 7 in Netbook Battery Life (www.tomshardware.com) Laptop's tests found that netbooks running Windows XP ran for 47 minutes longer than those with Windows 7. 11/12/09 15:26 No more new XP on Netbooks (www.theregister.co.uk) You might not be able to buy a brand-new netbook running Windows XP much past the New Year, even though Microsoft has committed to offering that operating system for another year. 11/12/09 15:14 Google's SPeeDY protocol (tech.slashdot.org) One of these experiments is SPDY (pronounced 'SPeeDY'), an application-layer protocol (essentially a shim between HTTP and the bits on the wire) for transporting content over the web, designed specifically for minimal latency. In addition to a rough specification for the protocol, we have hacked SPDY into the Google Chrome browser (because it's what we're familiar with) and a simple server testbed. 11/12/09 13:00 Explaining Tech to Non Techie Family (ask.slashdot.org) "My question for Slashdot is: are there any resources out there that explain computer viruses, malware, adware, and general safe computer practices to non-technical people in an easy-to-digest format? The security flaws in my house are 9, 26, and ~50 years old, with no technical background aside from surfing the internet." 11/12/09 12:28 Vulnerability in the GIMP image editing tool (www.h-online.com) The vulnerability, rated by Secunia as moderately critical, occurs when processing specially crafted BMP images within the ReadImage() function in plug-ins/file-bmp/bmp-read.c causing an integer overflow that can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow. 11/12/09 12:08 Gumblar: New Generation of Self-Building Botnets (threatpost.com) The injectors are not acting on their own. This tier seems to be used to proxify the injection tasks. This means that there is another set of machines, which actually issue code and commands to infect the webpages on the compromised webservers. We call these machines "dispatchers". 11/12/09 12:08 Attackers conceal exploit sites with Twitter API (www.theregister.co.uk) Drive-by exploit writers have been spotted using a popular Twitter command to send web surfers to malicious sites, a technique that helps conceal the devious deed. 11/12/09 11:53 Hackers Exploit Prepaid Payroll Cards (www.banktech.com) Kate Monahan, an analyst with Boston-based Aite Group sees payroll debit cards as an emerging tool for criminals to exploit, just as banks are increasing their use of them to court underbanked consumers. 11/12/09 10:45 Intel and AMD Settle Antitrust, Patent Lawsuits (news.slashdot.org) Intel has agreed to pay $1.25 billion to AMD. In return, AMD will drop its lawsuits about patent and antitrust complaints. 11/12/09 10:45 Google Under Fire For Calling Their Language "Go" (developers.slashdot.org) 'Go!' was created by Francis McCabe and Keith Clark. McCabe published a book about the language in 2007 11/12/09 10:33 Hotmail imposes tracking cookies for logout (www.theregister.co.uk) Hotmail users are now unable to log out of their account if the browser they are using does not accept third party cookies. 11/12/09 10:15 Microsoft Patents Sudo (www.groklaw.net) Lordy, lordy, lordy. They have no shame. It appears that Microsoft has just patented sudo, a personalized version of it. 11/12/09 09:51 Apple lifts veil on App Store approval status (www.appleinsider.com) In a move that is sure to please many, developers tell AppleInsider that Apple's Development Center website has added the ability for developers to track the status of apps currently under review. 11/12/09 07:46 Deathmatch: Motorola Droid versus iPhone (www.computerworld.com) You've seen the "Droid does" campaign, but let's cut to the chase: The Motorola Droid does not do that much. 11/12/09 07:44 Android's delicate guts ripped apart (www.theregister.co.uk) Motorola's engineers have worked hard to make their debut Android-powered phone as delicate - and difficult - to deconstruct as possible. 11/12/09 07:42 Dangers of Mafia Wars (games.slashdot.org) "I did every horrible thing in the book just to get revenues right away. I mean, we gave our users poker chips if they downloaded this Zwinky toolbar, which was like, I don't know... I downloaded it once and couldn't get rid of it." 11/12/09 07:41 Modern Warfare 2 sells 7 million copies on day one (news.vgchartz.com) VGChartz preliminary day one figures puts the sales to date (including the midnight launches) at over 7 million copies worldwide across Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. 11/12/09 07:40 AMD GPU shortage impacts PC shipments (news.techworld.com) AMD confirmed last week that problems ramping up production of the new chips has forced some PC makers, which it didn't identify, to delay computer shipments. 11/12/09 07:39 Newest, "Most Likely To Be Exploited," Windows Vulnerability (news.techworld.com) The bug is in the Windows kernel, the heart of the operating system. The kernel improperly parses Embedded OpenType (EOT) fonts, a compact form of fonts designed for use on web pages that can also be used in Microsoft Word and PowerPoint documents. 11/11/09 21:16 Windows 7/2008 0-day SMB DOS (news.cnet.com) The company is investigating claims of a "possible denial-of-service vulnerability in Windows Server Message Block (SMB)," the Microsoft spokesperson said, adding that the company was unaware of any attacks trying to exploit the hole. 11/11/09 21:15 LegalTorrents Launches Copyright-Compliant Tracker (news.slashdot.org) LegalTorrents.com has quietly launched a solution with three open Bittorent trackers for its members, including a fully automated, community-based flagging system to blacklist and immediately remove copyright-infringing content 11/11/09 21:14 HP to Acquire 3Com for $2.7 Billion (online.wsj.com) By buying 3Com, a onetime leading tech company that has fallen on tougher times this decade, H-P is aiming to goose its growth. T 11/11/09 20:01 CRITICAL:Safari 4.0.4 (support.apple.com) All Mac users should update via Software Update. Windows users should use Apple Software Update. 11/11/09 14:00 Google's Go (www.extremetech.com) "Go combines the development speed of working in a dynamic language like Python with the performance and safety of a compiled language like C or C++." 11/11/09 13:58 Google Cranks Creepy Meter with Latitude Location History, Alerts (www.eweek.com) Google Nov. 10 launched Location History and Location Alerts features that will make the Google Latitude geolocation service infinitely more useful, and invite scrutiny from privacy critics. 11/11/09 13:56 Bing update brings Wolfram Alpha (news.cnet.com) As part of that arrangement, certain health related searches, such as "how many calories in a hamburger" will now feature information from Alpha. Bing will also rely on Alpha for some math calculations, Microsoft said in a blog posting on Wednesday. 11/11/09 13:56 Bing Brings Hulu, YouTube and MSN Video (www.tomshardware.com) Microsoft has announced that the company will begin rolling out Bing Videos, which combines video clips from several different locations and offers them all on one page. |
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