You totally know this is true. The Kinect isn’t going to turn you into Tom Cruise’s Minority Report character or Batman. It’s not going to shape user interfaces for generations to come. It’s about playing silly games while flailing your arms and legs like a Microsoft tool.
A group of consumer electronics manufacturers got together and finalised the specifications of a new A/V cable standard. It’s called HDBaseT and is based on standard CAT5e/6 – meaning we should wind up paying less for our home theatre wiring.
The standard is expected to be adopted by 2011.
On June 29, 2010, Adobe published its security updates for Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat (APSB10-15). Among many vulnerabilities fixed this time, the noticeable one is /Launch vulnerability (CVE-2010-1240), which is said to be found by Didier Stevens. However, the patch is not working properly.
/Launch vulnerability was released by Didier on March 29, 2010. Since then, many viruses in the wild have taken advantage of the flaw:
It has taken Adobe three months to release the patch.
On the blog entry, Didier confirms that Adobe has completely fixed the flaw. However the patch turns out to be incomplete.
Firstly, the exploited PDF file with the latest version of Adobe Reader.
Before version 9.3.3
Version 9.3.3:
The patch seems to be working. Now, what would happen if I modify the exploit code a bit?
Specifically, I add the quotes to the parameters passed to /F.
Eg: /F(cmd.exe) becomes /F(“cmd.exe”)
With the quotes added, Adobe Reader will not block the execution and the warning becomes:
After pressing Open, cmd.exe will be executed!!!
So, Adobe Reader version 9.3.3 has fixed the fake warning massage, but the threat of exploit code execution still remains.
What I hate is having to move my arm from my chair to my desk in order to control my computer. Why should I have to do all that work?
Firefox users may have noticed they had to upgrade their browser over the weekend. Why did every Firefox user on the planet need this essential upgrade? Because Farmville was broken.
It seems the previous update was causing problems with the Facebook game, users around the world complaining they were no longer able to play Farmville because a bug “hangs the browser long enough for [a] timeout to trigger and kill it”.
The current version gets around this by increasing the amount of time required to “kill” an application while Mozilla work on a more lasting solution.
So the world’s second most popular internet browser is updated just to fix a single game. If for some reason you hadn’t realised just how big this game is until now, this should do it.
Final Fantasy XIV for the PC now has a release date: September 30, 2010. There’s two editions, a standard edition and a collector’s edition. The standard edition will retail for $49.99 and the collector’s will go for $74.99. What do you get with the collector’s edition, hmm?
A fair bit, actually.
For starters you get to play the game eight days before the standard edition folks—provided the servers don’t melt down, of course.
You also get an exclusive in-game helmet, a security token (presumably something like the Blizzard Activator), a real life journal filled with concept art, and a fancy certificate of authenticity.
The cover art of the collector’s edition is done by Yoshitaka Amano.
Both editions will cost $12.99/month, but a free month is included with the purchase of either edition.
The evolution of the game-controller was starring us right in the face. Probably the smartest invention to the next level of gaming is the invention of the boob controller. Who needs gaming when you can get your self a pair of boob controllers to play with for hours upon hours???
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