The huge cache of files recently leaked from Italian surveillance software maker Hacking Team is the gift that keeps on giving for attackers. Researchers sifting through the data found a new exploit for a previously unknown vulnerability in Adobe’s Flash Player. This is the second Flash Player zero-day exploit discovered among the files A zero-day exploit is a previously unknown vulnerability for which a patch does not exist.
Sometimes—not often, but sometimes—I play a small indie game and I think “I’d love to see what this team could’ve done with a larger budget.” It is not a great game—but I wish it were. It’s a game where I’m stuck on “It’s not very good, but…” and after that come rationalizations. “…But the setting has such promise.” “…But it’s sort of like one long Oh, and the most important of all: “…But the graphics are beautiful.” As far as genre,
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission may require the country’s telecom carriers to warn residential and business customers about their plans to abandon old, copper telephone networks for IP-based systems. A proposal from FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler would also require telecom carriers retiring their copper networks to offer customers the option of purchasing battery backup systems so that they don’t lose voice service during an electrical power outage, officials said Friday. IP-based voice service depends on working Internet service, which, in turn, requires electricity. The old copper-based phone service works without electrical service available at the customer’s address, and a loss of voice service during power outages is one of the major concerns of consumer groups as major telecom carriers move to retire their decades-old copper networks.
A perfectly-planned heist is a thing of beauty. It’s the appeal of the genre, really. I am not the world’s greatest criminal mastermind, nor would anyone describe me as elegant. At best, I am a clock ticking half a second out of sync. At worst, I possess the subtlety of a crowbar to the back of the skull. This is a problem when playing I took a brief look at
Ellen Pao is resigning as Reddit’s interim chief executive after a week of tumult on the online message board with many users calling for her ouster. Pao is resigning under a mutual agreement with Reddit’s board, the company Pao leaves the company after a storm of furor from users after Reddit’s termination of Victoria Taylor, a key employee who helped facilitate Reddit’s popular Ask Me Anything sessions.
The FCC’s radiation standards for your smartphone date back to the 1990s. But that’s OK. You use a belt clip, don’t you? That hallmark of turn-of-the-century tech fashion is That fine print became an issue earlier this year in Berkeley, California, when the city government passed a law that would require stores to direct their customers’ attention to the radiation-risk language in cellphone user manuals. Like other proposed laws about phone radiation, it’s come under
Windows Phone users who have been testing Microsoft’s Windows 10 Mobile beta operating system were given a little present heading into their weekend with the release of a new build Friday. In a blog post announcing the release, Microsoft Engineering General Manager Gabe Aul said that phones will now properly show a notification message that’s supposed to appear up at the tail end of the software update process. That message has been missing in the most recent builds.
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It’s summer, which means two things: 1) There’s pretty much nothing new to play, so crank through that backlog, and 2) Make sure you turn up your AC. Treat your computer right. Don’t let it melt. Or give your computer a break and This week: EA’s giving away a new freebie,
Facebook has big plans for music, but a streaming service isn’t on the agenda. Instead, the social network is talking to the major record labels about licensing music videos to put in your News Feed. According to the Videos on Facebook garner more than a billion views per day, though the network uses autoplay, which likely sends that number higher than it would be otherwise. But Facebook has 1.4 billion monthly active users who might watch just as many videos as YouTubers do, if the content is there.
Amazon may be plotting a sequel to its $40 Fire TV Stick, one that might even support 4K video. Benchmarks In real-world use, that means the device could feel faster, while supporting more games that currently require a $100 Fire TV set-top box. As
Following a tease earlier this year, developer Beamdog has finally revealed the first details and footage of its upcoming From the
For years, both Mac and Linux users have taken advantage of virtual desktops that let you create multiple desktop work spaces on your PC. Finally, Microsoft is getting into the game by There are many reasons you might want to use multiple desktops on a single computer. If you don’t have a multi-monitor set-up, for example, you can use multiple desktops to keep organized. You could have one desktop set-up with productivity apps, and a second with entertainment such as a music player. You may even prefer to have your email open on its own desktop to stop yourself from reacting to every message that hits your inbox.
On August 29, 2012, Samsung introduced the Galaxy Note II. Two weeks later Apple announced the iPhone 5. On September 4, 2013, Samsung announced the Galaxy Note 3. Six days later Apple announced the iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C. On September 3, 2014 Samsung announced the Samsung apparently has. Hoping to maintain a little more distance between the Note series and the iPhone, Samsung is apparently breaking with tradition. The company plans to bump up the debut of the
