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- Are AMD and ATI About to Become Extinct? -
Motherboards.org asks if AMD is about to become extinct. They had better
hope not.
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 RC1 Tested -
IE8 does a
better job at protecting your privacy and confidential information when
you're online - at least compared to IE7 - and it helps to protect and stop
malicious software from reaching your PC by detecting imposter (phishing)
Web sites. IE8 also supports Data Execution Prevention, a technology that
aims to reduce the exploitability of buffer overflows, which are commonly
exploited for injecting malicious code. If programmers write their code with
DEP in mind, many potential vulnerabilities could be eliminated.
- Open-source browsers' speeds blow past IE, Opera -
The test
compared Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate 1, Opera
10.00 Alpha, Firefox 3.1b1, Chrome 2.0.158.0, and the WebKit r40220
developer project included in Chrome and Apple's Safari.
- Mozilla donates $100.000 to free web video - The organization
behind Firefox has given
a $100,000 grant
to the Wikimedia Foundation so it can improve the Ogg Theora video codec
- The oldest trick in the book, literally, defeats UAC in Windows 7 -
Though the fellows sounding the warning today are the best in the business,
it didn't take a lot of know-how to develop a proof-of-concept that
the new User Access Control panel can be disabled by VBScript. Indeed,
the SendKeys method is capable of sending up and down keypresses to this
panel, and can even send the keypresses necessary to make the panel appear.
Rivera warns that real malware could conceivably be used to not only force
UAC to turn off, but then to reboot Windows and run a malicious package with
full privileges. (His PoC, however, does not do that.)
- Google Makes Gmail Available Offline - All you Gmail users will
be happy to know that
Google has made
Gmail available offline. Here's how the new feature will work: Once you
turn on this feature, Gmail uses Gears to download a local cache of your
mail. As long as you're connected to the network, that cache is synchronized
with Gmail's servers. When you lose your connection, Gmail automatically
switches to offline mode, and uses the data stored on your computer's hard
drive instead of the information sent across the network.
- Gates predicts four-year downturn - Microsoft founder
Bill Gates says it could be four years before the world's troubled
economies return to economic growth.
Unboxing the BlackBerry Storm 9530 from Telus Mobility (video) -
The BlackBerry
Storm 9530 really offers a unique interface. With most other touchscreen
smartphones, a tap is equivalent to a click, even if you don't really want
to click through to an app or a function. The Storm fixes this concern by
differentiating between a touch and a click. And what's included in the box?
Aside from the phone itself, you get the standard documentation,
installation CD, carrying pouch, wall charger with adapters, headset, USB
cable, and a cleaning cloth
- Metallica's James Hetfield: 'I Love the Internet' -
Woot?! :)
- Tomb Raider Relaunch Coming -
Tomb Raider
looks to be getting another feature film treatment on its way, but not with
the actress rumoured over the last few days
- Van Damme Doing Bloodsport 2 - The mighty Jean-Claude Van Damme
seems to be enjoying something of a resurgence with the success of JCVD… and
with the success of films like Rocky and Rambo for Stallone it makes sense
that
Van Damme would want to go back to that which made him a star in the
first place. Yes ladies and gentlemen, Jean-Claude Van Damme has announced
that he is making a TRUE Bloodsport 2.
- Stallone says He isn't Done with Rambo - Sylvester Stallone, who
is preparing to shoot action-adventure The Expendables, told Extra that
he’s planning to play John Rambo again.
- New 9 Trailer Online -
The look and
feel of it is like a darker grittier version of the Playstation 3 game
Little Big Planet, and I love the style.
- Taken Trailer Online -
Liam Neeson
is returning with a can of vengeful kickassery in what looks to be a great
action film called Taken in theaters this week.
- Robert Rodriguez Producing a Predator Reboot?! - Rumor: Robert
Rodriguez and his Troublemaker Studios are producing
a new Predator
reboot for Fox.
- Optical Illusion Girlfriend (video) -
Elephant Larry
presents a story you have to see twice to believe :-)
- Lamborghini Gallardo: Lots of Fun in the Snow (video) -
The Fifth Gear
crew heads to the snowy Italian Alps with the 5.2-liter V10-powered 552
HP Lambo, and proceeds to the nearest ice track.
- Alcohol Olympics (video) - Drinking has always been a mainstay of
human civilization. In moments of joy, sadness, boredom, and even holiness,
we drink. But what? And how much?
And who drinks
the most?
- Megan Fox Before She Became A Major Fox -
Here are some
old Megan Fox photos when she was just a little Miley - except less
famous and much prettier. I don't know exactly how old she was in these
modelling shots, but she definitely hasn't changed much except for the
regrettable tattoos
- Lindsay Lohan in the Fornarina Ad Campaign -
Lindsay Lohan
still gets gigs after all she's done. Now Lindsay is the ad girl for
Fornarina, some girl clothing company. They did do a pretty decent
photoshoot with Lindsay. Some of their clothes are actually pretty sexy, and
Lindsay actually sells them pretty sexily, unlike her normal outfits.
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