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 Thursday Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 01:01 PM CET - Mar,11 2004
  • Microsoft upgrades patch to critical - Microsoft has upgraded one of its patches to 'critical' after discovering new ways in which it could be used by hackers.The flaw affects the two latest versions of the company's Outlook email client. Microsoft is warning customers to download and install the patch immediately. The patch was previously rated as "important".
  • Format string bug in EpicGames Unreal engine - The problem is a format string bug in the Classes management. Each time a client connects to a server it sends the names of the objects it uses (called classes). If an attacker uses a class name containing format parameters (as %n, %s and so on) he will be able to crash or also to execute malicious code on the remote server. This proof-of-concept is a proxy server able to modify the Unreal packets in real-time allowing the insertion of "%n" into the class names sent by the client to the server causing the r-emote crash. It should be compatible with any game based on the Unreal engine and requires the same game running on the server to be used.
  • Symbiot launches DDoS counter-strike tool - Symbiot, a Texas-based security firm, is preparing to launch a corporate defence system at the end of March that can fight back against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) and hacker attacks by launching a counter-strike. In advance of the product launch, Symbiot's president, Mike Erwin, and its chief scientist, Paco Nathan, have outlined a set of "rules of engagement for information warfare", which they say should be part of corporate security policy to help companies determine their exact response to an incoming attack.
  • Off-topic: Deepest picture of universe - US astronomers have unveiled mankind’s deepest look into the early universe, providing a tableau of 10,000 galaxies, including some of the first to be forged after the Big Bang 13 billion years ago. The astonishing million-second-long exposure by the orbiting Hubble telescope provides a glimpse into the end of the so-called Dark Ages, when the first stars began to emerge from the primal blast.
  • Off-topic: Robotcop III Set to Fight Crime in Hong Kong -  There is a new cop patrolling the streets of Hong Kong and teaching children how to prevent crime. Robotcop III can walk, dance, move in any direction, display videos and answer questions asked in Cantonese and English. The previous versions of Robotcops, introduced in 1988 and 1995, were imported from the U.S. and taught 800,000 school children how to fight crime (thanks Slashdot.org)
  • Microsoft: Yukon won't come till 2005 - The company is delaying to next year the release of its forthcoming SQL Server database and Visual Studio.Net development tool. Customers who bought certain license plans expecting upgrades could be left empty-handed.
  • Matsushita to offer Blu-ray Disk recorders by July - Matsushita showed a prototype of its Blu-ray DVD-RAM recorder on Tuesday (March 9) that uses a two-layer 50 Gbyte disk. The prototype incorporates tuners that cover all digital TV broadcasting in Japan and is also compatible with present DVD-RAM and DVD-R formats. Other details won't be revealed for another several months, the company said. Matsushita said it intends to introduce the recorder in Japan before the Athens Olympic Games to be staged in August. During the Olympics, viewers often use video recorders more often, said Shuzo Ushimaru, director of corporate marketing of Matsushita.
  • Intel to launch $120 2.4GHz Prescott - Intel has begun hawking a 2.4GHz version of its 90nm 'Prescott' Pentium 4 to system builders and mobo makers, and will ship the part at the end of March. The low-clocked part was never mentioned at Prescott's launch early last month, but emerged among Intel's list of boxed processors which have been certified to conform with various territories' local laws. The 2.4GHz Prescott supports only a 533MHz effective bit rate frontside bus and does not offer HyperThreading.
  • M-Systems ships $40k 90GB Flash drive - Memory specialist M-Systems this week released a 90GB hard drive based not on spindles, platters and mobile read/write heads but solid-state Flash memory. The announcement comes a week after the company's CEO, Dov Moran, claimed that Microsoft - an M-Systems customer - has dropped the hard drive from the Xbox 2 spec.
  • News Interceptor 1.12a - Digital Dream let us know they have released a new version 1.12 of News Interceptor (download). They have added a cool new feature to automatically detect content feeds from Web pages you browse without you needing to submit those manually.
  • FlashFXP v2.2 Build 976 Beta - FlashFXP is a powerful and popular FTP & FXP Client for Microsoft Windows 9x/Me/NT/2000/XP on the market. It is loaded with features for the power user, but has an intuitive user interface that takes only minutes to master.
  • DVD Region-Free 3.36 - DVD Region-Free (download) enables you to watch and copy DVD from any region on all DVD drives! It fully supports region-protected (RPC2) DVD drives, and does not require any firmware modifications. It will work, even if you can not change the DVD drive's region anymore.
  • TVTool v9.6 (SHW) -  TVTool (download) is a control center for the TV output of nVidia graphics cards. With this tool it is possible to adapt the TV output perfectly to your needs and to control the TV mode in a comfortable way.
  • CPU RightMark 0.5 Beta - The CPU RightMark benchmark is meant for objective performance measurement of modern and future CPUs in various computational tasks such as computational modeling of physical processes and solving of 3D graphics problems.

Comments from Bill Gatesposted - 01:31 PM CET - Mar,11 2004
What's up with Intel releasing a 2.4GHz/533MHz/no HT Prescott???? Isn't that a step backward???

Comments from posted - 01:41 PM CET - Mar,11 2004
next they'll be selling a 80486 with HT... coolies

Comments from sadfkjasfdposted - 02:24 PM CET - Mar,11 2004
LMAO ^^ They have heat problems with their prescotts, so im guessing this is doesnt run at same voltages as the 3+Ghz counter parts. These migh also clock to 3+Ghz and intel fan boys will scream what a bargain and you can get a prescott at that price. Ohh well hopefully AMD wont release an AMD K6 K64 ;) wto compete that pos 2.4 prescott heater :D

Comments from BillyGoatGruffposted - 03:07 PM CET - Mar,11 2004
Robotcop: "Unlike its Hollywood counterpart, there is not a single violent bolt in this Robotcop." So basically we have an expensive video answering machine. I can imagine this thing on a drug raid. It knocks on the door and then states "drugs a bad". Probably could make it more violent by simply installing windows xp ;)

Comments from samadamaposted - 05:37 PM CET - Mar,11 2004
and also to install an Ati Graphics card that why every new door it needs a driver up date. HA HA HA HA. I am sorry I couldn't help it :o)

Comments from An spaniardposted - 08:39 PM CET - Mar,11 2004
This is Madrid, and today I've seen hell. Oh my god... Sorry to post it here, but I needed to share it somewhat..

Comments from xxxxposted - 09:42 PM CET - Mar,11 2004
ya no kidding man!

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