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Tuesday, 02 February 2016 09:18
AMD launches World's First Hardware Virtualized GPU
Written by Sean Kalinich
AMD made an interesting announcement today. They are claiming to have the world’s first hardware virtualized GPU. Dubbed the FirePro S7150 and S7150 x2, these two server GPUs are not intended as direct output devices, but are to be used…
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Monday, 01 February 2016 08:37
YouTube not liable in Germany for users' copyright infringement
Written by Sean Kalinich
YouTube and copyright has been a controversial subject since they first hit the internet. The problem is who is liable for copyright infringement. Is it the poster or the service? The copyright gang would love to tell you it is…
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Norse Corp, famous for their live attack map and Viking based parties at Black Hat, could be having some financial issues. At least that is the word from researcher Brian Krebs. Over the last couple of weeks they have laid…
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Friday, 29 January 2016 07:02
Anaheim Police caught using DRT Cell Simulators to listen in on calls
Written by Sean Kalinich
Law Enforcement surveillance is a necessary thing. It really is, but what is not necessary is when the agencies in question decide to get lazy or feel their powers extend to a larger group of people than their intended targets.…
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Friday, 29 January 2016 05:21
HSBC's DDoS raises questions on how companies treat these events.
Written by Sean Kalinich
One cool thing about working in IT is that things are very predictable. You generally know how a system or application will react if you do this or that to it. This is how people find and use exploits in…
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Friday, 29 January 2016 05:16
TOR releases version 5.5 of the TOR Browser Bundle; bug fixes galore
Written by Sean Kalinich
Tor has pushed out a new version of its privacy enhancing Tor Browser Bundle. We are up to 5.5 now and, according to the Tor Project it is a full stable release. The update fixes a laundry list of bugs…
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Thursday, 28 January 2016 08:34
Oracle says they will kill off the Java Browser Plug-In... sometime in the future
Written by Sean Kalinich
It seems that the stars might finally align to remove one of the largest security holes in the history of… well history itself. Oracle is announcing that it is finally getting rid of the Java Browser Plug-in… sometime. According to…
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Wednesday, 27 January 2016 00:08
AMD earnings call indicates a rough 2016 ahead
Written by Sean Kalinich
AMD as a corporate entity is facing some rough times. As of their last earnings call we saw that they are still losing money and really do not have a product ready to combat this. The Rage Fury line of…
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Monday, 25 January 2016 06:08
AMD talks up VR and the R9 Fury X dual-GPU card at VRLA
Written by Sean Kalinich
AMD says it’s a VR thing now. Well ok, not really, but AMD is leveraging the increased memory bandwidth in their high-end R9 Fury cards to push both 4k and VR. They showed off the R9 Fury X dual-GPU reference…
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Saturday, 23 January 2016 06:41
The Brewie auotmated brewing machine is a standout connected device for 2016
Written by Sean Kalinich
2016 is going to be a year where the connected device really explodes. We thought that IoT (Internet of Things) was bad in 2015, well that is just peanuts compared to what we are going to see in 2016. Everything…
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Friday, 22 January 2016 07:16
California Lawmakers push to ban the sale of encrypted smartphones
Written by Sean Kalinich
You would think that in 2016 the people in power would either understand technology, or would have been replaced by someone that does. Sadly, this is not the case in… well just about every place there is an elected official.…
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Friday, 22 January 2016 03:58
AMD is delaying the launch of Zen until the end of 2016
Written by Sean Kalinich
AMD is delaying the launch of their new Zen based CPUs until the end of 2016. The news comes on the heels of a rather subdued, if optimistic, earnings report in which Lisa Su, AMD CEO, focused on AMD’s commitment…
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Tuesday, 05 January 2016 14:24
CES 2016 sees connected Sex Toys on display in Sin City
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CES 2016 has not really started yet, but there are already multiple member of the press on the ground and the vendors are arriving in droves. Along with these arrivals are the oppress releases and news updates. Our in boxes…
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Remember the Hive-CM8 group we told you about the other day? Well it seems that they have pulled their dump servers down. The reason is not clear, but it could be related to information that has gotten out to the…
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Tuesday, 29 December 2015 13:49
Firefall Developer Red5 Misses Holiday Payroll
Written by Sean Kalinich
You know things are bad when you cannot afford to pay employees, but to miss payroll over the holidays seems just that much worse. However, that is what has happened to Red5 the developers behind Firefall. As is usually the…
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Tuesday, 29 December 2015 10:17
191 Million US Voter Records out on the open web
Written by Sean Kalinich
You have to love how easy it is to find information out in the wilds of the internet. In the last couple of weeks a number of cloud-databases have been found to be leaking data to the interment due to…
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