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Tuesday, 16 June 2015 15:40
Microsoft dropped an Xbox 360 Virtual Console into the Xbox One
Written by Sean Kalinich
When Microsoft and Sony announced the move to x86-64 based gaming consoles some (pronounce that many) in the gaming community were more than a little annoyed that they would not be able to play their older games. Both companies hoped…
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Monday, 15 June 2015 15:00
Bethesda shows off DOOM, Fallout 4 and Dishonored 2 at E3
Written by Sean Kalinich
During pre-show events at E3 Bethesda decided to release information about a few games including Dishonored 2, Fallout 4 and DOOM. All three of these games have been staples in the gaming community for a number of years and all…
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Tuesday, 02 June 2015 09:30
Intel Launches new Broadwell CPUs with Iris Pro at Computex
Written by Sean Kalinich
At Computex 2015 Intel has announced a few nice additions to the Broadwell line up which bring Iris Pro graphics to the table. The new CPUs are touted as the first LGA CPUs to have Iris Pro in them which…
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Tuesday, 02 June 2015 06:30
VPN Service Hola Leaves you vulnerable to tracking and hacking...
Written by Sean Kalinich
There is nothing worse than thinking you are protecting your internet travels when in reality you are participating in a giant botnet. That appears to be the case that is happening with VPN provider Hola. According to security researchers the…
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Monday, 01 June 2015 06:32
Jen-Hsun Huang says internet speeds slowing down 4k game streaming
Written by Sean Kalinich
The idea of the “cloud” is nothing new and has, in fact, been around for a number of years in one form or another. The concept goes back to the use of small “dumb” terminals that were nothing more than…
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Thursday, 28 May 2015 10:09
US DoJ Says the Supreme Court should not hear Google's Case
Written by Sean Kalinich
The Google-Oracle fight has been going on for a long time now and has had a few ups and downs in the course of the case. The original premise of the case is that Google was able to speed up…
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Wednesday, 27 May 2015 06:28
A bug in iOS lets a special text message crash your iPhone
Written by Sean Kalinich
Want to play a trick on your iPhone owning friends? Well we have a good one for you. According to Reddit there is a sequence of symbols and Arabic characters that will cause an iPhone to crash and reboot. Oh…
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Tuesday, 26 May 2015 13:52
Rights Corp might have offered a piece of the settlement pie to Cox
Written by Sean Kalinich
The idea of copyright was and is a good thing. Being able to temporarily protect your artistic investment is never wrong. The problem comes when the copyright holders get greedy or feel that their copyright grants them special rights and…
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Tuesday, 26 May 2015 06:41
Fun with DNS hacking and the importance of updating your router
Written by Sean Kalinich
On March 2 2015 CVE-2015-1187 was released. This alert indicated that a simple cross-site request forgery allowed someone (the “bad” guys) to hijack DNS settings on a wide range of routers. By doing this they were able to point people…
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Wednesday, 13 May 2015 10:43
Nothing like GPU accelerated malware to brighten your day
Written by Sean Kalinich
The idea of GPU accelerated applications is one that has caught the attention of many developers over the years since we first heard about it. It is a great advancement in technology that allows you to use the parallel processing…
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Wednesday, 06 May 2015 10:17
Apple faces FTC investigation into Beats Streaming Service.
Written by Sean Kalinich
Remember that pesky anti-trust suit that Apple faced over fixing eBook prices with publishers? Well if not, let me remind you. When Apple brought their eBook store to iOS they knew they were facing an uphill battle against Amazon. To…
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Half Life is one of those games, along with Doom and Castle Wolfenstein, which helped define an entire genre of games. It gave us a new type of hero as well, the crowbar toting MIT PHD Gordon Freeman. Since the…
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Friday, 01 May 2015 11:33
Mumblehard Spamming Malware Making the Rounds in Joomla and WordPress sites
Written by Sean Kalinich
There is a common belief that Linux and BSD operating systems are, by their nature, much more secure than anything Microsoft has ever released. The problem with this belief is that it is simply not true. Linux, BSD and Windows…
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Tuesday, 28 April 2015 15:54
Very few bright spots to be seen in AMD's future
Written by Sean Kalinich
In the last couple of months we have talked a lot about AMD and the direction they are trying to move to. Most of what we have reported is not good news and centers on the fact that AMD’s R&D/production…
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Monday, 20 April 2015 09:33
SMB, Windows and the hole that has been open since 1997
Written by Sean Kalinich
Over the weekend there was a lot of talk about how Windows in particular is vulnerable to a flaw that is linked to SMB. This flaw could allow someone to grab user information by forcing a redirect to a malicious…
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Friday, 17 April 2015 14:12
AMD cuts orders to Global Foundries... Are they pulling in for one last effort?
Written by Sean Kalinich
Although you would not think it possible, AMD is still having issues that stem back from their purchase of ATi all those years ago. As most of you are sick of hearing the details of that acquisition and the gradual…
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