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Destiny says no to early review copies
Posted on Monday, 08 September 2014
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Sean Kalinich
It would seem that the new Bungie game, Destiny, is one of the most highly anticipated game that has come along in some time. Already it is being hailed as the most pre-ordered new game in the history of video…
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NVIDIA goes Lawyers Out on Samsung and Qualcomm, Is this really all about Terga?
Posted on Monday, 08 September 2014
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Sean Kalinich
On Friday the big news was that NVIDIA had launched two separate suits against Samsung and Qualcomm for patent infringement (International Trade Commission (ITC) and the US District Court in Delaware). In the suits NVIDIA claims that the two companies…
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Microsoft giving away a free game with a new Xbox One Next Week
Posted on Thursday, 04 September 2014
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Sean Kalinich
Oh Microsoft, how little you get the game of marketing. Despite being forewarned about the consequences of pushing the Xbox One as media center instead of a gaming console Microsoft continued this blitz right up until launch day. They were…
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Apple's iCloud Easy to Crack with Existing Tools
Posted on Thursday, 04 September 2014
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Sean Kalinich
Two days ago we reported on the iCloud controversy which involved an attack on Apple’s Cloud based Find My iPhone application. This attack (which appears to have been a dictionary attack) resulted in the release of nude images of a…
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New Tribler BitTorrent Client adds a Tor Network for Anonymity
Posted on Wednesday, 03 September 2014
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Sean Kalinich
The words anonymity, privacy and security go hand in hand… in hand. Although the term anonymity is often seen as a bad thing by law enforcement and policy makers the truth is that it is a critical part of the…
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Imagination Beats A New 64-bit Drum
Posted on Tuesday, 02 September 2014
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John Oram
This morning Imagination announced their MIPS I-class 64-bit CPU family. These are the first IP cores to combine a 64-bit architecture and hardware virtualization with scalable performance through multi-threading, multi-core and multi-cluster coherent processing.
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Was a Flaw in Apple's Find my iPhone Responsible for the Recent Celebrity Nude Photo Leak?
Posted on Tuesday, 02 September 2014
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Sean Kalinich
Over the weekend a number of articles broke describing a “hack” that allowed nude photos of celebrities to be stolen and then reposted on the internet (4chan). Although the story held minimal interest at the time of its release we…
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Are PCI Compliance Regulations Being Ignored and Allowing for More Data Theft?
Posted on Friday, 29 August 2014
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Sean Kalinich
It won’t happen to me is the battle cry of far too many companies these days when it comes to security. We have watches this mind set over the course of the last two years as businesses try to get…
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Apple Bans Devs from Selling HealthKit Data to Ad Companies
Posted on Friday, 29 August 2014
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Sean Kalinich
Apple has made a decision about the data that is stored in their borrowed HealthKit API. The decision is to ban developers from sharing any of the data that the service collects to ad agencies. This move will be in…
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TSMC and Samsung to have 14/16nm FinFET early while Intel delays
Posted on Wednesday, 27 August 2014
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Sean Kalinich
According to recent rumors it seems that TSMC and Samsung will be able to push out 14nm full node and 16nm half node FinFET products earlier than anticipated. This is certainly going to be good news for many customers of…
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Amazon Buys Twitch... but to what end?
Posted on Monday, 25 August 2014
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Sean Kalinich
Hey, remember all of those rumors that YouTube would by live streaming service Twitch? Well it looks like all of that might have been wrong. According to a new report uncovered by the Wall Street Journal it is not YouTube…
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NSA Bug Leaks to Tor No Big Surprise
Posted on Monday, 25 August 2014
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Sean Kalinich
Over the weekend a story broke that alleged that the NSA (National Security Agency) and GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters) might actually be helping the Tor network to find and fix bugs in their systems. The news that this might be…
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Latest DDoS Attack on Sony's PSN Could Just be the Beginning
Posted on Monday, 25 August 2014
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Sean Kalinich
It looks like a fairly large DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack on both the PlayStation Network and the Sony Entertainment Network caused gamers some trouble yesterday. The attack caused the service to be unavailable intermittently throughout the day. At…
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Apple Files a Patent on a Way to Find Your Car... Too bad it has been done before
Posted on Thursday, 21 August 2014
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Sean Kalinich
Over the years Apple has surprised the world by taking old tech, optimizing it and then pushing out to the world as their own. They can do this thanks to having one of the best marketing teams in the world…
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Free Games for Xbox Live Gold Members on the Xbox One?
Posted on Thursday, 21 August 2014
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Sean Kalinich
In the current round of console wars it is pretty clear who is winning and who is not. Ever since it was first introduced Microsoft’s Xbox One has had challenges with consumer acceptance. Almost all of the reasons for this…
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Google Processes One Million Takedown Requests Per Day
Posted on Thursday, 21 August 2014
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Sean Kalinich
There is a story running around the internet that says Google is now processing one million piracy take down requests in a single day. Now there are two different spins to this story (and we will cover both) out there.…
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