Last year we opened up a can of worms when we covered the discovery of how vulnerable commercial (and possibly military) drones were when it comes to keeping them on course. The GPS signals used to make sure that these drones are where they need to be was vulnerable to a simple spoofing attack that was put together by a group of college kids and with a budget of only $3,000. Considering the budgets that criminal organizations and governments have this news was not good at all.
Israeli company Extreme Reality, owner of a solution called Extreme Motion, which is used to identify the movement of users in games and other applications, has announced that their technology will soon be adjusted for use in security applications.
Using known decentralized virtual currency Bitcoin is prohibited until further notice in Thailand. The decision was made by the Central Bank of Thailand, responsible for the regulation of the complete financial market of that Asian country. Following their recommendation for unfinished existing Thai laws on issues of virtual currency and the lack of centralized control, recently they banned trade of Bitcoin coins, buying and selling products in the Bitcoin currency, each sending of Bitcoin coins outside of Thailand and receiving Bitcoin coins from person or institution outside Thailand.
Valve's designer John Guthrie has confirmed that the Half Life: Episode 3 is in the early phase of making, and it's release is planned for 2014, according to Portal NSS. The game will appear in versions for PC, Xbox 360 and PS3, as well as for next-generation consoles (PS4 and Xbox One).
According to some financial media, the recent decline in shares of Microsoft for 11 percent, made Steve Ballmer a very unhappy person who is obviously not able to curb the situation that one of the largest technology giants is in today.
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