Archive for November 10, 2007

One SimCity Per Child

EA has announced that they will be donating the original 1989 SimCity game to the One Laptop Per Child initiative. OLPC is a non-profit humanitarian effort dedicated to develop, manufacture, and distribute inexpensive laptops all over the world, in hopes of giving children everywhere a modern education.

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BitTorrent Encryption Confuses the BPI, ISPs and Journalists Who Don’t Rese

A recently published article by The Register claims that an increase in encrypted BitTorrent traffic is due to the fact that people want to hide or scramble the files they are sharing. Apparently some tech journalists, and in particular the anti-piracy

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MySpace Hacked Using Simple HTML Exploit

It appears a new hack and exploit has appeared on MySpace - Alicia Keys profile is affected along with others. The hack and exploit is pretty simple but very “deadly”. Basically a user puts a link to the infected ste with just a simple href tag (no script tag) using some css to position the element anywhere that an element doesn’t already live.

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NO. WAY. Xbox 360 outsells PS3 in Japan.

I’m not in hell, but it’s still freezing here!

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Target Will Not Sell Manhunt 2 Despite Being Rated Mature

Target will not be selling Manhunt 2 because you can potentially view the game uncensored by altering the game code. Target is officially retarded.

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iPod Touch Firmware 1.1.2 Released: Add Calendar Events

Alongside the iPhone 1.1.2 update, Apple has also released an iPod Touch 1.1.2 firmware update which is available for some through iTunes. For those who are impatient, a direct download is also available:

iPod1,1_1.1.2_3B48b_Restore.ipsw

Early reports indicate that the new iPod Touch update …

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