Xbox 360 Fanboy, citing “a tip from a source close to Microsoft’s marketing department,” says the price cut to $199 for the Arcade system is meant to position that bundle against the Wii. So it’ll get a huge family-friendly marketing push and title support.
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Out of ink? Already? When Farhad Manjoo’s Brother printer abruptly stopped zipping out prints, he began to wonder if the printer wasn’t simply lying that it was out of toner in order to trick him into buying more before he needed it. The prints hadn’t been fading at all, but the printer simply refused to go on without a new cartridge.
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In the Fedora breach, company officials said they had “high confidence” the hackers did not get the “passphrase used to secure the Fedora package signing key.”…In the Red Hat compromise, the intruder was able to sign a small number of OpenSSH packages relating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 [i386, x86_64] and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 [x86_64].
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Firefox 3.1 will run many Web-based applications such as Gmail faster through incorporation of a feature called TraceMonkey that dramatically speeds up programs written in JavaScript, Mozilla said Friday. JavaScript has been very broadly used to add pizzazz or flexibility to Web pages over the years, but in recent years, it’s also become the
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Quantum dots, along with quantum wires, have been attracting notice over the past decade as possible building blocks of quantum information processing, except that they haven’t been able to function at room temperature. … Until now. Some research show some promising progress towards making room temperature quantum computing a reality
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Unknown attackers infiltrated Red Hat and Fedora servers but did not compromise the integrity of the Red Hat Network software deployment system. The Fedora project leader says that no source packages were modified.
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Shape-shifting robots that become whatever machine is needed are already in the works in Intel’s labs.
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SQL injection attacks can allow hackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands on your database through your Web site. To avoid these attacks, every piece of data supplied by a user on a Web form, through HTTP Post or CGI parameters, or other means, must be validated to not contain information that is not expected, GreenSQL is a firewall for SQL.
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