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Microsoft to release fix for Windows Shortcut flaw on Monday
Microsoft has announced plans to release of an out-of-band update on Monday to address the Windows Shortcut flaw revealed less than two weeks ago. ...
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ISC Offers Response Policy Zones For DNS
penciling_in writes "ISC has made the announcement that they have developed a technology that will allow 'cooperating good guys' to provide and consume reputation information about domains names. The release of the technology, called Response Policy Zones (DNS RPZ), was ...
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Round-Up: Gamasutra Network Jobs, Week Of June 30
In an exciting week for new job postings, Gamasutra's jobs board plays host to roles across the world and in every major discipline, including opportunities at Blizzard, Eat Sleep Play and more. Each position posted by employers will appear on ...
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Students finally wake up to Facebook privacy issues
Students care about Facebook privacy more than the world thinks, and their use of privacy controls has skyrocketed recently, according to two researchers. Eszter ...
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Plot Details for KICK-ASS 2: BALLS TO THE WALL
Comic book writer Mark Millar really doesn't have a problem with spilling all the details on the projects he's working on. I guess he's so excited about them he just can't contain himself! In a recent interview with MovieWeb Millar ...
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iPhone 4 antenna woes "significantly worse" than competition
Apple launched the iPhone 4 in 17 additional countries today, causing another round of debate over whether or not the iPhone 4's external antenna ...
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Google Adds Licensing Server DRM To Android Market
eldavojohn writes "According to AfterDawn, Google has given app makers the option to use a license server as DRM to ensure the user has paid for an app before they can download it. Reportedly, the Market app will communicate with ...
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DS Line Leads Again On Weekly Japan Hardware Sales Chart
Sales of the three-model DS line were steady week-over-week in Japan, where the platform once again led other hardware platforms on a static weekly sales chart, Media Create revealed Friday. The Nintendo DS line -- which includes the DSi LL, ...
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RealNetworks’ Games Unit Reports 5% Revenue Drop In Q2, Appoints New Head
Multimedia group RealNetworks reported a 5 percent drop in revenues for its Games division during Q2 2010, and announced the promotion of chief revenue officer Matt Hulett as the new head of that unit. The company's revenues from its Games ...
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Tribalism Is the Enemy Within, Says Shuttleworth
climenole points out a post from Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth about internal strife in the free software community. He wrote,
"Tribalism is when one group of people start to think people from another group are 'wrong by default.' It's the great-granddaddy ...
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What’s Wrong With the American University System
ideonexus writes "The Atlantic has an excellent interview with Andrew Hacker — co-author with Claudia Dreifus of a book titled Higher Education? — covering everything that's wrong with the American university system. The discussion ranges from entrenched tenured professors more ...
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Josh Hutcherson to Star in and Produce Horror Comedy with Dane Cook
Josh Hutcherson may not have nabbed the role of Peter Parker in the new Spider-Man 3-D reboot, but he's moving forward with his life and is set up to produce and star in a new horror comedy with Dane Cook ...
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New Mars Rover Rolls For the First Time
wooferhound writes "Like proud parents savoring their baby's very first steps, mission team members gathered in a gallery above a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to watch the Mars Curiosity rover roll for the first time. Engineers and ...
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Gamecaster Virtual Camera Integrates With Unreal Engine 3
Virtual camera control company Gamecaster said Friday that its camera hardware is now usable to all licensees of the widely-used Unreal Engine 3 and UDK through Epic Games' Integrated Partners Program. Through the partnership, San Diego-based Gamecaster's hardware technology can ...
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An iPhone App Store That Apple Doesn’t Control
waderoush writes "Princeton's Ed Felten has criticized the iPhone and iPad as Disneyland-like 'walled gardens' and says there's no way the iTunes App Store can 'offer the scope and variety of apps that a less controlled environment can provide.' Now ...
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In-Depth: Al Lowe Talks Early-Days Adventure Genre Challenges In New Book
[Gamasutra is pleased to present this excerpt from the full Al Lowe interview found in the new book "Graphic Adventures: Being a Mostly Correct History Of the Adventure Game Classics By Lucasfilm, Sierra and Others, From the Pages Of Wikipedia", ...
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Woman’s Nude Pics End Up Online After Call To Tech Support
Tara Fitzgerald couldn't find the nude pictures she planned on sending to her boyfriend, but instead of just taking more, she decided to see if a Dell tech support call could fix her problem. Apparently the tech support guy found ...
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Must Have: THE ART OF HAMMER Book
Anyone into horror film and art will appreciate this new art book being released by Titan Books called The Art of Hammer. The book has a collection of rare and iconic posters from the Hammer archive.
The Art of Hammer is ...
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Preview The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes
Marvel has released a new trailer for the upcoming Disney XD television series The Avengers: Earth's Mightest Heroes.
Featuring IRON MAN, THOR, CAPTAIN AMERICA and THE HULK! When the planet is threatened by Super Villains, time traveling conquerors, alien invaders, mythical ...
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Sulfates plus black carbon a nasty combo for warming
Fossil fuels may be doing an even more efficient job of warming the planet than we thought. A new study shows that black carbon ...
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Dell and HP To Sell Oracle Operating Systems
angry tapir writes "Oracle has announced that rival hardware vendors Dell and Hewlett-Packard intend to certify and resell its Solaris and Enterprise Linux operating systems as well as Oracle VM on their x86 servers. The announcement 'demonstrates Oracle's commitment to ...
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Joe Johnston Reveals HYDRA Logo for CAPTAIN AMERICA Movie
It was reveled this last week at Comic-Con during the Captain America panel that the story's antagonist Red Skull played by Hugo Weaving works for both the Nazi party and the HYDRA organization.
During a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, the ...
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Australia begs residents to accept free fiber connection
If your government had decided to install a national, open-access fiber-to-the-home network to 93 percent of all residents, if the installation was free, and ...
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FCC gives thumbs-up to first LTE phone, more in offing
The Federal Communications Commission has finally approved the first 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) phone for sale in the US. Though the first LTE ...
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Random House Releases Trailer for Tim Kring and Dale Peck’s SHIFT
A trailer has been released for Heroes’ creator Tim Kring and Dale Peck’s book collaboration, Shift. Set in the 1960s, the tome tells the story of Chandler Forrestal, a man forced to suffer through a CIA mind control experiment using ...
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Nexon America Revenues Grew 26 Percent In Q2 2010
Free-to-play online publisher Nexon America (Maplestory, Dungeon Fighter Online) revealed that its revenues grew 26 percent for the second quarter of 2010 ended in June. While Nexon America, which is the Stateside arm of South Korean developer and publisher Nexon ...
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Mindblowing New Motion Poster for SAW 3D
Hey gang! Here is a pretty cool motion poster for Saw 3D that is literally mindblowing. Apparently this is the last film in the Saw movie franchise. So it looks like we'll eventually find out what it all means. What ...
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Soulja Boy Raps About Anime & I Died A Little Inside
Yeah…so this happened. While I may like Yahh Trick (yeah, the censored version), I really don’t care for Soulja Boy Tell ‘Em since his music doesn’t do much for me. Well, Soulja recently release this track, titled Anime, and like ...
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Analyst: Subscription Call of Duty In China Could Bring In $100M For Netease
Analyst Mike Hickey with Janco Partners said in a Friday research note that Chinese World of Warcraft operator Netease and Activision Blizzard could ink a new licensing deal to bring a rumored Call of Duty subscription service to China. If ...
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China’s Firewall Stymies Google; Users Confused
eldavojohn writes "Massive confusion occurred last night for Google's Chinese search engine and ad services when Google's automated reporting system claimed that everything was blocked in China. The problem was that most users experienced no outage despite Google's reports and ...
Sadly, This is the Greatest Thing You Will See Today (aka, the Tiffany vs. Debbie Gibson Cat Fight)
DC Universe Online: The Utterly Fantastic Trailer
Elvira Coming Back To Weekly Television Fall 2010
A Gallery of Comic Con Geeks
Stracraft II Trailer: Ghosts of the Past - Awesome.