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Friday Afternoon
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Friday, 26-October-2012 13:24:39 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Sony's Playstation 3 seems to have been hacked again, with no possible fix. The release of the new custom firmware - and the LV0 decryption keys in particular - poses serious issues. While Sony will almost certainly change the PSN passphrase once again in the upcoming 4.30 update, the reveal of the LV0 key basically means that any system update released by Sony going forward can be decrypted with little or no effort whatsoever. More info here. Keep an eye out for more updates in our Sony Consoles forum.
I missed this earlier, but the Prime Minister of New Zealand has apologised to Kim Dotcom. “I apologize to Mr. Dotcom,” Prime Minister John Key said on Thursday, according to TVNZ. “I apologize to New Zealanders because every New Zealander that sits within the category of having permanent residency or is a New Zealand citizen is entitled to be protected from the law when it comes to the G.C.S.B., and we failed to provide that appropriate protection for him.”
The robot apocalypse looms ever closer, with robots cooperating and working together to perform simple tasks like the enslavement of all humanity, thanks Gunna. "Spatially Targeted Communication and Self-Assembly," by Nithin Mathews, Anders Lyhne Christensen, Rehan O'Grady, and Marco Dorigo, from Universite Libre de Bruxelles and Instituto Universitario de Lisboa, was presented at IROS 2012 in Vilamoura, Portugal.
Tech Report look closer into the AMD Gaming Evolved program. The number of games bearing the AMD Gaming Evolved logo seems to be growing exponentially. Why is that? We've traveled to AMD's offices and spoken to game developers in order to find out what's been happening behind the scenes.
DangerousMinds have an article about Facebook's pay to promote system. We've seen this happen with OCAU posts on our FB page, where people who have "Liked" us, indicating they want to recieve our updates, are not recieving them unless we "pay to promote" each individual post. FB are a free service and they can run it how they like, and for a business page it makes sense to pay to promote the occasional post, but I notice you can now pay to promote your posts as an individual too. How long until your friends stop seeing your idle musings unless you pay to put it in front of them? Would anyone pay to let their friends know where they are and what they're up to? Naturally I am constantly seeing a particular commercial (and presumably paid-to-promote) "Like" from a friend of mine who I know barely uses Facebook, so I assume the business has paid FB to promote them to my friend's friends. Anyway, it'll be interesting to see where FB go with this model in the future.
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