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Wednesday, 15-July-2015 14:47:49 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Satoru Iwata, President of Nintendo, has passed away, thanks dasuperham. Mr Iwata started out as a programmer in a Nintendo subsidiary in the 1980s and became president of Nintendo in 2002. Under his leadership, the company launched its hugely successful Wii and Nintendo DS consoles and he was considered the crucial driver behind the focus on easy-to-use consoles, a move that allowed the company to tap into a much wider audience beyond the traditional gaming community. He was also hugely personally popular with gamers, with more info here on Time.com. Discussion here.
You may have noticed that Firefox is blocking Flash by default now. On its support pages, Mozilla said the block would remain until "Adobe releases an updated version to address known critical security issues". Attackers were known to use vulnerabilities in Flash to install malicious software on computers and steal data, it added. The vulnerabilities in the documents stolen from Hacking Team have been quickly added to so-called exploit kits which are used by many thieves when they craft campaigns that seek to take over victims' computers.
With help from Canberra's Deep Space Communication Complex, NASA's "New Horizons" probe has completed its flyby of Pluto and successfully phoned home. Images from the flyby will be available soon, but here's some from the approach. New Horizons launched on Jan. 19, 2006; it swung past Jupiter for a gravity boost and scientific studies in February 2007, and will conduct a five-month-long reconnaissance flyby study of Pluto and its moons in summer 2015. Pluto closest approach is scheduled for July 14, 2015. As part of an extended mission, the spacecraft is expected to head farther into the Kuiper Belt to examine one or two of the ancient, icy mini-worlds in that vast region, at least a billion miles beyond Neptune’s orbit. Discussion here.
GIGABYTE have a Z97 Last Hurrah Challenge on HWBOT. This new challenge gives the community a last chance to test their skills on the GIGABYTE Z97 platform before the next series of motherboards comes around. By participating, overclockers have the chance to win $2,000 USD in cash prizes and two mystery motherboards, which will be revealed soon!
NVIDIA meanwhile have a contest to win a GTA V game code. Sadly it requires a Facebook account, but if you've got one it might be worth entering.
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