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The controversial exploit market website has received more than 150 submissions in its first two months of operation. The site can be found here and its auction style bidding system for discovered exploits can be seen. Thanks Ed for all of these links. A controversial marketplace for security exploits and vulnerabilities said it has exceeded expectations with the submission of more than 150 vulnerabilities in its first two months of operations. WabiSabiLabi encourages security researchers to sell their findings to vetted buyers. Herman Zampariolo, chief exec of WSLabi which runs the WabiSabiLabi marketplace, said that the quality of the submitted vulnerabilities is as important as their quantity. Vulnerabilities on the marketplace have had selling prices ranging between 100 to 15,000 euros each. So far 1,000 sellers (researchers) have registered on the site.
Here is a page showing a robotic sentry somebody has built, thanks Craig. Tim Higgins had some problems with kids cutting through his yard. His solution is a water cannon sentry that watches the yard and hoses down trespassers. I'm dreaming of making something like this to keep the squirrels off of my tomatoes, so it's cool to see what worked and what didn't in Tim's system.
The performance of Unreal Tournament 3 has been revealed. That being said, if you want to blow away your senses and get the top image quality settings with that super-smooth frame rate we all desire, then NVIDIA's 8800 GTX card is the way to go. Our hours of gaming with it were sheer joy and I have no problems calling it the best graphics card for Unreal Tournament 3, period.
PCMech have looked at the Gmail spam filter and if it really works. My personal experience shows that it does work, at least compared to the adaptive filter in Thunderbird. I’ve had my primary domain registered since 1999 but spam wasn’t really a problem until the early 2000’s. After that point the spam started flooding in like a tidal wave. I tried everything to stop it, but as you know once your e-mail address is known to exist, spam happens. It’s unavoidable. It got so bad I had to switch e-mail addresses at one point
Portal has been reviewed here and here. Some secrets of the game have been revealed as well. For a long time a website of aperturescience.com has baffled the Steam community. Now finally, the secrets have been revealed via a login username and password found scrawled on a room in Portal.
The UK government is looking into finding a link between WiFi and health problems. Along with this connectivity, though, come fears that surrounding ourselves with low-powered clouds of electromagnetic radiation might be bad for our health. Over in the UK, the Heath Protection Agency (HPA) has announced it will be carrying out a comprehensive study into exposure levels from WiFi networks with a view to ruling out any possible health risks.
The UT3 demo has been leaked. EPIC RECENTLY HELD an event in its HQ in North Carolina, during which a UT3 demo was given to invited members of the press. As might be expected in the Internet age, a demo was leaked and you can now download it from usual leaky suspects - TechPowerUp! and NGOHQ.
Dan has answered some cooling questions. One fellow needs a replacement for his dead motherboard chip cooler. Another is trying to figure out a cooling problem in a funny back-to-front Lian Li case.
Hardcoreware have looked at some of the features in the new PSP firmware. At a recent discussion panel at yesterday’s HDTV DisplaySearch conference in Universal City, California, Sony VP of Advanced Technologies Don Eklund dropped a hint that the Playstation 3 will soon be receiving a firmware update that will "boost its Blu-ray interactivity functionality".
And finally for todays timewaster, Nathan sent in this flash version of Portal.
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