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Wednesday, 10-August-2011 02:07:29 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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A new class of vulnerability has apparently been discovered in iOS and Android games, by a 10 year old girl. Most of the games she discovered the exploit in have time-dependent factors. For example, planting corn might take 10 real-time hours to mature in the game. Manually advancing the phone or tablet's clock forced the game further ahead than it really was, opening up the exploit. Hrm, is that really new though? Sounds familiar to me, and not too different to setting your clock back in time to stay within shareware trial periods etc.
Causing another blow to the credibility of "The Cloud", lightning has knocked some datacentres offline recently in Dublin. The incident has caused downtime for many sites using Amazon’s EC2 cloud computing platform, as well as users of Microsoft’s BPOS (Business Productivity Online Suite). Presumably this TechCrunch story is related too.
HardOCP cover Synchronous vs. Asynchronous NAND Flash, thanks Timbot. There is a lot of misinformation floating around the inner web tubes about the latest batch of solid state drives hitting the market. We wanted to help our readers get to the bottom of synchronous and asynchronous NAND in SandForce Solid States Drives and what it means to you.
Timbot also spotted AMD Radeon branded RAM surfacing in Japan. AMD Radeon™ DDR3 System Modules are ideally suited to our CPU and APU products. Components are tested to the highest industry standards on AMD platforms to guarantee reliability and performance.
An Adelaide iPad owner has recovered his when it was stolen using one of those free find-my-stolen-iPad apps. He told Victor Harbor police he "had a way of finding the persons responsible for the break-in", a police spokesman said. "The technology-savvy owner had previously downloaded a free app available to iPad and iPod owners, that can track the (device's) exact location," he said. "The owner and Victor Harbor police were then able to track the iPad and could see it was moving from the southern suburbs, back towards Adelaide, finally stopping and Grange." Nice to see the Police being willing to follow up on that info and swoop into action.
BC spotted this gigapixel view of a Boeing 737, which unfortunately seems to require Silverlight. "What we're hoping to be able to achieve is basically life-sized details, said Greg Rattenborg of digital marketing firm [wire]stone. "So when you see a rivet ... on the aircraft, that's about the size of the rivet that will be on your computer screen." I installed Silverlight on my IE install and checked it out, and it is pretty impressive, having mega zoom available from all angles.
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