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Last week on Safer Internet Day, Microsoft promoted steps to take to improve safety on their personal computers and mobile devices. You can find the 2012 Microsoft Computing Safety Index from Microsoft's Safety & Security Center. The 2012 report adds mobile devices to the report. The survey was conducted across 20 countries/regions and the global average was the same as … [Read more...]
F-Secure Threat Report – 2nd Half 2012 [infographic]
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With 2012 safely behind us, F-Secure reflects on the second half of the year in malware. They focus on malware, exploits, and botnets with the data prepared in interesting ways, such as a timeline and organized in exploits per country. The year saw ZeroAccess, Zeus, SpyEye, mobile botnets, and many more. With different profits available for infections, many malicious people are … [Read more...]
Nvidia demonstrates the difference in gaming with PhysX and without
Nvidia demonstrated the difference its PhysX capability can make for making a game look much more realistic and impressive. Using the free-to-play game Hawken, a recent blog post demoed the differences quite well. The game uses the Unreal Engine 3 and takes advantage of Nvidia's physics accelerator incorporated in the GeForce cards. A peer to the dedicated graphics card was … [Read more...]
The Pirate Bay AFK documentary now available
The Pirate Bay - Away From Keyboard documentary that covers The Pirate Bay trial is now available. The release date was to synchronize with a simultaneous release at the Panorama programme at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival. The movie is available to stream from YouTube or, as only appropriate, torrent from The Pirate Bay. The film was released with a Creative … [Read more...]
God made a sysadmin [parody]
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One of the more successful commercials during this year's Super Bowl was the Dodge Ram "Farmer" commercial. I have embedded it after the jump. The commercial runs for 2 minutes and at $3.8 million for a 30 second spot, that can add up. The original Paul Harvey reading goes: And on the 8th day God looked down on his planned paradise and said, "I need a caretaker." So, God made a … [Read more...]