If you were looking for a bit of positive news today, this might be it. Per Engadget, a recent ruling that effectively bans third-party phone unlocking has elicited 114,322 electronic signatures to the White House. Now a petition to the White House, which asks that DMCA protection of phone unlockers be reconsidered, has finally received […]
Day: March 4, 2013
In as much as Java and Adobe Flash Player have taken recent beatings where security is concerned, apparently no platform is safe. Per the BBC, a recently discovered flaw in the HTML 5 coding language could allow websites to bombard users with gigabytes of junk data, with a number of popular browsers being open to […]
It never hurts to catch up. Per 9to5Mac, Apple seems to have finally caught up with demand for its latest iMac models. Both the new 21.5-inch and 27-inch iMacs are now shipping from Apple’s online store in 1-3 business days. Up until earlier today, Apple’s new iMacs were quoted as having a shipping time of […]
You can’t knock a decent update. CrossOver, the popular virtualization program from CodeWeavers, has been updated to version 12.1.2. The new version, a 76 megabyte download, is available as a demo, offers the following fixes and changes: – Fixed a bug which caused Steam to get stuck in a loop while trying to update. – […]
VirtualBox, an open source x86 virtualization project available for free has just hit version 4.2.8. The new version, a 109 megabyte download, features the following fixes and changes: – VMM: fixed guest crash with huge amount of guest RAM on VT-x hosts (bug #11306) – GUI: fixed a layout bug in the Mac OS X […]