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Personalized In-Game Advertising In Upcoming Titles

Scythal writes “In-game advertising provider Massive Inc., acquired by Microsoft in 2006, has signed up or renewed contracts with several publishers, notably EA, Blizzard Entertainment, THQ, and Activision. Eagerly anticipated games like Need for Speed: Shift will feature the technology that continuously collects ‘anonymous’ information about users, sends them to the Massive database for analysis, […]

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Where Have You Gone, Bell Labs?

theodp writes “Name an industry that can produce 1 million new, high-paying jobs over the next three years, challenges BusinessWeek. You can’t, because there isn’t one. And that’s the problem. So what’s the answer? Basic research can repair the broken US business model, argues BW, saying it’s the key to new, high-quality job creation. Scientific […]

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Musician Lobby Terms Balanced Copyright "Disgusting"

An anonymous reader writes “While most of the attention at Thursday’s Canadian copyright town hall was on the recording industry’s strategy to pack the room and exclude alternate voices, the most controversial activity took place outside the hall. It has now been revealed that security guards threatened students and a Member of Parliament for distributing […]

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Spammers Use Holes In Democrats.org Security

Attila Dimedici writes “According to Cloudmark, 419 spammers are using the democrats.org website to relay email and bypass spam filters. ‘The abuse, which dates back at least to the beginning of this month, helps evade filters that internet service providers employ to block the messages. … The messages were sent courtesy of this page, which […]

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Lori Drew Cyberbullying Case Dismissed

Trepidity writes “About seven weeks after the judge tentatively overturned Lori Drew’s guilty verdict for ‘cyberbullying’ following her online harassment of a teenager that was linked to the teenager’s suicide, the case was finally officially dismissed. In a 32-page opinion [PDF], the court avoided a minefield of possible follow-on effects that civil-liberties groups had warned […]

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Nokia Makes LGPL Version of PyQt

EtaCarinae writes “Nokia didn’t succeed in convincing Riverbank to change its licensing terms on PyQt, and so decided to create their own LGPL’ed version of it. From the FAQ at the PySide site: ‘Nokia’s initial research into Python bindings for Qt involved speaking with Riverbank Computing, the makers of PyQt. We had several discussions with […]

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The Story of a Simple and Dangerous OS X Kernel Bug

RazvanM writes “At the beginning of this month the Mac OS X 10.5.8 closed a kernel vulnerability that lasted more than 4 years, covering all the 10.4 and (almost all) 10.5 Mac OS X releases. This article presents some twitter-size programs that trigger the bug. The mechanics are so simple that can be easily explained […]

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Chinese Censor-Beating Software Resembles Malware, But Isn’t

coondoggie writes “Software designed to beat Chinese censorship may behave in ways that seem suspect, but it is all part of the application’s strategy to fool the Great Firewall of China, according to one programmer of the software. ‘There are many built-in tricks that do all kinds of things to confuse the firewall,’ says David […]

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Security Test Prompts Federal Fraud Alert

itwbennett writes “Johannes Ullrich, chief research officer at the SANS Institute, took great interest in a National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) warning issued earlier this week, thinking, ‘Finally this is in the wild, because I’ve only seen it in pen tests before.’ Unfortunately for Mr. Ullrich, the letter and 2 CDs that caused the kerfuffle […]

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Apple Kicks HDD Marketing Debate Into High Gear

quacking duck writes “With the release of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Apple has updated a support document describing how their new operating system reports capacities of hard drives and other media. It has sided with hard drive makers, who for years have advertised capacities as ‘1 GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes’ instead of the […]

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