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This doesn't sound good: The nonprofit agency in charge of the Internet's addresses recently lost track of its own.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, said it happened when an Internet registration company it oversees got fooled into transferring the domain names to someone else.
The attack was quickly noticed, and ICANN's domain names were restored within 20 minutes. However, because many Internet directories retain information for a day or two, visitors could have been redirected to an unauthorized site for longer. Story continues below ↓advertisement
ICANN said Thursday that new, unspecified security measures should prevent such attacks in the future. The organization also said it was reviewing other security procedures. | |
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Rather than a game, Wii Fit is more comparable to an exercise program. More specifically, it’s something that most people would consider playing in short bursts each day. A recent poll, however, shows that close to two-thirds of Japanese gamers are already giving up on the product. ITMedia in Japan took poll data from 1000 gamers and a staggering 64% of the participants said they stopped using Wii Fit after purchase.
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Just hours after making it publicly available, Sony has pulled the PlayStation 3's latest firmware download (v2.40) due to reports of inoperable consoles after the update process.
SCEA's director of Corporate Communication and Social Media, Patrick Seybold, played down the problem, saying that incoming calls regarding failures have been of a low volume, and the removal is only temporary.
If incidents are in any way reflected by the voluminous message board chatter on the subject, it has only affected a fraction of users. Of the hundreds of posts reporting v2.40 update status for Playstation.blog readers, only several dozen posted system failures, and conditions surrounding those were somewhat inconsistent.
The worst outcome that several users have reported is a PS3 that simply... | |
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A judge ordered this week that Google must turn over personal records of YouTube users to Viacom (NYSE:VIAB), according to court documents. The ruling comes as part of the discovery phase of a lawsuit filed in March 2007 in which Viacom alleges that YouTube users are using the service to upload and view more copyrighted content than organically created video.
The ruling means that Google (NSDQ:GOOG) will have to produce all personal content of users, including names and IP addresses, to Viacom. Viacom's intentions are to get their hands on user information in order to identify YouTube users who are committing copyright infringement.
The contention is that organic YouTube content is not as popular as material that is subject to copyright. Viacom believes " and a judge agreed "... | |
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From 18:16 UTC on June 17, 2008 to 18:16 UTC on June 18, 2008, Mozilla indeed reached its goal of setting the record for "the single most downloaded piece of software in a single day."
"Mozilla set a new Guinness World Record for the largest number of software downloads in 24 hours for the 8,002,530 downloads of Firefox 3!" a Mozilla spokesperson told BetaNews yesterday.
As previously reported in BetaNews, Mozilla needed to keep careful watch over its servers in handling millions of requests for Firefox 3.0, the latest iteration of its browser.
Given the final build's file size, just the completed downloads (never mind the incomplete ones) constitute about 54.56 TB of data during that period. The actual data transfer has been estimated at... | |
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While the regular price of an iPhone is $199 if you take a 2-year contract with AT&T, if you're willing to pay a lot more you can get one without a contract. An article in InfoWorld mentions that 'Freedom will come with a price — $599 for an 8GB device and $699 for a 16GB — but this will mark the first time consumers in the United States are able to buy an iPhone without being tied down to a two-year contract. The phone probably would still be locked for use only on AT&T's network, said Jupiter Research analyst Michael Gartenberg. But buyers could choose a pay-as-you-go plan for voice service.' The question still remains, does it make any sense to pay that much for a phone that is still locked to AT&T's network even if you aren't bound to a contract?
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After reports said that UK broadband ISP Virgin Media would become the recording industry's copyright cop, Virgin came out denying it, saying that kicking users off the internet was draconian. However, it later admitted that it would send warning letters to people, based on the flimsy evidence used by the recording industry. Now Virgin has started sending out those letters, claiming that it's just sending letters and that there is "absolutely no possibility" that it would ban file sharers from connecting to the internet. That must explain why it sent the first batch of warning letters to people in envelopes that read: "Important. If you don't read this, your broadband could be disconnected." Absolutely no possibility, huh? It's not necessarily... | |
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We released 9.51 today, which addresses a few security and lots of stability issues. This release is a recommended upgrade for all those running the latest stable releases.
Windows Changelog:
Opera 9.51 is a recommended security and stability upgrade. Please see the Security section. Changes since Opera 9.5 User Interface Fine-tuned the new Opera skin. Improved drag/drop of tabs. Fixed problems with search engines when upgrading from Opera 9.2x. Fixed a stability issue when printing or when in print preview. Added an option to toggle mouse flips in opera:config (User Prefs - Enable Mouse Flips). Textarea inputs now clear when no-cache is set. Saving of images is no longer recorded in transfers. Mail/News Feeds now show the first time when you subscribe. | |
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