Almost a decade ago, a talented team started working on what was to become the favorite game for many of us. Version 0.7.1, released in 2013, was to be the final version of MechWarrior: Living Legends by Wandering Samurai Studios. Our community has stayed loyal and active since then, bringing us amazing events such as Read more about MechWarrior: Living Legends Community Edition 0.8 released[…]
Apple’s iCloud has a long and troubled past, but the company keeps pushing it for iPhone and Mac users with every new operating system update. Don’t be fooled. The service is an inconsistent mess and more trouble than it’s worth. Source: Stop Using iCloud
Linux/IRCTelnet, as the underlying malware has been named, borrows code from several existing malicious IoT applications. Most notably, it lifts entire sections of source code from Aidra, one of the earliest known IoT bot packages. Aidra was discovered infecting more than 30,000 embedded Linux devices in an audacious and ethically questionable research project that infected Read more about New, more-powerful IoT botnet infects 3,500 devices in 5 days[…]
For the study, Greenberg and colleagues first recruited basketball players to play two back-to-back, one-on-one games with lead researcher Colin Zestcott, another psychologist at the University of Arizona. (The players didn’t know that Zestcott was a researcher; they thought he was another study participant.) After the first game, half of the participants were randomly assigned Read more about “You’re all going to die”: A scientifically proven pep-talk for winning[…]
The nation state has a single point of failure fiber, recently installed in 2011, and it could spell disaster for dozens of other countries The attack was said to be upwards of 1.1Tbps — more than double the attack a few weeks earlier on security reporter Brian Krebs’ website, which was about 620Gbps in size, Read more about Mirai botnet attackers are trying to knock an entire country (Liberia) offline[…]
This site has a good list of items they link to on Amazon which are cheaper than the best item you could have gotten. It also compares the items on a few points they think are important, so you know why you are saving all the money. You don’t always need the best of the Read more about Vendor comparison site: OutsmartBrands shows you cheap alternatives for the best[…]
Microsoft appears to be sneakily reinstating Windows 10 ads without explicit user permission. Weren’t we done with all this? Source: Here we go again: Microsoft’s popping up ads from the Windows 10 toolbar | PCWorld