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Nintendo

Submission + - Nintendo tInvestigating Wii-mote Strap

Spritzer writes: It seems there have been enough incidents of broken wrist straps that Nintendo has announced they will investigate the problem.

From the Article:
"We are investigating," Iwata said of reports about the Wii's strap coming off as players swung around the controller, at times causing the remote to fly out of their hands.

Players use the Wii remote like a tennis racket, sword and other devices to play games.

"Some people are getting a lot more excited than we'd expected," Iwata said. "We need to better communicate to people how to deal with Wii as a new form of entertainment."
OS X

Submission + - New Security Flaw Found in OSX

Spritzer writes: Secunia is reporting a "highly critical" bug in OSX which could potentially allow privilege escalation and DoS.

From the advisory:
"LMH has reported a vulnerability in Mac OS X, which potentially can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges or by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in com.apple.AppleDiskImageController when handling corrupted DMG image structures. This can be exploited to cause a memory corruption and may allow execution of arbitrary code in kernel-mode.
Microsoft

Submission + - Zune Won't Play Old DRM Infected Files

Spritzer writes: According to the EFF the new Zune portable media player from Microsoft won't play files infected with the old Microsoft DRM. It seems that all of the "PlaysforSure" media that has been sold and is currently being sold will not play on the Zune. In addition, Microsoft has now advocated violating the DMCA in order to transfer files to the player. Microsoft Zune architect J Allard was quoted as saying there's "Lots of DVD ripping software out there that encodes to those formats, so the most popular formats out there, whether it's MPEG-4 or H.264, we'll support those." I guess the DMCA only applies when it suits their interest.

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