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+ - Disabling Java Recommended In Response to Vulnerability-> 2

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on Friday January 11, 2013 @04:49PM

AaronLS writes "US-CERT is recommending that users disable Java in their browsers due to a 0-day vulnerability which US-CERT is "currently unaware of a practical solution". They indicate that the vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild, and is available in exploit kits."
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+ - The HP Memristor Debate-> 0

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on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @04:22PM

AaronLS writes "(Note: I would have included links and appropriate formatting for quotes within the story, but I have searched and searched and found no guidelines in the FAQ or googling your site that indicate what formatting tags or HTML are valid for stories.)

There has been a debate about whether HP has or has not developed a memristor. It being something fairly different from existing technologies, and similar in many ways to a memristor, I think they felt comfortable using the term. However, there are those not happy about HP using that labeling. On the other hand, had HP created a new unique label, they would have probably gotten flack for pretending it's something new when it's not. What positive will come from the debate? Martin Reynolds sums it up nicely:

“Is Stan Williams being sloppy by calling it a ‘memristor’? Yeah, he is,” Martin Reynolds tells Wired. “Is Blaise Moutett being pedantic in saying it is not a ‘memristor’? Yeah, he is. [...] At the end of day, it doesn’t matter how it works as long as it gives us the ability to build devices with really high density storage.”"
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+ - Compromised Steam Data Included Credit Card Info-> 0

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on Monday February 13, 2012 @09:32AM

AaronLS writes "Steam has released additional information about a previous security breach, indicating that with the help of third party security experts they have determined no passwords were compromised, but billing information and credits cards were compromised. This information was encrypted, but no details were given on the level or type of this encryption, which would be significant since the attackers would have free reign to throw as much computing power at trying to decrypt the data, either through brute force guessing of the key or other means if the encryption has weaknesses. Also of significance, would be whether all the data shared the same key, or if each user's billing information was encrypted with a different key."
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+ - AMD Trinity APU leaked benchmarks and roadmap-> 0

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on Tuesday October 11, 2011 @05:18PM

AaronLS writes "It appears AMD or one of their partners with access to engineering samples have been doing some benchmarking on Linux and may have inadvertently submitted them to OpenBenchmarking.com. This coincides with the leaked roadmap that would have samples floating around by this time."
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+ - Flash Density Increasing w/25nm Triple Level Cells-> 0

Submitted by AaronLS on Tuesday August 17, 2010 @05:34PM

AaronLS writes "StorageReview.com has a story indicating Intel and Micron planning production this year for Triple Level Cell flash on 25nm Lithography. This means that 3 bits instead of 2 can be stored in each cell, and the smaller 25nm Lithography generally allows more cells to be fit in the same area.
This combination should provide a considerable improvement to the density, and hopefully cost, of flash based storage. Read more at StorageReview.com: http://www.storagereview.com/intel_and_micron_announce_25nm_triple_level_cell_nand"
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