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spikedLemur writes "Vladimir Vukicevic of the Firefox team stumbled upon some questionable practices from Apple while trying to improve the performance of Firefox. Apparently, Apple is using some undocumented APIs that give Safari a significant performance advantage over other browsers. Of course, "undocumented" means that non-Apple developers have to try and reverse-engineer these interfaces to get the same level of performance. You really have to wonder what Apple is thinking, considering the kind of retaliation Microsoft has gotten for similar practices.

After 36 hours of reverse engineering, the method for producing the checksum on new iPods has been discovered.
http://amarok.kde.org/blog/archives/496-iPod-Classic-Will-Be-Supported.html

Famous guys from iPhone Dev Team has released fantastic GUI utility that helps every iPhone's owner to unlock his/her iPhone for use with any SIM. This utility is based on iPhone Dev Team developed command-line code, and provides very simple and fast one click unlocking process. It means that now you dont't have to use some special files or to dump nor data. From this moment the iPhone's unlocking process is completely Free and Simple and Understandable to every iPhone's owner.

the-other-cowboy (not CowboyNeal) writes "In relation to yesterday's news, MediaDefender, RIAA's Attack Dog, MediaDefender, has been hit again by another internal leak. This time, the same group that released the internal emails have released recorded telephone calls between the a New York attorney and MediaDefender discuss the security of their email-server."
http://torrentfreak.com/more-mediadefender-leaks-070916/

oski4410 writes "The Google engineers just published a paper on Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population. Based on a study of 100,000 disk drives over 5 years they find some interesting stuff. To quote from the abstract: 'Our analysis identifies several parameters from the drive's self monitoring facility (SMART) that correlate highly with failures. Despite this high correlation, we conclude that models based on SMART parameters alone are unlikely to be useful for predicting individual drive failures. Surprisingly, we found that temperature and activity levels were much less correlated with drive failures than previously reported.'"

jg21 writes "AJAXWorld Magazine celebrates the second birthday of the coining of AJAX by going behind the scenes and asking the early pioneers of rich applications delivered into web browsers how it was for them from February 18, 2005, when suddenly a single, easy-to-comprehend term arrived to help them propagate their new-web goals."

An anonymous reader writes "EverQuest II's next release will include an embedding of the Mozilla browser. It's currently live on the test server and has a few issues that will hopefully be resolved before release.

http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?st art=15&topic_id=347230

Some interesting uses of the browser such as automatically searching for quest hints are being discussed on the interface board:

http://www.eq2interface.com/forums/showthread.php? t=7846"