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+ - Yahoo! Japan: 22 million user IDs probably stolen->

Submitted by hypnosec
hypnosec writes "Unauthorized access attempt of Yahoo! Japan portal may have led to theft of up to 22 million user IDs, Yahoo has revealed. There has been no information about leaks of such a massive database of user IDs as yet and according to Yahoo, the information that was stolen didn’t have passwords or any other information that would allow unauthorized users to carry out user identity verification. Yahoo hasn’t ruled out the possibility of a leak though considering the volume of traffic it noticed flowing from its servers to external entities."
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+ - Mozilla delays default third-party cookie blocking in Firefox->

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hypnosec writes "Mozilla is not going ahead with its plans of blocking third-party cookies by default in the Beta version of its upcoming Firefox 22 for now as it needs more time to analyze the outcome of blocking these cookies. The non-profit organization released Firefox Aurora on April 5 with a patch by Jonathan Mayer built into it which would only allow cookies from those websites which the user has visited and would block the ones from sites which haven’t been visited yet. The reason for change in plans is that as of Mozilla is currently looking into "false positives," which would result into blocking of cookies from sites which may be part of the same group of sites that the user had visited and blocking of cookies from these sites may adversely affect the browsing experience of users. Looking on the other side of the coin, there are “false negatives” whereby a user may have visited a particular site but he/she is not comfortable with the idea of being tracked across the Internet – even on sites which are not related to the ones they have visited in the first place."
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+ - French Government May Tax Technology to Support, Protect Culture->

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hypnosec writes "The French government is pondering over introduction of new tax on technology in tune of 1 to 4% specifically on products like smartphone, tablets and laptops generating as much as 86m euros per year which would be used to support and protect French music, film, and the arts. The recommendations have been given through a report which is a result of a nine months of research into ways to strengthen “cultural exception”."
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+ - Raspberry Pi Camera Module Goes on Sale->

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hypnosec writes "Raspberry Pi’s camera module is out of the tuning phase and is available for order from Premier Farnell/Element14 whereas RS Components will be having it on sale soon enough. Announced late last year the camera entered its tuning phase this February and the Raspberry Pi foundation was working on drivers at the time. The camera module has a 5MP sensor is capable of recording 1080p, 720p and 640x480p video format and is available for $25."
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+ - Linux 3.10 Merge Windows Closes, Second Biggest Linux-next Ever->

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hypnosec writes "Linus Torvalds has released the Linux 3.10-rc1 kernel marking the closure of the 3.10 merge window. The Linux 3.10-rc1 is the second biggest rc release in years and the closure of the merge windows means that the features expected out of the Linux 3.9 successor are chalked out. “So this is the biggest -rc1 in the last several years (perhaps ever) at least as far as counting commits go,” Linus notes in the release announcement. Only the one before Linux 3.8 had the highest number of commits notes Stephen Rothwell."
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+ - Google Shuts SMS Search->

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hypnosec writes "Users in the US are reporting that Google has allegedly shut down its SMS Search service without any official announcement or notification. According to initial reports users are getting a “SMS search has been shutdown” message when they are trying to carry out SMS search by sending out a message to 466453 in the US. Navigating to the official Google Mobile website and clicking on SMS Search yields nothing but 404 – Page not found error."
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+ - Google Shuts SMS Search->

Submitted by hypnosec
hypnosec writes "Users in the US are reporting that Google has shut down its SMS Search service without any official announcement or notification. According to initial user reports on Reddit and Google Product Forums users are getting a “SMS search has been shutdown” message when they are trying to carry out SMS search by sending out a message to 466453 in the US. Navigating to the Google Mobile website and clicking on SMS Search yields nothing but 404 – Page not found error."
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+ - World of Warcraft Bleeding Subscribers, 1.3 Million Lost in 2013->

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hypnosec writes "World of Warcarft, gaming industry’s most popular franchise and one of Activision Blizzard's cash cow, is bleeding subscribers with 1.3 million defecting the game in the first quarter of 2013 alone. Activision Blizzard, through an earnings call press release [PDF] on Wednesday, revealed this bit of information and according to the company the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) saw a decline of over 14 per cent subscribers in the first quarter of 2013, the total now standing at 8.3 million."
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+ - OpenNebula 4.0 Released->

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hypnosec writes "Version 4.0 of OpenNebula project codenamed “Eagle”, the open source cloud computing platform, has been released. Redesigned Sunstone administration interface, new virtual machine options and interfaces, improvement in core components are few of the several features that OpenNebula Version 4.0 brings with it. The redesigned interface not only packs a modern look but, also brings with it the Sunstone Views options which would allow users to customize the interface as per their liking."
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+ - Ubuntu Getting its Own Package / App Installer Format->

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hypnosec writes "Developers over at Canonical are busy working on a custom application package installer and package format that will be specific to new packages written for Ubuntu phone and tablet using the Ubuntu SDK. According to plans the new package format and app installer would be complementary to apt/dpkg and would not be replacing the existing traditional Debian packages. The new system has been conceptualized as a system that will sit on top of the existing base system."
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+ - India Rolls Out Central Monitoring System to Snoop on SMS, Online Chats, Calls->

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hypnosec writes "Government of India started rolling out, rather quietly, a project last month through which it will have access to everything that happens over the telecommunications links in India – be it phone calls, text messages, online activity, and even social media interactions. The project is called the Central Monitoring System through which the GoI will have unrestricted access, a single window view if we may, to each byte of information that follows across the telecom network in India. Different agencies of the government like the National Investigation Agency as well as tax authorities will have also access to communication data of citizens of India."
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Comment: Vicious circle (Score 1) 1

by hypnosec (#43660659) Attached to: Wii U Won't Run Battlefield 4 Engine Frostbite 3
It seems that Nintendo is stuck between convincing developers to build titles for the Wii U and wooing customers to buy the console even if famous titles r missing. Up until the company manages to get gaming companies port their famous titles onto Wii U gamers wouldn't be interested to buy the console and on the other hand up until the company manages to sell a descent amount of consoles it won't probably be able to convince game developers to develop games for the Wii U.

+ - Wii U Won't Run Battlefield 4 Engine Frostbite 3-> 1

Submitted by ricky86
ricky86 writes "The general belief that Wii U doesn’t perform well is strengthened following a revelation from DICE Technical Director Johan Andersson that Wii U isn’t powerful enough to run Frostbite 3 which is the Battlefield 4 engine. Andersson tweeted “FB3 has never been running on WiiU. We did some tests with not too promising results with FB2 & chose not to go down that path.” This clearly indicates that DICE didn’t go ahead with testing of Frostbite 3 after not so promising results of Frostbite 2. The tweet from Andersson was in response to a reader’s concern that the newly announced Star Wars games will not be available on Wii U."
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+ - Microsoft Sells 100 Million Windows 8 Licenses-> 1

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hypnosec writes "Microsoft has revealed that Windows 8 has reached the 100 million licenses sold milestone just six months after the launch of the touch-centric operating system — the number comprising of both PC as well as tablet licenses and upgrades. Microsoft also revealed that the number of Windows 8 and Windows RT certified devices has reached 2,400."
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+ - Intel Announces New Low Power 22-nm SoC Silvermont->

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hypnosec writes "Intel has introduced its next-generation microarchitecture platform dubbed Silvemont, which is being touted as the new low-power System-on-Chip (SoC). Intel is claiming that the new 22-nanometer SoC provides three times more performance while consuming five times less power compared to the current Atom range of processors. The silicon company stated that the new fabric supports up to eight cores and that SoC will offer more scalability across its range of products and market segments like intelligent systems, mobile devices, datacenters, and ultrabooks."
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