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Comment Creates a bad first impression (Score 1) 160

Xbox Live is completely fine for 360 (no pun intended) or so days of the year, and some of these new users are going to get bad first impressions of the Xbox Live system. It would be nice if I could play games though, my disc tray will not stay shut and I cannot play any of my new games, woohoo!
Security

Submission + - Serious Flash vulnerabilities affect many websites (theregister.co.uk)

An anonymous reader writes: Researchers from Google have documented serious vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash content which leave thousands of websites susceptible to attacks that steal the personal details of visitors. A web search reveals more than 500,000 vulnerable applets on major corporate, government and media sites. Removing the vulnerable content will require combing through website directories for SWF files and then testing them one by one. Updates in the Adobe software that renders SWF files in browsers are also likely, but they probably wouldn't quell the threat completely. Attack scenarios work something like this: A bank website hosts marketing graphics in the form of a vulnerable Flash applet. Attackers who trick a customer into clicking on a malicious link are able to execute the SWF file but inject malicious code variables that cause the customer's authentication cookies or login credentials to be sent to the attacker. No patch in sight from Adobe, that's the price to pay for depending on proprietary solutions.
XBox (Games)

Journal Journal: Halo 3 has Gone Gold 1

Major Nelson has announced on his blog that Halo 3 has now gone gold. This means that it is now ready to ship for it's release date in less than a month's time. I just hope they make enough copies.
Businesses

Journal Journal: Carlyle Group bid $11.5bn for Virgin Media

The American Private Equity Group, The Carlyle Group have placed a bid for British ISP, TV Provider, Phone Provider and Mobile Provider, Virgin Media, owned by Virgin after it's acquisition of NTL and Telewest last year. The bid for $11.5bn (£5.6bn) was placed on Monday, and Virgin say they are"considering it as part of a review of the business". If accepted, it would b
Robotics

Journal Journal: Newton's Prediction of Armageddon in 2060

The Daily Mail reports that Issac Newton's letter describing the events in which he thinks the world will end, has gone up in display in a museum in Israel. Newton describes that as technology advances, by the late 21st century, computers will have evolved a Artificial Intelligence so great that they can figure out that they do not need their human users to function. Many people believed Newton's ideas, and have made predictions that by 2060, the entire backbone of the world will be based on the
PC Games (Games)

Journal Journal: Halo 2 for Vista Delayed again

Halo 2 for Windows Vista has been delayed again, until June 1st in the US and June 8th in the UK. However the notice was not given early enough to some stores in the US, and several hundreds of copies were sold on May 22nd before being taken off the shelves until June 1st. So those who did get it in the brief period that it was available don't have many people to play with.

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