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Palm Pre and WebOS Get Native Gaming 49

Posted by Soulskill on Monday January 04, 2010 @03:48PM from the break-out-your-rocket-launcher dept.

rboatright writes "WebOS developers have been waiting, and with the 1.3.5 release, Palm's open source page suddenly listed SDL. Members of the WebOS internals team took that as a challenge and within 24 hours had a working port of Doom running in SDL on the Pre, in a webOS card. 48 hours later, they not only had Quake running, but had found in the latest LunaSysMgr the requirements to launch a native app from the webOS app launcher from an icon just like any other app. At the same time, the team demonstrated openGL apps running. With full native code support, with I/O available via SDL, developers now have a preview into Palm's future intent with regard to native code SDK's, and a hint of what's coming."

Critical VMware Vulnerability, Exploit Released 104

Posted by kdawson on Thursday February 28, 2008 @03:41PM from the heads-up-incoming dept.

BaCa writes "Core Security has issued an advisory disclosing a vulnerability that could severely impact organizations relying on VMware's desktop virtualization software. It involves directory traversal using VMware's shared folders, and could allow an attacker access to the host system from a guest VM. Core also released an exploit for the vulnerability."

Comment serial number generator == spyware??? (Score 4, Insightful) 104

by mephinet on Friday January 13, 2006 @03:50PM (#14466177) Attached to: Anti-Spyware Guidelines Get Final Version

The risk model seems like a good idea to me, summing up what we generally consider as ad- or spyware.
One point makes me wonder, though:

Program generates serial numbers/registration keys. Medium

What has s/n generation to do with spyware? It does not reduce the system's security, does not reveil private data, and is probably installed on the machine because the user wants to generate a serial number!
Looks a bit as if the companies in the coalition are having trouble in keeping apart the PC owner's goals with their own...

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