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Seagate Firmware Update Bricks 500GB Barracudas 559

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday January 21, 2009 @12:37AM from the three-steps-back dept.

Voidsinger writes "The latest firmware updates to correct Seagate woes have created a new debacle. It seems from Seagate forums that there has yet to be a successful update of the 3500320AS models from SD15 to the new SD1A firmware. Add to that the updater updates the firmware of all drives of the same type at once, and you get a meltdown of RAID arrays, and people's backups if they were on the same type of drive. Drives are still flashable though, and Seagate has pulled the update for validation. While it would have been nice of them to validate the firmware beforehand, there is still a little hope that not everyone will lose all of their data."

Comment Re:Ok, questions (Score 1) 125

by sedm1143 on Sunday September 14, 2008 @03:15PM (#25000171) Attached to: Tying Knots With Light

Light is composed (in the particle picture at least) of photons which are neutrally charged particles. As such they are not affected by magnetic fields (which only affect charges MOVING in said magnetic field), outside of weird scenarios like a couple of people above have mentioned.

Faux-CNN Spam Blitz Delivers Malicious Flash 213

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday August 06, 2008 @07:06PM from the careful-what-you-click dept.

CWmike writes "More than a thousand hacked Web sites are serving up fake Flash Player software to users duped into clicking on links in mail that's part of a massive spam attack masquerading as CNN.com news notifications, security researchers said today. The bogus messages, which claim to be from the CNN.com news Web site, include links to what are supposedly the day's Top 10 news stories and Top 10 news video clips from the cable network. Clicking on any of those links, however, brings up a dialog that says an incorrect version of Flash Player has been detected and that tells users they needed to update to a fake newer edition, which delivers a Trojan horse — identified by multiple names, including Cbeplay.a — that 'phones home' to a malicious server to grab and install additional malware."

Dutch Town Lays Air-Purifying Concrete 295

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday August 06, 2008 @12:09PM from the i-hate-august-news-cycles dept.

eldavojohn writes "In an effort to combat air pollution, a Dutch town has paved some of its streets with air-purifying concrete. It contains a titanium dioxide-based additive that utilizes sunlight to turn car exhaust into harmless nitrates. It was shown to do this in a lab and now the scientists are interested in just how much this will affect the air quality around the road. They will sample the air quality by a normal road and by this newly paved one."

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