You probably already know you can play your favorite retro games on your computer , tablet, or phone with an emulator. But emulators are good for more than just saving space in your entertainment cabinet—they can also make your games look and play better than the original systems. Here are a few ways you can modernize those old games when they’ve gotten stale. Read more…
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Bring Your Retro Games Into the Modern Age with These Emulator Tricks
The source of the massive Target security breach that allowed hackers to swipe the credit and debit card data of up to 40 million customers may have finally been tracked down. The culprit? One extremely unfortunate HVAC repairman. Read more…
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Last Month’s Massive Target Hack Was the Heating Guy’s Fault
An anonymous reader writes “Google today released Chrome version 32 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The new version includes tab noise indicators, a new look for Windows 8 Metro mode, and automatic blocking of malware downloads. You can update to the latest release now using the browser’s built-in silent updater, or download it directly from google.com/chrome.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Google Chrome 32 Is Out: Noisy Tabs Indicators, Supervised Users
Meshach writes “The FBI has caught the student who called in a bomb threat at Harvard University on December 16. The student used a temporary anonymous email account routed through Tor, but the FBI was able to trace it (PDF) because it originated from the Harvard wireless network. He could face as long as five years in prison, three years of supervised release and a $250, 000 fine if convicted. He made the threat to get out of an exam.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Harvard Bomb Hoax Perpetrator Caught Despite Tor Use
General piece of advice: don’t go around typing stuff into your computer’s terminal window based on some pictures you found randomly floating on the internet. You’re not very likely to unlock a hidden bitcoin miner in your Mac, and far more likely to brick the thing instead . Read more…
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Southwest is so awesome. You can watch TV for free onboard , the flight attendants aren’t jerks, and now you can use iMessage during your flight for just two bucks. Read more…
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Southwest Airlines Will Let You Use iMessage Onboard For $2
Twenty years ago, on December 10, 1993, John Carmack, John Romero and the rest of the team at upstart id Software unleashed a game called Doom upon the world. Twenty years later, both men have written about their favorite memories of the game for you and all fans of Doom to read. Here they are, in their own words… Read more…
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Memories Of Doom, By John Romero & John Carmack
In an effort to boost security, Microsoft added a few new features to you account. You can now see recent login activity, and recovery codes are available if you get locked out of an account with two factor authentication enabled. Read more…
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Microsoft Accounts Now Have Recent Activity, Recovery Codes
msm1267 writes “Attackers are using route injection attacks against BGP-speaking routers to insert additional hops in the traffic stream, redirecting traffic to third-party locations where it can be inspected before it’s sent to its destination. Internet intelligence company Renesys has detected close to 1, 500 IP address blocks that have been hijacked on more than 60 days this year, a disturbing trend that indicates attackers could finally have an increased interest in weaknesses inherent in core Internet infrastructure.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Route-Injection Attacks Detouring Internet Traffic
Off the coast of Japan, an exploding volcano has formed a new island about 650 meters in diameter. You can see it spewing and spouting off black volcanic ash all around as it fills itself out. Pretty cool. Read more…
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Watch a volcano birth an entire new island