AMD Catalyst: Should We Update Regularly?
New drivers appear regularly from AMD’s kitchen, and this is something that we’ve always appreciated about Radeon graphics cards. It’s one of the best ways to let your buyers know that they are being covered in terms of technical support and that they won’t be left on their own after they’ve purchased your product. Simply put, if something isn’t working properly, or you’re encountering trouble with a specific application, chances are that the next month’s driver revision will amend it all. What’s even more useful is opening the release notes of the new driver revision and reading the list of improvements, particularly performance jumps in certain games, which ranges from a few percent to a few dozen percent.
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Ubisoft's draconian DRM produces results
Ubisoft has been in the headlines the last year due to its use of DRM that requires an always-on Internet connection. If you ever have a connection hiccup or just plain lose service, you are returned to the main menu. With the DRM, you cannot play games offline, even in single player modes. This has happened multiple times where an Ubisoft authorization server has gone down, leaving legitimate players standing idle while those with pirated copies play happily.
The most recent game to feature the DRM is Driver: San Francisco, which will launch in August. In an interview with PC Gamer, the developer says the DRM has been a success, seeing a clear reduction in piracy of our titles which required a persistent online connection . Despite the outcry over the DRM, it appears Ubisoft believes it is here to stay.
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8% of Android apps leak private info
Security researcher Neil Daswani of security firm Dasient, has revealed that around 8 percent of apps on the Android market are leaking private information. He said that the firm studied the behaviour of 10,000 applications for Android and found 800 of them were leaking data. Eleven of the applications were found to be sending unwanted SMS messages, while the majority of the rest would connect to servers to send data. Daswani will present the findings of the firm at the Black Hat Conference due to start this weekend in Las Vegas.
Because of its growing usage, Android is becoming a target of malware authors. Google is trying to keep up and has removed many suspicious applications from the Android market in the past. While Apple extensively probes applications before it approves them for addition to the App Store, Android applications are not subject to the same level of regulation, which is seen mostly as a good thing but also comes with the side effect of malware. In the case of Android apps leaking personal data, the vast majority of them can be avoided if users read the permission requirements of the applications.
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