Dell gets Superfishy by shipping PCs with self-signed root certificates
Remember the Superfish debacle, when Lenovo shipped computers with a preinstalled rogue root certification authority (CA)? Dell seems to think that was a good idea, as it's shipping laptops and desktop PCs with a similar self-signed "eDellRoot" root CA. An attacker can use this root CA to issue valid-looking certificates for any website. In turn, those certificates will be accepted by any affected Dell machines as legit, leaving the user none the wiser.
For the unitiated, secure connections to websites (among other things) rely on a chain of trusted certificates to guarantee the safety of data in transit. Operating systems and web browsers come preinstalled with a set ...
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It's an early Black Friday deals extravaganza
Welcome to the first of what could be several deals posts this week. Black Friday has stretched its tempting bargains all into the surrounding days, as retailers clamor for our attention. Newegg is kicking off its shower of discounts and bargains this afternoon, and a number of appealing deals have already surfaced there. Here are the best of the lot so far.
Those are the best deals we could find in today's early volley. If we missed any ...
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Mozilla axes heavyweight Firefox themes and tab groups
Back in August, Mozilla announced plans to adopt a Chrome-like extension framework for Firefox called WebExtensions. In turn, the company plans to deprecate its existing XUL and XPCOM plug-in APIs. These changes are part of a larger project to make Firefox a more modern browser. According to a couple of entries in Mozilla's Bugzilla tracker, some less popular features of Firefox are going to be retired as part of this project, too.
The first feature to hit the trashbin is support for "heavyweight" themes that rely on older add-on technologies. According to the Bugzilla entry for this change, themes that replace chrome packages (not to be confused with the Chrome browser) ...
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Acer XF270HU IPS monitor hooks Radeons up with 144Hz FreeSync
Acer's XB270HU display is one of the more popular Nvidia G-Sync monitors on the market. Sadly, Radeon owners can't take advantage of the XB270HU's variable-refresh-rate magic, since G-Sync is a GeForce-only club for now. Acer isn't leaving red-team fans out, though. Its XF270HU gaming monitor is largely identical to the XB270HU, but this monitor supports FreeSync instead.
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Asus' N-series laptops top out with 4K screens and PCIe SSDs
Asus has unwrapped the latest models in its N series of notebooks. The newcomers pack GeForce GTX graphics cards and can be fitted with 4K IPS screens. Two sizes of N-series notebooks are available: the 15.6" N552 and the bigger 17.3" N772.
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Report: Xeons with on-package FPGAs to ship next year
Way back in June 2014, Intel announced its intent to develop a Xeon with x86 cores and an integrated FPGA to accelerate certain processing tasks. That FPGA-accelerated future may arrive early next year, according to a report from PC World.
Diane Bryant, senior VP of Intel's datacenter group, announced the impending release of these FPGA-equipped Xeons during an on-stage interview at Structure Conference in San Francisco last week. PC World ...
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