Microsoft's push for a unified cross-platform gaming experience backfires
Over the past few years, Microsoft has made a few attempts to build bridges to the PC gaming community. More often than not, though, those efforts have ended with unhappy customers and the perception that Redmond is out of touch with PC gamers. For some time now, it's felt like Microsoft and the PC gaming community have reached an uneasy peace. Over the past week, though, it feels like we've gone from zero to "WTF?" again at a rapid pace.
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VESA ratifies DisplayPort 1.4 standard
The VESA standards body has finalized the specification for the DisplayPort 1.4 standard. The association calls this the first major update to DisplayPort since the publication of DisplayPort 1.3, which became a specification back in September 2014.
The most important new feature in this version of the spec is Display Stream Compression 1.2. VESA says DSC 1.2 ...
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Apple scores a win against the All Writs Act in New York case
Apple has scored a point in one of its legal battles over iPhone security. It isn't in the San Bernardino case that has caught national attention in recent weeks, though. Rather, the company has been assisting the government in an investigation of the iPhone of Jun Feng, a man who has plead guilty to drug dealing. The investigators in Feng's case had argued that the All Writs Act (AWA) of 1789 allows them to compel Apple to bypass the passcode security on the defendant's iPhone. On Monday, magistrate judge James Orenstein ruled on Monday in the US District Court of the Eastern District of New York that the AWA does not give the government the power that it seeks.
Orenstein looks to a federal law called the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act , or CALEA, for guidance in this case. The judge notes the All Writs Act is understood to have a "gap-filling" function, and Apple ...
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DROWN attack breaks TLS wide open using SSLv2
An international group of researchers has discovered that web traffic encrypted with Transport Layer Security (TLS) can be decrypted if a server also supports the antiquated SSLv2 cryptographic protocol. The researchers estimate that a staggering 33% of HTTPS-enabled sites are vulnerable to this attack, which they call DROWN, for Decrypting RSA using Obsolete and Weakened eNcryption.
While the SSLv2 protocol has long been known to be weak , the attack is significant because traffic encrypted with the stronger TLS protocol is potentially vulnerable. Communication from a client—like a web browser or mail transfer agent—that insists on TLS encryption may still be subject ...
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WD adds 8TB hard drives to its internal and external offerings
Western Digital is charging full steam (or should I say helium?) ahead with its 8TB hard drives. The company has just added 8TB models to most of its internal and external drive lineups. The 8TB capacity option will soon be available in internal hard drives in the Red, Red Pro, and Purple lineups. Red drives are targeted at NAS boxes, while Purple spinners are meant to go into video and surveillance systems. Western Digital says the new drives are filled with helium, which purportedly lets the big platters spin more easily. Drives using this technology will carry the HelioSeal branding.
For those who prefer their hard drives outside their computers, WD will offer 8TB models across its My Book and My Cloud series. External units with two-drive setups in RAID-0 will also available in 16TB capacities, too. The ...
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A10-7890K and Athlon X4 880K take top spots in AMD FM2+ lineup
AMD added two new top dogs to its A10 APU and Athlon CPU lineups this morning. On the APU side of the aisle, the A10-7890K runs at 4.1GHz base and 4.3GHz turbo speeds, a 200MHz clock speed bump over its predecessor, the A10-7870K.
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