Softpedia Wrote:Some time ago Symantec revealed that the masterminds behind the now-infamous OSX Flashback Trojan madebundles of money. Further analysis, however, has shown that they may have failed to collect as a result of their operations.

Neowin.net Wrote:

If you haven’t noticed, Microsoft really loves HTML5 and the IE team has put together several projects based around the platform. The company has created everything from interactive games, taking music videos to the next level and more, but why stop there?

The Internet Explorer team has linked up with Fox Studios to create the Project Prometheus Training Center and of course, it is built with HTML5. The site is heavily reliant upon jQuery for the UI and controls but the team also created their own special sauce to help out with 3D models, lighting, camera rotation and a few other items. The team will be posting the code library up on its GitHub channel in the next few weeks.

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Neowin.net Wrote:Even though Intel just managed to market its first chips manufactured on a 22nm technology node with 3rd generation Core CPUs (aka Ivy Bridge), a couple of slides leaked on-line show how much – and how far – Santa Clara is looking into the future of microprocessor technology.

First published by X-bit labs with a couple of quotes credited to Intel CEO Paul Otellini, the slides contain a “R&D Pipeline” stating that Chipzilla is already developing a 14 nm manufacturing process: production of the first chips with 14 nm transistors should start in 2013, the slide says.

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Car explosions are one of the trademark features of Hollywood blockbuster films. However, the reality is that cars don’t blow up that easily as Wired discovered.



In fact, you can shoot a bullet through a gas tank and it won’t blow up, while driving a car over a cliff is almost never going to result in the kind of pyrotechnics we are used to seeking on the big screen. So how does Hollywood blow up cars?

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The Avengers is the 12th film to gross 10 figures at the global box office, joining two James Cameron flicks and the finales of The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter

What do The Hulk, a young Leonardo DiCaprio, and a drunk pirate have in common? Each features in one of the rare movies to earn a mammoth $1 billion at the global box office. The Avengers became the 12th blockbuster to join the club Sunday, after the superhero symphony scored yet another record-breaking weekend. Here's a statistical look at this elite group of movies:

12 Films that have grossed more than $1 billion

$1,002,082,000
Worldwide gross of The Avengers, according to Box Office Mojo. It's already surpassed The Dark Knight, to become the 11th-highest grossing member. The Batman flick grossed about $1 million less.

19 Days it took The Avengers to reach the milestone

$125 million
Amount The Avengers will likely earn over the next two weeks, says Richard Corliss at TIME, which would make it the fourth highest-grossing film ever. The film could eventually top the third-place blockbuster, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, which amassed $1.3 billion over its theatrical run.

$2,782,275,172
Worldwide gross of Avatar, the highest-grossing film of all time

17 Days it took Avatar to break the billion-dollar mark, faster than any other film

$2,183,394,188
Worldwide gross of Titanic, the second highest-grossing film of all time, and the first to score more than $2 billion

9 Films in the $1-billion club that are sequels or parts of a franchise

3 Films in the club that are the concluding installments of a hit franchise: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, and Toy Story 3

2 Pirates of the Caribbean films that are in the club: 2006's Dead Man's Chest ($1.07 billion) and 2011's On Stranger Tides ($1.04 billion)

1 Animated film in the club. Toy Story 3 grossed $1.06 billion.

6 Films in the club that were released in the past three years

2 Films in the club that were released before 2000: Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace (1999) and Titanic (1997)

8 Films in the club released during the summer movie season

5 Films in the club produced by Disney: The Avengers, Alice in Wonderland, Toy Story 3, and two installments of Pirates of the Caribbean

2 Films in the club directed by James Cameron: Avatar and Titanic, the two highest-grossing films of all time

4 Films in the club nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards: Avatar, Titanic, The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, and Toy Story 3

2 Films in the club that won the Best Picture Oscar: Titanic and Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

2 Films in the club nominated for Worst Picture at the Golden Raspberry Awards, which celebrate the worst in film: Transformers: Dark of the Moon and Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace

See a full list of the top 12 movies of all time here.

arstechnica Wrote:You know those FBI warning messages that appear at the beginning of DVDs and Blu-ray discs? They're getting an upgrade—and they're multiplying.

The US government yesterday rolled out not one but two copyright notices, one to "warn" and one to "educate." Six major movie studios will begin using the new notices this week.

The main change is that Immigrations & Customs Enforcement (ICE) has, in the last several years, made itself a key player in the copyright wars. The FBI has shown extremely limited interest in going after individual websites, but ICE has done so with gusto; it has so far seized more than 750 domain names after rightsholder complaints. This new prominence is reflected in the broader logos used.

ICE now appears on both notices. The first notice shows the traditional FBI seal and a warning that "the unauthorized reproduction or distribution of this copyrighted work is illegal. Criminal copyright infringement is investigated by federal law enforcement agencies and is punishable by up to 5 years in prison and a fine of $250,000." The logo for ICE's Homeland Security Investigations unit now appears beside the FBI's.



Banner number one. Now with "more logo"

The second notice shows the logo for the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center, which involves 20 different US government agencies. It features one extremely angry eagle who would probably pluck your eyeballs from your sockets if he could get those talons near you. "Piracy is not a victimless crime," says the notice. "For more information on how digital theft harms the economy, please visit http://www.iprcenter.gov."




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CNET Wrote:While instructions are available to remove the latest malware threats for OS X, some may choose to simply reinstall OS X and start from a clean slate.

The recent Flashback malware for OS X has caused a bit of a stir in the Mac community, and while it has only affected a fraction of the OS X install base, it still has had people who have indeed found the malware on their systems writing in to CNET and on the Apple Discussion boards.

For the most part, people have been finding the malware on their systems by having an antivirus scanner or reverse firewall such as Little Snitch installed, and have either been given an alert that the malware was either found or a program file with a short name beginning with a period attempting to contact remote servers via bizarre-sounding domain names such as cuojshtbohnt.com, and gangstaparadise.rr.nu.

These clear attempts have spurred investigation into the malware and have shown that this activity is the first part of the malware attack, where the malware has broken the Java sandbox and the program is trying to download the payload that will subsequently piggyback on local applications by altering launch environment variables either within the program or in the user's account.

So far the malware has been fairly well described, and is not viral in nature, so for any particular variant it installs to a single location and runs from there to affect the system. As a result, when a variant has been characterized, you should be able to remove it from your system by following detailed instructions. However, malware can change rapidly (as Flashback has demonstrated) and because new variants may appear that will change the attempted modes of attack, there may be those who cannot determine which variant they may have encountered and doubt their abilities to manually clear the malware from their systems.

In these situations, there are two approaches you can take. The first is to get a reputable malware scanner such as VirusBarrier, Sophos, or ClamXav, install and update it, and then have it scan the system for known variants of the malware. By doing this you can at least quarantine any malware files found.

This is a recommended approach; however, it does rely on malware definitions having been defined for the malware, which may lag behind initial findings of malware.

The second approach is to forgo attempting to manage the malware and perform an OS reinstallation. While this will ensure that you start from a clean slate, it will be a bit of a burden for some people to do, especially since you may not be able to trust Time Machine backups or system clones to be free from the malware and therefore may not be able to simply restore your system from a backup.

If you can remember an exact instance of when your system was affected by the malware, such as when you installed a recent update to Flash that might have been the malware, or when you first saw any other warning signs pertaining to the malware, then you might be able to reinstall using backup from before the problem occurred; however, in many cases you might not be able to reliably identify such instances.

If you have decided that it would be best for you to play it safe and wipe your system and start over, by following this procedure you should be able to do so while preserving your data.

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