Author Archives: Soulskill

US Drone Fleet Hit By Computer Virus

New submitter Golgafrinchan passes along this quote from an article at Wired:
“A computer virus has infected the cockpits of America’s Predator and Reaper drones, logging pilots’ every keystroke as they remotely fly missions over Afghanistan and other … Continue reading

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Full Duplex Wireless Tech Could Double Bandwidth

CWmike writes “Rice University researchers announced on Tuesday that they have successfully demonstrated full-duplex wireless tech that would allow a doubling of network traffic without the need for more cell towers. Professor Ahutosh Sabharwal said th… Continue reading

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Making Graphics In Games '100,000 Times' Better?

trawg writes "A small Australian software company — backed by almost AUD$2 million in government assistance — is claiming they've developed a new technology which is '100,000 times better' for computer game graphics. It's not c… Continue reading

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CryTek For Free: CryEngine 3 SDK and Editor

Samfer writes with this excerpt from Operation Reality Gaming:
“[...] sometime this summer, likely around August, we will see the appearance online of both a Crysis 2 editor and a CryEngine 3 SDK (software development kit). This not only means that peo… Continue reading

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Police Raid PS3 Hacker's House, Hacker Releases PS3 'Hypervisor Bible'

An anonymous reader sends this excerpt from PSGroove.com:
“Graf_chokolo, who has contributed countless things to the PS3 scene, had his private home raided by police this morning. They confiscated all of his ‘accounts’ and anything related to PS3 hacki… Continue reading

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Five Times the US Almost Nuked Itself

kdawson writes “io9 has a scary outline of five times the US came close to accidental nuclear disasters. Quoting: ‘In August of 1950, ten B-29 Superfortress bombers took off from what was then called Fairfield-Suisun Air Force Base in California, heade… Continue reading

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CIA Drones May Have Used Illegal, Inaccurate Code

skids writes “Coders hate having to rush code out the door before it’s ready. They also hate it when the customer starts making unreasonable demands. What they hate even more is when the customer reverse engineers the product and starts selling their o… Continue reading

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