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Google To Drop Support For H.264 In Chrome 765

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday January 11, 2011 @07:58PM from the shot-in-the-air dept.

Steve writes "Google just made a bold move in the HTML5 video tag battle: even though H.264 is widely used and WebM is not, the search giant has announced it will drop support for the former in Chrome. The company has not done so yet, but it has promised it will in the next couple of months. Google wants to give content publishers and developers using the HTML5 video tag an opportunity to make any necessary changes to their websites."

Ubisoft's Draconian DRM Patched? 233

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday January 01, 2011 @12:50PM from the improved-to-terrible dept.

An anonymous reader writes "It appears that Ubisoft's controversial DRM scheme launched last year that required players to have a permanent connection to the Internet has been patched to no longer stop the game when connectivity drops, though an Internet connection is still required when starting the game."

Icelandic Company Designs Human Pylons 142

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday August 17, 2010 @01:12PM from the anthropomorphic-power dept.

Lanxon writes "An architecture and design firm called Choi+Shine has submitted a design for the Icelandic High-Voltage Electrical Pylon International Design Competition which proposes giant human-shaped pylons carrying electricity cables across the country's landscape, reports Wired. The enormous figures would only require slight alterations to existing pylon designs, says the firm, which was awarded an Honorable mention for its design by the competition's judging board. It also won an award from the Boston Society of Architects Unbuilt Architecture competition."

Comment Re:Back "button"? (Score 1) 267

by Rectum2003 on Friday July 02, 2010 @11:19PM (#32782990) Attached to: The 'Back' Button the Most Clicked Firefox Icon

Try Ctrl-k instead of Ctrl-l Tab, it's easier...

Comment I hereby... (Score 1) 287

by Rectum2003 on Monday February 04, 2008 @05:20PM (#22297824) Attached to: How Microsoft-Yahoo Will Affect Open Source

I hereby rename this company Microshoo!

Submission + - Attackers Gain Full Control of iPhone

Submitted by i_like_spam on Sunday July 22, 2007 @11:51PM

i_like_spam writes: The NYTimes is running a story about an iPhone flaw that has been found and documented by researchers from Independent Security Evaluators. Attackers were able to gain full control of the iPhone either through WiFi or by visiting a website with malicious code. The exploit will be demostrated at BlackHat on Aug. 2nd at 4:45pm. Until then,

Details on the vulnerability, but not a step-by-step guide to hacking the phone, can be found at www.exploitingiphone.com, which the researchers said would be unveiled today.

Submission + - Timewarner DNS Hijacking

Submitted by

Exstatica

on Sunday July 22, 2007 @06:06PM

Exstatica writes: "It looks like Timewarner is taking botnets into their own hands. They've hijacked dns for a few irc servers. The latests being irc.vel.net, irc.mzima.net, and irc.nac.net all part of EFNet. Using ns1.sd.cox.net the lookup returns an ip for what looks to be a script that forces the user into a channel and issues a set of commands to clean the drones. There have been different reports of other irc networks being hijacked and other dns servers involved. Is this the right way to handle this? Is hijacking DNS illegal?"

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