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Thursday, 11 December 2014 16:26
Taking down The Pirate Bay is not going to change anything
Written by Sean Kalinich
It was only a couple of days that the internet broke open with the news that The Pirate Bay was offline and that their offices had been raided by police. It looked like the end of the world for the…
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Monday, 24 November 2014 06:46
Samsung and NVIDIA are throwing vague patents around inside a broken system...
Written by Sean Kalinich
The US patent system is broken. There is not really much more to say about that it is and has been broken for many years and probably will continue to be broken for many years to come. Now why am…
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Thursday, 20 November 2014 20:04
Keeping the Backdoor open... how the NSA's collection of 0-day exploits hurts us all
Written by Sean Kalinich
The world lives in fear of zero-day exploits although the average person does not even know it. A zero-day exploit is a bug or a flaw that has not been discovered by the developers yet, but is known to someone…
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Friday, 14 November 2014 15:53
Ubisoft will take a hit from Assassin's Creed Unity Bugs and the 12 hour Review Embago Delay
Written by Sean Kalinich
Ubisoft is under a lot of pressure since the launch of the Assassin’s Creed Unity. The game had a large number of bugs along with some rather disappointing performance to boot (30fps). In the days leading up to the launch…
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Wednesday, 12 November 2014 13:54
Another SSL/TLS stack falls as Microsoft admits their version has a bug in it too
Written by Sean Kalinich
Encryption is an interesting thing. On the surface it offers protection from prying eyes and sense of security in protecting your communication and files. At least that is what you should feel when talking about encryption. The problem is that…
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AMD has been something of an unusual company ever since they first decided to dive into the x86 market with their purchase of NexGen. The would-be CPU maker had an interesting knack of building CPUs that performed well, but were…
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Friday, 05 September 2014 06:45
Tech press thought NFC was not a big deal… Until Apple does it.
Written by Sean Kalinich
If there is one thing I do not like it is the way that some members of the technical press show their bias. This morning, while I was trying to have a nice cup of coffee, I had to stomach…
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Thursday, 28 August 2014 16:13
Despite being late to the party, Apple's iWatch will probably do well
Written by Sean Kalinich
Right now the going rumor is that Apple will unveil the world’s first true smart watch on September 9th (yes sarcasm). Just exactly what this new product will do has many blogs up all night in a lather of love…
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Wednesday, 27 August 2014 10:02
Why The MPAA Would Like To Dig Into Kim Dotcom's Recent Financial Sucess And Seize that Money Too
Written by Sean Kalinich
In the soap-opera that has been the case against Kim Dotcom and Mega Upload we now has another chapter. It seems that the copyright groups responsible for the original claims against Dotcom want to have a look at this financial…
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Saturday, 09 August 2014 12:19
Changing the conversation about Privacy, Surveillance, and Pushing SSL
Written by Sean Kalinich
DEF CON 22, Las Vegas, NV 2014 - Yesterday at DEF CON we had the chance to listen to Christopher Soghoian, Principal Technologist, American Civil Liberties Union talk about the state of the surveillance state and how we can help…
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Wednesday, 16 July 2014 06:55
Analysts in a Frenzy over Possible New iDevices, But What is the Reality?
Written by Sean Kalinich
Well, with all of the news about Apple’s next round of products we thought we would chime in with our take on this. Warning Apple fans the following article is not based on analyst WAGs (wild ass guesses), but on…
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Tuesday, 24 June 2014 10:17
Will Low-Level APIs Like Mantle be the next Game Development Battle Ground?
Written by Sean Kalinich
In development it has always been a given that if you can code for a specific build of materials or specific hardware platform you can usually get more out of the application you are developing. Nowhere was this more evident…
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Tuesday, 24 June 2014 08:27
Will PC Games be Dumbed Down to Match Next Gen Consoles?
Written by Sean Kalinich
Ubisoft dumbing down Watchdogs for PC, Crytek losing money, game devs claiming next gen consoles will match the graphical look of the PC on Ultra: all of these are interesting signs to a troubling possibility. Is the gaming industry moving…
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Unless you have been under a rock you have probably heard all about the Doom 4 teaser that was shown off at E3 2014. We saw it a couple of days ago, but at the time really did not think…
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Wednesday, 11 June 2014 10:33
Microsoft's Fight Against Search Warrant Could Have Big Consequences
Written by Sean Kalinich
When Edward Snowden revealed the extent of US Government surveillance and just how much corporations cooperated with them to accomplish their goals everyone was shocked. Many could not believe that the companies we trust would betray us in the ways…
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Tuesday, 10 June 2014 14:21
Microsoft drops the One console to rule them all push
Written by Sean Kalinich
When the Xbox One was released Microsoft pushed it as the center of an new ecosystem that started in the living room. The message was clear, start with the One and build out from there using Microsoft products from the…
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