Новости за 25.06.2016

Portuguese pen testing team discover 14 flaws in Uber apps which would have enabled them to get free rides and disclose details of passengers’ and drivers’ journeys. Pen testing outfit Integrity has published a list of eight bugs uncovered during a three-week hunt for security vulnerabilities in the Uber car-hire system. The team began hunting for vulnerabilities shortly after Uber[>>>>]

Ten humans to be dosed with nicotinamide mononucleotide to see if effects on rodents scale up. Right now, if you want your pet mouse to live longer, you could do worse than dosing it with nicotinamide mononucleotide (henceforth, for the sake of my keyboard, abbreviated to NMN). In studies on mice, rodents fed NMN — a nucleotide that naturally occurs[>>>>]

Decision to patch out Linux support in a PlayStation 3 update will cost Sony millions of dollars. Do you remember six years ago when your living room Linux box stopped working? The box in question was the original «fat model» PlayStation 3. Sony had included the functionality to install other operating systems to it, but decided to kill off the[>>>>]

The Transmigration of Morton F. follows a soprano haunted by the manifestation of an avant-garde composer. A new interactive project commissioned by Amsterdam’s Holland Festival mixes film, music and interactive elements to tell the story of an opera singer haunted by the reincarnation of experimental 20th century composer Martin Feldman. The Transmigration of Morton F., stars soprano Joan La Barbara,[>>>>]

Lizard Squad is best known for launching DDoS attacks against Microsoft Xbox Live and Sony PlayStation Network, and doing so ‘for the lulz!’ — but does that really matter? Blizzard CS’s Battle.net platform was experiencing ‘technical difficulties’ that disrupted logins for Overwatch, Hearthstone and World of Warcraft gamers earlier this week. And it didn’t take long for a Lizard Squad[>>>>]

When a French creative received a pool table in his agency, he decided to give it a custom spin. We’re nearing peak emoji. People have emoji tattoos. They’re selling emoji pillows on street corners. Children have abandoned words in favour of grotesque facial contortions. It’s only a matter of time before someone grafts a crying-with-laughter expression onto their own cheeks.[>>>>]

Join us in toasting Sonic’s 25th birthday with a nostalgic trip down Mega Drive lane… It’s been exactly 25 years since Sonic the Hedgehog’s loop-the-loops and pinball speed revolutionised our gaming lives. Before the little blue cannonball burst onto the scene in 1991, the Mega Drive was struggling to lure us from the charms of the Nintendo NES and a[>>>>]

New Vengeance LED range adds even more bling to your next PC build. Everything is lit these days. Your mouse, your keyboard, your case, your motherboard… it’s all got to be lit up. Corsair’s now adding more light to your PC with its new line of Vengeance LED RAM kits. And, we have to admit, they do look striking. The[>>>>]

Want to add, remove or modify fonts in Windows 10? We tell you how to up your font game Good typography is glorious – after all, nobody wants to read a note on the office fridge written in Comic Sans. While Windows 10 has a wealth of good fonts installed by default, there are plenty of excellent – and free[>>>>]

IPhone 4s, как и другие модели смартфонов, тоже характеризуются хрупкостью. Компактные размеры сенсорной техники сказываются на ее прочности из-за уменьшенного размера встроенных деталей. К тому же, «яблочному» гаджету тоже присущ физический износ, когда базовые детали конструкции могут морально износиться вследствие его интенсивной эксплуатации в течение суток. Сегодня iPhone 4s принадлежит к универсальным гаджетам известного бренда, который пользуется огромной популярностью во[>>>>]