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Adobe Knew of Vista PWN 2 OWN Hack All Along

The PWN 2OWN contest, as we all know, saw the Mac OS X weed crumble first, with Vista following soon after. Ubuntu was the only OS that was impenetrable to attack, but news is surfacing that Vista should have had a longer lifeline, if only Adobe had patched the flaw they knew about all along. More »

3:30 PM on Sun Apr 6 2008
By Haroon Malik
18,731 views, 52 comments

Latest by blue moon: The best part of all the fall out from the pwn2own contest was the quote from the guy to took down Vista: He said that the same flaw would take down Linux, but he just didn't want to bother. So, Linux more »

sidekick slide

Sidekick Slide Design Flaw Causes Resets?

Boy Genius reports that Sidekick Slide users are getting sudden restarts after sliding the screen up and down a few times. The cause? Apparently a build flaw that has too big of a gap between the contacts for the battery and the connector on the phone. Telstra, an Australian company, seems to be having similar problems on their version of the Motorola device called the Hiptop Slide. A temporary solution is to shove a piece of paper—maybe a business card—between the wall and the battery. This happening to any of you? [Boy Genius]

3:45 PM on Mon Nov 12 2007
By Jason Chen
8,671 views, 8 comments

Latest by LauPan: The sidekick has been sliding for a while. It was cool in the beginning however once HTC came on the scene the slide began sliding at a faster rate. One major flaw is there were never strong improvements, they kept milking more »

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Seagate 2.5-inch Hard Drive Flaw Affecting MacBooks?

Retrodata, a data-recovery company, has just issued a warning for Apple MacBook owners with Seagate hard drives that were manufactured in China and have a firmware version of 7.01. Apparently these have a fatal flow that cause their read/write heads to fail mechanically, scratching up the hard drive surface as pictured and making data unrecoverable (even by professionals such as themselves). If you've got a MacBook, you should check to see if your internal drive is a Seagate and back up your data accordingly. There's no official word yet from Apple on whether or not this actually a problem, but better safe than crying over lost nudie photos. [Retrodata - Thanks Eric!]

4:40 PM on Mon Oct 29 2007
By Jason Chen
17,227 views, 56 comments

Latest by n/a: I've now lost data to this Seagate firmware 7.01 issue not once, but twice in the last six months. How is this not being handled differently by Seagate? How is there no consumer revolt, no class action more »

laptops

MacBook Shutdown Problem Solved: Little Dab O' Tape'll Do Ya

Is your MacBook shutting down by itself? A German dude came up with a solution to this problem, caused by a heat sensor cable that's too close to the heatsink on the CPU. That heatsink expands when the MacBook gets hot, to the point where it actually touches and melts the insulation on the heat sensor cable, shorting it out and turning off the computer. More »

1:01 PM on Tue Sep 5 2006
By Charlie White
677 views, 3 comments