Just as the MPAA is preparing to offer movies to customers at home while they're still in theaters by limiting playback to DRM-protected digital outputs only, the HDCP protocol they rely on may have been cracked wide open. All devices that support HDCP, like Blu-ray players, set-top boxes and displays with HDMI inputs, have their own set of keys to encrypt and decrypt protected data and if keys for a particular device are compromised, they can be revoked by content released in the future which will then refuse to play. ...

Windows 7 has been around for almost a year now, but lots of people are still sticking with Windows XP. Now, Microsoft is getting ready to pull the plug on Windows XP sales. No! Really! They mean it this time. Would they lie to you? Just because Microsoft has extended XP sales over and over again doesn't mean that they'll keep selling XP forever. Well, yes, they are supporting XP for years more to come, but this time -- cross their hearts and hope to die -- Microsoft really is killing XP sales on October 22, 2010. Some companies, noticeably Dell, are pulling the plug on XP even sooner.
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After more than a month of living with Windows Phone 7, I have to say, Microsoft's new phone operating system is starting to grow on me.
Although I liked the general look of the operating system, I suspected its simplicity was only skin deep and that over time I would uncover both annoying glitches and places where the phone was all too much like a little computer.
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A DLL load hijacking vulnerability in the Windows operating system, has affected dozens of applications which become quickly a target for remote hijack exploits. Since Microsoft refuses to patch Windows, the developers of the affected applications have to take measures on their own.
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Assassin’s Creed may have been a hugely popular game known for its graphics, but Assassin’s Creed 2 might go down in history as one of the ways copy protection can ruin the gaming experience for those that legally pay for their video games.
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Rumors of Chrome OS tablets have been circulating the Internet, hinting that major manufacturers including HTC and Motorola will soon be launching iPad competitors featuring the long-anticipated, browser-based operating system from Google.
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