How Sandboxing may not be the answer for Mac OS X…

Will Shipley discuss how Sandboxing may not be the security bandaid that Apple is promoting it to be… The Mac needs to be as secure as the iPhone. The good news is Apple already has the tools. The bad news is they are forcing developers to use the wrong ones. There are three primary ways […]

Epsilon Email Data Breach: List of Affected Companies Grows

We have news today of a huge data breach at Epsilon, a large email marketing company, which has stated that on Friday it suffered a data breach whereby emails were accessed without authorization. The company has now issued its corporate customers about the hacking with notifications of this security… via Epsilon Email Data Breach: List […]

New Patlabor (related) book by Mamoru Oshii

Anime News Network has indicated that Bankuruwase: Keishi-chō Keibi-bu Tokushu Sharyō Ni-ka slated for January 31 by Mamoru Oshii. For those not familiar with Patlabor, the story takes place in what was, at the time of release, the near future of 1998-2002. Robots called “Labors” are employed in heavy construction work. The Tokyo Metropolitan Police […]

Mac OS X installed on Intel’s Sandy Bridge

Good news, everybody—you don’t have to wait for Apple to approve Intel’s new Sandy Bridge processors before you can run Mac OS X on the new CPUs. Intel’s Sandy Bridge CPUs and chipsets are barely out of the gate, but that hasn’t stopped some users from installing Mac OS X Snow Leopard on the new Sandy […]

Handbrake v0.95 has been released…

HandBrake v0.9.5 has now been released. There are a ton of changes in this release, and you can get into the details in the change release notes. For the Mac version of the software, the biggest news is that PowerPC is no longer supported. If you’re still holding on to an older Mac, it’s time to […]