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Hot on the heels of the announcement of two Devil May Cry 4 bundles for the PlayStation 3, Microsoft and Capcom have announced a Devil May Cry 4 Xbox 360 bundle. Available for only ¥37,800 ($330), the Xbox 360　Devil May Cry 4 Premium Pack includes a Japanese Xbox 360 “Standard Model” (which is almost identical to the U.S. Premium Edition except for the lack of a headset) and a copy of Devil May Cry 4. Furthermore, this pack is ¥10,000 cheaper than the PS3-DMC4 bundle. The Xbox 360 Devil May Cry 4 Premium Pack is scheduled for release on January 31, 2008.

Source: TeamXbox

Online retailer Amazon.com has revealed that it managed to sell an average of 17 Wii consoles per second whilst they were in stock during the build up to the holiday season, with Super Mario Galaxy and Call of Duty 4 being the top selling video games. The company is claiming that the Christmas period this year was its most successful to date, with Monday 10th December being the busiest day when it received orders for 5.4 million items.

Source: Next Generation

Microsoft Corp. will change how users activate Windows XP when Service Pack 3 launches in the first half of 2008, a company white paper said. New installations of Windows XP SP3 will give users the same 30-day grace period currently offered to Windows Vista customers before they’re required to enter a product activation key, the 25-character code that proves the copy is legitimate. “As in Windows Server 2003 SP2 and Windows Vista, users can now complete operating system installation without providing a product key during a full, integrated installation of Windows XP SP3,” the Microsoft paper stated. “The operating system will prompt the user for a product key later as part of Genuine Advantage.” With earlier editions of Windows XP, users must enter the activation key during the installation process itself; failing to do so, or using an invalid key, would result in the installation being blocked. The white paper, however, noted that the change does not apply to existing Windows XP installations upgraded to SP3. Those copies, which have presumably passed the activation stage previously, will not request the key again, Microsoft said.

Source: Computerworld

HP has fixed flaws in a patch-management program bundled with its computers, printers and other hardware that could be used by hackers to ‘brick’ HP or Compaq PCs. In an alert sent to customers who subscribe to its security warning service, HP said users should run Software Update to patch the flaws disclosed last week by a Polish researcher known only by his alias, ‘porkythepig’. A pair of bugs in the update service’s ActiveX control can be used to execute remote code or gain additional access rights, porkythepig said then. He also posted proof-of-concept exploit code that showed how to use one of the vulnerabilities to overwrite and corrupt crucial Windows’ system files, an attack that would leave any affected PC unbootable. That would essentially ‘brick’ the system, since many HP and Compaq PCs do not include a restore CD or DVD, but instead place operating system and application restore files on the hard drive. HP’s advisory on Friday instructed users to run Software Update on any machine that has the application, even if the update service is never used. Running Update presumably disables the flawed ActiveX control by fixing the Windows registry.

Source: PC Advisor

Talking about backgammon again, today I will introduce you with other online backgammon site. Gammon Fortune is a Backgammon site offering backgammon players the latest information about backgammon tournaments and events as well as backgammon software for real money or just for fun. The site is available in six languages.

All that you have to do play backgammon is download it and install the software and register as a player. Once you are registered you can either play backgammon online for fun money or for real cash.

Mozilla, developer of the popular Firefox web browser, have launched a new related service, Weave. Currently available only as a test version associated with the latest Firefox 3 beta, it should allow users to carry history and bookmarks from one computer to another, as well as share the information with select friends and family; users need only to create a Weave account and download the add-on. To prevent the natural threat of privacy invasion, Weave accounts are password-protected, and encrypted. Weave will run on Windows and Linux systems as well as Macs.

Source: Electronista

Researchers from Google have documented serious vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash content which leave tens of thousands of websites susceptible to attacks that steal the personal details of visitors. The security bugs reside in Flash applets, the ubiquitous building blocks for movies and graphics that animate sites across the web. Also known as SWF files, they are vulnerable to attacks in which malicious strings are injected into the legitimate code through a technique known as cross-site scripting, or XSS. Currently there are no patches for the vulnerabilities, which are found in sites operated by financial institutions, government agencies and other organizations. “Lots of people are vulnerable, and right now there are no protections available other than to remove those SWFs and wait for the authoring tools and/or Flash player to be updated,” says Alex Stamos, an author of the Hacking Exposed Web 2.0 book. “In the mean time, people will have to think: ‘What kind of flash am I using on my site,’ and manually test for vulnerabilities.”

Source: The Register

GIGABYTE has launched an overclocking contest open to anyone in the US or Canada with a GIGABYTE Intel X38 or P35 series motherboard. There is a grand prize of $2,500 for the winner, along with a GIGABYTE X48 motherboard, with the runners-up getting cash prizes ranging from $200 to $2,000 as well as goodies such as laptop bags. The contest involves overclocking your processor and uploading your 3Dmark06 score to GIGABYTE, before going head-to-head against other users, with the overclock receiving the most votes becoming the winner. The contest will run until 20th January next year - for more details, check out this page.

Source: X-bit labs

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Opera Software has updated its web browser, taking it to version 9.25. The changes from the last release (9.24) are as follows:

• Fixed an issue where plug-ins could be used to allow cross domain scripting, as reported by David Bloom.
• Fixed an issue with TLS certificates that could be used to execute arbitrary code, as reported by Alexander Klink (Cynops GmbH).
• Rich text editing can no longer be used to allow cross domain scripting, as reported by David Bloom.
• Prevented bitmaps from revealing random data from memory, as reported by Gynvael Coldwind.
• Fixed a problem where malformed BMP files could cause Opera to temporarily freeze.

You can download the browser from here.