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Ubisoft accused of using pirated MP3 files on its own release of Assassins Creed Brotherhood!

Posted by Cartri on May 14, 2011 in Fast News / ReTweets, Project Assassins Creed

What was a simple reddit comment became, in Ubisoft words a “current investigation on the issue”: Ubisoft, one of the biggest creator of games since DirectX 9, has been accused of re-selling torrented music; downloading a torrented version of its own Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood soundtrack and then re-selling it as part of the Digital Deluxe Edition [...]

 
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Firmware Mod To upgrade MacPro4,1 (4/8core) to Macpro5,1 (6/12core) Released @ Netkas.org !

Posted by Cartri on May 12, 2011 in Fast News / ReTweets

GREAT News! Netkas.org user MacEFIRom has released a utility to upgrade your firmware ROM (BIOS/EFI) from your MacPro 2009 to MacPro 2010, allowing the use of 6-core xeon CPUs as possibility. The utility is greatly designed to have no Apple code in it – a reason by which many firmware modders were holding themselves to [...]

 
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CIPAV – Government’s Surveillance Spyware

Posted by Cartri on Apr 30, 2011 in Fast News / ReTweets

Originally posted @ Electronic Frontier Foundation FBI Details on Government’s Surveillance Spyware Commentary by Jennifer Lynch EFF recently received documents from the FBI that reveal details about the depth of the agency’s electronic surveillance capabilities and call into question the FBI’s controversial effort to push Congress to expand the Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act [...]

 
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I.T. Prices to raise? “Conflict Materials”, from Congo’s War to your Mac/PC, will now need a “pitstop” in Asia.

Posted by Cartri on Apr 6, 2011 in Fast News / ReTweets, Ideology

U.S. President Barack Obama has today approved a law in which electronics companies will be required to trace and know the origins of the materials used to make their products. Minerals such as gold, tungsten, tantalum and tin are mined and sold to fund war in Central Africa. While Intel and Apple have recently joined the Conflict-Free [...]

 
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Apple “forbids” Toyota from advertising in CYDIA!

Posted by Cartri on Apr 6, 2011 in Fast News / ReTweets, Gadgets

This Monday, Kyle Matthews, co-founder of ModMyi, has made public that Velti, an advertising agency used by Toyota, has been asked to remove it’s ads from Cydia – The concurrent application store installed on iDevices by Jailbreaking the gadgets. According to the few informations made public, after receiving this request from Apple Inc. , Toyota [...]

 
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OS X 10.7 Lion: Chmod from 775 (admin) to 755 (root only) in many folders. From restriction to hope.

Posted by Cartri on Apr 2, 2011 in Fast News / ReTweets

So, my turn to talk a little about the 10.7 developer preview available from Apple Inc. No, I will let the main subjects (like a possible opening in graphics cards upgrades) to when things are more concrete. But, I cannot let this one pass:   Appstore don’t let you instal 755 files by standard (you [...]

 
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Micro$oft: No httpS for “Rebel” Countries. Learn to reactivate your privacy.

Posted by Cartri on Mar 26, 2011 in Fast News / ReTweets

The “always use HTTPS” option of hotmail, highly used in Tunis and Cairo during the popular revolution, is now unavailable to all countries that are in protests or maybe this month. The heavily criticized decision seems to focus on the new Arab world popular revolutions and international interventions disguised as them to come. The service [...]

 
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UK Anti-piracy solicitors shuts down as anti-piracy case looms

Posted by Cartri on Feb 6, 2011 in Fast News / ReTweets

Some of you may remember some time ago a story that was widely circulated concerning UK law firm ACS Law and their activities with UK net users where demands were made for payment for allegedly downloaded content. Now that same firm is in hot water itself, when 23 users chose to fight the cases and [...]

 
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Apple Founder Steve Woz comes to Brazil to Defend Internet & Development Freedom

Posted by Cartri on Jan 23, 2011 in Fast News / ReTweets, Ideology

Apple Inc. Founder Steve Wozniak gave yesterday at Campus Party – a Technology event based in São Paulo that precedes the International Free Software Forum – a speech defending internet freedom. The lecture, which closes the loop of the fourth edition of the annual event of the geek world, it was inspiring and Wozniak started [...]

 
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FCC Contest Seeks More Data for a Better Net Neutrality

Posted by Cartri on Jan 15, 2011 in Fast News / ReTweets, Ideology

Originally posted @ EFFCommentary by Richard Esguerra Last week, the FCC announced the “FCC Open Internet Apps Challenge,” a contest to attract software that helps ordinary users measure whether their Internet services — both mobile broadband and traditional “fixed” broadband — are consistent with open Internet principles. The FCC is also asking for submissions of [...]