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The BBC had a couple of interesting stories up today –
Microsoft acknowledges Xbox problem with disc drive:
Microsoft has acknowledged that owners of its new Xbox One console are experiencing problems with the disc drive.
Some users say the drive is making very loud noises when they try to insert a disc and in some cases is not reading discs at all.
Microsoft says only a very small number of users are affected.
The Xbox One was launched on Friday and sold more than one million units in the first 24 hours.
I betting on the healthcare.gov site being fixed before this is.
And the latest US export – NSA ‘infected’ 50,000 networks with malware:
The US National Security Agency (NSA) infected 50,000 networks with malware, Dutch newspaper NRC has reported.
The Tailored Access Operations department used it to steal sensitive information, according to a censored slide leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
NRC said 20,000 networks had been hit in 2008, with the program recently expanded to include others in Rome, Berlin, Pristina, Kinshasa, Rangoon.
There is nothing like spreading malware to make the Internet more secure. The last I knew people go to prison for doing this sort of thing.
November 25, 2013 7 Comments
