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It's one thing to play in a normal sandbox and other to have one that lets you build things on a massive scale without any chance of getting sand and water all over you.
Kids, of course, love to play in sandboxes anyway. Some even prefer being dirty to cleanliness, for some obscure reason. Maybe they feel more... |
7 May 2012
15:11 GMT |
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Google Chrome has finally been pwned, several successful exploits were presented during Pwn2Own and the Google-hosted Pwnium competitions that took place last week at the CanSecWest.
In the official competition, which pits browsers against skilled hackers who try to exploit bugs and vulnerabilities to take over the... |
12 March 2012
10:41 GMT |
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avast! 7 moved very fast from beta to RC development stage and this rapid progress is due to the fact that the company plans to launch the stable version sooner than you might expect. They will also present the new features at the upcoming RSA conference in San Francisco next week.
The current release candidate, 7.0... |
23 February 2012
05:02 GMT |
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Security-conscious Firefox users have something to be glad about, there is now a sandboxed Flash Player plugin for their browser. This new plugin isolates web content from the rest of the system, greatly limiting the potential danger of any malicious Flash file.
A similar feature had been available for Google Chrome... |
7 February 2012
08:51 GMT |
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The move to the new rapid release cycle has definitely spurred new blood into Firefox development. Firefox 10 is around the corner, even as Firefox 4 landed less than a year ago. In that time, the browser has evolved, it's faster, less memory hungry and boasts plenty of new features as well as better support for... |
23 January 2012
16:21 GMT |
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Rockstar Games have launched the 10 year anniversary version of Grand Theft Auto III, the highly acclaimed and highly controversial sandbox action game originally released in 2001.“Welcome to Liberty City. Where it all began,” reads the iTunes Preview description. “Rockstar Games celebrates the 10th... |
15 December 2011
04:55 GMT |
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The latest Kaspersky Internet Security brings in a new layout, fit for any sort of user. It features comprehensive protection on all fronts and carries a bag of tools designed for optimizing your PC’s performance.
It comes at a price of $59.95 (€45) and despite being a protection suite installation is a b... |
3 October 2011
11:44 GMT |
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The upcoming Dead Rising 2: Off the Record video game, arriving from Capcom Vancouver and published by the Japanese company itself, will feature an open Sandbox Mode, without any sort of time limit, which means players can just fight against the legions of zombies without any other worry.
Dead Rising games have im... |
30 August 2011
03:55 GMT |
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The newly launched Safari 5.1 features sandboxing technology which promises to protect Mac OS X Lion users from web-based exploits that might try to infect them with malware.In computer programming, sandboxing refers to the practice of isolating a process by placing in into a restricted environment. A sandboxed proce... |
21 July 2011
08:08 GMT |
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Adobe is expected to release scheduled security updates for Adobe Reader and Acrobat next Tuesday in order to patch critical security vulnerabilities.Updates will be made available for Adobe Reader X (10.0.1) for Windows and Adobe Reader X (10.0.3) for Macintosh; Adobe Reader 9.4.3 and earlier versions for Windows an... |
10 June 2011
11:55 GMT |
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We recently had the chance at the Hack in the Box 2011 security conference in Amsterdam to speak about PDF malware with security researcher Didier Stevens. But Mr. Steve Adegbite, a senior security strategist at Adobe Systems, was also on site to speak on a much awaited panel, so we took the opportunity to learn his ... |
3 June 2011
09:40 GMT |
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Google Chrome's security engineers reject the claim that French vulnerability research outfit VUPEN Security broke out of the browser's reputed sandbox.Google's experts claim that this wasn't an attack against the Chrome sandbox itself, but against the Flash Player plug-in bundled with the browser... |
16 May 2011
07:54 GMT |
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Google engineers are planning to move the entire Chrome browser to Native Client (NaCl), a new and more powerful sandboxing technology that is currently being developed by the company.Google Chrome is already being revered as the most secure browser due to the sandbox that separates its rendering processes from the r... |
12 May 2011
13:09 GMT |
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Security researchers from French vulnerability research outfit VUPEN Security claim they managed to exploit Google Chrome and execute arbitrary code by breaking out of the browser's reputed sandbox.The researchers have published a video of the exploit they developed in action against Chrome 11.0.696.65 running o... |
10 May 2011
03:22 GMT |
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The next version of avast! Antivirus will feature sandboxing virtualization technology that will allow users to open suspicious programs securely and will be the first implementation of this kind in a free anti-malware solution.With its free product having a user base of over 130 million, Czech-based AVAST Software i... |
24 January 2011
13:11 GMT |
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Google has released the beta version of Google Chrome 9 for early adopters, whose Windows version features a sandboxed Flash Player plugin.The plan to add Flash Player under Chrome's sandbox was announced back in March and the effort began by creating a Flash plugin version ships with the browser by default.Sinc... |
16 December 2010
11:55 GMT |
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Google has released new dev and canary builds of its Chrome browser, which contain a sandboxed Flash Player version developed in collaboration with Adobe. In software development, sandboxing refers to the practice of isolating processes and strictly controlling their interaction with the operating system. This kind... |
2 December 2010
09:51 GMT |
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Google is well on its way of delivering on the promise of sandboxed Flash content in Chrome, as the technology has been enabled by default in Chromium over the weekend.Back in June, Chrome has began bundling a special Flash Player plug-in designed by Adobe to make use of the new Pepper Plugin API (PPAPI).At the time,... |
15 November 2010
08:57 GMT |
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Not long ago, Crytek surprised the PC gaming community by announcing that Crysis 2 would take place in the urban environment of New York City. Compared with the original Crysis that took place on a completely open island, where you could go and do anything and anywhere, skyscrapers taking over palm trees and thick bu... |
19 February 2010
06:32 GMT |
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After a long line of delays, while Microsoft has finally a set launch date for Alan Wake, one that it might just keep to this time, just a few days ago, the publisher announced that the survival thriller wouldn't be making an appearance on the PC anymore. But with the game now an Xbox 360 exclusive title, it loo... |
17 February 2010
02:44 GMT |
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While Assassin's Creed II isn't available for the PC yet, and it won't be either until March 16 next year, console gamers are up to their knees in Italian assassinations, but not in the La Piovra way. Not only that, but there are also two new DLCs in the works for the game, and they'll only be ava... |
17 December 2009
04:03 GMT |
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GTA IV really turned out to be a great hit. It surpassed GTA III, which is in itself a great thing, not because GTA was such a great game, which it was, but because sequels are usually bad. Not worse than the previous release, but standalone bad, without the need for any comparison. So every time a game that has a nu... |
15 October 2009
15:31 GMT |
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According to officials at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, the Martian rovers' twin test brother is finally located in its sandbox at the laboratory, ready to begin its investigations into how to extract Spirit from its sandy trap. Since May 6th, the most battered rover of the MER mi... |
1 July 2009
04:51 GMT |
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Open-world games are the latest fashion these days, courtesy of Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto series, which practically wrote the book on how characters could interact in an open-world environment and, eventually, set up their own criminal network that would completely favor them. But even though GTA is the bench... |
17 April 2009
04:18 GMT |
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Open-world games are the latest fashion these days, courtesy of Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto series, which practically wrote the book on how characters could interact in an open-world environment and, eventually, set up their own criminal network that would favor them completely. But even though GTA is the bench... |
10 April 2009
16:31 GMT |
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A few gaming genres are currently dominating the market. Besides the ever so popular music games, we also have racing and sandbox titles, which try to offer the player a great, adrenaline-filled experience in an open world.As Midway couldn't convince movie star Vin Diesel to take up singing, it settled with two ... |
10 April 2009
05:28 GMT |
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Sandbox adventure games have been, for quite some time, synonymous with Rockstar's very popular Grand Theft Auto franchise. Since GTA III, a first 3D installment in the series, people have always weighed other titles against it, with the most common result being that these titles couldn't compare to it. Wit... |
6 February 2009
04:59 GMT |
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Bungie and Microsoft have offered small bits of information on the upcoming Mythic Map Pack set to be delivered for Halo 3 before the official release of Halo 3: ODST, the expansion pack scheduled for later this year. The information appeared originally on an Xbox blog from Austria, but Bungie is now offering a lot o... |
30 January 2009
04:20 GMT |
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The Grand Theft Auto franchise is probably one of the most popular series of games out there. It has single-handedly shaped the genre of sandbox titles, and has won over thousands of fans across the world. With its latest release, Grand Theft Auto IV, the developers at Rockstar took the realism it portrayed in other ... |
6 January 2009
04:00 GMT |
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The open-world sandbox game genre is a pretty big one, with quite a lot of titles promising to deliver the most realistic world to the players. However, as the Grand Theft Auto franchise has set the benchmark in regard to the most realistic sandbox experience, other developers can only try to bring something new. Th... |
30 December 2008
02:27 GMT |
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The first Saints Row game was a pretty entertaining one – it didn't take itself too seriously, yet it attracted players who, at that time, were still waiting for Grand Theft Auto IV to appear. The second game in the franchise, which was recently launched, managed to achieve some very decent sales and, with... |
29 October 2008
03:13 GMT |
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Facebook announced the start of a program that would enable users to connect to other online applications and websites, without the need to authenticate their sessions each time they log on. Through feeds, Facebook users can now connect and share different information from partners like CBS.com, Red Bull, Twitter, Di... |
24 July 2008
05:15 GMT |
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Some would really love to know that "This is Spartaaa", but Midway wants to prove that, actually, This is Vegas and it is much better. Dubbed as a game which is able to compete head to head against Grand Theft Auto IV, Midway's sandbox title seems to get its inspiration from Take Two's game even when it com... |
3 July 2008
04:50 GMT |
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