A Japanese software industry body has decided to ban computer games in which players simulate sexual violence against females, a spokesman said.
The industry move came after a Japanese computer game maker attracted furious protests from US rights campaigners against the game "RapeLay," which lets players simulate stalking and raping young girls.
Google has released Chrome browser test builds for Mac OS X and Linux, but is warning users to beware.
"Unless, of course, you are a developer or take great pleasure in incomplete, unpredictable and potentially crashing software," said product managers Mike Smith and Karen Grunberg. "Among other things, you won't yet be able to view YouTube videos, change your privacy settings, set your default search provider, or even print."
Version 0.99-PE of SAP pen testing tool, sapyto has been released. There are several improvements in this version including:
Google has just opened up to a limited audience its very interesting communications experiment, Wave. We got the chance to evaluate it and were impressed by what we saw. It's a more contemporary take on communications, but will knock many email users off balance.
Even Wave's own software engineering manager, Lars Rasmussen, told us: "It takes a little getting to... We're still learning how to use it." Imagine how everyone else will feel.
Red Condor, the award-winning provider of true hybrid email security solutions, recently released BotHunter, an advanced layer of email security that monitors bot activity in real-time across the Internet. BotHunter is included as part of Red Condor's email security solutions, which include its family of Message Assurance Gateway (MAG) network appliances and Hosted Service. All Red Condor's products come with full functionality and premium fully managed support.
There have been a bunch of Google events recently, covering a range of products, but the same question seems to rise above all others at each of them: When is Chrome coming for the Mac? Even Sergey Brin is asking it. Google has committed to getting the browser running on OS X sometime this year, but after several months in development, it’s still isn’t ready. Today, we get a nice, bland update from Google: “Google Chrome for the Mac is coming along fine,” says a poston the Google Blog.
On the eve of its annual JavaOne conference, Sun has announced a pair of updates for two of its other products. Skip related content
The company said that it would be launching a new consulting and planning service for cloud computing migration to help enterprises adopt new cloud systems. Additionally, the company unveiled the newest version of its OpenSolaris operating system.
Microsoft is really making it hard not to distrust them, aren't they? We already talked about Mono and Moonlight this weekend, and now we're notified of something else. Apparently, the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1, released earlier this year, installs a Firefox extension which could not be uninstalled easily (registry hacking was needed).
BackTrack 4 Pre Final Sneak Peek was released to Informer Blog subscribers last week. Informer, created by Johnny Long and his Hackers For Charity organization, is a fundraising program to help feed children in East Africa, and its blog "is designed to give subscribers a 'backstage pass' to the world of Information Security" by providing access to prereleases of tools, papers, and book chapters.
The Computer Language Benchmarks Game is a collection of 1368 programs, consisting of 19 benchmark reimplemented across 72 programming languages. It is a fantastic resource if you are trying to compare programming languages quantitatively. Which, oddly, very few people seems to be interested in doing.
