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AMI BIOS source code and UEFI signing key found on public FTP

AMI BIOS source code and UEFI signing key found on public FTP
  • Posted April 8, 2013, 9:41 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in IT Security
  • The source code and unique UEFI signing test key for firmware developed by American Megatrends Inc. (AMI) has been discovered on an FTP server in Taiwan. What makes the news especially damning is that the sensitive data was allegedly stored…

HTC Facebook smartphone specifications leak

HTC Facebook smartphone specifications leak
  • Posted March 8, 2013, 12:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Mobile Computing
  • Facebook and HTC are reportedly working on a second mid-range social-inspired smartphone tentatively known as the Myst. The gang at Unwired View recently received a specifications list for the device from a previously reliable source and was kind enough to…

Next-gen Xbox details leaked, from someone who claims to have one

Next-gen Xbox details leaked, from someone who claims to have one
  • Posted February 12, 2013, 8:30 AM by Stephen Totilo and Luke Plunkett | Filed in Gaming, Microsoft
  • The next-generation Xbox—the one that will follow the still-popular Xbox 360—will run multiple games at once, require game installations, and will only work when a much-improved version of the popular but divisive Kinect sensor array is plugged in, according to…

HP Pavilion Chromebook detailed in leaked specifications sheet

HP Pavilion Chromebook detailed in leaked specifications sheet
  • Posted January 28, 2013, 3:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Hardware, Mobile Computing
  • HP’s first Chromebook has been ousted ahead of a public announcement thanks to a PDF that was recently discovered on the company’s website. The HP Pavilion Chromebook looks to be in line with similar offerings from the competition albeit with…

Leaked roadmap shows Intel 530 SSDs with SandForce controllers

Leaked roadmap shows Intel 530 SSDs with SandForce controllers
  • Posted January 4, 2013, 5:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Hardware, Industry News
  • VR-Zone has once again shared (Chinese) a possible leaked Intel roadmap, this time showing an Intel "530 series" SSD on the horizon. According to the leaked slide, 80GB and 180GB 530 models could appear as soon as Q1 this year. 2.5"…

Details on Nvidia's Tegra 4 processor leak online, packing 72-core GPU

Details on Nvidia
  • Posted December 18, 2012, 1:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Hardware Breaking News
  • Chinese tech site Chip Hell has leaked what they claim are details about Nvidia’s next generation mobile processor. Codenamed “Wayne”, the Tegra 4 is said to be built using a 28-nanometer manufacturing process, a 4-Plus-1 Quad Core Eagle CPU and…

Leaked marketing video reveals two BlackBerry 10 smartphones

Leaked marketing video reveals two BlackBerry 10 smartphones
  • Posted September 28, 2012, 4:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Mobile Computing
  • An internal marketing video from Research in Motion surfaced on Vimeo last night showing two upcoming BlackBerry 10 smartphones. The clip has since been pulled but not before CrackBerry.com was able to capture several screenshots of what we can expect…

Nokia Lumia 820 and 920 photos leaked via Twitter

Nokia Lumia 820 and 920 photos leaked via Twitter
  • Posted August 31, 2012, 5:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Mobile Computing
  • Nokia’s line of Windows 8 phones will be introduced at a media event scheduled for next week but we’ve already got our first look at what the phones will look like thanks to some early leaks. Twitter user @evleaks recently…

Leaked Kinect 2 image shows up on Twitter, improved detail and depth

Leaked Kinect 2 image shows up on Twitter, improved detail and depth
  • Posted August 10, 2012, 11:05 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Microsoft, Gaming
  • We’ve heard a great deal about Microsoft’s upcoming Xbox 720 gaming console over the past several months including when it might launch but much less of a fuss has been made with regards to the successor to the Kinect motion-sensing…

Full version of Windows 8 leaked to file sharing sites

Full version of Windows 8 leaked to file sharing sites
  • Posted August 2, 2012, 7:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Microsoft, Software Breaking News
  • The final version of Windows 8 has leaked onto the Internet just one day after Microsoft made the upcoming operating system available to OEM partners. The leaked copy is an “N” version of Windows 8 which means it doesn’t include…

Fully assembled iPhone 5 prototype shown off, could this be it?

Fully assembled iPhone 5 prototype shown off, could this be it?
  • Posted July 30, 2012, 2:30 AM by Julio Franco | Filed in Apple, Mobile Computing
  • Apple is hard at work on their next generation iPhone along with iOS 6.0, that's what we know for sure. The rest of the things we hear are mostly speculation that's been piling up for over a year when the company launched the iPhone 4S.

Valve's Steam summer sales plan leaked

Valve
  • Posted July 9, 2012, 11:00 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Gaming
  • Valve’s annual Steam Summer Sale may be a bit behind schedule this year, but fear not as a Reddit member has revealed what is being billed as the complete sale list for summer 2012. The unconfirmed list features 55 games…

Atrix HD accidentally posted early on Motorola's website

Atrix HD accidentally posted early on Motorola
  • Posted July 6, 2012, 7:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Hardware, Mobile Computing
  • A blunder by Motorola has revealed detailed information and product photos of the upcoming Atrix HD smartphone. Astute observers noticed the phone on Motorola’s website, although the product page has since been pulled from the site. Of course, the specifications…

Last.fm becomes latest victim in string of security breaches

Last.fm becomes latest victim in string of security breaches
  • Posted June 7, 2012, 4:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in IT Security
  • A number of high profile websites have fallen victim to security breaches this week and if today’s developments are any indication, it doesn’t look like the end is anywhere in sight. The latest victim is Internet music provider Last.fm who…

Windows 8 Release Preview leaked, Microsoft may raise OEM prices

Windows 8 Release Preview leaked, Microsoft may raise OEM prices
  • Posted May 29, 2012, 5:00 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Microsoft, Software
  • The Chinese version of Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 Release Preview has hit the Web a tad earlier than intended. The leaked ISO has been tested and confirmed legit by various sites, including PCBeta (Chinese) and WinUnleaked (English), and is readily available on popular torrent sites...

Leaked next generation iPhone casing photos validate multiple rumors

Leaked next generation iPhone casing photos validate multiple rumors
  • Posted May 29, 2012, 12:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Apple
  • Two publications have released photos of what their sources claim is the back casing for the next iPhone. If the photos prove to be legit, then so too would be the rumors of a larger handset, a retro aluminum design…

T-Mobile, Verizon Android 4.0 upgrade schedules leaked

T-Mobile, Verizon Android 4.0 upgrade schedules leaked
  • Posted April 30, 2012, 5:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Mobile Computing, Industry News
  • Some Verizon and T-Mobile device owners will be pleased to hear that Ice Cream Sandwich may be making its way to their subsidized smartphone or tablet. Please bear in mind these are rumors and haven't been officially confirmed. ICS, or…

VMware source code stolen by hacker, published online

VMware source code stolen by hacker, published online
  • Posted April 27, 2012, 9:00 AM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in IT Security
  • VMware just became the latest victim of hackers, with the firm acknowledging a breach that resulted in source code for their ESX virtualization products being stolen and posted online. The attack is reportedly the work of a hacker known as…

Rumor: Supposed iPad 3 digitizer photos leaked

Rumor: Supposed iPad 3 digitizer photos leaked
  • Posted March 1, 2012, 4:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Mobile Computing, Apple
  • Fix-iPhones claims to have new photos of the iPad 3's digitizer (the glass front that provides touch-sensitive input). They've posted the photos on their Repair Labs blog along with a link to earlier photos which also claim to reveal the…

AMD Radeon HD 7870 and 7850 full specifications leaked

AMD Radeon HD 7870 and 7850 full specifications leaked
  • Posted February 22, 2012, 2:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Gaming, Hardware
  • As first noted in a leaked roadmap last month and now seemingly confirmed by Chinese website EXPreview.com, AMD is scheduled to release their mid-range HD 7870 and 7850 series graphics cards based on the Pitcairn GPU in March. The latest…

Leaked Far Cry 3 trailer confirms September 6 release date

Leaked Far Cry 3 trailer confirms September 6 release date
  • Posted February 15, 2012, 12:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Gaming
  • A leaked cinematic trailer for Far Cry 3 reveals that the game is due out in September of this year for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC. The clip was originally scheduled to be released tomorrow following a planned…

Insider reveals Facebook's $3.5bn cash hoard

Insider reveals Facebook
  • Posted December 16, 2011, 8:30 AM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in The Web
  • Facebook is sitting on a massive $3.5bn in cash according to a well-placed mole's leaked figures, revealing that the social networking giant is earning considerably more money than first believed.

AMD Trinity APU internal benchmark slides surface

AMD Trinity APU internal benchmark slides surface
  • Posted November 21, 2011, 2:00 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Hardware
  • AMD's upcoming 'Trinity' APU is expected to swing into production as early as January 2012 and arrive in actual products somewhere around late Q1 and early Q2. Although details are rather thin regarding performance, the Turks over at DonanimHaber have…

Leaked slides detail Intel's 2013 Haswell architecture

Leaked slides detail Intel
  • Posted November 9, 2011, 6:00 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Hardware, Industry News
  • We're still roughly five months away from Sandy Bridge's die shrink, Ivy Bridge, but Intel is already preaching the virtues of its 2013 microprocessor technology. Codenamed Haswell, the architecture was first announced during September's IDF with limited info, but freshly…

Motorola Xoom 2 leaked in flyer, priced at €399.90

Motorola Xoom 2 leaked in flyer, priced at €399.90
  • Posted November 1, 2011, 1:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Hardware, Mobile Computing
  • Motorola’s upcoming Xoom 2 tablet has leaked in a flyer from Carphone Warehouse. The ad suggests that we can expect the tablet to launch before Christmas at €399.90 ($546), in Ireland at least. The Xoom 2, or at least one version, will feature an 8.2-inch...

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