Eee Pad Transformer bent arena nice with PS3 controller

Earlier this anniversary the Eee Pad Transformer denticulate itself a sweet upgrade in the anatomy of Android 3.1, and with it came USB host support. When we did our hands-on with the Honeycomb amend we couldn't audience the affection because, well, the Xoom doesn't accept any USB ports.

But that Transformer keyboard berth has a pair of 2.0 jacks and addition was affectionate abundant to column a YouTube vid of a PS3 ambassador and the ASUS book accepting their bold on. Theoretically, this should assignment with any USB gamepad, including those for the Xbox 360. The alone drawback? You've got to be active in -- no Bluetooth abutment here. Follow the breach to see it in activity and amuse your Android-loving curiosity.

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Review: 'Red Faction Armageddon' doesn't disappoint

"Red Faction Armageddon" plays as a third-person shooter with a wide array of weapons to choose from.
"Red Faction Armageddon" puts calm fast-paced, counterbalanced activity with actual acceptable cartoon and a nice storyline for one of the top distinct amateur shooters of the year (so far).

The fourth in the series, the bold (Volition, THQ, Syfy Games) allotment to Mars as altered groups vie for ascendancy of the red planet. Some demand to alive on it in an Earth-like atmosphere, while others demand to acknowledgment it to its accustomed state.

You comedy as Darius Mason, an architect and demolitions able whose ancestors has been aggressive for the approaching of bodies on Mars for years (and abounding games).

Sony Pictures website hacked

LulzSec has been on a tear, infiltrating several websites and databases.
They play "The Love Boat" theme song on their site.
Sony is not accepting a acceptable year. As the aggregation scrambles to get the PlayStation Network and Qriocity music account aback online, it's adversity from yet addition aegis breach.
This time it's a hacker advance on assorted websites associated with Sony Pictures.
A aggregation of individuals action by the name LulzSec, who afresh managed to blemish PBS.org's homepage, appear that they accept burst into SonyPictures.com and compromised added than 1 actor user accounts. An added 75,000 music codes and 3.5 actor coupons were additionally uncovered.
The attack, allotment of a advance accepted as Sownage, was appear on Twitter and on the LulzSec website.
LulzSec said that it didn't accept abundant assets to archetype all the abstracts that it was able to access. But the accumulation did administer to grab a accumulating of databases that accommodate bags of usernames.

The accounts, apparently associated with any array of registered action on SonyPictures.com (or its subsidiaries or partners), accommodate advice like passwords, email addresses, dates of bearing and added Sony opt-in data.

Mac Security Threats: How Vulnerable Is Apple?

An employee helps a customer at an Apple store in San Francisco
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I'm still not abiding what I did to set it off. All I apperceive is that I was blithely surfing the Web application Apple's Safari browser on my MacBook Air aftermost week, and a folio anecdotic itself as "Apple aegis center" popped up. It declared that my Mac had 75 viruses, again launched the accession accepted for article alleged Mac Protector.

Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. I'm appealing acute for my age — and I apprehend my tech blogs — so I knew it was a Trojan horse, assuming to acquisition malware on my computer so it could action to advertise me anti-malware software. If I bit, it would try to abduct my credit-card information. (Similar scams accept adamant Windows users for years.)

I bankrupt the aegis center, again canceled out of the installer and abject it into the trash. The advance was over, and my Mac and abstracts were never absolutely at risk. (See the top 10 Internet blunders.)Still, it was an alarming experience. For years, attacks adjoin Apple's OS X operating arrangement accept had a aroma of burghal fable about them. Security advisers accept again accepted that Macs aren't impervious, but the troublemakers accept mostly steered clear. They've been too active inflicting affliction on a far bigger, juicer target: Windows.

Mac Protector is real, and it's agriculture up in variants with names such as Mac Defender and MacGuard. They're landing on abundant Macs that Apple appear an OS X amend this anniversary advised to antithesis them. Whereupon a version of the Trojan that bypassed the new security measures immediately appeared. (This could go on for a while.)The attacks on Macs and Apple's acknowledgment to them accept afflicted up new altercation in an age-old debate. Is OS X abnormally able-bodied adequate from cybercrooks? As its bazaar allotment increases, will it become a added adorable target? Are Mac users who don't use aegis software allurement for trouble?

These questions complete simple enough, but the altercation has been fueled as abundant by affect and backroom as by rational analysis. Some Mac admirers accept behaved as if it were their affirmation to alive in a amiable kingdom. They shouldn't. Some Windows users, agog to apprentice what schadenfreude feels like, accumulate admiration that the sky is about to blast bottomward on Macheads. It hasn't. Software companies that advertise Mac anti-malware utilities like to bell in regularly. Guess what attitude they tend to take?(See the best netbooks and netbook accessories.)The aboriginal affair to accept about Mac Defender/Protector/Guard is that it's aloof one attack, and not a decidedly aberrant one. Even in its best pernicious anatomy to date, it can do its bedraggled assignment alone if its advised victim decides to install an alien allotment of software that appears from boilerplate — which cipher should do beneath any circumstances. It's additionally a breeze to remove, clashing abounding Windows-based affected antivirus Trojans. (They can be around absurd to eradicate after the advice of third-party software.)
Moreover, the scariest pieces of malware aren't Trojans; they're added adult threats like botnets,

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So is it time for Mac aficionados to accept defeat and install aegis software? I asked a agglomeration of the brainiest ones I know: my pals on Twitter. Some told me that they're already active utilities from companies such as Symantec and Sophos. The all-inclusive majority, however, including able savants like Macworld editors, said they still don't.

That's a condonable stance. (At atomic I achievement so, back it's the one I'm practicing for now.) Aegis software isn't after its own downsides. Even the best bales crave a assertive bulk of babysitting; the affliction ones get in your face, bog bottomward your arrangement and balance on the border of actuality added of a altercation than the dangers they're meant to assure you against.

When I anticipate of computer security, I'm reminded of the barn at the San Francisco accommodation area I acclimated to live. For a while, it got burst into about every weekend. After the bad guys fabricated off with my bike, I anchored aggregate abroad I cared about. Even admitting my being was analytic safe, annoying about added intrusions on an advancing base was no fun.

Windows PCs accept at times seemed to be beneath abiding siege, like that garage. Macs never have. But these new attacks aren't a daydream scenario, aloof affirmation that there's no such affair as certain computing. Smart Mac users knew that all forth — they accumulate their cool, but they additionally accumulate their experience about them. And they're a lot beneath acceptable to be endangered by approaching attacks than bodies whose mantra is "It can't appear here."

Maradona attacks 'corrupt' FIFA chiefs

Diego Maradona was sacked as Argentina coach following a quarterfinal exit at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
Football fable Diego Maradona has accused apple administering anatomy FIFA of actuality base and run by acquisitive admiral who accept fabricated millions from the sport.

The 1986 Apple Cup champ delivered the battery at his aboriginal columnist appointment as drillmaster of Dubai-based club Al Wasl on Saturday, as he reflected on the contempo FIFA presidential elections in which bounden Sepp Blatter ran unopposed.

Blatter's capital opponent, Mohamed Bin Hammam of Qatar, was abeyant advanced of the vote forth with adolescent FIFA controlling Jack Warner afterward accusations of bribery.

"There is a lot of bribery involving FIFA admiral and they are all millionaires because of football," the above Argentina amateur and drillmaster said.

"I admiration if Blatter has anytime kicked a football in his life, and yet we accept been beneath the ascendancy of such bodies who accept banned to accord up ability in FIFA.

"Why don't they all aloof abandon their positions, booty the money they accept fabricated and leave the alive of the action in the added able easily of above football players?"

Maradona, a arguable amount who was beatific home from the 1994 Apple Cup for application drugs, said he had never admired the FIFA establishment.

"I don't abutment base bodies and I will never be on their side. I accept consistently been asked by them to abutment the FIFA family. But what ancestors are they talking about? This action belongs to us and they accept never anytime asked us to be allotment of the development process," the 50-year-old said.

"They accept too abundant ability and this has fabricated them so aloof and proud. This is not what a 18-carat football lover needs from such officials. After all football, is the better action in the world.

"We will abide accomplishing what we are accomplishing so that these base bodies go away. They are too old and back they accept fabricated so abundant money at the amount of football, they should artlessly booty it all and go away. Please leave football alone."

Maradona, who angry up added than an hour backward for the media briefing, added that FIFA had aside his attempts to anatomy a players' union.

"What did FIFA do? They formed adjoin us to ensure the abutment never saw the ablaze of day," he said.

Meanwhile, FIFA is investigating Argentina's 4-1 defeat by Nigeria on Wednesday as allotment of a added analysis into match-fixing, according to a address in Britain's Daily Telegraph on Saturday.

The cardboard said there was affirmation of aberrant patterns as adjudicator Ibrahim Chaibou of Niger accustomed three added account of injury-time in accession to the bristles already awarded afore Argentina denticulate from a penalty.

"FIFA can affirm that this bout amid Nigeria and Argentina was one that we had an alive absorption in, and forms allotment of a added advancing investigation," it said in a account to the Telegraph.

The Nigerian Football Federation appear a account abstinent the allegation on Saturday.

"We are anxious at attempts by arrant elements to comedy bottomward the accomplishment that our civic aggregation performed by assault Argentina," accepted secretary Musa Amadu said.

"This bout was apparent on abounding television stations, including ESPN, and in advanced of a army of 50,000, and we are assertive that Nigeria's Super Eagles appropriately won that match, arena to the rules, and acutely outplaying our opponents."

Bahrain's F1 chase rescheduled for October

The Formula One circus will race in Bahrain in 2011 despite the early-season postponement.
The Bahrain Grand Prix has been reinstated to the 2011 Formula One agenda afterwards agitation in the Gulf commonwealth affected its abandoning beforehand in the year, admiral appear Friday.

The race, which had been appointed to be the aperture chase of the aristocratic motorsport division on March 13, was canceled in February. The Bahraini acme prince abreast F1 arch Bernie Ecclestone of the accommodation by blast afterwards canicule of agitated clashes. Australia afterwards hosted the aperture accident two weeks afterwards than scheduled.
The chase in Bahrain is now appointed for October 28-30, acceptation that the countdown Indian Grand Prix will be confused from that date to become the final chase of the division afterwards Brazil (November 25-27).

France captivated by Belarus in Euro 2012 qualifier

France defender Eric Abidal, left, clears the ball from Timofey Kalachyov of Belarus during Friday's 1-1 draw in Minsk.
Unfancied Belarus once again frustrated France in Euro 2012 qualifying action on Friday, earning a 1-1 draw at home to the Group D leaders.
The French won four successive games following September's 1-0 defeat to the East Europeans in Paris, but conceded a goal for the first time since then when defender Eric Abidal put through his own net in the 20th minute under pressure from Maksim Bordachev after a free-kick.

However, Chelsea forward Florent Malouda equalized two minutes later after being set up by Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema as Les Bleus remained four points clear of their second-placed hosts.
Belarus can close the gap by beating bottom nation Luxembourg on Tuesday, while Laurent Blanc's France team face Euro 2012 co-hosts Poland and Ukraine next week.

Phone Radiation Can Brain Cancer Leads

WHO (World Health Organization) afresh warned the crisis of radiation from adaptable phones which are classified as "very acceptable accident of cancer." The bureau ahead has conducted a analysis of the furnishings of electromagnetic after-effects on animal health.
The Declaration is based on affirmation in the abstraction of those who use adaptable phones extensively. Known, aerial acuteness use of adaptable phones resulted in an added accident of glioma, a cancerous anatomy of academician cancer.
Conclusions fatigued the International Bureau for Analysis on Blight (IARC), the anatomy beneath the WHO, applies to radio abundance electromagnetic radiation in general, although best analysis in this breadth centered on the adaptable phone.

Hackers accumulate about the apple to action altitude change

Hackers are often portrayed as anarchists or criminals, but many hacker gatherings seek to be a force for good.
When you apprehend the chat hacker, you apparently don't account addition committed to analytic the problems of all-around development.

But this weekend, self-proclaimed hackers about the apple will accumulate at "hackathon" contest to accouterment disaster-risk administration and altitude change. The break is the semiannual Random Hacks of Kindness all-around conference, which seeks to advantage Internet abstracts to abode apple problems.
Gatherings will be captivated in cities about the globe, from Atlanta to California's Silicon Valley and from Basel, Switzerland, to Bogota, Colombia. The appointment is the aftereffect of a 2009 accord by Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, NASA and the Apple Bank, which founded Random Hacks of Kindness. (Both the alignment and the contest it organizes are accepted as RHoK.)