iPhone 5s Bends Easily, Don’t Wear It in Your Back Pocket

 

I wouldn’t put too much faith in spontaneous-bending claims, but I like how Steve Hemmerstoffer (at Nowhereelse.fr) admits how he bent his own.

A rough translation from French to English reads, “The opportunity for me to remind those who, like me, used to slide the iPhone into one of the back pockets of their jeans it is not advisable to sit on the precious. Judge for yourself by yourself.”

Nvidia: SteamOS Will Redefine the Living Room Experience

Nvidia explained the extent of its involvement in Valve's SteamOS project and has outlined its expectations from the new operating system.
Valve has just published some of the preliminary hardware configurations for the upcoming Steam Machines, which will be running the SteamOS Linux-based operating system.

Adobe Flash Player replacement "Shumway" lands in Firefox 27

Mozilla has taken one giant step closer to making Adobe's Flash Player a thing of the past with the inclusion of their own HTML5 Flash Player called "Shumway".

Shumway landed in Firefox 27 nightly, which has yet to make the Aurora branch, and according to our own tests, even though Shumway can be loaded (it's disabled by default) it's in a "pretty much unusable state" right now.

8 Microsoft patches coming, including Internet Explorer zero-day

On October 8, Microsoft will issue 8 security updates to Windows, Internet Explorer, .NET, Office, SharePoint and Silverlight. This month marks 10 years of Patch Tuesdays.

Microsoft has announced that next Tuesday they will release eight security updates. Windows, Internet Explorer, .NET, Office, SharePoint and Silverlight will all receive updates.

Adobe admits 2.9M customer accounts have been compromised

Adobe announced on Thursday that it has been the target of a major security breach in which sensitive and personal data about millions of its customers have been put at risk.

Brad Arkin, senior director of security for Adobe products and services, explained in a blog post that the attack concerns both customer information and illegal access to source codes for "numerous Adobe products."

iSpy: How the NSA Accesses Smartphone Data

The US intelligence agency NSA has been taking advantage of the smartphone boom. It has developed the ability to hack into iPhones, android devices and even the BlackBerry, previously believed to be particularly secure.

Microsoft offers $200 for used iPads

Microsoft has launched a US marketing offer for people to exchange "gently used" iPads for Microsoft products such as Surface tablets.

The company is offering at least a $200 token to go towards products such as the Surface RT and the Surface Pro.
 
Microsoft is far behind Apple in terms of global tablet sales and market share.

Microsoft re-releases several security patches to fix issues

Last week, Microsoft released 13 security bulletins that were supposed to fix exploits found in various software products. Microsoft was supposed to release 14 of those bulletins but one was pulled at the last minute due to the company finding an issue with that update. As it turns out, Microsoft should have done even more testing on many of the bulletins it did release last week.

“Solar” iPhone 6 Could Be on the Table for 2014

 A new job advert on Apple’s web site may indicate that the Cupertino giant is seeking technical expertise to make a self-powering, “solar” iPhone.

Rumors recently broke out that Apple was already developing a larger iPhone 6, and if the market’s reaction to the latest iPhones is any indication, it most likely is.

Netflix turns to pirates to pick new shows

If you’re wondering which TV shows Netflix hopes to add to its catalog in the coming months, look no further than sites like the Pirate Bay. When the online streaming company wants to figure out what people are watching, Netflix looks at what does well on piracy sites, Netflix vice president of content acquisition Kelly Merryman reportedly told the Dutch-language site, Tweakers.

Prison Break, for example, was “exceptionally popular on piracy sites,” Merryman said. All four seasons of Fox’s drama, which ran from 2005-2009, are currently available through the online streaming service.