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A new exploit allows attackers to bypass UAC and execute code with administrative privileges. The good news, Microsoft says, is that it does not allow remote code execution on its own. So when patch day comes around don’t be lazy and keep ignoring it for 4 hours at a time for a week...

Bioware co-founder says what disappoints him about the industry today is there are too many good games, and it’s hard to keep up. When asked what he liked most about the industry, he once again says “all the great games.” Well played, I agree it can be sort of a double edged...

Both PayPal and eBay are reporting substantial growth in online sales traffic compared to 2009’s Black Friday. PayPal reported a 27% increase in total payment volume, with mobile shopping seeing a 310% increase!

An online retailer has a unique business plan: get a whole mess of complaints to rise up in Google pagerank. Tip: Make sure you research before you buy!

http://thenextweb.com/us/2010/11/14/godaddy-was-just-testing-co-default-for-new-domains-switches-back-to-com/

AOL had no decisive path / goals after the dial-up days.

Because why not? Lasers are definitely [H]ard.

AMD has officially delayed Cayman until December 13th. Hopefully when it comes out next month we’ll see some impressive numbers worth the wait.

Is there anything Tetris can’t do? A new study from Oxford University shows that playing Tetris can help prevent flashbacks associated with post-traumatic stress disorder.

AOL is trying to raise their once-glorious email from the ashes with Project Phoenix. The main aspects of the redesign are speed and social integration.

The man responsible for the infamous “Antennagate” issues has recently jumped aboard the Cisco boat as Vice President of Cisco’s Silicon Switching Technology Group.

THQ CEO Brian Farrell thinks $60 is just too expensive. Their upcoming game will be at a $40 price point with the goal of capturing more users and making money with the use of DLC. An interesting experiment!

Netflix is struggling with bringing their streaming service to the Android platform. The main obstacle is the lack of a common DRM system Netflix requires in order to obtain content from the major studios.

Last week all of the employees received a bonus + 10% raise, and now the top executives are getting a pay bump from $500,000 to $650,000. Must be nice working for Google, I was already sold once I learned of the nap pods!

Clocking in at a blazing 128 MHz with 3 megs of flash memory, the 2011 Buick Regal will claim the crown for the car industry’s fastest processor.

Due to most .com names already taken, Go Daddy has switched to .co as the default choice for their search box. Any bets on how long we have until domain squatters have taken all of the good .co names as well?

On Wednesday Skyfire began selling a web browser in Apple’s App Store which would let users view Flash content by translating the videos into the native H.264 codec. Within five hours the app was pulled by the developer since their servers could not meet demand. Boom!

Adafruit had offered up a $2,000 prize for an open-source Kinect driver, and apparently someone has already delivered. Will be interesting to see where this goes.

Security researchers have started seeing malware with fake administration consoles. These fake consoles feed the attacker false/random exploit statistics while gathering and sending back detailed information to the malware author. Once a threat is detected, the entire botnet will DDoS the...

Mitchell L. Frost, age 23, admitted to initiating Denial of Service attacks on web servers hosting websites for several conservative figures and for operating a botnet. He also admitted to initiating a DDoS on the University of Akron which cost the University $10,000 to restore network services...

Hulu, NBC and other content providers are blocking Google TV devices by checking against Flash version IDs. Lawyer fun in 3, 2, 1..

Well, welcome to [H]ard! New to the forums or site in general?

Nvidia gave conference-goers a tease of their new flagship GPU, suspected to be the GTX 580 we posted last week. A vapor chamber cooling solution that not only offers cooler operating temperatures, but also is seven decibels quieter than the GTX 480, some performance graphs, a tessellation demo...

Today’s counterfeiters have it easy. Back in the day you had to be crafty and make, design them yourself. Now-a-days punk kids just print them off.

The folks at ifixit have done a nice write-up on the disassembly of a Kinect. Two cameras, an IR projector, accelerometer and four microphones are at the core of the machine. The good news is that there is no soldering required and the device is highly modular, so replacing components...

Paid search management platform provider Marin Software has found that ad impressions have increased by more than 9% since the introduction of Instant, while click-throughs have increased by more than 5%. What does this mean for Google? Only about $5 million a week in increased revenue!

These electric locomotives are pretty darn neat.

Amtrak has commissioned Siemens to build 70 Cities Sprinter ACS-64 electric locomotives for use in the U.S. Northeast Corridor. Operating at speeds over 100mph, the locomotives also boast many safety upgrades as well.

While Microsoft’s revenue and profits have been fantastic these past fiscal quarters thanks mostly to Windows 7, their Online Services section has been burning through cash. This time Online Services reported a $560 million loss, with the same quarter from last year having a $477 million...

NordicHardware has a good article clearing some of the mystery behind the GTX 580 rumors. Utilizing all of its CUDA cores, higher clock frequencies, and the sacrificing of High Performance Computing functionality for increased retail-presence is shaping up to make this card a monster. The launch...

Russian-Armenian Botnet operator Georg Avenesov is believed to have made up to $140,000 a month by renting and selling parts of his botnet. That number is likely to be exaggerated, but even taking that into consideration it’s still impressive.

In the first three quarters of 2010 Google has spent $1.6 billion on forty companies with the largest acquisition being AdMob at $681 million.

Ncell and TeliaSonera have teamed up to install 3G internet at the Mount Everest base camp which will cover the entire mountain and surrounding area. Climbing the mountain takes time, and no one should have to go that long without their pron!

The open source Facebook alternative has been delayed again. The public alpha server is now aimed for a Thanksgiving release. I personally think Diaspora has missed their opportunity. For awhile there the media was really creating quite a buzz about Facebook privacy concerns, but most of that...

Well played!

Aram Bartholl, as part of an art project, has embedded multiple USB drives in walls and curbs throughout New York. I don’t know about you guys, but I’m not going to plug my computer into some random public USB.

I figure everyone might need a little help perfecting their costume, so here’s a video on how to create authentic and realistic horror-film blood.

One of PayPal’s competitors dropped off 600lbs of ice outside of a PayPal conference earlier this week letting everyone know that “PayPal freezes your accounts.” What a cool idea.

Not everyone likes good games ;)

Within mere weeks of the Mann-Conomy update for Team Fortress 2, the first five people that released content have made between $39,000 and $47,000 each.