Venom is claimed to be the new Heartbleed threatening datacenters around the world but is it legit?

The new 4k Blu-Ray spec is revealed & the YotaPhone 2 with an E-ink display back is coming to a country near you!

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‘Venom’ Security Vulnerability Threatens Most Datacenters

A new vulnerability found in open source virtualization software QEMU, which is run on hardware in datacenters around the world (CVE-2015-3456). “The cause is a widely-ignored, legacy virtual floppy disk controller that, if sent specially crafted code, can crash the entire hypervisor. That can allow a hacker to break out of their own virtual machine to access other machines — including those owned by other people or companies.” The vulnerable code is used in Xen, KVM, and VirtualBox, while VMware, Hyper-V, and Bochs are unaffected. “Dan Kaminsky, a veteran security expert and researcher, said in an email that the bug went unnoticed for more than a decade because almost nobody looked at the legacy disk drive system, which happens to be in almost every virtualization software.” The vulnerability has been dubbed “Venom,” for “Virtualized Environment Neglected Operations Manipulation.”

• VENOM Vulnerability

Ultra HD Blu-ray specification now complete, logo unveiled – CNET

The Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) has announced the Ultra HD Blu-ray (4K) specification is now complete and has also revealed the next-gen format’s official logo.

The BDA says the format incorporates a 3,840×2,160-pixel resolution, expanded color range support, high dynamic range (HDR) and high frame rate content (read 60fps). As well as the promise of up-to-date video, UHD Blu-ray will also support “next-generation immersive, object-based sound formats.”

YotaPhone 2 adds white color option to AMOLED + E-ink display hardware, Lollipop update rolling out

YotaPhone 2 sports a completely functional 4.7-inch E-ink display with always-on capabilities on its back.

As for the planned North American debut of the unique YotaPhone 2, the company says its Indiegogo campaign to help bring it to the US will kick off on May 19th with early bird pricing for the first backers ahead of its summer release.

ASUS confirms next-gen Android Wear ZenWatch coming early Q3, improved 4-day battery life

ASUS reportedly confirmed that the device will feature improved battery life, up from 2 days on the first-gen ZenWatch to 4 days on the upcoming version. That still falls short of the company’s goal to offer 7-days battery life, according to the report.

The company added that it expects to sell less than a million units of its smartwatch this year.

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Google has big changes planned for Chrome users, Tumblr’s big year & making solar panels more efficient with Blu-Ray discs.

Plus a bonus Kickstarter of the week & much more!

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Google Chrome will block all NPAPI plugins by default in January, drop support completely in September | VentureBeat | News Briefs | by Emil Protalinski

Google today provided an update on its plan to remove Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface (NPAPI) from Chrome, which the company says will improve the browser’s security, speed, and stability, as well as reduce complexity in the code base. In short, the latest timeline is as follows: Block all plugins by default in January 2015, disable support in April 2015, and remove support completely in September 2015.

For context, Google first announced in September 2013 that it was planning to drop NPAPI. At the time, Google said anonymous Chrome usage data showed just six NPAPI plugins were used by more than 5 percent of users, and the company was hoping to remove support from Chrome “before the end of 2014, but the exact timing will depend on usage and user feedback.”

While NPAPI usage has continued declining since then, the drop has not been as quick as Google hoped. The latest usage data (for October 2014) shows the following launch percentages:

• Silverlight (11 percent of Chrome users, down from 15 percent)
• Google Talk (7 percent of Chrome users, down from 8.7 percent)
• Java (3.7 percent of Chrome users, down from 8.9 percent)
• Facebook Video (3 percent of Chrome users, down from 6 percent)
• Unity (1.9 percent of Chrome users, down from 9.1 percent)
• Google Earth (0.1 percent of Chrome users, down from 9.1 percent)

The above six are part of a small number of popular plugins currently whitelisted and allowed by default in Chrome (Silverlight is primarily used by Netflix users, but the company is slowly shifting to HTML5). In January 2015, Google plans to remove the whitelist, blocking all plugins by default.

Users will still be able to allow NPAPI plugins for specific sites by clicking on the “Plug-in blocked” message in the URL bar and choosing “Always allow plug-ins on [website].” Here is how that looks:

In April 2015, this will no longer be an option as NPAPI support will be disabled by default in Chrome and Google will unpublish extensions requiring NPAPI plugins from the Chrome Web Store.

Tumblr Overtakes Instagram As Fastest-Growing Social Platform, Snapchat Is The Fastest-Growing App | TechCrunch

With 1.35 billion active monthly users, Facebook continues to be the world’s largest social network by some margin, but when it comes to picking up new users, it appears to have reached a saturation point. Research out today from the Global Web Index notes that Tumblr’s active user base in the last six months grew by 120%, while Facebook’s grew by only 2%.

And in overall member growth, Pinterest took the lead with 57% growth while Facebook’s member base grew by 6%.

Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube and even Google+ all grew faster than Facebook.

A More Efficient Solar Panel Can Be Made With Old Blu-Ray Discs

A group of researchers at Northwestern managed to make more efficient solar panels based off of the patterns on Blu-ray disc. They began by cutting off the edges a Blu-ray copy of the 1992 Jackie Chan flick _Police Story 3 _and opening up the disc. (It’s actually not a bad movie, especially for those of you into Hong Kong capers.) The researchers were after the quasi-random nanostructure that encode the data on the disc. _IEEE Spectrum _explains why the way data is stored on Blu-ray makes it relevant to solar panels, especially compared to other DVDs.

The researchers then used the open face of the Blu-ray disc to make a mold that was stamped over solar panels, giving the panels the same nanostructure pattern as the original disc. The Blu-ray-patterned solar panels ended up being 12 percent more efficient than smooth ones.

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HashKey: a dedicated 1-key keyboard for the hashtag by Ben Gomori — Kickstarter

We’re finally giving the hashtag its own key. The HashKey is the world’s first one-key USB keyboard – dedicated solely to the hashtag.

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Angela and Chris give out random and ridiculous awards to our audience, who have submitted the projects they plan to work on the next few months! Plus we even slip in a project of our own, and toxic levels of coffee are involved!

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