This week on Lab Rats, Andy and Sean take a look at cars for geeks, and chat with Maurice Cacho who’s been at the Toronto Auto Show checking out all of the new concepts and hot models and the gadgets and gear both under the hood and in the dash.
Lab Rats Episode 67 // April 2, 2007
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There’s a special MacBreak Weekly out and about, this time heralding Apple’s announcement that it will partner with EMI to offer EMI’s entire music catalog on iTunes DRM-FREE! The new DRM-free tracks will be in enhanced AAC but not protected, and will cost about 30 cents more than the regular downloads, at $1.29 a pop. What you do with the tracks from there is totally up to you. Leo Laporte, Merlin Mann,Alex Lindsay, and Jon Gruber all gather around to discuss the announcement, what it means for digital music, and whether or not this is truly the end of the DRM age.
MacBreak Weekly Special Edition // Fixing a Hole
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A new Windows vulnerability has cropped up, and Steve and Leo are here to discuss it with the world – there’s a new zero-day exploit in the wild for all versions of Windows, even if they’re fully patched. From the Security Now site and show notes:
At the end of March, exploitation of a previously (publicly) unknown vulnerability in Windows’ animated cursor (ANI) processing was detected in the wild. This new vulnerability is now being widely exploited to install Trojan malware into unpatched Windows 2000, XP, Server 2003 and Vista systems.
All fully patched Windows systems are currently vulnerable.
Microsoft learned of this vulnerability in all versions of Windows more than three months ago, on December 20th, 2006, but did nothing to protect their customers.
Uh Oh! Check out the show notes for a link to the interim patch, and check out the podcast for the scoop on the vulnerability.
Security Now! Special Edition // The Animated Cursor Vulnerability
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