Check out a video below of some of the first footage of what will soon be the finished game:

It remains to be seen if Duke Nukem will remain relevant in a genre where there has been an awful lot of innovation and iteration since Duke’s last outing, lets hope he gets a game fitting the legacy that Duke left behind, expect to see it in 2011.

The new features contained within iTunes 10 can be seen below:

iTunes 10 comes with many new features and improvements, including:

• Introducing Ping. Use Ping to follow your favorite artists and friends or connect with the world’s most passionate music fans. Discover the music everyone is talking about, listening to, and downloading.

• Rent HD TV episodes for just 99¢ each. Watch them on your Mac or PC, on-the-go with iPhone or iPod touch, or in your living room with the all new Apple TV.

• Play your favorites on the all new iPod touch, iPod nano, iPod shuffle, and Apple TV.

• Play music wirelessly with AirPlay on AirPlay-enabled speakers, home theater receivers, and iPod accessories.

• Explore many look-and-feel improvements throughout iTunes.

• Enjoy performance improvements which make iTunes faster and more responsive.

• Additional voice support with VoiceOver Kit for iPod.

For information on the security content of this update, please visit: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222

Apple has decided to ditch the CD in their new logo, presumably as they see the entertainment industry as a purely digital one and deicded that the CD in the old logo was no longer relevant as iTunes is now much more than just music, you can see the new logo below:

It remains to be seen how much of an impact Ping will have and whether it can compete with the likes of MySpace which has repositioned itself as a more music orientated social networking experience, though with over 160 million iTunes accounts it looks like Apple may have the sheer number of users to be able to make the service a success.

The developers describe Diapsora as a ” privacy-aware, personally-controlled” social network where users are in control of the data they share:

“That means an intuitive way for users to decide, and not notice deciding, what content goes to their co-workers and what goes to their drinking buddies. We know that’s a hard [user interface] problem and we take it seriously.”

“We want to put users back in control of what they share,”

They have announced that they will open source the current codebase for Diaspora on September 15th so we can expect for services using the code to spring u pat around that time, it is exciting times in the social networking world!

It will be interesting to see if this in anyway affects the total number of users subscribing to Microsofts Gold service for Xbox Live and whether users who are currently subscribed will think twice once their current subscription ends.

let us know your thoughts in the comments below.

“The triangle refers to viewpoint; I had it represent one’s head or direction and made it green. Square refers to a piece of paper; I had it represent menus or documents and made it pink. The circle and X represent ‘yes’ or ‘no’ decision-making and I made them red and blue respectively. People thought those colors were mixed up, and I had to reinforce to management that that’s what I wanted.”

So there you have it, nothing mystical in the end or nothing as mundane as picked out of thin air but rather a simple and logical explanation, now if Microsoft can explain A,B,X and Y on their 360 controller or actual reasons for Kinnect existing.

Source: Kotaku

“There are currently 44 million monthly active users of the Facebook for iPhone app. We recently changed the definition of mobile active users to exclude those who have only liked or commented on stream stories. Instead we are counting “active” users as people who have taken explicit actions within an application. This practice is more aligned with how we count overall active users for the site.”

Source: Engadget

Check out the finished pics below and hit the source link for more pictures during the make of the device:

Source: volpinprops

The file opened by the user can be completely harmless, the flaw is that the application launched to handle the file type will inadvertently load a DLL from the working directory.

The flaw can rather easily be implemented by sending the user a link to a networked file, such as say iTunes which was effected by this up until recently, when the program is launched it looks for specific dlls within the directory and loads them into memory, the hacker could replace the dlls within the directory with that of which they have injected malicious code and therefore exploit the users machine:

In practice, this flaw can be exploited by sending the target user a link to a network share containing a file they perceive as safe. iTunes, which was affected by this flaw until last week, is associated with a number of media file types, and each of these would result in a specific DLL being loaded from the same directory as the opened file. The user would be presented with a link in the form of \\server\movies\ and a number of media files would be present in this directory. If the user tries to open any of these files, iTunes would search the remote directory for one or more DLLs and then load these DLLs into the process. If the attacker supplied a malicious DLL containing malware or shellcode, its game over for the user.

This is a fairly serious exploit which effects hundreds of programs on Windows and has made its way into the metasploit program which is an open source program used for penetration testing on systems, now that it is out in the wild im sure we can expect to see hackers starting to take advantage of it.

Source: Metasploit

With Steve Jobs announcing at WWDC in June that they had just sold their 100millionth iOS enabled device it does seem staggering for Facebook to claim 105m active users on the iOS platform, we guess multiple people login from the same device which would mean the actual number of devices with the app installed would be much lower, however it is still quite amazing to think 105m active accounts are accessed from iOS devices, twice that of the next closest device.

Source: mobile-ent