February 27, 2005

Xbox 2 mockup pictures (fake)

Someone with lots of time on hand, or a great love for the Xbox 360 AKA Xbox 2 has created a mockup on the next generation console compliments of a photo editor. It is pretty and that as far as it goes. Microsoft if you were planning anything close to this, please return to drawing board.

Seen at Gizmodo ( Source

update : designed by Rune Larsen using 3DS Max

The Real Xbox 360

The Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system places you at the center of the experience. Available this holiday season in Europe, Japan, and North America, Xbox 360 ignites a new era of digital entertainment that is always connected, always personalized, and always in high definition.

Xbox 360 gives you access to the games you want to play, the people you want to play with, and the experiences you crave—when and where you want them.

February 22, 2005

iPod mini with color screen.

According to Apple leak heaven ThinkSecret, the new iPod mini is expected to be announced within the next two weeks, the mini will remain at 249, expected additions include color screen and video games. - Seen at UberGizmo

SHA-1 broken

Bruce Schneier AKA Mr. encryption in his blog said that a three-person Chinese research team, mostly from Shandong University in China, had been circulating a paper about having broken the SHA-1 algorithm. Paper not yet available to public.

"The research team of Xiaoyun Wang, Yiqun Lisa Yin, and Hongbo Yu (mostly from Shandong University in China) have been quietly circulating a paper describing their results:

collisions in the the full SHA-1 in 2**69 hash operations, much less than the brute-force attack of 2**80 operations based on the hash length.

collisions in SHA-0 in 2**39 operations.

collisions in 58-round SHA-1 in 2**33 operations.
This attack builds on previous attacks on SHA-0 and SHA-1, and is a major, major cryptanalytic result. It pretty much puts a bullet into SHA-1 as a hash function for digital signatures (although it doesn't affect applications such as HMAC where collisions aren't important).

February 17, 2005

Microsoft Xbox 360 details *

Kotaku.com has scored some new information via a secret source on the Microsoft Xbox 360. * I cannot confirm this information so you will have to take Kotaku's word for it. The Juicy details. The Xbox 360 will attempt to cater to men and women by being pretty, gone are the days of the big black box. The new console is a sleek silver and features a design that turns the hard angles of the original Xbox into sweeps and curves. Features include ability to stand upright or on its side, Back-lit power button called the ring of light, case can be customized with colorful designer face plates, customizable dashboard, on the inside the 360 will feature high definition audio and video and wireless controllers and will come with a hard drive or without.

February 9, 2005

no Sirius iPod

Sirius and iPod fans waiting for the announcement of that rumored Sirius iPod, got some good and bad news today, the good news is the rumor had some truth to it, the bad news - it will not happen, Sirius Satellite Radio CEO Mel Karmazin said he has had discussions with Apple's CEO Steve Jobs about the possibility of adding satellite-radio service to iPods.
"I've spoken to Steve Jobs," said Karmazin, speaking Wednesday morning at a media conference in New York. He went on to say that the "current thinking" at Apple is that "they don't need to put a satellite radio in their box."

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