Users need to install the update using Terminal. They are advidsed to copy the custom version to the root level and reboot. The full instructions are located at Insanely Mac’s forum.

According to the article at The Register, it is not known whether Apple intended to remove support of Atom processors in 10.6.2.

Source: The Register

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Snow Leopard in Intel Netbooks

“The key problem is that NSA has a dual mission, COMPUSEC, computer security, now called cyber security, and SIGINT, signals intelligence, in other words surveillance,” said Marc Rotenberg of Electronics Privacy Information Center (EPIC).

“The key point is that the NSA is not the right agency to promote computer security in the private sector,” Rotenberg added.

Source: TG DAILY

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No Backdoor in 7

“If the attacker can figure out a flaw in the way IE 8 is actually doing that output encoding and then create a specific string the attacker will know will be transformed into an actual attack, they could use that to input a value … that actually results in an attack firing on the page. This could be a way to introduce an attack into a page that didn’t have a vulnerability otherwise,” said Michael Coates of Aspect Security.

Source: The Register

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XSS Bug in IE8

If Automatic Update is enabled on the operating system, it will be installed automatically says Microsoft.

The ability to suppress backup warnings and waking up a Windows 7 machine at a scheduled backup time as well as instructing it to sleep after the backup finishes are two of the new features of Power Pack 3.

Source: Digital Home

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Windows Home Server PP3

“We also see a reasonable amount of Windows XP (which has been around for eight years) on machines. We expect the natural refresh cycle over the next 12-24 months,” says Microsoft’s corporate vice-president, OEM. Microsoft’s target is to have 7 installed on over 100 PC models.

“We have reached around 80 PC models. The target is well within our reach,” Steven Guggenheimer asserts.

Source: Business Standard

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Windows 7 in Indian Firms

The failure rates according to the article at The Register are:
Acer – 23.3%
Apple – 17.4%
Dell – 18.3%
HP – 25.6%
Lenovo – 21.5%
Sony and Toshiba – between 15.6% to 17.4%

Premium machines only have an 18.1% failure rate. SquareTrade notes that Netbooks are new in the market so it will be interesting to follow how reliable they are over the years.

Source: The Register

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Laptops Survey

The Chinese fonts belong to Zhongyi Electronics and Microsoft believes its license agreement with the firm covered in full their use of the fonts.

Those fonts are not included with Vista and 7.

The article at The Register includes that the source of this news is from a state television broadcaster, CCTV.

Source: The Register

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XP Sales Halted in China

It is a similar breach in Windows Vista.

“We’re aware of this workaround and are already working to address it,” said a Microsoft spokesperson to The Register.

The hack nullifies the sppcompai.dll which bypasses product activation and licensing in three different technologies.

Source: The Register

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Windows 7 Product Activation Bypass

Chrome 4.0 is only available at the moment as a beta for Windows users.

A new BrowserActions tool is included with the web browser and an ad broker wants many developers to experiment with it now.

Google Chrome’s product manager Nick Baum said that the wait is nearly over. “The earlier you switch [to BrowserActions], the more time you will have to polish your experience for our beta launch in early December .We realise this means dropping Mac support for a couple of weeks, but we already have people working on that. If you prioritise the Windows and Linux versions, we’ll bring you cross-platform parity as soon as we can!” he said.

Source: The Register

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Google Chrome Beta for Mac

The article at The Register notes that the crash would happen without a visible indication that something is wrong with the user’s PC.

Laurent Gaffié has posted a proof of concept code. The white hat security researcher writes, “Whatever your firewall is set to, you can get remotely smashed via IE or even via some broadcasting nbns tricks, [with] no user interaction.”

He previously highlighted flaws that have a greater risk in terms of code execution two months ago.

Source: The Register

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Windows 7 Remote Vulnerability