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Don't Panic: Your Apple MacBook won't go BANG!

DaniWeb IT Discussion Community (Featured Entries)  Mon, 07/25/2011 - 15:32

Apple hacking PWN2OWN supremo and security researcher Charlie Miller is preparing to reveal just how to hack an Apple MacBook battery.

Yep, you read that right: Apple battery hacking could be coming to a MacBook near you soon. Well, near you if you happen to be in Las Vegas for the annual Black Hat conference in August that is.

Otherwise, DaniWeb suspects you probably won't see any such thing.


 

Unified phone plugs at last

DaniWeb IT Discussion Community (Featured Entries)  Mon, 06/29/2009 - 11:04

This just has to be one of the best pieces of news ever - there is agreement for a standard for mobile phones.

It's really as simple as that. Here's the story, on the BBC's junior site, would you believe. I just can't work out why it has to be mobile phones only, though.

Of course there are voltage issues but there are voltage issues between different phones. I'm convinced you could do something clever at an electronic item's end rather than at the adapter end so that my new Apple MacBook (arrived ten minutes ago) could have the same adapter as my wireless earphones - or my mobile, or my...


 

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