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Documentary about Game Development Competition (DARE 2011)
As you know we love our documentaries here at Operation Reality, and of course we also love our gaming, combine the two and well, we’ve got something of real interest. This is why we’re pleased to...
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Unofficial Blender Render Benchmark Site Needs New Maintainer
The current owner of the Unofficial Blender Render Benchmark has chosen to not maintain the site anymore. With this new surprise, Blender is now looking for a new person to maintain the Benchmark...
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Volition Inc. – A Game Developer’s Documentary
Continuing in line with Operation Reality’s love for spreading and showcasing quality documentaries, the other day we came across a great post on Game Informer’s website. A full 1 hour length...
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Google, Facebook and Co. taking the French Government to Court
Google, Facebook, eBay, DailyMotion, PriceMinister and others are a part of more than 20 major internet firms who are taking action against a recent decree by the French government which would force a...
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FBI Malware Warning: Fake Dead Bin Laden Links are Virus
Yesterday the FBI of all unlikely sources confirmed this author’s initial hunch that since Osama Bin Laden’s latest death all those fake ‘shopped photos and videos being furiously sent and circulated...
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Mozilla announces BrowserID alternative SSO to OpenID
Yesterday the Mozilla Labs Identity Team announced their experimental new project called BrowserID to the public. This new open source project is the latest available single sign on (SSO) solution and...
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ESA Summer of Code in Space (SOCIS)
The European Space Agency (ESA) is sponsoring a pilot program run by their Advanced Concepts Team called the Summer of Code in Space or SOCIS for short. The goal of the program is to encourage and...
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US CERT Director Randy Vickers Resigns
Apparently last Friday, the director of the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) Randy Vickers who was in charge since April 2009 abruptly resigned, presumably due to the numerous high...
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Serious Play Conference: A Boot Camp for Serious Games
As all our readers are well aware by now, the video gaming market is in full expansion and shows no signs of slowing down as we recently reported. Due to the staggering advances in hardware and...
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Anonymous Sunday fun: BART Hacked, Defaced and User Data Leaked
Another Sunday and another anonymous op apparently successfully in the bag. This time, as they had announced well in advance that they could be expected, some anonymous individuals targeted the Bay...
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C++0x aka C++11 now an International Standard with Unanimous Approval
On Friday August 12th 2011, the results for the final ISO ballot on C++0x came in, and they (the ISO C++ Standards Committee) were unanimous in favor of approving the new C++0x (for now unofficially...
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Pay-Per-Install: The commoditization of Malware Distribution
Researchers at the ongoing USENIX Security symposium have offered some fresh insight into the specifics of how the malware underworld values compromised computers which are part of the ever growing...
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CryENGINE 3 Free SDK now available for Download
As one of the first online publications to break the story back in back in April of this year and was featured and discussed in depth on Slashdot, we’re now pleased to announce another update on the...
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Apache Killer: Server admins advised of DoS attack tool
A few hours ago Dirk-Willem van Gulik and the Apache team sent out an email advisory to the Apache mailing list warning of a widely available denial-of-service (DoS) attack tool that showed up on...
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Your Future Avatar
New advances in computer and neuroscience are making immortality more possible than ever. That is, if one Russian media-mogul’s vision of the future comes true. At the three-day Global Future 2045...
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JavaScript on the Rise
TIOBE’s Programming Community Index for Q1 2012 shows a strong rise in the popularity of the ubiquitous JavaScript programming language. It’s the first time since the index was established that...
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Mac OSX Flashback Trojan Botnet 600,000+ Strong
Over the past couple days established security experts and firms have been slowly wrapping their head around the zero-day Mac Flashback trojan exploit which a small Russian based antivirus company...
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Twitter Open Sources its MySQL Fork
In sticking with the ideals of Open Source and sharing of knowledge and innovation, Twitter today has open sourced its forked MySQL database implementation which it uses in the Twitter interest graph,...
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Unknown Hackers Compromise Space and Defense Agencies
Unknown hackers early last week claimed to have compromised and stolen data from a range of government agencies and private organizations by alleging to have gained full administrator access to their...
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Robotic Uprising
Technological advances within the last century have been astounding. We’ve moved from horse-drawn wagons to self-driving cars in the blink of an eye; geologically speaking. New ideas and inventions...
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