Technogaze

3 May 2014

Games, Games, Games, ATM Skimming, Myki, IE security flaw and Facebook does anon

Technology

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All seats were filled in the studio this week with Mark, Raena, Johnny & Michael gazing into the world of consumer electronics, gadgets, technology and GAMES.

Yes, we had a very special gaming episode unearthing the fate of ‘ET the game’ with the discovery of dumped cartridges in landfill in New Mexico. Zero Suit Samus is the latest game to be accused of sexism with its main character being slimmed at the hips, expanded in the chest and wearing rocket propelled heels. On the definitely maybe happening front, the games world is looking forward to the followup of the Mass Effect trilogy – will it be called Mass Effect 4?

An Internet Explorer zero day exploit prompted Microsoft to issue an out-of-band patch to it’s browser. This exploit affects all versions of IE from 6 onwards and in an unusual move it even provided a patch for Windows XP – the OS that it de-supported only last month. Please ensure that you update your Windows computers.

On the banking front, the Commonwealth bank is looking to counteract recent ATM skimming fraud by letting you use your mobile phone to get cash from ATMs. Myki is in the news again with PTV looking to introduce new gates at stations that are 20% faster than current ones. We also explored the reaction of the NSW Department of Transport to UberX – the ride sharing variant from Uber.

Changes to Facebook will mean that in the future when using your Facebook logon to access other websites, you can choose how much of your Facebook information you will share with the website or even logon anonymously.

In wrapping up, even Michael (renowned for his lack of cat affection), was excited by the prospect of remotely playing with cats using a new Kickstarter project – Kittyo.

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