Month: July 2014

July 31, 2014
Ouch! ‘Killer Instinct: Combo Breaker Pack’ coming, starting Sept. 23

“Killer Instinct,” one of the launch games for Xbox One, was recently featured as one of the main events of this month’s Evo 2014 fighting game tournament. Now, the pain train continues its journey: Microsoft Studios and the development team at Iron Galaxy are releasing a special retail version of the game, “Killer Instinct: Combo Breaker Pack” starting Sept. 23 for $19.99.

July 31, 2014
Microsoft responds to warrant case ruling

Read Microsoft Executive Vice President and General Counsel Brad Smith’s response to a federal court ruling in New York on Thursday in the company’s ongoing case challenging a U.S. government warrant for customer data stored in Dublin, Ireland.

July 31, 2014
//oneweek hackathon outcome: ‘As individual parts, we were good; together, we were so much better’

Steve Gleason doesn’t take “no” for an answer. And neither does the Ability Hackathon: Eye Gaze team, one of more than 2,200 participating in this week’s //oneweek hackathon. The Eye Gaze team had set out to do a project to help Gleason, a former pro football player who is living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Gleason’s foundation aims to raise awareness about ALS, as well as to give others living with it the “leading edge technology, equipment and services” they need.

July 31, 2014
EMET 5.0, free tool to help IT defend against cyberattacks, is now generally available

“[Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit] is a free tool, designed to help customers with their defense in depth strategies against cyberattacks, by helping block and terminate the most common techniques adversaries might use in comprising systems,” Chris Betz writes in a blog post. EMET 5.0 “further helps to protect with two new mitigations, and with new capabilities giving customers additional flexibility on their deployments.”