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  1. Khronos Brings Vulkan to MacOS

    by , 03-03-2018 at 07:06 AM


    Apple loves to position itself as being on the cutting edge of OS research and development, but its long-term support for graphics APIs it didn’t develop in-house has been generally terrible. macOS is still limited to OpenGL 4.1, which was released in July, 2010. To put this in roughly approximate terms, imagine if Microsoft had quit evolving its graphics APIs with DirectX 11.0 and still expected ...
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  2. Minecraft exploit that made it easy to crash servers gets patched - This vulnerability exists on almost all previous and current minecraft versions

    by , 04-25-2015 at 02:48 AM

    It turns out that for the past two years, you could crash a Minecraft server pretty easily. A security researcher published the exploit Thursday and said he*first discovered it*in version 1.6.2 back in July 2013, which is almost two years ago. He claims Mojang ignored him and did nothing to fix the problem, despite his repeated attempts at following standard protocol ...