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Hydraulic components are the industrial power transmission version of LEGO. Pumps, cylinders, valves – pretty much everything is standardized, and fitting out a working system is a matter of picking the right parts and just plumbing everything together. That’s fine if you want to build an excavator or a dump …read more
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From a backdoor placed in the Webmin utility to vulnerability disclosure drama around zero-days in Valve’s Steam gaming clients, Threatpost breaks down this week’s top stories. Continue reading News Wrap: Linux Utility Backdoor, Steam Zero Day Disclosure Drama
After Valve banned him from its bug bounty program, a researcher has found a second zero-day vulnerability affecting the Steam gaming client. Continue reading Researcher Discloses Second Steam Zero-Day After Valve Bug Bounty Ban
In this transitional period between the gasoline and electric ages, there’s still plenty of room, and plenty of motivation, for last-gasp improvements to the combustion engine – and a Swiss R&D facility says its electro-hydraulic, fully variable valve system is already delivering up to 20-percent fuel consumption reductions in testing.
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Continue Reading Empa’s low-cost FlexWork digital valve train uses up to 20% less fuel in testing
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Continue reading Empa's low-cost FlexWork digital valve train uses up to 20% less fuel in testing
An elevation-of-privilege bug allows attackers to run any program on a target machine with high privileges. Continue reading Gamers Beware: Zero-Day in Steam Client Affects All Windows Users
Set to debut in a new 1.6-liter 4-cylinder Smartstream turbo engine, Hyundai’s new valve tech is able to continuously change the duration of valve openings to suit driving conditions, which Hyundai says results in a 4 percent performance boost, 5 percent better fuel economy and 12 percent lower emissions.
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Continue Reading Hyundai announces “world’s first” Continuously Variable Valve Duration engines
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VR headsets have been seeing new life for a few years now, and when it comes to head-mounted displays, the field of view (FOV) is one of the specs everyone’s keen to discover. Valve Software have published a highly technical yet accessibly-presented document that explains why Field of View (FOV) …read more
Continue reading Everything You Probably Didn’t Know About FOV In HMDs
’Dota Auto Chess,’ a mod of ‘Dota 2,’ which itself is based on a mod for ‘Warcraft 3,’ has millions of players and growing. Continue reading One of the Biggest Games in the World Is a Mod of a Mod
The European Commission is mad at Valve, Capcom, ZeniMax, and other publishers for region-locking activation keys and allegedly preventing cross-border sales. Continue reading The EU Is Pissed at Steam for Region-Locking Games
But Sweeney says it will stop accessing Steam friends lists without permission. Continue reading Epic says its Game Store is not spying on you