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How’s this for an undocumented feature? Apple’s newer MacBook, MacBook Air and MacBook Pro notebooks have a security flaw that can allow hackers to remotely prevent the batteries from charging. Better yet, hackers can exploit the same flaw and remotely cause batteries to explode. Apple laptops’ new “smart” battery technology is intended to provide added control over power management, and it does just that. Unfortunately, it also gives hackers added control because the microcontroller chip that ships in recent Apple laptops can be accessed remotely using a default password shared by each and every notebook. Charlie Miller, the security expert who discovered the vulnerability, plans to showcase the flaw next month at the Black Hat security conference. There, Miller will show that he is able to access the battery controller remotely and cause it to refuse a charge, or even heat up until it catches fire and explodes. “These batteries just aren’t designed with the idea that people will mess with them,” Miller told Forbes last week. “What I’m showing is that it’s possible to use them to do something really bad.” Thankfully, the security expert also intends to showcase a fix for the flaw, which Apple will hopefully implement as soon as possible.

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We have all played the famous addictive board game battle ship at one time or another, for those who are new to it however you are in for it treat, it works like this, two players select area’s to place their hidden ships the other player then has to guess where these are located, the first player to sink all the others ships wins the game. Now, this classic game has come to the iPhone and iPod touch.

The iBattleships for iPhone works like this, you open the application where you then have the choice to play against the iPhone or if you would rather another person over wifi. Its then the same way you play as a kid except it all works with the interface, you place the ships by using the trackball control on the screen, this is easy to use. The trackball is also used when selecting which square you want to fire at, when you have selected your choice you then tap to fire and your away. A sound will then notify you if you have had a hit or miss.

The graphics and sound effects are very appealing, its nice to hear them accompany your actions, its what we all wanted when we played the board game version so its great to see it brought to life now on such an appealing screen and format. iBattleship is available for purchase now so get it fast and prepare to be addicted once more with another classic game brought to the screen!