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Two Predators load several live Alien facehuggers and his dead comrade onto a ship, intending to return to the Predator homeworld.

Unbeknown to him, the dead comrade was impregnated with an Alien before dying.

The alien bursts from the corpse’s chest, then quickly grows into a Predator-Alien hybrid (Tom Woodruff, Jr).

The hybrid attacks the crew, killing them and forcing the ship to crash land in Gunnison, Colorado.

WARNING: What you are about to read now is the full story which will spoil it for those who are wanting to see the film in full. Release date: 18.01.2008

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… now for Magic’s Technical Bit:

Directors
Colin Strause
Greg Strause

Writers
Shane Salerno (written by)
Dan O’Bannon (”Alien” characters) …

Release Date
18 January 2008 (UK) (not 2007 - my apologies - magic!)

Genre
Action / Horror / Sci-Fi

Tagline
This Christmas there will be no peace on Earth.

Before one of the Predators is killed, he sends a distress call to the homeworld.

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Robert Neville is a brilliant scientist, but even he could not contain the terrible virus that was unstoppable, incurable, and man-made.

Somehow immune, Neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City and maybe the world.

For three years, Neville has faithfully sent out daily radio messages, desperate to find any other survivors who might be out there.

But he is not alone. Mutant victims of the plague — The Infected — lurk in the shadows… watching Neville’s every move… waiting for him to make a fatal mistake.

Perhaps mankind’s last, best hope, Neville is driven by only one remaining mission: to find a way to reverse the effects of the virus using his own immune blood.

But he knows he is outnumbered… and quickly running out of time.

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This is something I found but happened and was reported last year, but not here.

eBay helped to shut down a Russian Web site last week (way back in 2006) that was offering to sell stolen customer account information for as little as $5 each.

Armed with an eBay customer’s login and password, a fraudster could post items for sale, collect payments, and then never deliver the goods.

The site was also offering to sell a handful of PayPal accounts.

The site was inaccessible Friday morning, but Alex Eckelberry, president of security vendor Sunbelt, posted screen captures in his blog that appeared to show account information for sale from customers in the U.K., Germany, and Australia.

The site preferred accounts that were used infrequently, meaning a user would take longer to notice any suspicious activity, and asked a higher price for accounts with good feedback ratings. Prices ranged from $5 to $25 per account.

EBay reiterated its guidelines for customers to avoid having their data stolen: Be extremely wary of e-mail that ask you to update personal account information, download eBay’s toolbar with software that detects fraudulent eBay and PayPal sites, and report suspicious e-mail.

It’s quite common to buy anything from hacked user account on estores to nice ICQ or MSN numbers…

Thanks to our various sources for this.

Based on the Korean legend, unknown creatures will return and devastate the planet.

Reporter Ethan Kendrick is called in to investigate the matter, and he arrives at the conclusion that a girl, stricken with a mysterious illness, named Sarah is suppose to help him.

The Imoogi makes its way to Los Angeles, wreaking havoc and destruction.

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Apple’s latest offering in the arena of operating systems, Leopard has broken all previous sales records.

Apple’s efforts to provide new and innovative things to the people has touched one more landmark as the estimates show that the first month sales for the latest operating system “Leopard” are up by 32.8 percent dollar volume and unit volume up 20.5 percent.

These data are on the basis of the comparison made to sales of “Tiger” in its first month. Leopard is the fifth OS in the Mac OS 10 series and its shipping started on October 25 all over the world.

The new copy of Leopard costs $129 for a single user and $199 for a “family pack” that can be installed on as many as five computers in a single household.

It has no variations in the price range for different versions unlike Microsoft which launched Vista in the price range of $100 and $260 for its versions- Home Basic, Premium, Business and Ultimate.

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The 1394 Trade Association announced today a new specification, one which will quadruple the speed of FireWire to 3.2 Gbps, or a theoretical maximum 400 MB/s transfer rate.

Dubbed “S3200″, the faster communication technology is fully backward compatible and builds upon the existing 1394b standard ratified in 2002.

S3200 will also use the same cabling and equipment as FireWire 800, making for fast adoption and industry uptake.

S3200 will begin the ratification process in January, 2008, and is expected to be ratified in February, 2008. FireWire 800 products today deliver 90 MB/s of sustainable throughput.

With the anticipated 3% overhead, FireWire 3200 could deliver nearly 390 MB/s of usable data bandwidth, though a straight-forward 400% increase would be 360 MB/s.

That is enough to drive full 1920 x 1200 HDTV signals at up to 50 fps.

FireWire hard drives can move data on FireWire 800 nearly three times as fast as with USB 2.0.

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Malware researchers at Prevex have highlighted what they are calling a ‘massive growth’ in the number of PCs harboring rootkit infections.

More than 725,000 PCs were scanned using the Prevx CSI malware scanner over a two-month period. Of the around 291,000 users who scanned their PCs during October 2007, some form of spyware or malware was found on one in six.

Significantly, although rootkits were detected on 15.6% of PCs during October 2007, that figure had risen to 22% by early December.

Rootkits are often ‘dropped’ or buried by other infections.

They then modify a PC’s operating system to hide themselves from both the user and any security products installed on the computer.

By so doing rootkits can allow criminals to remotely monitor, record, modify, steal and transfer data from the victim’s PC.

Some rootkits are undetectable by conventional antivirus and antispyware applications. A tech-savvy user may believe his or her computer is ‘clean’, and unwittingly pass on increasingly valuable personal and financial data.

Since 1 December 2007, 114,891 new users have run Prevx CSI with rootkit-detection features enabled. Of those PCs, 1,678 had what Prevx describes as ’significant rootkit infections’.

That equates to 1.46% or approximately one in 70 systems, which is almost 15 times higher than the one in 1,000 rootkit-infected PCs previously estimated by industry experts.

Thanks to PC World for this.

Once again players assume the role of Gordon Freeman, a scientist destined to save the Earth from hordes of gruesome alien attackers.

Valve has created a fully realized world in Half-Life 2, with objects and characters that feature accurate physics properties, behaving with the appropriate mass, density, and physical properties of their real-life counterparts.

Extremely intelligent computer AI result in enemies that plan, adapt, and respond to the player’s actions.

Following on the heels of the similarly-titled next-gen console edition, this package is a near-complete package of the Half-Life 2 phenomenon, packed with bonuses in addition to the genre-expanding original Half-Life 2 game.

Half-Life 2: Episode One and Episode Two add-on levels are also here, as are the stunningly complex puzzle game Portal and the online phenomenon Team Fortress 2.

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Unreal Tournament 3 marks the return of the world’s premiere first-person shooter to the PC.

Unreal Tournament 3 unleashes the full power of Unreal Engine 3, taking graphics, gameplay, and challenge to a whole new level.

Players engage in intense battles with other human players online, or against Unreal artificial intelligence that sets the industry standard.

With the most powerful futuristic weapons and vehicles available, this is FPS action at its best!

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Overlord: Raising Hell single-player expansion pack opens up a series of hellish new levels.

Since this is an Expansion pack, the full game is required to play.

Please note: You may need the original disk to install some additional files.

Complete with new enemies and objectives, each level is a supernatural abyss - a hell for each of the game’s five kingdoms: Mellow Hills, Evernight, Heaven’s Peak, the Golden Halls and the Ruborian Desert.

Access to each abyss is via a portal, which opens once a kingdom has been successfully conquered and the previous ruler banished to a personal hell within.

However, it’s not just the fallen heroes that have been dragged into the abyss; the Overlord’s newly loyal peasants have also been taken down into hell too.

System requirements:

• Windows XP
• Pentium 2.4 GHz or Athlon XP 2400+ processor
• 512 MB RAM
• GeForce FX5900 or Radeon 9500 graphics card
• 4.5 GB Hard Drive Space
• 2x DVD-ROM Drive

Genre: Third Person Action RPG

Developer, distributor: Playlogic, Codemasters

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