/. You may or may not have caught the Xbox 360 unveiling on MTV Thursday night, but the internet will provide. A plethora of sites have photos, videos, commentary, specifications, and interviews about the new system. Your fellow readers have pulled together to provide links to: 1up.com, Joystiq, Gamespot, The BBC, CNN, NYT, Gamespy, Team Xbox, Voodoo Extreme, Anandtech, and eToyChest. The official Xbox 360 site opened last night as well for word straight from the source. For more official images Ourcolony.net has been ’solved’, and now features an OurColony specific video preview. Finally, for commentary on the event, the Video Game Ombudsman provides an alternative to the press releases.

* Slashdot | The Xbox 360 Unveiled

Colin Percival: “I presented details of how to exploit this security flaw at BSDCan 2005 in Ottawa on May 13th, 2005. For those who were unable to attend my talk, I have written a 12-page paper, Cache Missing for Fun and Profit, discussing this flaw and related problems, both realized and theoretical.”

/. cperciva writes “Hyper-Threading, as currently implemented on Intel Pentium Extreme Edition, Pentium 4, Mobile Pentium 4, and Xeon processors, suffers from a serious
security flaw. This flaw permits local information disclosure, including allowing an unprivileged user to steal an RSA private key being used on the same machine. Administrators of multi-user systems are strongly advised to take action to disable Hyper-Threading immediately.

BSDCan 2005 at 10:00 AM EDT on May 13th, and at the conclusion of my talk
I will also releasing a paper describing the attack and possible mitigation
strategies.”

* Hyper-Threading Considered Harmful
* Cache Missing for Fun and Profit
* Slashdot | Hyperthreading Considered Harmful

/. fenderdb writes “Brad Fitzgerald of LiveJournal fame has written a utility
and a quick article on how all hard drives from the consumer level to the highest level ‘enterprise’ grade SCSI and SATA drives do not obey the fsync() function. Manufacturers are blatently sacrificing integrity in favor of scoring higher on ‘pure speed’ performance benchmarking.”

* Slashdot | Your Hard Drive Lies to You

“We have taken the best things about cats, and removed some of the worst. Then we created the world’s first life-like robotic cat. Intelliau/2â„¢ Robotic Cat will not feel like a robot, it will feel like a real cat.”

Read full article, including specs and photos.
* Intelliau, Robotic Cat

Thomas Baekdal writes about the usability issues of XML/JS/HTML or these days just AJAX.

* Usability issues with XMLHttpRequest.

* Usable XMLHttpRequest in Practice