Charlie Miller , the security expert whose meticulously crafted exploit took over a MacBook through Safari in 10 seconds at the Pwn2Own hacking competition, says that Macs are in fact safer than Windows. Oh boy. It’s for reasons we’ve heard before —there’s just way less stuff out there attacking Macs. He told Tom’s Hardware : “I’d say that Macs are less secure for the reasons we’ve discussed here (lack of anti-exploitation technologies) but are more safe because there simply isn’t much malware out there. For now, I’d still recommend Macs for typical users as the odds of something targeting them are so low that they might go years without seeing any malware, even though if an attacker cared to target them it would be easier for them.” Whatever OS you’re running, the best thing you can do, he says, is to just keep your system up to date (then you won’t get Conficker , either). And not be stupid.

@ tande04 : I was just wondering what happens when you try to change the volume and hit a pothole: the radio wouLD GO LIKE THIS IN A HURRY!!!!

Hey, we started a Gizmodo Flickr pool , to make it easier for you to send us photos you think could make for an interesting post. All you have to do is be registered on Flickr, go here , join our group, and start hitting “send to group” on your individual photos you want to add to the pool. What kind of photos would we like to see in our Flickr pool , you may ask? • Gadget/product shots. Obviously, a gadget blog is nothing without its gadgets

You might want to move those magazines off the table, that is, if your coffee table is really the Vidro Floor Fireplace . Completely portable, the $970 stainless steel Vidro fireplace requires only gelled ethanol fuel to burn a smokeless flame in your home. The two glass panels do seem superfluous to the structure, as they can’t possibly be that effective in keeping out fingers/toes/cats. Yet the design is still missing a big something. And I call that something a pig-loaded spit. Because what is it worth to have all the open air fireplaces in the world but no pork roasting atop them

We Americans have Fusion-io’s ioDrive and OCZ’s Z Drive to look forward to when it comes to slamming down a PCIe-based SSD solution in our lightning fast rigs, but what about the savvy Japanese? Enter PhotoFast, who has just revealed a luscious PCIe SSD of its own, ranging from 256GB to one whole terabyte in size. The unit includes a couple of SSDs hooked together in a RAID0 setup in order to provide up to 750MB/sec read rates and 700MB/sec write rates. As with most SSDs, this unit also boasts a 1.5 million hour MTBF and should work perfectly within Windows XP and Vista machines. Those in and around Osaka can expect these to land around mid-October for about the cost of a new TV — seriously. [Via Engadget Japanese ] Filed under: Storage PhotoFast intros 256GB to 1TB G-Monster PCIe SSD originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:43:00 EST.

The Mythbusters’ passion for explosions got a little out of hand earlier this week when they detonated 500 pounds of ammonium nitrate a mile outside of Esparto, California. Perhaps two miles would have been better. The segment was intended to discover whether it was possible, as the saying goes, to knock someone’s socks off. I don’t know about the socks, but the resulting explosion did manage to break windows throughout Esparto and toss one very suprised woman off her couch. Afterward, she claimed that the experience was “fun, really fun.” What a trooper. At any rate, the Mythbusters crew replaced all the windows that same day and the sentiment around town about the incident seems to be generally positive (despite the fact that no one in the town was informed of the taping beforehand).

Sony’s mylo 2 — wait, you do remember what this thing is , right? — could be headed for the grave… as if it wasn’t already there in the minds of most. After Sony hacked a hundred bucks from the asking price during the run-up to Holiday Season 2008, we heard absolutely nothing further until now. Today, the very same order page shows that no new models are available to purchase, leaving prospective buyers with two clear-cut options: 1) walk away or 2) snag a refurb model in black or white for $149.99. So, is this the end for Sony’s own Internet Device

Anyone who reads Giz probably knows that even though your data is “saved,” it’s still susceptible to the decay of whatever medium is storing it. According to one expert, the problem is nearly unsolvable. In an interview by David Pogue, Dag Spicer , curator of the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley, noted that there’s no great solution to saving your data other than resaving it again and again. His best advice: …every five or ten years, you should move it onto a different format, like from VHS tape to DVD. And that’s fine, but then DVD is already obsolete, there’s Blu-ray, and so what’s going to happen in another 10 years?

Anyone who reads Giz probably knows that even though your data is “saved,” it’s still susceptible to the decay of whatever medium is storing it. According to one expert, the problem is nearly unsolvable. In an interview by David Pogue, Dag Spicer , curator of the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley, noted that there’s no great solution to saving your data other than resaving it again and again. His best advice: …every five or ten years, you should move it onto a different format, like from VHS tape to DVD.

Kevin Rose has some Tesla Model S imagery up on his Flickr account, including the first unshrouded pictures of the car, along with a rather wild interior shot. The all-electric sedan is styled beautifully — if rather predictably — but things start to get weird on the inside. In what looks to be a concept car mockup of the interior, there appears to be a large touchscreen taking the place of the entire center console, wrapped irregularly by dashboard padding. The instruments panel also appears to be a screen, though it could just be a mockup at this stage. Concept cars typically have rather strange and unlikely interiors compared to their tame street-legal counterparts, but even so, if this indeed isn’t some sort of cruel Photoshop trickery, we’d say Tesla really outdid itself here.