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.

It’s been a little under a year since we first — and last — heard rumors about and iriver E100 update, the E150 . Now it appears to have reared its head and is out in Korea for the equivalent of $78 for the 4GB and $100 for the 8GB models. Officially dubbed the “all in one pragmatic player,” its speaker grill is more aesthetically pleasing and the buttons are no longer separated from the body, but otherwise it’s pretty much both seasons of the E100 in syndication, with 2.4-inch QVGA screen, XviD support, etc. It’s actually 2mm thicker than its predecessor, if that sort of thing is a make or break deal for you.

Sorry guys, that $200 Nokia E71x that was ’sposed to hit AT&T today isn’t. Maybe for up to two months! AT&T wants a whole new firmware build before they’ll release it. Oh, deja vu . [ BGR ]

On one hand, we’re pretty impressed that someone would actually bother to produce an e-dictionary this fancy. On the other, we’re disheartened that those very “someones” didn’t just throw a real-deal OS on here and call it a UMPC. Hannuri Biz’s newest premium pocket dictionary goes by Nurian X40Kris and features a 4.3-inch LCD, QWERTY keyboard, 4GB of internal storage, 79 different dictionaries (saywha?) and support for XviD, PDF, Flash, JPEG and MP3 files. We’re told that it’ll be offered up in South Korea for ₩379,000 ($253), and we’re giving it around a fortnight before someone shoves a TV tuner and their favorite flavor of Linux on here and calls it a day. [Via PMPToday ] Filed under: Handhelds Nurian X40Kris e-dictionary is an OS away from a UMPC originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:22:00 EST

With a 6-inch wingspan and a military-style remote control box, I wish this minuscule 1/72-scale $150 Spitfire actually had two micro-guns and a micro-camera to dogfight against wasps this spring. [ Plantraco via Oh Gizmo ]