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Intel Aims to Make PCs Cooler, Quieter, Sleeker with BTX Form-Factor
As projected, Intel Corp. Monday said its new BTX form-factor co-developed by Intel and a number of industry partners entered the scene and systems made using BTX guidelines are widely…
Dear IE, I
Dear Internet Explorer: It's over. Our relationship just hasn't been working for a while, and now, this is it. I'm leaving you for another browser. I know this isn't a…
Boy sues mom who refuses to buy him a PC
We used a lot of ploys to try and get our parents to buy us stuff when we were younger (you don’t even want to know what we did to…
Alienware powers up 4GHz desktop
Games system specialist Alienware has hot-rodded one of its desktop PCs with a homegrown version of Intel's Pentium 4 processor that runs at 4GHz. The new Area-51 ALX, introduced on…
Is Microsoft using ‘Halo 2’ to thwart Xbox hackers?
Microsoft appears to be using its smash "Halo 2" game as a vehicle to crack down on mod chips and other hacks of its Xbox video game console. Hundreds of…
Windows Media Player: Pirate Edition
A German PC magazine has found out that that Microsoft pirated a copy of Sound Forge to edit .WAV files. In the listing: "WindowsHelpToursWindowsMediaPlayerAudioWav". There are exactly nine WAV files,…
Virus warning: Cyborgs at risk
Kevin Warwick, professor of cybernetics at Reading University in England, is looking forward to becoming a cyborg again. But the academic, who has wired his nervous system up to a…
Google stars in Firefox’s new browser
Google and Mozilla may or may not be working together on a Web browser, but the two are cozier than ever in the latest Firefox release. The search company is…
Microsoft skips Itanium with new Windows
Microsoft will come out with a special version of Windows next year for clusters, but it won't run on Intel's most powerful server chip, at least for now. The Redmond,…
AMD Readies Powerful Desktop Chips
New Athlon 64 processors will compete with Intel's Pentium 4 Extreme Edition. Advanced Micro Devices is expected to unveil its most powerful desktop processors to date this week, a few…
Intel sneaks out the P4 EE 3.46GHz processor
After AMD planted themselves firmly atop the performance charts with the Athlon 64 4000+ and Athlon 64 FX-55 processors, the hardware community was interested to see if Intel could quickly…
Norton Anti-Virus Script Blocking Can Be Bypassed
Hi All, I have major issues with the quality of Norton AntiVirus. For some history, see: - Norton AntiVirus 2004 Script Blocking Failure (Rant and PoC enclosed) - Norton AntiVirus…
New, „more insidious” phishing scam is triggered when unsuspecting users open an E-mail.
Opening the wrong E-mail may soon be enough to empty your bank account. In an effort to woo security-conscious computer users, "phishers" have come up with a new technique to…
IE exploit is top of the hacks
A Microsoft Internet Explorer exploit represented the highest number of hacking attacks in the second quarter, according to figures from ScanSafe. The London-based security company said that the No. 1…
AMD joins transistor trend
Advanced Micro Devices has created new high-performance transistors in its labs based on the simple concept that sometimes two are better than one. The chipmaker said Tuesday it has manufactured…
Attacking Apache with builtin Modules in Multihomed Environments
1 - Introduction 2 - Apache Memory Layout: Virtual Hosts 3 - Get Virtual Hosts from Memory 4 - Modify a Virtual Host 5 - A sample attack 6 -…
IBM bakes new 3D circuit design
IBM says building better microchips is kind of like baking a cake. Researchers at Big Blue have devised a new 3D circuit design that uses two or more layers of…
Opera 7.60 set to offer faster browsing
The next version of the Opera browser will be integrated with SlipStream's Web and email acceleration technology, Opera Software said on Thursday. The company claimed that Opera , which is…
Greatest security risk: Social engineering, says Gartner
Old-fashioned techniques for conning people are being applied to new technology in order to break into networks and computers, warns the analyst firm. The greatest security risk facing large companies…
No Software Patents!
Under the influence of the patent system and big industry lobbyists, the European Union is on the verge of making a huge mistake: to pass a law that would legalize…