X-bit labs has it, from its sources, that AMD may delay its launch of Socket 939 64-bit CPUs. The new chips feature dual channel memory support as well as higher clock rates but 512KB of cache instead of the previous…
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Yahoo News has info on a particularly nasty worm that’s propagating across the web and causing quite a number of headaches. This worm has been dubbed Sasser and it just may become one of the worst spreaders out there since…
Read more Sasser on the Loose
AnandTech has a look at ATI’s latest system chipset for Intel’s Pentium 4 processor. Since they are one of the larger graphics chip makers they’ve decided to place a decent video solution into the chipset as well as all of…
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Digital Audio News writes of Fraunhofer Institute’s plan to add digital rights management into its future MP3 format. It will allow vendors, I presume, to add a purchaser’s info to a track which can then be traced back to the…
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Security Pipeline has the story of a man that put together an unofficial service pack for Microsoft’s Windows 98 SE operating system. The “outdated” OS hasn’t received a service pack at all so Alper Coskun grabbed most, if not all…
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Intel is getting ready to release is code named “Dothan” mobile processor in early May according to Computerworld. The chip sports double the cache of current Centrino processors which will give laptops and other such devices a sizable performance boost….
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InfoWorld writes of Microsoft’s turn around, finally, on security issues and some of what Windows XP’s upcoming Service Pack two will bring about. The software giant has been trying hard recently to shore up security issues but SP2 seems very…
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Microsoft is planning a new specification that would get their software communicating with devices according to ZDNet. Their Web services for devices API would make a whole host of things easier to do with your electronic gadgets and I suspect…
Read more WSDAPI Anyone?
Those Elite Bastards have some information on a new anti-aliasing scheme made available by ATI’s latest Catalyst Driver release on, presumably, their Radeon 9500 and on up video cards. It seems like an interesting technique which should appeal to those…
Read more Temporal AA Explained
Legion Hardware did some temperature testing with Thermaltake’s Silent Tower heatsink. The cooler is designed for both Intel Pentium 4 and AMD Socket A platforms. It uses six heatpipes to pull away heat to a large number of aluminum fins…
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The U.S. Senate has banned taxes on broadband internet connections for four years according to ZDNet. I’m sure this is a load off for many web users but once broadband is more pervasive there will be, no doubt, an urge…
Read more Net Tax Banned, for Now
