Advanced Micro Devices' "Hammer" processor will contain up to about 100 million transistors, according to sources. A chip with that many transistors is currently considered unusual. But when Hammer chips emerge in the first half of 2003, processors of that complexity will become increasingly commo...
I ran across this over at www.betastream.com: According to a new report by the Aberdeen Group, open source solution Linux has surpassed Windows as the most vulnerable operating system, contrary to the high-profile press Microsoft gets for its security woes. Furthermore, the Aberdeen Group reports th...
Its a sad time for the most stable OS to ever come out from Microsoft (MS-DOS). According to an article at Microsofts site the "Life Cycle" as defined by Microsoft as the period of support for their product, of MS-Dos (all versions), Windows 3.xx, Windows 95 and Windows NT 3.5x will come to an end...
EARLY in the morning of July 19th 2001, a variant of a computer virus known as Code Red started spreading across the Internet. Within 14 hours, some 350,000 machines were infected. Like most modern virus outbreaks, it happened too quickly for people to intervene. In the time that it takes a technici...
A Defense Department agency recently considered--and rejected--a far-reaching plan that would sharply curtail online anonymity by tagging e-mail and Web browsing with unique markers for each Internet user. Read more about the government and the Internet The idea involved creating secure ar...
The title says it all really, but heres a quote anyways... "ATI continues to demonstrate its leadership in the accelerated graphics industry with the release of today’s unified Linux driver," said Rick Bergman, Vice-President of Marketing and General Manager, Desktop, ATI Technologies Inc. "ATI...
Microsoft wants IHVs to support Displacement Mapping and points it out in every document they issue in regards DirectX 9.0. Both ATI Technologies’ RADEON 9700/9500 VPUs and Matrox Graphics’ Parhelia 512 graphics processor support the Displacement Mapping. I now wonder if Displacement Mapping is...
Hardware and memorobilia from Napster will go on sale in December in an online auction event, hosted by Dovebid. Napster's peer-to-peer technology allowed music fans to swap files, in what some have claimed was an illegal manner. Although its service was wildly popular, the company never did deve...
A new flaw in Microsofts Server and Internet Explorer program has been found which allowers attackers access to networks and gives them the ability to spread viruses and other mailicious code. The flaw, in a component of Windows that allows Web servers and browsers to communicate with online data...
A new website has been launched to aid in the fight against internet email spam. Spam Archive.org is a community resource that provides a database of known spam to be used for testing, developing, and benchmarking anti-spam tools. The goal of this project is to provide a large repository of spam...
Microsoft have leaked, among other things, a 1GIGABYTE database containing millions of customer names and mailing addresses onto one of their FTP servers, normally used for patch downloading. Although the FTP server was intended for use by Microsoft's product support organization, marketing staff...
Found this courtesy of 3DGPU.com: Apparently Sander Sassen did some indepth work to discover the cause of the stuttering in Audigy cards when combined with HyperThreading. It's reported that Creative Labs is aware of the issue and is working on a patch. When it will be released is anybodies gues...
Found this over at CNN.com in their tech section:NEW YORK (AP) -- In a computing power struggle tinged with national pride, IBM Corp. says it hopes to regain the title for world's fastest supercomputer from Japan's NEC Corp. in 2004 when Big Blue delivers a machine that will model nuclear weapons fo...
From Special Reserve .co.uk When you're creating potentially the biggest PC game the world has ever seen, you've just got to be careful. Indeed, when we first saw Doom III from id Software, we were afraid of leakage, but of the trouser/pant kind, and not the internet kind. It seems a very early b...
And its totally legal. A mass mailing greeting card has been sent to millions and has begun swamping networks with millions of unwanted junk mails. The FriendGreetings electronic greeting card, which has all the hallmarks of a mass-mailing computer virus...is raising the hackles of the interne...