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Submission + - Intel releases 2.93GHz quad-core QX6800

Submitted by AnInkle on Monday April 09, 2007 @01:42AM

AnInkle writes: Intel's new QX6800 debuts, and The Tech Report runs the gamut of multi-threaded 64-bit benchmarks, to find out what $1199 can get in a CPU, or if you should get by on the cheap and stick with the $999 QX6700. With popular games, Folding@Home in Linux, real-world scientific applications, and detailed power consumption, the 2.93GHz quad-core QX6800 is compared to over a dozen competitors from both Intel and AMD. The results aren't surprising, but the commentary sure is fun.

Feed Mozilla: Why Desktop E-Mail Crucifies the Browser (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Monday April 09, 2007 @12:13AM

In the age of Gmail, we asked Thunderbird lead engineer Scott MacGregor why anyone needs desktop email these days. He had a pretty good answer.

Submission + - VBootkit Bypasses Vista's Code Signing Mechanisms

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 03, 2007 @06:07PM

An anonymous reader writes: At the Black Hat Conference in Amsterdam, security experts from India demonstrated a special boot loader that gets around Vista's code signing mechanisms. Indian security experts Nitin and Vipin Kumar of NV labs have developed a program called the VBootkit that launches from a CD and boots Vista, making "on the fly" changes in memory and in files being read. In a demonstration, the "boot kit" managed to run with kernel privileges and issue system rights to a CMD shell when running on Vista, even without a Microsoft signature. Bruce Schneier reminds us that this is not theoretical; VBootkit is actual code that demonstrates the exploit.

Submission + - U.S. Senators Pressure Canada on Canadian DMCA

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 05, 2007 @11:04PM

An anonymous reader writes: The U.S. copyright lobby brought out some heavy artillery last week as it continued to pressure Canada to introduce a Canadian DMCA. U.S. Ambassador to Canada David Wilkins gave a public talk in which he described Canadian copyright law as the weakest in the G7, while Senators Dianne Feinstein and John Cornyn wrote to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper to urge him to bring in movie piracy legislation.

Submission + - Fedora Core 6 hits 2 million installs

Submitted by

spevack

on Monday March 05, 2007 @10:13PM

spevack writes: "Fedora Core 6 reached 2 million installations on Monday, approximately 4.5 months after its release. This number is based on unique IP addresses that connect back to Fedora's servers for updates, with more detailed discussion on their wiki's statistics page."

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