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Submission + - Slashdot hangs browsers

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w1z4rd

on Friday September 07, 2007 @02:23AM

w1z4rd writes: "The Slashdot website has an annoying habit of freezing my browsers in both Microsoft Windows and on linux. It has become a pretty terrible experience to visit the Slashdot.org website."

Submission + - AMD details open source graphics driver plans (yahoo.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 07, 2007 @01:37AM

An anonymous reader writes: AMD has formally announced the details of its plans to develop an open source graphics driver for Linux. It seems they're doing it right — they're getting Novell, Red Hat, and Ubuntu involved in the process, and not developing this driver in a vacuum. Kudos to AMD!

Submission + - Storm worm more powerful than top supercomputers

Submitted by Stony Stevenson on Friday September 07, 2007 @12:12AM

Stony Stevenson writes: Security researchers who are tracking the burgeoning network of Microsoft Windows machines that have been compromised by the virulent Storm worm, are saying it has now grown so massive and far-reaching that it easily overpowers the world's top supercomputers.

"In terms of power, the botnet utterly blows the supercomputers away," said Matt Sergeant, chief anti-spam technologist with MessageLabs, in an interview. "If you add up all 500 of the top supercomputers, it blows them all away with just 2 million of its machines. It's very frightening that criminals have access to that much computing power, but there's not much we can do about it." Sergeant said researchers at MessageLabs see about 2 million different computers in the botnet sending out spam on any given day, and he adds that he estimates the botnet generally is operating at about 10 percent of capacity.

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