30635289
submission
GhostX9 writes
"Tom's Hardware just published their iPad 3 review and they show that when using Safari loading up any JPEG image results in a downscaled image. That 80 megapixel image from the Phase One IQ180 is brought down to a 1.25 megapixel image (1291 x 970) and even a 12 megapixel image from a Canon DSLR gets downsampled to 0.76 megapixels (1068 x 712), less than the resolution of the original iPad!"Link to Original Source
28346818
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GhostX9 writes
"Tom's Hardware has an editorial that claims Intel is going to overtake Qualcomm in mobile despite the fact that Qualcomm had >$4B in sales last quarter and Intel has zero shipping smartphones. This contradicts the predictions made by most analysts. To support their argument, Tom's Hardware brings in a high level of expertise. Instead of focusing on "company resources" they focus on "human talent." They discuss Qualcomm's gamble on Globalfoundaries gate-first high-k/metal gate process which put them at a disadvantage to other ARM manufacturers like NVIDIA and Apple and discuss Qualcomm's loss of several key members from the GPU team in Finland last year, something that no analyst or other journalist has ever been reported before."Link to Original Source
23589570
submission
GhostX9 writes
"Will the changes to HP's PC business affect gamers? Industry veterans, Chris Angelini and Alan Dang, debate this issue at Tom's Hardware with a combined 30 years of experience. It's a good read from two guys who have been writing about technology since the mid 90's."Link to Original Source
22837908
submission
GhostX9 writes
"Charlie Miller, Accuvant Principal Research Consultant, and keynote speaker at the recent NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence’s upcoming 3rd International Conference on Cyber Conflict, speaks with Alan Dang of Tom's Hardware about living in an unsecured world. In it, he goes over his recent MacBook battery exploit and the challenges of computing security in the upcoming future."Link to Original Source
20072486
submission
GhostX9 writes
"A video of a surgeon using a $2M surgical robot to make a tiny paper airplane has been making its way around the blog-o-sphere. The demonstration is impressive until you see this video response which replicates the experience with an iPhone and a pair of disposable forceps. The surgeon in the second video happens to be a gamer/journalist whose technology and computer security articles have been featured on Slashdot in the past."Link to Original Source
15270644
submission
GhostX9 writes
"Alan Dang from Tom's HW has just posted a brief interview with Charlie Miller, multiple pwn2own winner, seasoned iPhone hacker, and all-around good guy about the iOS4 vulnerability that allowed jailbreakme.com to work."Link to Original Source
11035968
submission
GhostX9 writes
"Alan Dang from Tom's Hardware has a brief editorial on why dropping Linux support for the now 4-year-old PS3 is a big deal. He even gets John Carmack to throw in a comment."Link to Original Source
10043196
submission
GhostX9 writes
"Alan Dang from Tom's Hardware has just written an opinion-editorial on the future of AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA in the next decade. They talk about the strengths of AMD's combined GPU and CPU teams, Intel's experience with VLIW architectures, and NVIDIA's software lead in the GPU computing world."Link to Original Source
5497233
submission
GhostX9 writes
"Tom's Hardware just interviewed Charlie Miller, the man behind the iPhone remote exploit hack and winner of Pwn2Own 2009. He explains the (now patched) bug in the iPhone which allowed him to remotely exploit the iPhone in detail, explaining how the string concatenation code was flawed. The most surprising thing was that the bug could be traced back to several previous generation of iPhone OS's (he stopped testing at version 2.2). He also talks about the failures of other devices such as crashing HTC's Touch by sending a SMS with "%n" in the text."
5219583
submission
GhostX9 writes
"Tom's Hardware recently interviewed security expert Joanna Rutkowska. Many think that kernel rootkits are the most dangerous attacks, but Joanna and her team have been studying exploits beyond Ring 0 for some time. Joanna is most well known for the red pill/blue pill virtualization attack (Ring -1) and in this interview chats a little bit about Ring -2 and Ring -3 attacks that go beyond kernel rootkits. What's surprising is how robust the classic BluePill proof-of-concept is:
'Many people tried to prove that BluePill is "detectable" by writing various virtualization detectors (but not BluePill detectors). They simply assumed that if we detect a virtualization being used, this means that we are "under" BluePill.This assumption was made because there were no products using hardware virtualization a few years ago. Needless to say, if we followed this way of reasoning, we might similarly say that if an executable makes network connections, then it must surely be a botnet.'"
