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Submission + - Massive Censorship Of Digg Uncovered (alternet.org)

Submitted by SpeZek
SpeZek writes:

A group of influential conservative members of the behemoth social media site Digg.com have just been caught red-handed in a widespread campaign of censorship, having multiple accounts, upvote padding, and deliberately trying to ban progressives. An undercover investigation has exposed this effort, which has been in action for more than one year.
Software

Submission + - Civilization V: A First Look (extremetech.com)

Submitted by WesternActor
WesternActor writes: Sid Meier released the original, dangerously addictive Civilization in 1991, and it and its sequels and spin-offs have been captivating PC gamers ever since. ExtremeTech has a hands-on look at Civilization V, which adds lots of new graphical elements, changes the map grid from diamonds to hexagons, and simplifies a lot of the elaborate game-play aspects of Civ IV. You already know it uses Steam, but some of the changes might also steam longtime Civ lovers. It'll be interesting to see how it's received by both regular Civ players and wargame aficionados (at whom many of the changes seem aimed).

Submission + - OpenSolaris Breaks Free? (illumos.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: illumos was launch recently and it seems to offer OpenSolaris a fully corporate supported way to become completely open source. This just may give it a real chance from pulling away from Oracle and the mess that has been it's governing body at times. Not sure what the likes of Ben Rockwood think of this at the moment!
Intel

Submission + - A six-core desktop CPU? How many cores is enough? (techreport.com) 2

Submitted by Dr. Damage
Dr. Damage writes: Less than two years after introducing its quad-core Core i7 processors, Intel will soon unveil a six-core CPU for the desktop that works as a drop-in replacement for older Core i7-900-series parts. The first previews of the six-core "Gulftown" reveal a chip with 50% more cores and cache that fits into the silicon area and power/thermal envelope as the quad-core it replaces. Performance in multi-threaded applications scales up nicely, but clock speeds—and thus single-threaded performance--remain the same. Do we really need six cores on the desktop? That depends, it would seem, on what you do with your computer.
Intel

Submission + - Intel Launches First Six-Core Desktop Processor (techgage.com)

Submitted by Deathspawner
Deathspawner writes: Intel has officially announced its first six-core desktop processor, the Core i7-980X Extreme Edition. Codenamed Gulftown, the processor is based on the company's 32nm-built Westmere microarchitecture, and carries numerous benefits aside from the extra cores. Power efficiency is one area, and in Techgage's tests, the i7-980X actually drew less power at full load than the 45nm quad-core i7-975 which shares the same clock speed. In a first, Intel will also be bundling enthusiast-style CPU coolers with the boxed versions of these processors.
Sony

Submission + - GDC 2010: Sony Targets All Genres With Move

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Sony's Jack Tretton has announced in a post-conference interview at GDC that all types of games can be adpated for motion controls.

"There isn't a game that won't apply to this motion gaming," he said.
Games

Submission + - DRM Fail: Ubisoft's authentication servers go down (escapistmagazine.com) 1

Submitted by ZuchinniOne
ZuchinniOne writes: With Ubisoft's fantastically awful new DRM you must be online and logged in to their servers to play the games you buy. Not only was this DRM broken the very first day it was released but now their authentication servers have failed so absolutely no-one who legally bought their games can play them ... oops.

"At around 8am GMT, people began to complain in the Assassin's Creed 2 forum that they couldn't access the Ubisoft servers and were unable to play their games."

One can only wonder if this utter failure will help to stem the tide of bad DRM.
Data Storage

Submission + - TRIM Makes Data Recovery on SSD's Impossible (techgage.com) 1

Submitted by Deathspawner
Deathspawner writes: Solid-state drives may offer unparalleled responsiveness to a PC, but without the help of the ATA command TRIM, performance can be severely degraded over time. On the surface, TRIM may look like an absolute blessing, but there's one downside (or upside, depending on how you look at things) that hasn't been looked into much, if at all. Thanks to how TRIM purges the data when a file is deleted or the drive is formatted, typical data recoveries are impossible, and due to the absolute effectiveness of the command, even forensic recovery can hit a brick wall.
Software

Submission + - NeroLinux 3 Review

Submitted by
Deathspawner
Deathspawner writes: "Techgage takes a look at the just released NeroLinux 3.0. From the article, "For those familiar with Nero in Windows, the new GUI will make you feel right at home since it's based off of Nero Burning ROM 7.0. This is what we should have seen two years ago. In addition to the GUI, NeroLinux will be available in the same 26 languages that the Windows version is, offers full unicode support and audio ripping.""

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