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Sun To Release 8-Core Niagara 2 Processor 214

Posted by CowboyNeal from the screw-everything-we're-going-eight-cores dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Sun Microsystems is set to announce its eight-core Niagara 2 processor next week. Each core supports eight threads, so the chip handles 64 simultaneous threads, making it the centerpiece of Sun's "Throughput Computing" effort. Along with having more cores than the quads from Intel and AMD, the Niagara 2 have dual, on-chip 10G Ethernet ports with cryptographic capability. Sun doesn't get much processor press, because the chips are used only in its own CoolThreads servers, but Niagara 2 will probably be the fastest processor out there when it's released, other than perhaps the also little-known 4-GHz IBM Power 6."
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Submission + - Nissan turns to high-tech to stop drink driving

Submitted by StonyandCher
StonyandCher writes: As part of its drive to reduce road deaths and injuries, Nissan Motor has installed in a car three prototype high-tech systems designed to stop drink driving.

The first attempts to directly detect alcohol in the driver's sweat and gear shift lever. A second system in the car uses a camera mounted in front of the driver to monitor eye movement. If the driver is drowsy it triggers the seat belt to tighten and this movement will hopefully snap the driver out of their drowsiness or prompt them to take a rest. A third system monitors the path of the vehicle to ensure it's traveling in a straight line and not weaving about the road, as is common with a drunken driver.

Comment Re:#ERROR (Score 1) 109

by mevryck (#15733815) Attached to: Virus Jumps to RFID
RFID technology has got a lot of lurking dangers... RFID tags enable unethical individuals to snoop on people and surreptitiously collect data on them without their approval or even knowledge. Lacking their own power source, the chips are also susceptible to so-called power-consumption hacks. RFID tags can be breached to cause a denial-of-service attack on the tags, using cheap store-bought radio transmitters. RFID tags not only carries the danger of privacy violations, but also of new vectors for computer viruses. RFID tag can be used to send a SQL injection attack or a buffer overflow.

Microsoft Flirts with Open Source 163

Posted by Zonk from the don't-be-coy dept.
Vin Daryl writes "ZDNet reports on Microsoft's love-hate relationship with open-source software." From the article: "The interoperability lab focuses on getting products from open-source ISVs such as JBoss, to work on the Microsoft platform, he said. 'For example, we often collaborate with JBoss, but in certain areas we might compete with them. It's competition and cooperation,' Hilf explained. 'Over time, as you see the open-source marketplace maturing and becoming more commercial, I think you'll see more of that kind of dynamics. It's not something that's unique to Microsoft,' he said, adding that IBM and Oracle also compete, and at the same time, cooperate with open-source vendors. "

5% of All Web Traffic Unsafe 204

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the conservative-estimates dept.
OnFour writes "The MIT-backed startup behind SiteAdvisor has slapped a red "X" warning label on approximately 5 percent of all Web traffic and warned that there are roughly one billion monthly visits to Web pages that aren't safe for surfing. About 2 percent of all Web traffic was given the "yellow" caution rating." A more general SiteAdvisor blog entry overview was covered earlier on Slashdot.

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