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Journal Journal: Profile of a Malware Analyst

Journal by kazakover on Sunday September 16, 2007 @11:25AM

In this Security Insight issue Vlad Borisenko, Malware Analyst at Agnitum, speaks about the ins and outs of his profession. Interesting reading, especially if you realize that there are good people behind good software!

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Feed Engadget: Is AMD readying three-core processors? (engadget.com)

From feed by engfeed on Sunday September 16, 2007 @10:32AM

Filed under: Desktops

According to reports that have been slowly making their way through the chip manufacturing community, everyone's favorite underdog, AMD, is planning on launching a new line of three-core processors sometime in the near future. Sure, it sounds weird, but apparently the technique for creating a triple-core CPU is akin to "switching off" one core in a four-sided chip, and the process can yield significant speed enhancements while keeping costs reasonable. Reports speculate that the three-core model could happen partially due to the need to salvage bad four-core chips, but also because the triple-core concept is easy to market, and resistance from Intel will be low. Word on the street is that the new chips will appear on the consumer side to begin with, and might migrate over to the enterprise / server domain if there's sufficient movement on sales. Browse on over to the read link and feast your eyes on a succulent sea of technical mumbo-jumbo.

[Via Techmeme]

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Undergrad-built Robots Play "Operation" 33

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday September 16, 2007 @10:32AM from the you're-the-doctor-having-so-much-fun dept.

jnakane writes "UBC Engineering Physics students pit prototype operation robots against each other for prizes and bragging rights in the 7th Annual Robot Competition. Offering solutions to handle delicate body parts on a 6-foot long version of the playing surface resembling the board game "Operation" (including the "shock" buzzer), the second-year students designed and built autonomous surgical robots to remove body organs reliably and quickly (well, most of the time). You can also see video footage."

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Creationists Silence Critics with DMCA 585

Posted by Zonk on Saturday September 15, 2007 @03:19PM from the they-need-dirty-tricks dept.

Gothmog of A writes "As Richard Dawkins' offcial site reports, an organization called Creation Science Evangelism Ministries has been submitting DMCA copyright requests to YouTube. This has resulted in the Rational Response Squad (RRS) being banned after they protested against videos being taken down and accounts being closed. The RRS videoes attack creationism (AKA intelligent design) and promote the atheist viewpoint. According to the RRS, the copyright requests are without merit since the material in question is covered by fair use or has been declared to be in the public domain. Behind Creation Science Evangelism Ministries is the infamous Kent Hovind (AKA Dr. Dino) who is currently serving jail time for tax evasion."

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Feed Engadget: Sony plans to sell PS3 chip production facilities to Toshiba (engadget.com)

From feed by engfeed on Saturday September 15, 2007 @03:12PM

Filed under: Gaming

Sony may be planning to sell its chip production facilities to Toshiba for $865 million, if reports by the AP and Reuters are to be believed. The production facilities will include the lines that manufacture the PlayStation 3's Cell chip, and may or may not include the manufacturing of image sensors, depending on whether you believe Reuters or the AP's report. After the sale, Sony will probably continue to purchase chips from the facilities, with the company's game unit possibly also taking a stake in exchange for some kind of operational control. The deal isn't expected to go down for a few months yet, so even if there any problems in the handover, the PS3's production shouldn't see any short term issues. Sony and Toshiba have already responded to these reports, but managed to neither confirm nor deny their veracity to Japanese publication ITMedia.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

Read - Sony may sell game chip (Reuters)
Read - Sony to sell advanced chip operations (IHT)
Read - Toshiba / Sony neither confirm or deny the news (ITMedia)

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