APPLE KEYBOARDS ARE vulnerable to a hack that puts keyloggers and malware directly into the keyboard. This could be a serious problem, and now that the presentation and code is out there, the bad guys will surely be exploiting it.
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LOOK, OUT THE window, a squadron of flying pigs! No, really, they do fly, there are frozen lakes of fire being reported all over, and Nvidia’s GT300 has finally taped out.
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THE UPCOMING ATI Evergreen family finally has a name and logo, or at least they will when it is announced shortly. With a stunning level of kissing up to Redmond, the new family will be called the “7 Series”.
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WESTERN DIGITAL IS on a roll, owning the next great ‘mine is bigger than yours’ plateau in hard drives. Today, they introduced 750GB and 1TB 2.5 inch laptop HDs.
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THIS WEEK WE celebrated the 40th anniversary of putting people on the moon. Next week we’ll hear how San Francisco’s parking meters are hackable, have we really moved forward technologically?
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WORD HAS REACHED our tender ears that Larrabee, the upcoming Intel GPU, will not be quite as generalist as they claim. The fixed function parts will be two HD decoders.
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THE NEW INTEL M-Series SSDs are already on sale a day or three early. The new versions, code named ‘Postville’ may look the same on the outside, but are much faster than their predecessors.
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INTEL DROPPED A bombshell on the market today with a little bullet point and a few carefully chosen words. Opening up Atom to third parties to interface with willy-nilly went from impossible to product in the space of one slide.
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GOOGLE IS FINALLY launching an operating system called Chrome OS. The big loser in all of this is Microsoft, but there are two others that will also take a huge hit, Intel and AMD.
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HANDS UP ANYONE who didn’t see the Google Chrome OS coming, no points if you are an MS CxO? MS has only itself to blame for the nuclear missile that may very well have ended the company, they simply produced crap for way too long.
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WITH EFFICIENCY GAINS at the CPU level becoming harder and harder to find, a lot of work has turned to the platform to squeeze out a few more watts here and there. During Research At Intel Day (R@ID), Intel was showing how to bunch I/Os intelligently for large system power savings.
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THERE HAS BEEN a lot of false information floating around about TSMC and their 40nm process. It ranged from the overly optimistic to hopelessly wrong, so lets clear the air, it is OK now.
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FIREFOX 3.5 IS OUT. Not much more to say, the browser that more than half of you use to read this with is now much better.
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JUST WHEN YOU thought PC OEMs couldn’t get any dumber, HP reaffirms that the bottom has yet to be reached with their new Pavilion PC. How any OEM could be this abjectly stupid is beyond me, but they managed to take a PC that aspires to mediocrity and make it worse.
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WORD HAS REACHED our tender ears that Apple has shown Nvidia the door, very unceremoniously. Several people who are familiar with the ‘negotiations’ are saying the language used tended to be a bit harsh.
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