SECURITY...

• Mozilla offers temporary fix for Firefox flaw - The downloadable fix protects (download) against attacks that take advantage of a new, unpatched flaw that could let attackers secretly run malicious software on users' PCs. The flaw was disclosed late Thursday by security researcher Tom Ferris, sending Mozilla staff into damage-control mode.
• Securing Mac OS X Tiger - Corsaire has released a guide to Securing Mac OS X Tiger (PDF) which addresses the new security features introduced through Tiger and presents some security good practice guidelines
• Microsoft Windows CSRSS Local Privileges Escalation exploit - CSRSS is the user-mode part of the Win32 subsystem. Win32.sys is the kernel-mode portion of the Win32 subsystem. An attacker may gain a local elevated privileges by exploiting a vulnerability in CSRSS.

OFF-TOPIC...

• Murder blamed on MMORPG - According to the Beijing Morning Post a young woman has been charged with murdering her fiancé for "too much time playing online games." Though the culpable title wasn't identified, the motive was. On August 6, the woman in question apparently got fed up with her unemployed significant other for spending more time online than looking for a job so he could pay for their wedding.
• UK Scientists to Create Embryo From Two Women - UK scientists have won permission to create a human embryo that will have genetic material from two mothers.
• WolframTones - 'An Experiment in A New Kind of Music' - check it out

TECHNOLOGY...

• Windows Vista Product Editions  - There will be two general categories of Windows Vista editions, which map closely to the two that exist today for XP ("Home," which comprises Starter, Home, and Media Center Editions, Pro, which includes Professional, Professional x64, and Tablet PC Editions). In Windows Vista, the two categories are Home and Business. In the Home category, Microsoft will create four product editions: Windows Vista Starter Edition, Windows Vista Home Basic Edition, Windows Vista Home Premium Edition, and Windows Vista Ultimate Edition (previously known as "Uber" Edition). In the Business category, there will are three editions: Windows Vista Small Business Edition, Windows Vista Professional Edition, and Windows Vista Enterprise Edition. In all, there are 7 product editions planned for Windows Vista.
• The CPU's next 20 years - The road ahead isn't about 8-GHz Xeons or 32-core Opterons. It won't be about hardware at all. It will be about the $100,000 commercial development suites that will perform automated, distributed build, run, observe and optimize cycles until native code flows through every possible combination of processor types.
• British nanotech to revolutionise chips - The new design has computing nodes linked by nano-wires in a structure similar to neurons and axons in the human brain. In research published in the journal Science the researchers claim that the chip will combine the storage capability of a hard drive with the low cost of memory cards, potentially increasing memory capacity by 200 times from an average of 500MB to around 100GB.
• Chaintech to exit motherboard business - Second-tier motherboard maker Chaintech Computer plans to phase out its motherboard business and introduce a new memory module product line in October, as IC testing and packaging house Walton Advanced Engineering has become Chaintech's largest shareholder with a 25% stake, according to the Chinese-language Commercial Times report today.
• IBC 2005 - Day 1 Coverage - Exhibition Introduction / European move to HD TV looks unstoppable / Welcome to the real world of the jet-setting journo
• Radeon X1800LE aka R520LE has 12 pipelines - This card will be the cheapest version of the R520 core on the market and will be there to fight 6800 LE cards. The Radeon X1800 LE will be twelve pipelines part while its core will work at 450MHz.
• Microsoft and Taiwan throw dust in HD, Blu-ray faces - Confused by HD and Blu-ray DVD formats? Wondering which player you'll want to buy? Worry a little more, because according to a report in today's Taiwan Economic News, Microsoft and the Isle of Taiwan want to develop a third format and the unlikely partnership is throwing millions at the project.
• China Telecom said to block Skype - China Telecom has started blocking access to a popular Internet telephone service that is threatening its long-distance revenue, according to local media reports and Internet postings.

HARDWARE... 

• CPU - Intel 670 Pentium 4 3.8Ghz 64Bit Processor / Sempron vs. Celeron D
• Memory - OCZ Gold 4000 2 GB Memory / OCZ PC-2 DDR4200 Value Pro RAM
• Motherboard - Albatron 7800 GTX / Foxconn WinFast NF4SK8AA / Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI Pro
• Storage - Western Digital Essential NetCenter / USB Drive Roundup
• Video - The Fastest Graphics Cards of Summer 2005 (17 GPUs in 30 Games) / Albatron 7800 GTX / AOpen Aeolus 7800 GTX-DVD256 (GeForce 7800 GTX) / ASUS 7800 GTX "T.O.P." in SLI  / Gigabyte Dual GPU / HIS X800GT IceQ II Turbo 256MB PCI-Express / Leadtek - dual 6600 on a single card / MSI NX7800GTX SLI / NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT vs. ATi Radeon X800GT / NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 GPU / NVIDIA NV4X Reference / PowerColor Radeon X800 GT / Sapphire Radeon X550 / Sapphire X850 XT PE / XFX GeForce 7800 GTX
• Monitor/TV - Panasonic VIERA 32 TC-32LX50 LCD TV / Samsung SyncMaster 930BF 19" LCD monitor
• Cooling - Evercool HPC Ice Man Cooler / Scythe Katana Heatpipe CPU Cooler / Spire SP495S11-U QuieTude VI Intel CPU cooler / Titan Vanessa S & L-Type and Thermaltake Big Typhoon vs. Zalman CNPS9500 LED
• WaterCooling - Thermaltake Aquabay M3 watercooling reservoir / Titan TWC-A88 Robela Water Case
• Case - Antec Sonata II Case / CM Praetorian 730 Case & Musketeer 3 Front Panel  / Coolermaster Praetorian 730 case / MGE Titanium Case / Sansun BAT Case SN-C001 / SilverStone Temjin TJ05 PC Case / Thermaltake Tai-Chi case
• Sound - Creative SoundBlaster X-FI Xtreme Music / Klipsch Audio iFi iPod Speaker System / Pioneer SE-DIR800 Headphones
• Peripheral - ButtKicker Gamer Ass Rattler / Logitech MX 3000 Cordless Desktop | PD Scientific World Claw FPS Gaming Keyboard Type II / Zboard Keyboard with Battlefield 2 Limited Edition Keyset || Flexglow Cyber Snipa Gamepad and Mouse Pad / Func F10S - F30R Gaming Mouse Pads / Mouse Pad Roundup / Ulti-Mat Teflon Coated Mousepad
• Network - Western Digital Essential NetCenter
• Modding - A.C.Ryan RoundFX2 Cable / CompUSA Blue Cold Cathode Fan
• Notebook - HP's Pavilion ZE2000Z Laptop / Laptop Desk 2
• Cameras, MP3/DVD players - DVX-POD Model DP7010 Personal Media Center / iPod nano (1)  / iPod nano (2) / iPod Nano (3) / Olympus m:robe MR-100 Digital Audio Player(1) / Olympus m:robe MR-100 - MP3 Player(2) / Pentax Optio SVi Digital Camera

GUIDES...

• BIOS Optimization Guide Rev. 8.3 - This guide serves as a repository of knowledge on various BIOS options. It also serves as a guide on how best to optimize your BIOS.
• ATI Shimmering - The shimmering issue rages on and ATI's new Catalyst 5.8 drivers are no exception.
• How to avoid of detection of server application on Windows XP SP2 firewall - This trick use only modification of registry keys.Windows Xp SP2 firewall have list of allowed program in register which are not blocked.If you add new key to it,your server (malware or trojane) can run freely.

SOFTWARE...

• Kernel 2.6.13.1 Final - Linux Kernel (changelog) has been updated again
• Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 - download  ~ also known as the 1.8 Beta 4 milestone, this is the first beta release of the next major Firefox update and is aimed at testers, extension/theme authors and Web developers.
• Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5 Beta 1 - Mozilla Thunderbird is a redesign of the Mozilla mail component. In related news, Phoronix has just posted a new article on the beta.
• QuickTime Alternative 1.61 - QuickTime Alternative 1.61 is released today. This new version is based on QuickTime 7.0.2.120, which adds support for H.264 and more, but it does not support Windows 95, 98, 98 SE and ME any longer.

• FFDShow MPEG-4 Video Decoder 20050909 - ffdshow is a DirectShow decoding filter for decompressing DIVX movies.

• Azureus for Windows 2.3.0.5 Beta 23 - Azureus (homepage) is a Java based BitTorrent client that offers multiple torrent downloads, queuing/priority systems (on torrents and files), start/stop seeding options and instant access to numerous pieces of information about your torrents.
• Shareaza 2.2.0.0 - Shareaza is a Gnutella file sharing program, allowing you to find and share audio, video, images, books, software and more on the net's coolest peer-to-peer network.
• RivaTuner 2.0 RC 15.7 - Rivatuner is one of the (if not the) best Tweak Utilities available for NVIDIA GeForce and ATI Radeon based videocards.
• zer0point Catalyst 0.5.8 - Based on The ATI Catalyst 5.8 Drivers ~ download.
• NGO ATI Optimized Driver v2.5.8 - The NGO ATI Optimized Driver is a tweaked version of the ATI Catalyst driver. The main purpose is to satisfy the users with a better performance and better image quality. The Driver has support for all Radeon cards. This new version adds PCI Latency Tool by Audiotrak.