Nightly Tech Madness - tech
(hx) 02:28 AM CEST - Apr,21 2004
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- Internet Technology Vulnerable to Hackers -
Researchers uncovered a serious flaw (advisory)
in the underlying technology for nearly all Internet traffic, a discovery that
led to an urgent and secretive international effort to prevent global
disruptions of Web surfing, e-mails and instant messages. The British
government announced the vulnerability in core Internet technology on Tuesday.
Left unaddressed, experts said, it could allow hackers to knock computers
offline and broadly disrupt vital traffic-directing devices, called routers,
that coordinate the flow of data among distant groups of computers.
- Passwords revealed by sweet deal -
More than 70% of people would reveal their computer password in exchange
for a bar of chocolate, a survey has found. It also showed that 34% of
respondents volunteered their password when asked without even needing to be
bribed. A second survey found that 79% of people unwittingly gave away
information that could be used to steal their identity when questioned.
Security firms predict that the lax security practices will fuel a British
boom in online identity theft.
- Microsoft Questioned on XP SP2 - Executives from Microsoft's
security group
demonstrated some of the new security features planned for the next major
Windows XP software update, known as Service Pack 2, and faced persistent
questions Tuesday from customers about whether the new features will interfere
with other security technology
- Researchers break Internet speed record - Data was transmitted over
Internet2 at an
average
speed of 6.25 gigabits per second. This is nearly 10,000 times faster than
a typical home broadband connection.
- Particle physicists rescue rare vinyl recordings - Classic audio
recordings preserved on a warped and
damaged records could yet be rescued for future generations using an
optical analysis technique originally developed to keep track of subatomic
particles. Many rare vinyl recordings exist in libraries around the world. In
the British Library's National Sound Archive there are more than a million old
vinyl records. But even running a needle across some of these old records can
damage them severely. So researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
in California, US, adapted a sensitive instrument used to build a colossal
particle accelerator as a highly sensitive optical recording method.
- RIAA drops amnesty program - The Recording Industry Association of
America has
pulled the plug on a controversial program that offered file sharers
amnesty from the group's legal campaign to stop the unauthorized swapping of
music files over the Internet..
- AMD Begins 90nm Chip Production - AMD announced it had
begun production of chips using 90nm Silicon-on-Insulator process
technology at its Fab 30 in Dresden, Germany. Despite of some information
available from unofficial sources, AMD promises to deliver commercial products
using this fabrication process next quarter.
- AMD Opteron 150, 250, 850 out in June -
AMD will roll out Opteron 150, 250 and 850 chips running at 2.4GHz in
June. The 130nm Socket 940 parts will continue to support 333MHz and 400MHz
DDR SDRAM on registered ECC DIMMs using their integrated dual-channel memory
controller.
- New Serial ATA specs completed - Serial ATA Working Group has
announced new specifications that double signaling speed and introduce new
cable and connector solutions. The specification for the second generation
Serial ATA signaling speed - 3Gbps - has been completed and the release
candidate of that specification has started its ratification process. The
second-generation speed of 3Gbps (300MB/s) is double that of the
first-generation Serial ATA speed which is 1.5Gbps (150MB/s).
- Gigabyte GV-R98P128D Radeon 9800 Pro 128 MB -
The GV-R98P128D is no doubt an excellent card and has proven to be a great
success. It's quality and performance is like a built-by ATI video card. The
only problem we had with the video card was when testing the s-video out, the
image output experienced some interference.
- Flexiglow FX GamePad review -
FlexiGlow have created a visually appealing pad (assuming you like flashy
lights) and have made the correct choice of giving you, the end user a choice
in the colouring you might want. Not many companies give you this flexibility,
as you are usually restricted to one colour and that colour is more often than
not blue. Even when unlit the pad is appealing for its clear bubbled base
alone. Flexiglow even go so far as to include spare feet for the pad, just
incase.
- Elby's CloneDVD v2.0.7.3 -
CloneDVD
has been updated to version 2.0.7.3. This new version fixed:File 4 error on
Windows NT 4; fixed proper handling of duplicated start codes ; added RC
handling of video material with very low bit rates; added new translation:
indonesia; fixed IFOFormat 15 (Panasonic recorder specific problem) and fixed
synchronised transcoder log output.
- ICQ Lite Edition with Xtras 4.0 Final - A final version of
ICQ Lite is available for
download. In related news, this non-official mirror has
ICQ v4.0
Total Commander 6.03 - A new version of
Total Commnader (download)
is available for download. This minor update corrects some problems (mainly
with the new functions introduced with Total Commander 6.0), corrects an
incompatibility between the big file copy mode (in Configuration - Options -
Copy/Delete) and certain Adaptec RAID5 controllers which can cause data
corruption.
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