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- Faster Pentium 4 desktop chips on tap - Chipmaker Intel will
bring out a new,
faster version of the Pentium 4 for desktops next week, and other PC performance
improvements are on the horizon.
- Net anti-piracy debate heads for House - The legislation would be
based on a bill
introduced last week by Sen. Ernest "Fritz" Hollings, D-S.C., which has drawn
sharp criticism from across the technology industry. That bill would force computer and
consumer-electronics companies to include anti-piracy technology in every "digital
media device."
- E2Sec encryption - unbreakable - In very simple terms, the
person at each end of a communication has an identical copy of a real or electronic
"book," in which each page holds a different randomized method of encoding and
decoding a message. The person at one end uses a page from this book to encrypt a sentence
or individual word, and the person at the other end uses their identical copy of the page
to decrypt it. Then the page (also know as a "key" because it locks and unlocks
the encryption) is destroyed by both parties, and a new one is used for the next part of a
message. The complexity of each random page in the "book" makes it nearly impossible to crack the code. And even if someone intercepts
the message, there's no pattern to it that might help them decode the entire transmission.
- Hackers make chop suey of wireless security - According to
underground culture, the staple diet of hackers is Jolt cola and Ramen noodles. But the
food could be could be picked up for free after hackers discovered a gaping security hole
in the network of noodle house Wagamama. vnunet.com today received an email from an anonymous hacker who
claimed to have gained access to the wireless network at the Wagamama branch on London's
Lexington Street, just down the road from vnunet.com's centre of operations and its
investigative news team base. The hacker told us: "It wasn't that the wireless
security was weak. It was crap. There was no security at all."
- GPS Personal Locator for children - Children have a
natural urge to explore. Parents have a natural desire to know their children are
safe. That's why Wherify created the world's first Personal
Locator to help you determine your child's location in minutes. Wherify's GPS Personal
Locator helps keep loved ones safe by combining Wherify's patented technology with the
U.S. Department of Defense's multi-billion dollar Global Positioning System (GPS)
satellites plus the largest 100% digital, nationwide PCS wireless network.
- VIA Technologies plans to expand to the DVD/CD-RW market - VIA
said it has set the goal of unseating MediaTek as the world's largest supplier of chipsets
for optic disk players next year. The company will
roll out chipsets for CD-RW players and DVD-RW players this year, following its
introduction of chipsets for CD-ROM players.
- Four 1200 dpi Scanners Under Scrutiny - Tom's Hardware Guide has
posted a review on four 1200 dpi scanners.
- How To UnCap Motorola Surfboard Cable Modems - Step by Step guide even with
pictures :)
- Cumulative Patch for MSIE - This is a cumulative patch that includes the functionality of all
previously released patches for IE 5.01, 5.5 and IE 6. In addition, it eliminates the
following two newly discovered vulnerabilities: 1)
A vulnerability in the zone determination function that could allow a script embedded in a
cookie to be run in the Local Computer zone. 2) A vulnerability in the handling of object
tags that could allow an attacker to invoke an executable already present on the user's
machine. A malicious user could create HTML web page that includes this object tag and
cause a local program to run on the victim's machine.
- Antivirus database feed - Update your scanners : VirusScan 4.x / 5.x DAT file update(4194), VirusScan
SuperDAT file update (4194), Norton Antivirus
4.0/5.0/2000 Definition Update (March 27, 2002), Kaspersky AVP Daily update
March 29, F-Prot 3.12 for
DOS & Linux.
Definitions.
- Nvidia NVSDK 5.2 - NVIDIA is proud to release the NVSDK5.2,
an upgrade to the major components of the developer's toolkit.
- ICQ Plus v3.3 - ICQ
Plus allows you to change the appearance of ICQ. When installed, ICQ Plus integrates
with ICQ by adding a menu item to the main menu. Choosing this menu item brings up a
dialog which lets you configure ICQ's appearance in several ways.
- Santa Cruz WDM v.4159 Win 2000/XP beta drivers - download.
- RADEON 8500 beta driver - Max Reboot has posted another beta version of ATi's RADEON 8500 drivers. This one is for
Win9x/ME and the version number is 4.13.9023.
- Gainward Detonator 28.32 Drivers - As usualy, Gainward have
released their own version of Nvidia Detonator 28.32 drivers for Win9x/ME,
Win2k/XP,
Win
NT, a new WDM driver v1.11, and also new 3D
stereoscopic driver v28.32.
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