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- Nintendo Game Boy Advance SP Preview -
The Nintendo Game Boy Advance SP ($99.95 list), a sleek innovative update
to the wildly successful GBA, is due to hit North America on March 23.
- Cosmic rays could catch nuclear smugglers -
The particles generated by cosmic rays crashing into the Earth's
atmosphere could reveal nuclear material and other dense objects hidden inside
cars, trucks and sea containers. The objects can be detected because the
particles are deflected by dense matter. For example, a cube of uranium only
10 centimetres wide hidden in a livestock truck could be spotted in just one
minute, say the scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico
who have developed a detector.
- Iraq war could send German cars in wrong direction - The
satellite-based system, funded and controlled by the US Department of Defense,
provides specially coded signals that can be processed to enable the receiver
to compute their position, speed and time. The German automobile club AvD said
experts fear that just before military action against Iraq, which seems likely
to start later this week,
the signals will be encoded in order to make them less accurate. The
argument is that by doing so, the enemy -- in this case Iraq -- would not be
able to exploit the system to pinpoint US-led forces sweeping into the
country. Currently, the GPS system has an accuracy to within around five
metresfeet), but AvD said it could be reduced to more than 100 metres.
- Security: Another Critical Windows Flaw
Found -
A new software vulnerability that affects a number of different versions
of Microsoft's Windows operating system could enable remote attackers to use a
Web page or HTML formatted e-mail message to run their own malicious code on a
Windows machine.
- Security: Flaw Found in Siemens Mobile
Phones -
A long-known bug can still freeze two series of cell phones manufactured
by Siemens if users haven't yet installed a patch. Siemens' 35 and 45 series
phones are affected by the bug, said Siemens spokesperson Michael Stenberg.
The company's new 55 series is not affected. The bug, according to Stenberg,
is linked to the EMS, or enhanced messaging service, technology used in the
phones. By sending a single word, for instance, from the phone's language menu
surrounded by quote marks and preceded by an asterisk as control code to an
EMS-capable handset, people can cause the phone receiving the message to
freeze
- Security: Latest Windows Patch Poses
Problems - The patch, announced Monday in security bulletin
MS03-007, is incompatible with 12 software fixes for Windows 2000 issued
by Microsoft's Product Support Services between December 2001 and February
2002. Users running any of those fixes
won't be able to reboot their Windows 2000 systems after applying the
"critical" patch. Customers running Windows 2000 with Service Pack 2 installed
should verify the version of a file called "ntoskrnl.exe" on their system
before applying the patch. Versions of this file from 5.0.2195.4797 up to and
including 5.0.2195.4928 were distributed by PSS and are not compatible with
the patch.
- Security: New Ganda Worm -
The worm, called Ganda, appears to have been written in Sweden and
promises images taken from Iraqi spy satellites. It uses a variety of
email subject lines to encourage users to open its attachment, with some
exploiting latent anti-US sympathies by promising satirical screensavers
ridiculing President Bush.
These include: 'Spy pics', 'GO USA !!!!', 'G.W Bush animation', 'Is USA
always number one?'.
- CeBIT 2003: Final Day Coverage - Tom's Hardware Guide has
posted
the final day of their CeBIT coverage. This time they bring you
up-to-the-minute reports of cooling solutions from Coolermaster, Pentalpha,
Spire and Titan. In addition, there are new graphics cards from Abit,
Chaintech, ECS, Elsa, Gainward, Innovision and Sapphire.
- Micron sends 4-Gbyte DIMM to Intel - Micron Technology Inc. said
today that it has
delivered the industry's first 4-Gbyte DDR dual-in-line memory module
(DIMM) to Intel Corp., even though Samsung claimed it had a 4-Gbyte DIMM back
in January 2003. Micron's DIMM has been fashioned to meet 184-pin PC1600 and
PC2100 DDR SDRAM standards. Micron used 1-Gbit DDR-266 SDRAMs in 400-mil thin
small outline packages (TSOP), Micron said.
- Intel Pentium 4 3.06GHz Review - Interestingly under Comanche 4 we
can see that the best performance occurs with HyperThreading enabled. With
HyperThreading On, the
P4
3.06GHz is in the 25%-28% performance increase range over the P4 2.53GHz,
which is a little better than the 21% clock speed increase. In comparison to
the P4 2.4GHz the performance is over 50% better - much more than the 27%
clock speed advantage.
- Slackware Linux 9.0 Final -
The Official Release of
Slackware Linux (download)
by Patrick Volkerding is an advanced Linux operating system, designed with the
twin goals of ease of use and stability as top priorities. Including the
latest popular software while retaining a sense of tradition, providing
simplicity and ease of use alongside flexibility and power, Slackware brings
the best of all worlds to the table.
- AVG Free Edition 6.0 Build 463 - AVG Free Edition 6.0 Build 463 is
out -
download
- Sony DRU500AX DVD Burner Firmware - Sony has released new
firmware v2.0e for Sony DRU500AX DVD writer.
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