Nightly Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 03:53 AM CEST - May,07 2003
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- ICQ users at risk of having computers hacked says CORE security group -
Two serious flaws in America Online's ICQ 2003a could allow an online
attacker to take control of a person's PC, a Boston security firm
warned in an advisory released Monday. Core Security Technologies
described the vulnerabilities in an advisory released to several public
security lists. While the company found a total of six flaws, it said only two
have serious implications because they could allow an attacker to run code on
the victim's computer.
- Interview with Student Sued by RIAA - Jesse Jordan, owner of
chewplastic.com, was on
CNN this morning discussing the RIAA settlement. (thanks
Slashdot.org)
- Microsoft shows off security prototype - Microsoft on Tuesday
showed
off a prototype of its controversial security technology at its Windows
Hardware Engineering Conference. The prototype of the Next-Generation Secure
Computing Base, formerly known as Palladium, is based on real and emulated
hardware, said Peter Biddle, product unit manager for the software giant.
Small applications running on the technology demonstrated its security
features.
- Gates: Windows to call on phones - Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates
says
future versions of Windows will be more phone-friendly, as he demonstrates
prototypes at a company-sponsored conference.
- Chess Championship: Humans vs. Computer - During the last 10 years
computers penetrated into various spheres of human life. In the today's
article we will try to find out
how well computers can play chess and if it would be correct to say that
artificial intelligence is superior to human mind.
- Indiana Jones coming to DVD in November - The "Indiana Jones"
trilogy, one of the most requested film series for the DVD format, is finally
slated for worldwide release Nov. 4 as "The Adventures of Indiana Jones --
The Complete DVD Movie Collection," a box set that will include a fourth disc
specifically dedicated to bonus materials.
- AMD ships Athlon MP 2800+ - AMD today launched an ever-so-slightly
redundant addition to its Athlon MP line.
The 2800+, based on the Barton core, sits between existing MP parts and
the new Opteron family of 64-bit server/workstation chips. The 2800+ is priced
at $275 (in batches of 1000 chips), just under the $283 Opteron 240.
- AMD Athlon XP 3000+ review - As stated, despite the rating system
in most circumstances
the Athlon XP 3000+ will not 'beat' the Pentium 4 3.06 GHz. It's close
though. The Barton based core is a very good step in the 0.13-micron process
based fabrication and is something they can build on for a while. Recently I
heard some rumors that people got a Barton running at 3 GHz.
- Sapphire Atlantis Radeon 9700 PRO Ultimate Edition 128MB -
Well, the
Sapphire Atlantis Radeon 9700 PRO Ultimate Edition certainly makes for an
interesting solution. Overall, as expected, the performance of the board
largely remains unchanged from that of the standard ATI Radeon 9700 PRO, which
has dropped back from being the ultimate in performance a little with the
introduction of the 9800 PRO. However, 9800 PRO's are still thin on the ground
in terms of availability, and they do carry a price premium.
- Plextor PX-504a Review -
The PX-504A is the drive that does it all, and more. The features are
impressive, yet fairly self-explanatory. Enough of all these boring
statistics, let's move on to the drive.
- Notebooks Roundup - PCMag
reviews 31 notebooks, 9 of which have all or part of the Centrino
platform. Their roundup is divided into four categories: desktop replacement
notebooks, value notebooks, mainstream notebooks, and ultraportable notebooks.
- Strip Poker for smartphones - Belgium-based
AIM Productions
has now unveiled a Smartphone 2002 port of its popular STRIPPOKER title for
the Pocket PC platform. Sporting what the company describes as "extremely
realistic high quality images in the most sexy Smartphone game", the title
offers a background music track, live speech by the computer opponents, the
option to pause and resume a game, a fast play mode (!), and the option to
install and uninstall opponents separately. (thanks
InfoSyncWorld)
- Athlon Unlock site launched -
Athlon Unlock is
now open for business with Unlocking guides for AMD's Athlon XP Palimino ,
T'Bred and Baton's Processors.
- 1by1 v1.36 -
1by1 is a very
small sized player which is not only small: It plays whole directories without
any playlist. Navigating through your tracks has never been so easy.
- Dr. DivX Beta 1.0 -
Dr. DivX
can convert a multitude of video inputs into DivX encoded files with just a
few clicks.
- FlashFXP 2.1 RC4 -
FlashFXP is the most powerful and popular FTP & FXP Client for Microsoft
Windows 9x/Me/NT/2000/XP on the market today.
The RC4 brings: 1)Corrected a small status display problem, even on a list
error "List Complete" was shown, "List Error" is now shown instead. 2) On
disconnect a segment of code was being called multiple times when it should of
only been called once, it didn`t appear to cause any problems but this has
been resolved. 3) I modifed the Delphi VCL to correct a problem with
double clicking a column header. The new size wasn`t set correctly. 4)
Improved handling for ftp servers behind routers reporting the incorrect IP in
their PASV reply.
- Avant Browser 8.0.0.1 Beta -
Avant Browser is a custom Web browser application based on Internet
Explorer with versatile multi-window support. It allows users to browse
multiple Web sites simultaneously and block all unwanted pop-up pages.
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