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 Nightly Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 03:30 AM CEST - Apr,06 2004
  • New Version of Sober Worm Spreading in Europe - A new variant of the Sober worm, Sober.F, is spreading in Europe, and some anti-virus companies are raising their threat levels for the worm due to its success. Sober.F arrives in an e-mail sent by the worm's own SMTP engine. According to F-Secure's description of the worm, the incoming message can have any of a large number of subject lines and message bodies, some in German and some in English...
  • Virus Top Twenty for March 2004 - As predicted, March was the month of the Bagles. Five new versions of Bagle appeared. In seventh place is PSW-Worm, an umbrella identification which includes several versions of Bagle. These differ from other worms in the Bagle family in that they spread in password protected ZIP and RAR archives, and the password is either included in the message or contained in a graphics file. Such an approach is not new, but Bagle
    exploited it with great success. Incidentally, tricks like this have positively influenced the development of new antivirus technology designed to detect and intercept such sneaky viruses.
  • WinAmp music to hackers' ears - The ubiquitous WinAmp program can provide someone with system access simply by getting someone to visit a malicious website (details) It all has to do with how the software loads Fasttracker 2 ".xm" media files. It is possible to cause a heap overflow and so run code on the person's system. A ".xm" file is not needed however, as the software runs through all supported files with the same faulty piece of code. This greatly increases the opportunities hackers may have to con someone into clicking a link and so providing them with system access. The flaw affects all WinAmps and so the only advice is to upgrade as soon as possible to the new patched version (5.03) on the company's website here.
  • FBI on Xbox Live - In incredible news breaking in the US over the weekend, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has made an application to the Federal Communications Commission requesting easy access to all forms of Internet communication, including Microsoft’s Xbox Live and online PlayStation 2 servers. If the request is granted, all US-based Internet Service Providers will have to make radical changes to their systems in order to accommodate a backdoor listening post for FBI agents. The request includes all forms of digital online communication, from instant messenger services to voiceover IP communications, and mentions gaming services such as Xbox Live.
  • Off-topic: Gates loses No. 1 spot in net worth !! - Ingvar Kamprad, the Swede who founded furniture retail chain IKEA, has overtaken Microsoft's Bill Gates as the world's richest man, Swedish TV news reported on Sunday.  Citing next week's edition of the Swedish business weekly Veckans Affarer, public service SVT2 television said Kamprad, 77, has a personal fortune of 400 billion crowns ($53 billion). Gates's fortune is put at $47 billion, according to the latest list of the world's rich in U.S. Forbes magazine, SVT2 said. SVT2 said the dollar's slide against other currencies is the main reason why Kamprad has now overtaken Gates.
  • Off-topic: New technology could detect dirty hands - With just a flicker of blue light, little Johnny's mother one day may know for sure whether her son washed his hands before dinner. New light-scanning technology borrowed from the slaughterhouse promises to help hospital workers, restaurant employees -- one day, even kids -- make sure that hand washing zaps some germs that can carry deadly illnesses. A device the size of an electric hand dryer detects fecal contamination and pinpoints on a digital display where on a person's hands more scrubbing is needed.
  • Off-topic: Humanoid robot conducts Beethoven symphony - The 58-centimetre-tall humanoid robot led the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra in a unique rendition of Beethoven's 5th symphony during a concert held at the Bunkamura Orchard Hall in Tokyo on 15 March. A video of the robot conductor in action can be viewed on Sony's website here (RealPlayer required). QRIO's speed of movement is impressive, say experts (Image: Sony)
    Perhaps even more impressive is footage (Windows Media Player required) of four QRIOs performing a complicated dance routine, recorded in December 2003.
  • Off-topic: Sci Fi Confirms Forthcoming Farscape Miniseries - SCI FI announced it will be bringing back Farscape with an all-new miniseries - called Farscape: Peacekeeper War - slated to air in the fourth quarter of this year. The four-hour miniseries picks up where the cliffhanger series finale left off and will reunite John Crichton (Ben Browder), Aeryn Sun (Claudia Black) and the rest of the Moya crew.
  • Off-topic: U.S. Military Takes First Step Towards Weapons in Space - The first real step in that direction appears to be coming in the form of a little-noticed weapons program at the U.S. Missile Defense Agency. The agency has now earmarked $68 million in 2005 for something called the Near Field Infrared Experiment.  The NFIRE satellite is primarily designed to gather data on exhaust plumes from rockets launched from earth, and defense officials claim it is therefore designed as a defensive, rather than offensive weapons. But the satellite will also contain a smaller "kill vehicle," a projectile that takes advantage of the kinetic energy of objects traveling through low-Earth orbit (which move at several times the speed of a bullet) to disable or destroy an oncoming missile or another orbiting satellite.
  • Xbox goes green - Microsoft next week will begin selling a "special edition" version of its Xbox game console. The package will include a copy of "Halo," the best-selling shooter game for the console, and an Xbox console with a bright green case, as opposed to the standard black. A total of 200,000 units of the package will be available for $169 on April 13.
  • Analyst: Intel Reverse-Engineered AMD64 - After investigating the instruction sets used by 64-bit chips from AMD and Intel, an industry analyst has concluded that Intel reverse-engineered the AMD64 instruction set to create its own 64-bit microprocessor architecture. Tom Halfhill, an analyst at In-Stat/MDR in San Jose, said Monday that he had compared the instruction sets of AMD's 64-bit chips, called AMD64, with the 64-bit extensions to be used in the Intel Xeon processor and future desktop chips. The smoking gun, Halfhill said, was Intel's choice to mimic a decision AMD made in its early Opteron designs, and later reversed.
  • CyberLink Delivers Right-to-Disc Video Recording On Double-Layer Discs - CyberLink Corp. announced today that its burning applications - Power2Go and PowerProducer 2 Gold - support DVD+R9 double-layer recording. This new support enables users to burn high quality video or TV recording directly to disc and up to 8.5 GB of data on one double-layer disc.
  • Dell Cuts Music Player Price 20 Percent to $199 - No. 2 personal computer maker Dell Inc. on Monday cut the price on its digital music player 20 percent to $199 from $249 as it tries to compete with the industry leading iPod from Apple Computer Inc.
  • NVIDIA to Boost Performance of PCI Express x16, Add High-Definition Audio? - Unofficial sources said that NVIDIA’s core-logic code-named CK8-04/Pro designed for AMD’s Socket 939 processors will sport 1000MHz HyperTransport bus, 4 Serial ATA-150 ports with RAID, 2 Parallel ATA-33/66/100/133 channels with RAID, Gigabit Ethernet, 10 USB 2.0 ports, 4 PCI slots, High-Definition 24-bit 96kHz 7.1 audio as well as something NVIDIA calls PCI Express x20.
  • Intel sets serial numbers for 90nm Dothan processors, launch in May expected - Intel has fixed the serial numbers for its long-awaited lineup of 90nm Dothan processors - a move which has led Taiwanese motherboard makers to believe that the US chip giant will be able to launch the next-generation Pentium M chips in early May as expected, said sources at the makers.
  • GeForce FX 5700 Ultra goes GDDR3 - The new graphics memory GDDR3 is ready to roll. Though this new technology was developed by ATI in collaboration with memory manufacturers, its rival NVIDIA is the first to deliver it in the form of the updated GeForce FX5700 Ultra. "The new GDDR3 memory technology looks promising. In the case of the GeForce FX 5700 Ultra GDDR3, however, the improvements are only marginal. The minimal clockspeed increase compared to the GDDR2 model has hardly any effect on real-world performance."
  • TDK Indi DVD 880N 8x DVD±RW review - CDRLabs.com have posted a review of the TDK Indi DVD 880N 8x DVD±RW, which is based on the NEC ND-2500A.
  • Lite-On SOHW-812S DVD±R/RW review -  In fact going with the SOHW-812S over the LDW-851S is pretty much a no-brainer as the SOHW-812S just started showing up at the e-stores this weekend at around $115 USD (retail box) which is only a few dollars more than the (relatively) older burner.
  • Network Laser Printers roundup - PCMag has posted a review of  9 monochrome units.
  • Neowin Guide to buying a LCD - The Guide has extensive reasons as to why you should upgrade to a LCD; it also establish some basic steps to follow when buying. Further, it highlights some of the key functions / features you should look for when buying. Also in the guide potential problems with LCDs, and how they can be over come. Finally, it has a variety of recommended specifications for different types of user, with suggested models in each category.
  • RSS feed MSDN New Content Notifications for MSDN Subscriber Downloads - Notification of newly published content is now available as an RSS feed. By subscribing, you will receive notifications of all new downloads available from MSDN Subscriber Downloads
  • Kernel 2.6.5 Final - Linux Kernel (download) has been updated once again with few patches and made official stable release.
  • Diagnostic Tool for the MSJVM 1.0a - The Diagnostic Tool for the Microsoft VM can be used to scan one or more computers to detect the presence of MSJVM and MSJVM-related software.
  • Microsoft WiX Code Released to SourceForge.Net - On Monday, April 5, 2004, as part of the Shared Source Initiative, Microsoft released the source code for the Windows Installer XML (WiX) developer tool to SourceForge under the IBM Common Public License or CPL. (thanks Slashdot.org)
  • Bittorrent 3.4.2 - This new version fixes some bugs, including an important tracker bug.
  • Tray Helper 4.1 - Tray Helper it's compact award winning application with many features (f/e: email checker, auto mail responder, anti-spam, popup-killer, event reminder and more).
  • Koepi's XviD Codec RC4 - This new version (download) improves bitrate calculator; decoder clips motion to valid range, so that it doesn't crash if bitstream is broken;- decoder supplies quantizer information for external postprocessing (used by ffdshow); decoder fixes in GMC - DivX5 GMC-ed clips weren't decoded right, also 2-point GMC; fixed problems caused by wrong cooperation of bframes and frame dropping code; VfW GUI looks better on asian windows now;  Memory leak when using multiple instances fixed; Minor fixes for VfW GUI.
  • ATITool 0.0.19 - Finding maximum core and memory overclock by rendering into a Direct3D window and scanning the output for visual artifacts. Artifact scanning mode for non-ATI cards - use together with a 3rd party overclocking utility. Loading a predefined clock profile on Application/Windows startup. Hotkeys that can be used any time to load clocks from a profile. 3D application detection (Direct3D 8, Direct3D 9, OpenGL) to overclock your video card only when required. ATITool (download) will only work on Windows 2000/XP/2003.
  • RightMark Memory Analyzer 3.0 - RightMark Memory Analyzer 3.0, the universal CPU/Chipset/RAM experimental test suite has been released! RightMark Memory Analyzer provides stable and accurate measurements of the most important low-level characteristics of the CPU/Chipset/RAM subsystem of your PC.
  • Mwarhead's 3.31a nForce Remix Rebirth For Win2k/XP - This package also includes the better network drivers than the the official. (Audio driver version 4.31 (WHQL) / Audio utility version 4.31 / Ethernet driver 3.39 (WHQL) + TOT.nvu /  GART driver 3.43 (WHQL) / MemCtl driver 3.38 (WHQL) + TOT.nvu / SMBus driver 3.43 / Win2K IDE 2.5 driver version 4.15 (WHQL) + updated nvuide.exe and txtsetup.oem / WinXP IDE 2.5 driver version 4.12 (WHQL) + updated nvuide.exe and txtsetup.oem /  Installer version 4.31)
  • Pioneer DVR-A07U/XL / DVR-107D firmware v1.13 - This new firmware improves the recording quality on several media and adds support for 8x CMC DVD+R media.

Comments from Bill Gatesposted - 07:13 AM CEST - Apr,06 2004
I am still the richest man in the world if you include my secret shares in the porn-spam industry.

Comments from cyberposted - 02:53 PM CEST - Apr,06 2004
^^lol :)

Comments from Tomposted - 07:45 PM CEST - Apr,07 2004
Forbes has already cleared this up claiming this information is incorrect and actually this person is 13th overall richest man. So Bill Gates, don't worry.

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