Thursday, February 4, 2010

IT News HeadLines (bit-tech.net) 04/02/2010


bit-tech.net
Hotmail attack deletes contacts, emails
An attack against Microsoft's Hotmail site - which the company is blaming on account-harvesting malware - is resulting in the mass-deletion of users' contact lists and sent e-mails.
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First Fermi cards to be named GTX 480, GTX 470
Nvidia has announced that the first cards to be released based on its new GF100 (Fermi) architecture will be bafflingly named the GTX 480 and GTX 470.
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Direct2Drive opens European store
IGN has launched a new European store for Direct2Drive, complete with a series of discounted games.
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What Hardware Should I Buy? - February 2010
The new year is well under way and for Feb we've re-evaluated our choices again having looked at H55 and H57 motherboards, new coolers and cases, and ATI budget graphics cards. Has it all made a difference? Check in to find out.
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EA wants to make Macbeth: The Game
EA's Visceral Games is apparently keen to make a videogame adaptation of Macbeth.
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Test Bench Roundup #2: Cooler Master and Homebrew Modded!
If you missed part one of our test bench roundup, catch it here.

Rolling straight on with part 2, the, uh, final part, in this two part extravaganza of open-top, naked PC goodness. We have a steel entry from Cooler Master that's built like a tank, and another homebrew mod I constructed way back in 2004. It's survived six years of abuse, and it has wheels. Possibly my greatest mod ever and certainly the cheapest.

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Win 7 bug may kill batteries
A bug in the ACPI power management in Windows 7 is being blamed by affected users for destroying their laptop batteries - with reports of capacity dropping permanently.
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