Wednesday, March 10, 2010

IT News HeadLines (Rage3D) 10/03/2010


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Super Rage3D Deal Today
We don't usually make a news posting relating to our Rage3D Deals (http://www.rage3d.com/deals) page, but one of today's deals is particularly good. You can get a 15" Inspiron laptop with 3GB ram and 250GB HD for just $399. Follow *This Rage3D Deals Link...
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Retailer Acknowledges Shipping Fake Intel Chips
SAN FRANCISCO—An online retailer acknowledged Monday (March 8) that it unwittingly shipped counterfeit ICs to some customers who ordered Intel Corp.'s Core i7-920 microprocessors. The retailer, Newegg.com, said it terminated its relationship with the supplier that provided the devices, identified...
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ASUS 890FX-based Motherboard at CeBIT 2010
CeBIT 2010: Crosshair IV Extreme, Formula and more. Asus has announced a nicely filled its lineup of 890FX based boards where just about everyone and their overclocking & gaming oriented dog should find something to their liking. The main stars of Asus’ mobo offer were naturally the...
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Valve Confirms Steam Mac Support, Portal 2 Gets Simultaneous Release
Mac users getting access to entire Valve library next month. March 8, 2010 - Valve confirmed this morning Mac users will finally be able to use Steam, the company's digital distribution service, and Source, its proprietary game engine this April. "As we transition from entertainment as a product...
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Opera "Content-Length" Processing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
The only version confirmed to be affected so far is 10.50. Marcin Ressel has discovered a vulnerability in Opera, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. The vulnerability is caused due to an error when processing HTTP responses having a malformed...
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AMD Core Unlocking Lives On in ASUS M4A89GTD Pro
Upgrading to AMD's latest and greatest platform does not have to mean shunning potentially free performance. Asus tells us it has implemented core unlocking functionality in its M4A89GTD Pro and M4A89GTD Pro/USB3 motherboards, potentially allowing users to unlock all four cores in Phenom II X3,...
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NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 Roundup @ HardwareCanucks
EVGA, Gigabyte, MSI, Sparkle models compared! Lately, there is no hiding the fact that ATI’s latest releases are hogging the limelight and have been able to capture the public’s attention with a near-perfect mix of performance, efficiency and pricing. NVIDIA does have competing DX11...
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NVIDIA Recalls Linux Drivers Over Fan Speed Bug
Linux not impervious to the fan speed bug. This week NVIDIA had to pull its latest WHQL-certified graphics drivers on Windows due to a bug that would cause the fan controller to not respond correctly to the current conditions of the GPU workload and in some cases would even turn the GPU's fan off....
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