'Spam King' Released From Prison
What the? It sure seems like this guy went to jail just yesterday, doesn't it? Let's see, millions of dollars in exchange for a few years in a cushy federal prison? That's not too bad when you think about it. Robert Soloway, who has admitted sending more than 10 trillion spam e-mails in his career, was released last Saturday from the Federal Correctional Institution in Sheridan, Oregon, reports Wired.com. As part of his plea deal, probation officers will monitor every e-mail Soloway sends and every webpage he visits for the next three years. Comments
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NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit 4.0 Now Available
NVIDIA today announced the latest version of the NVIDIAآ® CUDAآ® Toolkit for developing parallel applications using NVIDIA GPUs. The NVIDIA CUDA 4.0 Toolkit was designed to make parallel programming easier, and enable more developers to port their applications to GPUs. This has resulted in three main features: NVIDIA GPUDirectآ™ 2.0 Technology: Offers support for peer-to-peer communication among GPUs within a single server or workstation. This enables easier and faster multi-GPU programming and application performance. Unified Virtual Addressing (UVA): Provides a single merged-memory address space for the main system memory and the GPU memories, enabling quicker and easier parallel programming. Thrust C++ Template Performance Primitives Libraries: Provides a collection of powerful open source C++ parallel algorithms and data structures that ease programming for C++ developers. With Thrust, routines such as parallel sorting are 5X to 100X faster than with Standard Template Library (STL) and Threading Building Blocks (TBB). Comments
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How Not to Make a Multiplayer Game
Trust me when I say that no developer wants to be the subject of an article called "How Not to Make a Multiplayer Game." While I think the single player portion of EA's game is far better, the multiplayer is surprisingly derivative for such a high profile game. It tries to marry elements from Battlefield: Bad Company and Call of Duty, making what probably sounded like the perfect shooter on paper. But Medal of Honor only borrows the surface trappings of these elements and none of the depth, resulting in a multiplayer mode that feels as if it was made by people who don't understand why its peers are so popular. Comments
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Can Internet Posts Get You Fired?
Time magazine has once again brought up the issue of people getting fired for posts they make on social media sites. Still, "this case doesn't answer the question of when an employer can discipline an employee just for speaking badly about the company on something unrelated to work," says Gary Phelan, an employment lawyer with the Connecticut firm of Cohen & Wolf. "There are also basic defamation and slander laws under which the employer can sue," and maybe win, if an employee post is defamatory and untrue. Comments
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PowerColor Radeon HD 6970 LCS
Overclockers Club has just posted a review of the PowerColor Radeon HD 6970 LCS video card today. Overall, the review is very positive, the OCC crew seemed to really like this card. Head on over and read the full review, this quote should get you started: This block when used in a liquid cooled system will deliver exceptional cooling performance with the card never breaking the 50 Celsius mark at 45C. What has to be the biggest advantage of the card is not what it has but what it does not have. That ungodly loud fan noise when the fan is pushed to the 100% level. No howling beast to make you wonder why you bought the card. Comments
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Top Search Terms That Lead To Malware
And the nominees for "most likely to give you a virus" are...drum roll please....music video, J-Woww, credit score, Barrack Obama and Costco. Comments
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Apple Gets Cocky About iPad 2
Conan took a swipe at Apple's iPad 2 announcement on his show. You have to admit, it wouldn't be so funny if it wasn't true. Comments
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PC Perspective Podcast #144
For those of you that like a little hardware news on the go (iTunes or downloadable MP3) or you are just too damn lazy to read, I recommend you try out PC Perspective's weekly podcast. Here are just a few of the things the fellas discussed this week: Intel's Thunderbolt I/O Technology, the OCZ Vertex 3, Intel 510 SATA 6 SSD, Hardware/Software Pics of the Week and much more!
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Groupon Sued Over Expiration Date Issues
Some guy is suing Groupon over expirations dates. Does this guy have a point or is this just another frivolous lawsuit? A man in Illinois filed the lawsuit after buying a Groupon deal in August that expired on Feb. 16 before he had a chance to use it. Under Illinois law, gift cards must keep their value for at least five years. He is now seeking unspecified financial damages. Comments
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WordPress Hit by 'Extremely Large' DDoS Attack
What kind of hacker/crook/group launches a denial-of-service attack on WordPress? In an e-mail to CNET, WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg said the attack had affected three of the company's data centers, and was the largest its seen in the company's six-year history. Mullenweg also said that the attack "may have been politically motivated against one of our non-English blogs," but that that detail had not been confirmed. Comments
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Noctua NH-D14 CPU Cooler
The gang at ThinkComputers has put the Noctua NH-D14 CPU Cooler to the test and came away rather impressed. You can see our evaluation here for comparison purposes. Just a little while ago we took a look at Noctua's NH-C14 CPU cooler, it featured a C-shape top down design and proved to be one of the best performing CPU coolers we have tested this year! Well today we are going to look at the C14's brother the NH-D14. It features an asymmetrical tower-type design with 2 large fans. This once again is a huge CPU cooler, but knowing Noctua it will provide great cooling and run pretty silent. Let's check it out! Comments
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DirecTV May Offer $30 "Premium" VOD Movies this Summer
Whether you like the idea or not, $30 video on demand movies may be coming to DirecTV subscribers this summer. Personally, I kinda like the idea but they need to move the date up a bit, who wants to pay $30 for a movie that has been out for two months already? If you're a DirecTV subscriber, word is you may soon be among the first guinea pigs in the latest Hollywood scheme to boost revenue in the face of dwindling DVD sales: "premium" video-on-demand movies that arrive just two months after their theatrical debuts, for $30 a pop. Comments
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Inside Google's Self-Driving Car
If you think a test drive in Google's self-driving car would be some 5mph crawl around a parking lot, you'd only be half right (they were in a parking lot). Comments
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