Researchers: HP LaserJet printers can be remotely exploited
Could someone remotely hack into your printer, steal your personal information, and then set the device on fire? Yes, according to researchers who went public with a pretty startling proof of concept this morning.
As MSNBC reports , the Columbia University team, led by Professor Salvatore Stolfo, found HP's LaserJet printers can be remotely compromised through their automatic firmware update mechanism. If I understand correctly, the printers are designed to check each print job to see if it includes ...
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PCIe 4.0 to hit 16 GT/s; base spec due in 2014-2015
As the first PCI Express 3.0-compatible motherboards slowly begin to seep into the marketplace, the next major revision of the interconnect is already in the works. PCI-SIG, which is responsible for developing the PCI Express spec, has announced some preliminary details about PCIe 4.0.
For starters, PCI-SIG says it has decided on a transfer rate of 16 GT/s for the next-generation interconnect. A feasability study purportedly showed that 16 GT/s can be achieved over copper wires, at roughly the same power levels ...
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OCZ shrinks and improves its Talos 2 enterprise SSDs
OCZ has added another solid-state drive to its quiver of enterprise-oriented offerings. Today marks the introduction of the second generation of the company's Talos SSD line. While the original was only available in a 3.5" form factor, the new Talos 2 comes in a smaller 2.5" case, albeit one that looks beefier than the 9.5-mm thickness common among consumer SSDs.
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Amazon releases Kindle Fire source code
With its Kindle Fire, Amazon seems to have sought to create a neatly packaged experience, in some ways similar to Apple's iPad. The device runs a heavily customized version of Android and is tightly integrated with Amazon's services. There's one key difference, though. Amazon has released the source code for the Android software fork that powers the device.
You can grab the code in a 204MB tar.gz archive right on this page , no questions asked. Amazon doesn't require that you sign up, sign in, or agree to any terms. The only legal notice on the page says the ...
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GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 splits the difference
The past year has been exceptionally quiet in the world of enthusiast-class graphics cards, largely because of a decision by the leading GPU chip foundry, TSMC, to cancel its 32-nanometer fabrication process—and because of TSMC's further struggles to bring the replacement 28-nm process up to speed. We haven't had a truly new entry since the introduction of the GeForce GTX 560 back in May, and that was simply a lower-speed version of the GTX 560 Ti released last January.
We may have to wait a little longer for 28-nm GPUs to arrive, but in the interim, Nvidia has decided to inject a bit of freshness into its GPU lineup this holiday season in the form a new product dubbed the "GeForce GTX 560 Ti with 448 cores." As is too often the case these days, the product name has everything to do with positioning and marketing concerns and ...
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Tegra 3 tablets from Acer, Lenovo said to be on the way
PC makers might eventually quit the tablet market, as the rumor mill predicts, but they still have some fight in them yet. According to Digitimes, both Acer and Lenovo are cooking up tablets based on Google's Android 4.0 software, a.k.a. Ice Cream Sandwich, and Nvidia's new Tegra 3 processor.
The devices will reportedly be priced in the $459-599 range, which should pit them against Asus' Eee Pad Transformer Prime. The Prime offers the same hardware-software tag team ...
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Seagate's Momentus XT 750GB hybrid hard drive
For most folks, hybrids are probably the future of PC storage. Flash memory's near-instantaneous access times are a performance benefit too good to pass up. At the same time, NAND flash's relatively high cost per gigabyte, combined with our ever-growing thirst for storage capacity, ensures mechanical platters will remain in a supporting role for the foreseeable future. Music and movie archives aren't likely to benefit from the wicked-fast access times of solid-state storage, anyway.
On the desktop, cobbling together a hybrid solution is as easy as putting a hard drive and an SSD in the same system. Users are free to manage the distribution of data between the two or to rely on ...
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