Saturday, July 7, 2012

IT News Head Lines (HardOCP) 07/07/2012





Corsair Obsidian 550D
In need of a new mid-tower case? The gang at TechwareLabs have the Corsair Obsidian 550D case in house for a little review action. Here's a quote from the review:

Corsair started out with a solid reputation for high performance RAM. Since then, they've branched out into other areas, maintaining a consistent reputation for quality that few can match. Today, we'll be looking at one of their latest offerings in the Obsidian line of computer cases, the Obsidian 550D. A mid-tower case focused on quiet performance, the 550D has several interesting features that we'll be exploring in-depth

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Watch Hackers Steal A BMW In Three Minutes
Hackers are moving up in the world. It would seem they have graduated from defacing websites and stealing grandma's credit card info to actually getting their hands dirty stealing BMWs.



The cars are being stolen without activating car alarms or immobilizers. The suspected method used involves the use of devices that plug into the car's OBD port and can program blank key fobs, leaving owners with keys to missing cars. Here's how they do it.

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Vice President Had No Involvement In MegaUpload Bust
Responding to allegations that the vice president orchestrated the raid on MegaUpload, the U.S. Attorney's office says the VP had no involvement whatsoever. That meeting with all those CEOs from the entertainment industry? That was just lunch with his pals.

"There was no White House involvement in the decision to charge this case," wrote the office of Neil MacBride, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, in an brief e-mail to CNET. MacBride is the man who filed a criminal indictment against DotCom on January 5.

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Sapphire HD 7950 FleX Dual-X Edition 3GB
There is a review of the Sapphire HD 7950 FleX Dual-X Edition 3GB posted today at Overclockers Club that is definitely worth checking out.

Although the Dual-X cooling system on the Sapphire HD 7950 FleX edition does appear to make the card a little bit longer than a reference HD 7950, it is not longer by much. The Sapphire blue PCB is exposed through the cooler and looks good next to the copper heatpipes on the inside. The design is not plain but it is also not overdone with plastic "bling", as I would say.

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World's Top Tech Students Go for It All Down Under
Young technologists are looking to take the world by storm this weekend at the Imagine Cup 2012 Worldwide Finals in Sydney, Australia. More than 350 young technologists from 75 countries and regions have gathered in Sydney this week to participate in the Imagine Cup 2012 Worldwide Finals, the 10th running of the technology competition sponsored by Microsoft. The whirlwind event begins Friday, the judges will announce finalists on Sunday, and overall winners will be announced Tuesday.

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Intel Congratulates CERN And The LHC Community
Intel Corporation congratulates CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, and the LHC community on the progress on the Higgs boson search. Intel is proud to partner with CERN through joint research to accelerate the development of innovative solutions used by the worldwide LHC community and hence to participate in the quest for the most coveted physics particle – the Higgs boson.

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Facebook Tab Engagement Down 53% Since Timeline Launch
Congrats to Facebook on today's milestone. Wait, you mean the company didn't want this to happen? Could have fooled me.

According to data provided to Mashable by PageLever, tab engagement has dropped off 53% since brand Pages began adopting Timeline. The findings were drawn from approximately 500 Pages with more than 10,000 fans apiece.

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ACLU App Lets Android Users Secretly Tape Police
Been awhile since the police bounced a baton off your forehead? There's an app for that....only on Android!

The American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey has released an Android app designed to be used by people who want to secretly record police activity without running the risk that the mobile device will be seized.

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Mario Kart On The Raspberry Pi With SNES Controllers
It's always cool to see people doing stuff like this with the Raspberry Pi. I feel like a slacker, I've had mine for a while now and haven't even taken it out of the box.



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Hurry Up With The "Internet Doomsday" Please!
We have covered this DNSChanger crap until we are blue in the face. It is to the point that, if you haven't fixed your POS box or you still "don't get it", the rest of us are better off without you on the internet.

Under a court order, expiring July 9, the Internet Systems Consortium is operating replacement DNS servers for the Rove Digital network. This will allow affected networks time to identify infected hosts, and avoid sudden disruption of services to victim machines.

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Microsoft Engineer Discovers Android Spam Botnet
An Android botnet? Damn man, those spamming scumbags sure are persistent bastards, aren't they?

A Microsoft engineer has discovered and identified an Android botnet that is sending out spam on an industrial and international scale. Please only install Android apps that you trust.

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