Thursday, June 20, 2013

IT News Head Lines (HardOCP) 6/21/2013





Be Quiet! Dark Power Pro 10 850W PSU
PC Perspective has the Dark Power Pro 10 850W PSU from Be Quiet! strapped to the test bench today for a little review action. Here's a quote from the full review:

Be Quiet! has taken an already great power supply in the form of a Seasonic X-series unit, and made it even better. The enhancements made to the Dark Power Pro 10 850W power supply translates to "legendary silence and cutting edge performance"; just like Be Quiet! claims.

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MakerBot Acquired In $403 Million Deal
It looks like MakerBot just started 3D printing money!

In a release, the companies said it was a stock-for-stock transaction worth about $403 million, based on Stratasys' stock price as of Wednesday. Stratasys will exchange 4.76 million shares of its stock for 100 percent of MakerBot's outstanding stock. By agreeing to be acquired, MakerBot becomes part of one of the leading industrial 3D printing companies.

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America Needs A Cyber Bill Of Rights
I know it is probably wishful thinking, but it would be nice to see our country stand together and demand a cyber Bill of Rights.

If the Constitution and Bill of Rights were written today, if somehow the greats — Madison, Jefferson, Franklin — were able to put their minds to building an America engulfed in digital data, you can be sure our digital reality would find its way into those documents.

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Hosting Service Deletes All MegaUpload Users' Data
It would seem that Megaupload's former hosting company has wiped the hard drives on all 630 servers storing customer data. The company says it simply couldn't afford to keep storing the data for free with no response from Dotcom in over a year.

The storage of the 630 servers – while a relatively small burden – must serve a purpose. During the year we stored the servers and the data, we received no request for access nor any request to retain the data. After a year of nobody showing any interest in the servers and data we considered our options. We did inform MegaUpload about our decision to re-provision the servers.

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Microsoft Launches $100K Bug Bounty Program
A $100k bug bounty program? Some of you guys could make a serious chunk of change doing this.

The programs include a $100,000 payout for mitigation-bypass vulnerabilities uncovered in its software products, a $50,000 payout on top of this for a solution that will fix the vulnerability, and $11,000 for any bugs found in the preview release of its upcoming Internet Explorer 11 browser software.

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Microsoft Is Removing Xbox One DRM
According to multiple sources (the Xbox One Q&A page is down at the moment), Microsoft is removing Xbox One DRM. This is huge...if it turns out to be true.

No more always online requirement
The console no longer has to check in every 24 hours
All game discs will work on Xbox One as they do on Xbox 360
Authentication is no longer necessary
An Internet connection is only required when initially setting up the console
All downloaded games will function the same when online or offline
No additional restrictions on trading games or loaning discs
Region locks have been dropped

*Update* It is now OFFICIAL.

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ASUS GeForce GTX 780 DirectCU II OC
If a GPU upgrade is in your immediate future, you should probably give ocaholic's review of the ASUS GTX 780 DirectCU II OC a read.

Meanwhile ASUS has a heavily overclocked GeForce GTX 780 card in its portfolio which even features a new revision of their DirectCU II cooler. Almost obviously, there is also a non-reference PCB which features a ten phase power design with super alloy components. Everything put together sounds like a highly compelling offer.

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The 'Internet of Everything' Is Worth $613B
It is amazing how much thought is put into stuff like this.

Cisco Systems wants its customers to know that there is a huge amount of money to be made if they focus their strategy and IT budget on what the company and others call the Internet of Everything.

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The Creepy-Rapey Side of E3
Ouch, did she just say the "creepy-rapey part" of E3?

That much is tolerable—expected, even (sadly). But after speaking to a few female journalists and PR reps who attended E3 this year, I learned that, in the midst of all the excitement, they were unhappy to admit a more offensive common theme of this year's show: they called it the "creepy-rapey-E3."

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Galaxy GTX 780 HOF Sets World Record
It looks like Galaxy's upcoming GXT 780 HOF is quite the overclocking beast! The company set a world record overclock at Computex earlier this month on this card. Here are a few images from the record setting event:





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Corsair Carbide Series Air 540
Hexus has Corsair's new Carbide Series Air 540 case in house today for a little review lovin'. Hit the link to see this dual chambered chassis in action.

The Air 540 is specifically designed to offer dual chambers; an actively-cooled main chamber on one side for all your hot-running components; and a passively-cooled second chamber on the other for, well, everything else.

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Cooler Master Seidon 240M
If you are shopping around for an all-in-one cooling solution this Cooler Master Seidon 240M review might be of interest.

AiO (all in one) CPU coolers have been around for quite some time now. These days just about every company is coming out with their own version and most of them typically look the same with only one or two distinguishing features. Then there's the Cooler Master Seidon 240M. The Seidon on the surface seems like your typical 240mm AiO CPU cooler, but Cooler Master has added their own unique style to this unit.

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Intel Core i7-4770K Haswell Processor
Head on over to Think Computers today and check out their review of the Intel Core i7-4770K Haswell processor. Our evaluation can be found here.

Today we are taking a look at the top of the line Haswell desktop chip the Core i7-4770K. Of course the "K" denotes that it is an unlocked processor. This is a quad-core processor that has a default clock speed of 3.5 GHz and a turbo frequency that goes all the way up to 3.9 GHz

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