NSA Repeatedly Violated Court Rules On Data Protection
Rules? What rules? We're the government, we don't abide by no stinking rules!
The documents, mostly from 2009, describe what a judge on the secret court that oversees surveillance said was the improper access of "thousands" of Americans' phone numbers by government counterterrorism analysts. They also indicate that US government officials, including NSA director Keith Alexander, gave misleading statements to the court about how they carried out that surveillance.
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AMD's Never Settle Forever Promo Adds Saints Row IV
AMD has added Saints Row IV to its extremely popular Never Settle Forever promotion. Hit the link to see which graphics cards qualify.
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Corsair Obsidian 900D Super Tower Case
NikKTech has published a review of the Corsair Obsidian 900D super tower case today. Our evaluation of the 900D can be found here.
Of course compared to the Obsidian 800D the new Obsidian 900D may share the same excellent build quality and finish but it also has an assortment of new features including a completely tool-less design, room for up to 15 fans, swing-out doors, dual PSU area, 5 radiator mounting points and much more. So is this the perfect HPTX tower we've all been waiting for?
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Xbox One Backwards Compatibility May Still Happen
I honestly don't see why Microsoft couldn't do backwards compatibility in the first place. Cloud or no cloud, you'd think the Xbox One should have more than enough horsepower to run a Xbox 360 emulator.
"The power of the cloud brings many possibilities on Xbox One. Albert was speaking theoretically about backwards compatibility as an example of the features the cloud could enable in the future."
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Google Loses Appeal In Street View Snooping Case
Google says it is "considering its next step" after losing an appeal in the Street View snooping lawsuit. I have an idea, how about making the next step apologizing (again) and moving on?
Attorneys suing Google for enabling its camera-carrying vehicles to collect emails and Internet passwords while photographing neighborhoods for the search giant's popular "Street View" maps look forward to resuming their case now that a federal appeals court has ruled in their favor.
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Intel Introduces Highly Versatile Datacenter Processor Family
Intel Corporation today introduced the Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2600 v2 product family (code named "Ivy Bridge-EP"), an industry-leading set of versatile processors that promises to redefine the server, storage and networking infrastructure found in datacenters. With greater efficiency and flexibility, these processors will enable the rapid delivery of services for high performance computing, cloud and enterprise segments, and offer compelling new opportunities for telecommunications vendors.
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Battlefield 4 PC System Requirements
The official Battlefield 4 PC system requirements have been posted on the BF4 Twitter account. Yes, you are reading that correctly, Windows 8 64-bit is the recommended OS.
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Antec High Current Pro 1000 Platinum
For those of you interested, there is a review of the Antec High Current Pro 1000 Platinum power supply at ocaholic this afternoon. For comparison purposes, you can see our evaluation here.
With the HCP-1000 Platinum Antec offers a high end 1000W PSU that achieved the 80 Plus Platinum certification. This unit is being manufactured by Delta Electronics of which Antec is an OEM customer. For about 265 US-Dollar, this is quite an expensive PSU but for that we can expect a very well built, high-end power supply.
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What You Do and Don't Get With The New iPhones
Here's a list of the things you do get and a list of things you don't get. There you have it, back to real tech news please.
Apple's latest iPhones will come in a bevy of colors and two distinct designs, one made of plastic and the other that aims to be "the gold standard of smartphones" and reads your fingerprint. Apple unveiled the latest iPhone models, available on Sept. 20, during an event at its Cupertino, Calif., headquarters.
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EA Selects New BioWare Boss
Electronic Arts has named Matthew Bromberg as the new head of BioWare. Bromberg, formerly the general manager of BioWare Austin, has only been with the company since 2012.
The job has been open since the founders of BioWare, Greg Zeschuk and Ray Muzyka, left last year after decades of developing games. The post is an important one because BioWare has some of EA's most successful game franchises — Mass Effect and Dragon Age — and also some of its biggest budget games such as Star Wars: The Old Republic.
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IBM Helps Track Down Movie and TV Show Pirates
The Federation Against Copyright Theft has teamed up with IBM to identify individuals and groups distributing pirated content online.
The UK's Federation Against Copyright Theft is working with computing giant IBM to continue their crackdown on Internet piracy. By utilizing IBM technology the anti-piracy group says it is able to better manage intelligence in order to identify individuals and organizations who share its members' content online without permission. Furthermore, FACT adds that it has virtually eliminated UK-based camcorder piracy.
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[H]ot Deals
Today's [H]ot Deals forum thread is full of exclusive deals just for [H] readers. The coupon codes for the items listed below won't last forever and are limited to stock on hand so you'd better get in on these deals while the getting is good.
CRUCIAL 8GB KIT (4GBX2) DDR3 1333 = $64.99
Samsung 840 Pro 512GB 2.5" SATA III SSD = $459.99
MSI Radeon HD 7770 1GB DDR5 PCIe Video Card = $69.99
AMD A-Series APU A10-6800K 4400Mhz 4MB 100W FM2 = $134.99
ASUS F2A85-V PRO ATX 4DIMM DDR3 FM2 Motherboard = $119.94
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[H]ardware Round-Up
Cooling: XSPC Photon 270 Tube Reservoir @ ThinkComputers
Memory/ Storage: Samsung SSD 840 EVO Series 750GB @ CDRLabs
Power Supply: Be Quiet Pure Power L8 CM 730W @ eTeknix
Video: Palit GTX 780 Super JetStream 3 GB @ techPowerUP!
Zotac GeForce GTX 780 AMP! Edition @ Hexus
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