Thursday, September 10, 2009

IT News HeadLines (Rage3D) 09/09/2009


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Rage3D Article: Sapphire 4650 AGP Review
What's this? Has the world gone mad? Caveman reviews a graphics card? Madness indeed, this is AGP! This is Rage3D! *Sapphire Radeon HD 4650 AGP Review* (http://www.rage3d.com/reviews/video/sapphirehd4650/)
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Microsoft Patches Slew of "Drive-By Attack" Bugs
Half of today's patches fix flaws hackers can use just by duping users to shifty sites. Microsoft (http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9137060/Microsoft_Update_Latest_news_features_reviews_opinions_and_more) today delivered five critical security updates that patched eight vulnerabilities in...
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New Flaw Causes "Blue Screen of Death" on Vista, Windows 7
As Microsoft prepares to release patches, researchers said they've seen exploit code for a new flaw that puts organizations using Vista and Windows 7 at great risk. The flaw lies in a driver used for the Samba file-sharing feature in Windows, said Bojan Zdrnja, a handler for the SANS Internet...
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Browser War: Firefox 3.6a1, Opera 10.0, IE8, Safari 4, Chrome 4 Benchmarked - Part 1
Fight, fight, fight! Last week Opera 10.0 was released in its final form. DailyTech had covered the development process (http://www.dailytech.com/Opera+Picks+up+Steam+With+Speedy+100+Beta+3/article15974.htm) of the browser exhaustively, so some may have been surprised not to see a piece on the...
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Report: Intel Readying 3.2GHz Core i7-960
This repost originated from Fudzilla. With the arrival of Lynnfield (http://www.techreport.com/articles.x/17545), Intel's Core i7-900 processors have lost much of their raison d'etre. For instance, the new Core i7-870 matches the Core i7-950 overall, but it costs the same, draws less power...
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2010 Could Be the Last Year for IPv4 As We Know It
The global pool of IPv4 addresses is scheduled to run dry in 2011. We've known we would run out of IPv4 addresses since 1981, when the Internet Protocol was standardized. The numbers dictate that there will never be more than 4,294,967,296 different IPv4 addresses. (4 billion and change being the...
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Asus Releases Seven Dual-Core CULV Laptops
Using a new low-power Core 2 Duo chip, Asus has introduced a whole lineup of CULV laptops (http://www.asus.com/News.aspx?N_ID=0IThtUQeJJdoflAe) that pack dual-core processors. The new UL (a.k.a. UnLimited) product family includes 12.1", 13.3", 14", and 15.6" systems, all with the same 1366x768...
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AMD Magny-Cours CPU-Z Validation
Here is the first CPU-Z validation of AMD's 12-core Magny-Cours processor. Whatever details the existing version of CPU-Z does read, perfectly matches the specifications of the processor sketched out so far. Firstly, it's based on AMD's upcoming socket G3 package that marks Opteron's transition to...
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AMD Prepares Phenom II X2 555
Following a recent move to speed-bump the Athlon II X2 with the Athlon II X2 255 (http://www.techpowerup.com/?103283), AMD is planning a similar update for the Phenom II X2 lineup, with the Phenom II X2 555. This model makes it clear that an increment of 5 in the model number indicates bump in...
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Unannounced Athlon II X4 Hits E-Tail Listings
Intel isn't the only one releasing new processors today. With quite a bit less pompآ—even less than a price list update (http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_609,00.html), in factآ—AMD has released its first quad-core Athlon II X4 processor. Newegg currently lists the...
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Intel Lynnfield CPUs and P55 Motherboards - Review Roundup
If you spot a review article that I have missed, feel free to speak up, and I will add it to the list! *Reviews listed in alphabetical order:* *Lynnfield CPUs:* AnandTech (http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3634) (Core i5-750, Core i7-870) Benchmark Reviews...
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