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Researchers warn over Web wormsAug 8, 2006 - in News
Exploiting a lack of security checks in browsers and Web servers, Web worms and viruses are likely to become a major threat to surfers, security researchers speaking at the Black Hat Briefings warned on Thursday.
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Hackers clone radio-chip passportsAug 8, 2006 - in News
Passports and other ID cards incorporating radio chips can be remotely spied on, jammed and even copied, computer experts revealed at a major conference that ended on Sunday.
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A photonic 'lab-on-a-chip'Aug 8, 2006 - in News
Georgia Tech researchers have shrunk an optical device called wavelength demultipler (WD) by combining into one crystal three unique properties of photonics crystals.
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Unisys reports missing PC containing veteran personal dataAug 8, 2006 - in News
Unisys has lost a desktop computer used for its work with the Department of Veterans Affairs that contains personal information on as many of 38,000 veterans.
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Commodity PC morphs into mobile Linux robotAug 8, 2006 - in News
A small Canadian company is taking orders for a mobile robot that runs Linux, and is based on standard, modular PC components, interfaces and bays.
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Graphics Beginners' Guide, Part 3: Graphics PerformanceAug 8, 2006 - in Reviews
In part 1 and 2 we did our graphics homework, but how does graphics technology affect real-life performance? We analyze the impact of different hardware configurations.
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White Gold: War in Paradise and Call of Duty 3Aug 7, 2006 - in Picture Story
The future, near enough to be as we know it? Military struggle? Caribbean islands and graphics not unlike Far Cry? Hot damn, we have an FPS!
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Traveling TeraByte ProjectAug 7, 2006 - in Picture Story
The Traveling TeraByte Project is stored inside a small olive drab-colored Pelican case. The case, which contains a terabyte of media, is shipped around the world to hackers and soldiers who couldn't attend Defcon.
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Lenovo to use Athlon, Sempron CPUs in Thinkcentre PCsAug 7, 2006 - in News
AMD scored another design win today with Lenovo announcing that it will build Athlon 64 and Sempron processors into a business-targeted desktop PC: After the J series for home users, the Thinkcentre A60 series is the second model to offer AMD's CPUs as an alternative to Intel processors.
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Mac Pro, new Xserve will feature dual Intel Xeons, will start shipping todayAug 7, 2006 - in News
It's Intel Xeon 5100 processors - not Core 2 Duos - that will be at the heart of the new Mac Pro series announced this morning. In fact, they'll have a dual-processor configuration for four simultaneous cores, replacing the old Power G5 "quad" configuration. And confirming speculation from last week, Nvidia's 7300 GT card will come standard, although an ATI Radeon is being offered as an upgrade.
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Get Quad SLI Before It Is HatchedAug 7, 2006 - in Reviews
New beta drivers allow Quad SLI to run on two GeForce 7950GX2 cards rather than on four 7900 series cards. Is this setup a must-have for enthusiasts?
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Microsoft looks to "third dimension" to improve search resultsAug 7, 2006 - in News
At a presentation at the 2006 SIGIR conference, Microsoft scientists said that new and additional techniques for analyzing search click-through patterns and browsing behaviors can enhance the search results delivered by a search engine.
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Defcon 2006: Hackers can work for the Feds - no degree requiredAug 7, 2006 - in News
The great need for qualified computer security personnel is now forcing the government to rethink rigid hiring guidelines. At the Defcon computer security convention in Las Vegas, more than a dozen federal agents told attendees that traditional requirements like college degrees and polygraph tests were no longer strictly required for government employment.
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Defcon 2006: Oracle not so "unbreakable"Aug 7, 2006 - in News
Your company's cleaning lady could be illegally moonlighting as your Oracle database administrator. Alexander Kornbrust, founder and CEO of Red Database Security, says hackers could easily exploit vulnerabilities in Oracle database and gain administrator access.
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Defcon growing pains - Rush of people delay openingAug 4, 2006 - in News
A massive rush of people delayed the opening of the Defcon computer security convention for about two hours. Riviera hotel security and Defcon "Goons" security said the Fire Marshal was late in approving the venue. An unexpectedly higher number of attendees forced the Fire Marshal to recheck to area and delay the 10 AM opening.
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What's causing Dell XPS 700 shipments to be delayed again, to October?Aug 4, 2006 - in Reviews
Although Dell originally announced its Pentium D 900 series-based XPS 700 system last May, few - if any - customers who purchased this system have actually seen it shipped to them. And most of those customers, who have now been offered upgrades to the improved, Core 2 Duo or Extreme-based model, have been told their systems will ship in mid-October, if not later. What's really going on?
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Google warns of malware on websitesAug 4, 2006 - in News
Google has begun warning users about visiting websites that include malware capable of damaging computers. Security software, including the latest beta of McAfee's upcoming Internet Security Suite and Microsoft's OneCare Live, have been offering a similar functionality, but a warning delivered directly by a search engine is a fairly new trend.
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Artwork morphs to match viewer's moodAug 4, 2006 - in News
Artwork that undergoes metamorphosis to suit its audience's mood has been developed by a team of computer scientists.
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IDC: Global handheld market sees tenth quarter of on year decline in Q2Aug 4, 2006 - in News
The second quarter of 2006 saw the worldwide handheld devices market experience its tenth consecutive quarter of on year decline, according to International Data Corporation (IDC).
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IPTV subscriber base set for explosive growth, says iSuppliAug 4, 2006 - in News
The worldwide subscriber base for Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) services is expected to expand by a factor of more than 26 from 2005 to 2010, spurring a competitive battle between video providers both old and new, research firm iSuppli predicts.
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Witsview: Prices for monitor panels keep risingAug 4, 2006 - in News
Mainstream monitor panel prices are expected to see a significant increase starting from this month, according to research firm WitsView Technology.
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Universal Pictures: "DRMs do not stop piracy"Aug 4, 2006 - in News
The battle between HD DVD and Blu-ray is in full swing: The first players are out, content follows. Now it's up to the marketing talent to get consumers excited. TG Daily spoke with Universal's Jerry Pierce about HD DVD's advantages and opportunities now and in the future, copy protection and the impact of IT in Hollywood.
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Satirist Colbert successfully edits Wikipedia entries on Washington, elephantsAug 3, 2006 - in News
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Defcon 2006: Opening HoursAug 3, 2006 - in Picture Story
"Human" white badge given to normal attendees. Defcon has temporarily run out of the badges because of a high number of attendees.
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Intel Core 2 Duo prices fall well below AMD price/performance curveAug 3, 2006 - in News
Intel's Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Extreme desktop processor prices fall well below the price performance curve set by AMD, according to today's data from PriceGrabber and Froogle. If AMD wants to be the value leader again, then customers may start looking to AMD to set the curve, to see if Intel will follow. As today's chart shows, Intel won't be the one doing the following.
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Apple developers' conference may see gaps filled in PowerMac, Ipod product linesAug 3, 2006 - in News
An entire industry has been formed around managing the guessing game of what Apple will announce next. But as with any industry that constitutes a good part of the American economy, when speculation becomes part of the business, meeting the expectations of the best speculators can be interpreted by the market at large as a disappointment. If Apple doesn't give any hints as to an "iPhone" or an e-book next Monday at the WWDC in San Francisco, will that be seen as bad news?
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Xilinx preps 45nm FPGA launch, admits stiff challenges in structured ASICsAug 3, 2006 - in News
Xilinx regards a process shrink on programmable logic as a "must" if its is to achieve a competitive cost structure, and the company expects to debut products at the 45nm node in 2008, said company Asia Pacific marketing director Cheng Hsin Nan.
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