Symantec today confirmed that it is investigating a "potential" vulnerability in its Antivirus Corporate Edition 10.x, which - a security firm claims - can provide malicious users with far-reaching remote system-level access to computers. Read more
Pricewatch - If you go out and purchase an average desktop PC today, you will end up with a dual-core system in most cases. Read more
Intel's business model breaks down simply to build more chips at higher profitability each quarter. A big portion of that profitability comes from production yield - so it's no surprise that Intel throws lots of resources at improving its CPU manufacturing long before mass-production ramps. The upcoming 65 nm generation already has reached yields of a mature chip, the company claims. Read more
Although not officially announced, Intel officials discussed the upcoming Pentium 64-bit 6xx-series during the ISSCC 2005. The corresponding Xeon MP platform will debut as single-core processor and receive a dual-core update later this year. Read more
Nvidia's Ion for the do-it-yourselfer launched last month in the form of Zotac's mini-ITX motherboard. Though sexy in principle, the platform had some teething pains right out of the gate. Chris Angelini revisits those issues and uses Ion as a real HTPC. Read more
Do you want a quick Core i7 system, but don’t feel confident sticking to Intel's spec and using the DDR3-1066 memory supported by the processor? We benchmark the most relevant memory speed and timing combinations to check the benefit of going faster. Read more
Dead Space is an excellent sci-fi survival horror title, and one of the few games that Nvidia supports with its new driver's ambient occlusion feature. We put the game through our usual image-quality and performance tests to see what we could learn. Read more
Intel's fastest Core 2 Duo, the E8600, runs at 3.33 GHz. But if you're a performance-hungry power user, we found that you can actually increase the chip's efficiency by overclocking it, thanks to 45 nm manufacturing and plenty of built-in headroom. Read more