Mark Russinovich, the security software engineer who discovered the presence of stealth techniques to mask the presence of digital rights management drivers in Sony BMG audio CDs, announced this morning he has discovered rootkit-like stealth in two popular brands of CD emulator software. Read more
A noted security software engineer learned that a well-used copy protection scheme employed by Sony BMG on its audio CDs, uses stealth protection techniques to evade user detection. Maybe that's bad, but how bad is it, really? Read more
At the SEMA auto show in Las Vegas, Sony introduced a new radio/CD player called the Giga Panel that can store music in internal memory. The player has one Gigabyte of flash memory and users can upload songs via a USB port in the front faceplate. It can also play ATRAC/3 songs (Sony's proprietary format) burned onto a CD. Read more
ATI continues to deliver on its promise to issue a driver update for its graphics cards. The big news in the June .6 update is a new Windows Media Center Edition Video Conversion utility. Read more
Cyberpower sent us a factory-overclocked Phenom II X4 955 system wielding two Radeon HD 4890 cards in CrossFire. We pit the formidable rig against our previous System Builder Marathon Core i7 machine to see if AMD can deliver a viable gaming alternative. Read more
The latest 2 TB hard drives are still expensive, but 1.5 TB disks provide low power consumption at a better cost-to-capacity ratio. We look at offerings from Samsung and Western Digital to determine the value of taking a step down from the flagships. Read more
When a new paradigm like cloud computing or a new platform like Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) comes along, it’s smart to ask tough questions. Read more
With 36 lanes of PCIe 2.0, 3-way SLI could be the X58 chipset’s biggest challenge. If that turns out to be true, is Nvidia’s nForce 200 controller hub, which multiplexes the platform's connectivity, a solution? We compare three configurations to find out. Read more
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