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EFF seeks shelter for remixers, unlockers & jailbreakers
Yesterday, the Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a pair of petitions with the US Copyright Office seeking a redress of penalty for users seeking to rip DVDs for remixing, jailbreak their phone for carrier-unauthorized applications, or unlock a phone for multi-carrier use. The EFF alleges that these tasks do not inherently violate copyright law, but do […] Add comment
NVIDIA preparing troubled 55nm G200 cores?
Word has it that NVIDIA, the world’s largest discrete GPU manufacturer, is preparing to soft-launch a 55nm revision of the G200 core which powers the GTX260 and GTX280 GPUs. Unfortunately for NVIDIA, rumor has it that the die shrink is going to arrive behind schedule with no improvements to the thermal envelope or power consumption. […] Add comment
Google was 3 hours away from monopoly charges
You may recall that back on November 5, Google cited regulatory concerns when it washed its hands of the pending Yahoo!/Google deal. It now appears that these regulatory concerns amounted to knowledge that the world’s largest internet firm was just hours away from being charged by the DOJ for antitrust practices. Sanford Litvack of law […] Add comment
New Windows 7 boot screen
Rumor has it that Windows 7 build 6954 or later has a new boot screen that revives a new impression of the Windows logo. You may recall that Windows Vista does not carry a logo during this stage of the Windows loading process, choosing to briefly display one prior to the welcome screen instead. Assuming […] Add comment
Firefox nabbed by spyware
UK Romanian security vendor BitDefender has identified a new strain of malware explicitly designed to attack Firefox by exploiting the popular addons feature. The exploit, identified as Trojan.PWS.ChromeInject.A, registers itself as an addon with Firefox and is configured to relay a user’s credentials for more than 100 global financial institutions. Using JavaScript to execute its […] Add comment
Apple pulls AV note
Apparently Apple was just joshing on their AV recommendation. Speaking with Apple spokesman Bill Evans, CNet learned that the entry in the Apple support database was “old and inaccurate.” Evans repeated the age-old mantra that Apple products were inherently safer in the face of attacks. “The Mac is designed with built-in technologies that provide protection […] Add comment
Office Hours 10: Configuring automatic Windows login
Icrontic is proud to offer the Office Hours series of articles. Each week we’ll take a look at a common problem in Windows or often-used software and nail down a quick fix for it. This week, the good doctor explores how to suppress the login screen to automatically log a user into a Windows XP-based […] Add comment
Team Icrontic: Lasse first to crack 10 million points
Lasse (lsevald) being the first Icrontian to break the 10-million-point mark for Folding@Home Team 93 seems like a good time to remind everyone to get folding! Register on Icrontic, say hello, and we’ll save you a seat in the Pub (plus you’ll get a super-cool welcome message from me). Add comment
Make a media center with XBMC
Today’s download of the day, XBMC Media Center, is a free and open source solution for landing swank media center functionality on nearly any operating system. This cross platform-compatible product brings a smörgåsbord of media reading and playing functionality to any device destined for media center superstardom. If you’ve been looking for a great way […] Add comment
EFF, Bush administration in court over FISA
The EFF and the Bush administration met in a San Francisco court on Tuesday to discuss the legality of the FISA Amendments Act (FAA). The EFF argues that the FAA’s grant of immunity to lawsuits for any telecom that aided the government in federal warrantless domestic wiretapping fundamentally undermines the US constitution. Since signed into […] Add comment
.tel joins the list of TLDs
London-based Telnic hopes that their new .tel domain will spur the stagnant TLD market by offering an innovative service that brings the idea behind the phone book onto the web. Rather than storing information on a static page, information entered for a .tel domain will be stored using the framework of the existing DNS system. […] Add comment
Getting Windows 7 beta 1
In an update posted to the Microsoft Developer Conference site, it has been revealed that all attendees will receive a copy of the first beta of Windows 7. While the MDC is primarily focused on promoting the benefits of all Microsoft products, an available release of Windows 7 will be sure to draw attendees that […] Add comment
Vista SP2 customer preview beta
On December 4, the first beta of Windows Vista SP2 will be available to the public via Microsoft’s Customer Preview Program. The newly-minted SP2 beta is said to contain a myriad of changes that are a result of both discretionary error reporting and the desire to support new hardware standards. In focusing on the provision […] Add comment
Automagically tidy folders
Today’s download of the day, Download Mover, allows a user to pattern-match files in source folders at regular intervals so they can be moved to any number of destination folders. Rather than whiling away the hours with manual folder organization, let Download Mover clean up that nasty dump you call your download directory. Add comment
New 3DFX unified driver released
It’s just a jump to the left! It’s that time of the decade! A new 3DFX driver has been released to bring renewed support for Voodoo3, Voodoo4, and Voodoo5 products. This unified driver, assembled by the team at 3dfxzone.it, brings the version number up to SFFT v1.5. While there is no word regarding the changes, […] Add comment
Intel intros three new CPUs
Santa Clara CPU firm Intel has released their November/December tray prices which has quietly revealed the introduction of three new CPUs. Intel Core 2 Quad Q8300 2.5GHz Yorkfield (45nm) 4MB L3 cache 1333GT/s FSB $224 MSRP Intel Pentium E5300 2.6GHZ Wolfdale (45nm) 2MB L2 cache 800GT/s FSB $86 MSRP Intel Celeron E1500 2.2GHz Allendale (65nm) […] Add comment
Shanghai-class Opterons tested
AMD’s Shanghai, the revised successor to today’s Barcelona-based Opteron quad cores, has hit the streets and received a thorough performance analysis in server applications. While the refinements have done quite a bit to bolster the ailing Opteron platform, the Shanghai still is not enough to reclaim supremacy in a majority of the applications tested. As […] Add comment
Apple recommends AV protection
In a low-key posting on the Apple support website, the Cupertino vendor has suggested that users of Macintosh computers employ a panel of AV solutions. Apple encourages the widespread use of multiple antivirus utilities so that virus programmers have more than one application to circumvent, thus making the whole virus writing process more difficult. Here […] Add comment
Windows 7 will run DX10 on CPU
Rather than avoid a second Vista-capable debacle by mandating superior GPU requirements, Microsoft has written an advanced software rasterizer known as WARP 10 which will execute DX10.1 code on the CPU. The Windows Advanced Rasterization Platform conforms to both feature and precision requirements of the DX10.1 specification. Including optional texture rendering formats, the WARP 10 […] Add comment
Vista SP2 in 2009?
Popular Malaysian tech site TechARP, a source traditionally reliable in identifying Microsoft release dates, is citing a confidential source that confirms an April 2009 release for Vista’s next service pack. According to the unnamed source, the new service pack will debut by the end of Microsoft’s 1H09 fiscal year. This date, no later than April, […] Add comment
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