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Seagate Ships 100 GByte Notebook Harddrive

Seagate expands its line of notebook hard drives: The new Momentus 5400.2 model comes in capacities up to 100 GB and an areal density of 50 GByte per disc. Add comment

JPEG Exploit Could Beat Antivirus Software

Antivirus software could be ill-prepared to protect corporate networks from the latest Windows vulnerability--innocent-looking JPEG files that contain security attacks. Add comment

Judge Disarms Patriot Act Proviso

A key part of the USA Patriot Act that allows the FBI to secretly demand information from Internet providers violates the U.S. Constitution, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. Add comment

IBM Says Blue Gene Breaks Speed Record

IBM Corp. claimed unofficial bragging rights Tuesday as owner of the world's fastest supercomputer. Add comment

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SpaceShip One completes first of two scheduled flights to space in pursuit of $10 million X-Prize

Commercial spaceflight - here we come! Add comment

3dMark05 Is Released!

3DMark05, the worldwide standard in advanced 3D graphics performance benchmarking from Futuremark Corporation. 3DMark05 is a fundamental tool for every PC user interested in 3D graphics and performance. 3DMark05 will measure your PC's 3D performance in next generation games, reliably compare the latest high-end gaming hardware, and show you amazing real-time 3D graphics. Add comment

One Terabyte Optical Disk Developed

Boffins and boffinettes at Imperial College London are developing a new optical disk that can store a terabyte of data. Add comment

Nvidia Fails WHQL Tests But Catalyst Certified

The rumormill is abuzz about the latest video card drivers and their ability to be WHQL certified. Add comment

Intel Intros 548 Mobile Pentium 4

Chip firm Intel said it has released the 548 mobile Pentium 4 chip - a 3.33GHz processor aimed at the desktop replacement notebook market. Add comment

Toshiba To Begin Production Of Sub 1 Inch Hard Drive By Year’s End

Toshiba plans to begin commercial production of its 0.85-inch hard drive before the end of this year, the company says. Add comment

Panasonic Readies Speedy SD Cards

Matsushita Electric Industrial, better known by its Panasonic brand name, will begin selling a new series of SD (Secure Digital) memory cards internationally at the end of October. The cards will offer double the data transfer speed of its current fastest cards, the company says. Add comment

Windows JPEG Exploit Ventures Into The Wild

The first example of a working program designed to exploit a bug in Microsoft's GDI+ library—which allows malicious code to be run simply by viewing a JPEG image—has been found in the wild. Add comment

ATi Chipset Roadmap Revealed

Anandtech reveals the latest with ATi's chipset offerings. Add comment

MSN Ends Hotmail’s Free Outlook Access

Citing a rise in spam abuse, Microsoft Corp.'s MSN division has ended free access to its Hotmail Web-based e-mail service through the Outlook and Outlook Express clients. Add comment

CompactFlash Revision 3 Increases Data Transfer Rate To 66 MByte/s

The CompactFlash standard received an upgrade in its revision 3, boosting the interface data transfer four-fold. The standard now integrates FAT32 to support the full capacity of cards over 2.2 GByte. Add comment

Adobe Offers Standard For Raw Photo Formats

Adobe Systems on Monday unveiled a digital photo format that it hopes will become an industry standard, plus a tool designed to convert photos to that format from the many that are used today. Add comment

Nanotechnology Aims To Cure Smelly Feet

Researchers believe nanotechnology could someday help build tiny supercomputers or solve many of the world's energy problems. More immediately, a company in Pennsylvania hopes to use nanoparticles to create less-stinky socks. Add comment

E-mail Firm Baits Hackers With Security Challenge

A small British e-mail company is lining itself up for a possible challenge by inviting Internet users to break into its product. Add comment

Microsoft Flexes More Open-Source Muscle

Microsoft said Monday that it is dipping a third toe into the open-source waters, adding a collaborative creation program to the list of Microsoft efforts that the company is freely sharing. Add comment

Ahead Pushes Nero Digital Format For DVDs

Ahead Software and ESS Technology announced a major development this week for Ahead's Nero Digital video format. ESS will incorporate Nero Digital support into the next version of its Vibratto chip. Add comment