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Court orders The Pirate Bay blocked in the Netherlands
According to a report from the AFP, The Pirate Bay has been banned in the Netherlands on Thursday by a Dutch court which has granted a copyright infringement application filed by the Dutch recording industry. The temporary injunction orders The Pirate Bay’s operators — Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm and Peter Sunde — to immediately “cease […] Add comment
How SSDs are made
Here’s a video of how solid state drives are made. Add comment
Cooler Master Sileo 500 case
The Cooler Master Sileo 500 mid tower is packed with acoustic foam for silent operations and costs $55! Sounds like a deal. Add comment
Free Windows 7 for invited beta testers
Were you a participant in the invite-only Windows 7 Technical Beta Program? If so, your free copy of Windows 7 is in the bag. Add comment
CentOS project admin MIA, drama ensues
Lance Davis — the sole overseer of the CentOS project‘s funds, IRC channels and domain — seems to have gone missing, much to the chagrin of fellow developers. Developers close to the project have fallen in step with any sufficiently irritated group of nerds before them by publishing an open letter aimed at the AWOL […] Add comment
MSI N275GTX Twin Frozr OC
What the MSI N275GTX Twin Frozr OC loses in spelling accuracy, it makes up for in cool, quiet operation and performance. Add comment
Gigabyte P55-UD4 mATX preview
Here’s a quick look at the forthcoming Gigabyte P55-UD4 mATX motherboard for Core i5/i7 chips. Add comment
Geil Evo One 12GB DDR3-1600 Hexa kit
If you really need more memory, there’s the Geil Evo One 12GB DDR3-1600 Hexa kit. 12GB OMGWTF! Add comment
OCZ Blade DDR3-2133
Hardware Canucks says OCZ’s Blade DDR3-2133 kits are too fast for their own good. Most users will never reach the RAM’s potential. Add comment
NVIDIA GT300 taped out, finally
It seems the long talked-about NVIDIA GT300 GPU is finally on its way into production. SemiAcurate’s Charlie Demerjian is reporting the 40nm DX11-lovin’ GDDR5 chip has taped out and will be making its way down the production lines at TSMC post haste. Icrontic reckons it takes four or five months (without respins) from tape-out to […] Add comment
New CAS 6 Dominator GT DDR3 for AMD systems
Corsair announced today that it now offers DDR3-1600 modules for AMD systems. The 4GB (2 x 2GB) kit runs at 6-6-6-18 1T timings and is only available from Corsair’s online store. Corsair says the kits will be compatible with AMD’s Black Edition Memory Profiles which allows for the aggressive latency settings to be automatically configured […] Add comment
Microsoft vs. EU: Now a threat to consumers
It has been a confusing time for potential Windows 7 customers in Europe who remain uncertain as to whether or not their product will ship with a browser. With the tide recently turning in favor of European users who hope to browse without tricks, we stop to take a look at the sordid legal history […] Add comment
Black Hats vs old hats
Hackers hack Mitnick, Kaminsky prior to DefCon. Add comment
Windows 7 cracked
FCKGW … wait, that’s not it. It was only a matter of time before this happened. Windows 7 has been cracked for 32 and 64 bit versions of Ultimate thanks to a leaked Lenovo OEM master key, which Microsoft made a big deal about just days ago when they officially presented Windows 7 to the […] Add comment
Transparent Aluminium
We’re one step closer to Star Trek IV thanks to transparent aluminum. How quaint! Add comment
GLOFO grows, signs STMicro
AMD spin-off GLOBALFOUNDRIES has announced today that it has signed ST Microelectronics in ongoing efforts to diversify its manufacturing portfolio across multiple firms. GLOBALFOUNDRIES will begin contracted supply and manufacturing beginning in 2010. Chips produced under the agreement will use a 40nm process node ideal for handhelds and consumer devices, the Foundry says. Questions remain, […] Add comment
Source claims Yahoo!, Microsoft confirm deal
Update: 29 July, 2009 @ 10:12 AM Yahoo! and Microsoft have published simultaneous press releases which confirm that a deal between the one time rivals has been finalized. A full list of the deal’s points are contained in the press releases, but we’ve boiled that list down into a selection of essentials: Microsoft will acquire […] Add comment
Dark side of the tunes: Is digital killing the full album experience?
Today Ars Technica is reporting that Apple may be working alongside the music industry in an attempt to revive interest in complete albums vs. single tunes. It is no secret to any digital music fan that the convenience of being able to download a small portion of new music on a whim is instantly gratifying. […] Add comment
Firefox 4.0 theme mockups
Firefox 3.5 was only recently brought kicking and screaming into the world, but the Mozilla foundation is already on the move with mockups of the UI for version 4.0. The author notes that the iteration with tabs above the address bar is contentious and has its own problems including a lack of user familiarity, longer […] Add comment
Asus cans its first USB 3.0 mobo
In a report filed by TheInquirer’s Rob Kerr, it appears as though Asus has put its first USB 3.0-equipped motherboard — the P6X58 — into the circular file, never to return. An Asus spokesperson was particularly coy in telling TheInq that the board wasn’t deep-sixed for “any particularly interesting reasons.” Speculatively, the firm could be […] Add comment
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