Two new Viruses for OSX show up
In what is surely not a coincidence two new Viruses for Apple's OSX operating system have popped up in the wild. One targets people that visit porn sites and the other a new version of an older worm.
These announcements fly in the face of the advertisements that Apple pushes claiming that Macs are immune to viruses; but in the end there is no such thing as a virus immune OS.
If you own a Mac, it is highly recommended that you have Malware protection as threat is growing. It seems hackers have caught on to the generally unprotected nature of the OSX operating system and are beginning to target them.
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AMD Phenom II Black Edition TWKR
It looks like AMD is working a little bit harder to appease the overclocking community and have a chip that is supposed to be truly special.
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Legal Blu-ray Copying Gets Green Light
Those seeking to make hi-def backups of their Blu-ray videos will have to wait a little while longer, but the option is in fact coming.
Last week the final specification for the AACS (Advanced Access Content System) for Blu-Ray was released, bringing provisions for making legal copies of Blu-ray content. While many have been waiting for the spec to be finalized, they are going to have to wait a little longer for the hardware that supports it.
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AT&T And Apple Detail iPhone 3G S Launch
AT&T and Apple have detailed how the launch of the iPhone 3G S will work come June 19, and it looks like those who don't preorder the phone will be getting the shaft.
Apple will be opening their stores a little early at 8AM. This will all those who preorder the phone to come in early and grab their new overpriced paperweight.
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EU to get Windows 7 without Internet Explorer
In order to appease the EU and its threats of hitting Microsoft for bundling a browser MS is planning to release Windows 7 without Internet Explorer.
This move seems to be a preventative measure against the EU commission going after MS for even more money.
The news comes in the form of a confidential memo that was viewed by CNET and later confirmed as authentic by Microsoft.
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Intel Pineview details pop up on the net
We mentioned yesterday that Pineview should hit the shelves in October.
Now it seems the floodgates are opening with more Pineview details popping up on the net. This time the information comes to us in the form of a piece on netbookchoice.com.
According to the article the new Pine views will come in three flavors the N400 series which is for netbooks and still single core, the D400 single core for nettops and the dual core D500 series. These will pair p with the new NM10 Express chipset.
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AMD Denies locking cores on Phenom II
After a nasty round of rumors that AMD was going to lock down the hidden cores on their Phenom II X2 and X3 CPUs AMD has come out and said they are not going to do that.
The unlocking of cores on the Phenom II X3 and X2 has become something of a fad with people buying them in the hopes of having a fully working Quad at the end of the day.
To AMD this is nothing serious as they view the unlocking of these cores as benign. Apparently they do not feel it hurts sales of the true quad core Phenom IIs.
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Battlefield 3 confirmed by EA
Good news for fans of the EA series Battlefield as EA has just confirmed the next installment of the popular game.
Battlefield 3 could be out in time for the 2010 holiday season so it is not something that will hit the stores soon. The game will follow similar lines to Battlefield 2 with support for up to 40 players per team, 24 different vehicles, 17 different weapons and unlockable equipment.
If things go well we could expect to see a downloadable demo of the game sometime next summer (2010).
Download IE8 To Help Fight Hunger
The Internet Explorer Team is making a push not only to promote Internet Explorer 8, but also to create a huge drive to fight hunger in the US.
The new Browser for the Better campaign pledges that for every completed download of IE8, the team will donate the financial equivalent of 8 meals to Feeding America's food banks. The new campaign will run from now through August 8th of this year.
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Corsair Extends Cooling Fins On Dominator/GT RAM
Corsair has announced an upgrade to both their Dominator and Dominator GT triple-channel DDR3 kits.
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