Hackers strike again!
A large internet service provider said data for as many as 100,000 websites was destroyed by attackers who targeted a zero-day vulnerability in a widely-used virtualization application.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/08/webhost_attack/
Technicians at UK-based Vaserv.com were still scrambling to recover data on Monday evening UK time, more than 24 hours after unknown hackers were able to gain root [...]
Anyone can test drive Windows 7, straight from Microsoft’s website.
So why Windows 7?
1 is the first Windows, Windows 1.0.
2 are Windows 2.0 to 2.11.
3 are Windows 3.0 to NT 3.51.
4 are Windows 95, NT 4.0, 98, 98 SE and ME.
5 are Windows 2000, Server 2003 and all versions of XP.
6 are Windows Vista and Server [...]
Meet Intel Core i7’s little sibling, the Intel Core i5. Core i7 for the masses?
Same as the Core i7, the Core i5 is based on Intel’s Nehalem microarchitecture, but on a different Socket (LGA 1156 instead of LGA 1366).
The Core i5 will also utilize the Intel Hyper-Threading technology which makes its 4 physical cores process [...]
E-mail’s, chat rooms and message boards seemed to be enough back then… and then came blogging, instant messaging, audio and video sharing, P2P, etc. But what would happen if we combine ‘em? Or even just the nicest parts…
Here it is: Google Wave.
http://wave.google.com/
What is a wave?
A wave is equal parts conversation and document. People can communicate [...]
Join their photo contest and win high-end computer parts!
First prize package:
- GeForce GTX 285 personally signed by Jen-Sun Huang, the man himself, the CEO of NVIDIA!
- Auzentech X-Fi Forte 7.1 sound card
- OCZ Blade 2000MHz 7-8-7 Triple Channel 6GB
- OCZ Vendetta 2 including Core i7 brackets
- OCZ Illuminati Keyboard
- OCZ Behemoth Mouse
- OCZ Behemoth Mousepad
- [...]
We have Google and Wikipedia… and then there’s Wolfram|Alpha.
Wolfram|Alpha’s long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. We aim to collect and curate all objective data; implement every known model, method, and algorithm; and make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything. Our goal is to [...]
Not the most original, but certainly one of the coolest projects I’ve seen.
Note: The website is in Russian language.
http://casemods.ru/section10/item490/
Anyone interested in making an EVE PC casing?
Oracle (the corporation not the character) to purchase Sun Microsystems. How much? – Just a mere US$7.4B…
It’s quite interesting that Sun owns MySQL and some consider Oracle as the “wee evil” next to Microsoft. So now, the future of MySQL is in question. Don’t forget, the deal also includes NetBeans, Tarantella, Java, etc. But it’s [...]
People like games, that’s a fact. People don’t like spending too much on hardware, another fact. With OnLive, you will never have to buy another video card or CPU upgrade again.
The usual set-up for gaming is: controller/s → hardware → screen → then back. Wanna run Crysis at max settings? Buy a US$3,000 PC. The [...]
Google Inc. has just announced the launch of more accurate and updated maps of the Philippines, courtesy of the tireless efforts of hundreds of Filipinos who helped edit details of the country’s locations on Google Map Maker, an application that allows users to edit Google Maps data online.
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/features/
Now, to match the maps with 3D [...]
University uses PS3 cluster to study phenomenon.
According to Space.com, researchers at both the University of Alabama, Huntsville and the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth have created the PS3 Gravity Grid, a network of 16 PS3s grouped together in a cluster. The grid has been used to run simulations of gravitational waves and the speed of vibrations [...]
Google and others launch M-Lab (as in Measurement Lab, not to be confused with Mlabs Multimedia Conferencing System):
When an Internet application doesn’t work as expected or your connection seems flaky, how can you tell whether there is a problem caused by your broadband ISP, the application, your PC, or something else? It can be difficult [...]
The Sony PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii gets YouTube!
Google is in the process of making a Youtube channel for the TV (in the beta stage), and is planning on releasing it on the Wii and PS3. It seems like the channel will dimishes those nasty stretch marks when watching a video on a giant [...]
