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Thursday Night (5 Comments) (link)
Thursday, 29-April-2004 21:53:59 (GMT +10) - by Agg

Apparently hackers took advantage of the ANZAC Day long weekend to break into some Australian financial institutions.

Digitimes think the next big thing to happen on AMD's 64-bit platform will be a 32-bit CPU. What everyone really wants is socket939 - Datafuse wonder where it is.

Will there be another player in the CPU arena soon? The Stretch CPU has apparently demonstrated 300MHz performance, outperforming 2GHz competition.

IANAG look at mobile XP2600+ overclocking.

Bit-Tech tell the story of someone making the switch from PC to Mac. Infidel!

Xbit took a look at PCI Express and DDR2, two new technologies that should take hold this year.

While most of the world is embracing the Internet, China is tightening control and restricting its use, thanks Mred32.

HardwareAnalysis have a quick think about driver cheats and optimizations.

There hasn't been much noise about retinal-projection systems since they were first experimented with by the military a couple of decades ago, but now there's a new system on the way. There is still work to be done but potentially the system could become second only to tapping into the optic nerve in terms of getting images to the brain.

Apparently the online advertising market is booming again. Yay! I'll be buying my first Ferrari any day now.

Raven sent in this funny auction on eBay.

HardOCP took a look at Shader Model 3.0 and what it means to gamers.

TSMC, who make chips under contract for many of the big names, had a healthy profit surge during Q1 2004.

Hexus look at some external hard drives, while Xbit rounded up thirteen graphics cards.

Dan has yet more letters posted.

Interesting Forum Threads:
Your Ultimate Gamer's Motherboard? in Overclocking & Hardware Discussion.
Project SOHC Turbo Civic (pics/vid) in Motoring.
UltraCapacitors in Modding & Electronics.
April Iron Photographer Challenge in Photography.
Agg Interview in The Pub.
Apple Strudel How-To in Geek Food.
Camping Food in Geek Food.

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