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Sunday, 30-January-2005 12:21:19 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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VooDoo spotted this story about car black boxes used as evidence in court in the USA. Haight testified that he has performed more than 200 crash tests comparing black-box data in cars with objective external instrumentation, and has found the data to be extremely reliable.
Also in the States, a teenager has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for unleashing a variant of the MSBlast.B worm. The variant of the worm infected approximately 48,000 computers that had not used a security patch.
Still on the legal side of things, it seems linking to mp3's is nearly as bad as hosting them - in Norway, at least. If you think that's strange, how about being arrested for using the wrong browser, thanks Ambush.
Xbit report on PCI Express x1 cards starting to appear - beginning with a Gigabit Ethernet card.
People are trying to second-guess Google again, this time noting they've hired some Firefox programmers and registered a "GBrowser" domain. Hmmm.
Ben noticed Google have released Picasa 2. Picasa is software that helps you instantly find, edit and share all the pictures on your PC.
LegitReviews compared Corsair and Kingston laptop memory.
Ambush sent word of a free trial download of Windows XP Pro x64 edition. This is an opportunity for you to begin evaluating Windows XP Professional x64 Edition for your individual business needs and ensuring that your applications will be ready for the commercial release of the product.
TechPowerUp wonder where the missing pipelines went from some MSI GeForce 6800GT cards. Based on this, the cards MSI is selling should be called '6800NU'.
Christopher sent in this giant SATA RAID roundup (translated), with a thread discussing it here in our forums. The same site has a review of Seagate's Barracuda 7200.8 400GB HDD, which is discussed here.
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