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(link) Thursday, 24-August-2006 03:51:06 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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More bad news for Dell batteries, with a house fire linked to the battery in a Dell laptop, thanks Andy. In just 20 minutes the blaze caused severe damage leaving the house uninhabitable, and the family lost almost all of its possessions. HowStuffWorks have a page explaining why the batteries are exploding. Remember, Dell are recalling over 4 million laptop batteries - check yours here.
XbitLabs preview AMD's next generation microarchitecture, the K8L. Our newest article is devoted to the details of AMD K8L microarchitecture and how it compares with Core and K8 from the theoretical prospective.
Infamous hacker Kevin Mitnick's websites were recently defaced by online vandals. "The Web hosting provider that hosts my sites was hacked," Mitnick told ZDNet Australia sister site CNET News.com in an interview on Monday.
There's an interview with the lads behind Penny Arcade on SeattlePI. Making a comic strip about games and the people who play them is a very good idea actually, but we didn't really come up with it -- we entered a contest on a site called Next Generation Online back in '98, and then just continued to make them after we lost.
Quite a few people sent word that Stargate SG-1 has been cancelled after 10 seasons, while the spinoff Stargate Atlantis continues on. He'll always be MacGuyver to me..
ArsTechnica have an article about iPods at war. American servicemen have always brought along a piece of home to whevever they have served. In Afghanistan and Iraq, that piece of home is likely to be an iPod, GameBoy Advance, or portable DVD player.
On a related note, HowStuffWorks have an article about future combat systems, thanks Timbot. The Future Combat Systems (FCS) initiative is a massive overhaul of military technology intended to prepare the U.S. Army for modern warfare.
Microsoft have invited Mozilla developers to work with them, thanks Nick. The head of Microsoft's open source lab is inviting Mozilla developers up to Redmond for some help in making sure Firefox and Thunderbird run on Windows Vista.
Komodo spotted Weird Al Yankovic poking fun at the RIAA, with a new freely-downloadable song called "Don't Download This Song".
Here's some more on the world's oldest computer that was discovered rusting away on the ocean floor. Known as the Antikythera mechanism and made before the birth of Christ, the instrument was found by sponge divers amid the wreckage of a cargo ship that sunk off the tiny island of Antikythera in 80BC.
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