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Samsung have a new fast SSD, report thanks Sniper. 256GB in size isn't too shabby either. More info here. Won't be long until I can't resist buying my first SSD, I can feel it. :)
The Phoenix lander landed successfully on Mars last night and is sending back pictures. The probe is equipped with a robotic arm to dig for water-ice thought to be buried beneath the surface. It will begin examining the site for evidence of the building blocks of life in the next few days.
From flarets: Thought this might be useful for Folders. In response to NVidia's CUDA (and in preparation for their hybrid GPU-CPU processors I suspect) AMD has released their Stream SDK to Linux (32 and 64-bit RPMs) which allows the use of a Radeon graphics card for general processing.
MadShrimps checked out a triple-core CPU from AMD, the Phenom X3 8450. Running at a modest 2100Mhz by default the Phenom X3 8450 will face stiff competition from Intel Core 2 Duo series.
If you recently went through Tokyo's airport and found a big bag of drugs in your luggage, here's why. Sniffer dogs failed to detect the cannabis and the officer could not remember which bag he had put it in.
Chook spotted this article about an encryption chip that they reckon will "end piracy". "There is a stealth encryption chip called a TPM that is going on the motherboards of most of the computers that are coming out now," he pointed out. Hmm, not much real info there.
From Marc, a GPS self-portrait has become the biggest drawing in the world. Holy cow, that's pretty amazing.
A huge security issue has been revealed in lots of open source software, thanks Kev. A simple programming error reduced the entropy in the generated program keys created by the OpenSSL library. Why does this matter? The OpenSSL library's key generation and other routines are used by the SSH remote access program, the IPsec Virtual Private Network (VPN), the Apache Web server, secure email clients, programs that offer secure internet portals and more.
Timbot spotted that GPU and Physics acceleration is NOT coming to Photoshop anytime soon. People are excited that the Photoshop team is exploring ways to make the app feel faster and smoother, and that's all good. What's irritating, though, is just how much bogus info is getting invented, passed around, and swallowed without question.
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