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Facebook is becoming an increasingly popular target for malware. Facebook has been targeted by malicious hackers seeking to steal valuable data from members. The social network site has been hit by five separate security problems in the last seven days, say security experts.
AMD is on track to ship 32-Nm chips In 2010. Dirk Meyer, chief executive of Advanced Micro Devices, said Friday the chipmaker plans to "ramp up" production of next-generation 32-nanometer processors in the middle of next year with volume production starting in the fourth quarter.
Intel Recruits TSMC To Produce Atom CPUs. Intel has surprised the industry by announcing a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Taiwanese silicon chip maker TSMC to manufacture Atom CPUs. Although TSMC is already employed by AMD, Nvidia and VIA to make chips, it's not often you see Intel requiring the services of a third fabrication party.
The TechReport review Seagate’s new Barracuda 7200.12 1TB drive. Rather than relying on higher spindle speeds to sustain a steady diet of incremental performance improvements, hard drive makers have instead increased the precision and speed with which drives can flow data back and forth to their spinning media.
GPU Cafe reveals Nvidia's Geforce GTX 200M Series mobile GPU's. Moving to the 55nm manufacturing process has also allowed Nvidia to claim upto 80% higher performance/watt, since its essentially within the same power budget as the 9800M GTX but with higher performance.
AMD finally spins off manufacturing capacities into The Foundry Company. Advanced Micro Devices on Monday officially closed its manufacturing-capacities spin-off deal and become fabless chip manufacturer. The move will allow the company to stop investing into new leading-edge foundries and process technologies, but will also mean that the company will cease to be fully-integrated chipmaker and will have to rely on manufacturing capacities owned by The Foundry Company.
HardOCP compare ASUS’ GTX 260 55nm and 4870 Dark Knight 1GB graphics cards. Today we have a double review for you from ASUS with a GeForce GTX 260 (216 core 55nm) and a HD 4870 battling for your dollar. First we take a look at the latest reincarnation of the GeForce GTX 260 with the ASUS ENGTX260 which has a die shrink. We also look at the ASUS EAH4870 Dark Knight that might prove to be a step up from a reference card.
DailyTech are reporting that AMD will be dropping prices on their Radeon 4850 and 4870 video cards. DailyTech has learned from industry sources that ATI, the graphics division of AMD, is working with its board partners and several major e-tailers to lower prices on some key products.
On the weekend Bungie celebrated its one billionth online Halo 3 match – Yes One Billionth. Saturday night, while many of us were stuffing food into our faces, plenty of folks were still playing Halo 3. At precisely 6:36pm PST, in a three minute and nineteen second game of Infection on Foundry, four players participated in Halo 3's one billionth match.
Nvidia have released GeForce 181.71 drivers for Windows 7. For the people running Windows 7 32-bit, you can get drivers here. Those of you running the 64-bit version of Windows 7 can get your drivers here.
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