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NVIDIA have released ForceWare 197.13 which addresses some serious fan issues in an earlier beta version, as well as increased performance and some other goodies. Adds SLI and multi-GPU support for top new gaming titles including Assassin Creed II, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Command and Conquer 4: Tiberium Twilight, Grand Theft Auto IV: Episodes from Liberty City, Mass Effect 2, Napoleon: Total War, and Zombie Driver.
Not to be outdone, AMD have released a Catalyst 10.3 preview driver. ShaneBaxtor.com has some more info about interesting things in this driver.
If you have a car on finance, it might behave annoyingly if you fail to meet your payment obligations. Or if someone hacks the system. More than 100 drivers in Austin, Texas found their cars disabled or the horns honking out of control, after an intruder ran amok in a web-based vehicle-immobilization system normally used to get the attention of consumers delinquent in their auto payments.
LG have been accused of misleading consumers about the efficiency of their fridges. LG Electronics has agreed to compensate potentially thousands of consumers after two of its fridges - models L197NFS and P197WFS - were found to contain an illegal device that activates an energy-saving mode when it detects room conditions similar to those in a test laboratory. Discussion here.
Mpot spotted a security issue with MS Virtual PC. As a result, some applications with bugs that are not exploitable when running in a not-virtualized operating system are rendered exploitable if running within a guest OS in Virtual PC, according to Ivan Arce, chief technology officer at Core.
Here's a couple of amusing Google Maps images: firstly an enthusiastic seagull, and also, God making some fine adjustments to the universe, thanks Rob.
If you find mouse acceleration annoying in Windows 7, JimX points out a fix, with more info here and here. It is a registry file that removes Windows 7 mouse pointer acceleration. It is like the CPL Mouse Fix and Cheese Mouse Fix, but gives exactly 1-to-1 mouse to pointer response for Windows 7.
Atomic have published issue #3 of their KitLog. Issue 3 of Atomic's KitLog brings you an exclusive guide to watercooling your system that you won't find anywhere else in the world - not even in the printed magazine! To top off this exclusive info, we've also updated the seven builds and added an eighth build into the fray!
Tech Report have info on AMD's Gamers Manifesto. AMD has released a Gamers Manifesto that details how the company works with developers to benefit all gamers, not just those with Radeon graphics cards. Join us as we take a closer look at the manifesto's guiding principles and how they apply to DirectX 11, Eyefinity, and GPU-accelerated physics.
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