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If your power bill suddenly spikes and your fans are all roaring, you may be generating Bitcoin for someone else, thanks to a new trojan. The trojan targets users’ GPUs and CPUs, using them in a botnet scheme. But rather than simply sending spam, like your average botnet, the attacker uses the infected machines as brute-force tools to mine for Bitcoins.
Intel have a firmware update to fix some flaky SSDs. For users unfamiliar with the issue, an Intel SSD 320 Series drive may exhibit a drive capacity of 8MB and an electronic serial # field containing a message of “BAD_CTX 0000013x” caused by an unexpected power loss under specific conditions. Once this error occurs, no data on the SSD can be accessed and the user cannot write to or read from the SSD.
HP are shutting their mobile device business, which is pretty much the death knell for Palm, while they shift their focus to business software products. Meanwhile their TouchPads are piling up in warehouses and apparently even being sent back by retailers. According to the same source, Best Buy took 270,000 TouchPads into inventory, and so far has managed to move less than ten percent of them—and that figure may not even take returned units into account. Best Buy reportedly no longer wants unsold TouchPads taking up space in its stores and warehouses, and is requesting that HP take the stock back.
Samsung have a new 32GB DRAM module, for servers. Touted as the industry's first such high-capacity RDIMM DRAM module to be built with 3D-TSV technology, Samsung claims that the new 32GB memory stick, which is fabricated via a 30nm process, consumes a mere 4.5w of energy per hour, or almost 30% lower than what LRDIMMs of the same capacity typically draw. Samsung has also added that its new RDIMMS are able to achieve transfer speeds of up to 1,333Mbits/s, as opposed to the 800Mbits/s speed found on older RDIMM memory.
An Australian geek is collecting and sharing laptop servicing manuals, which sounds handy. They generally detail the exact list of parts in each model of laptop – often down to individual screws, if you happen to have lost some and need to know the exact size for a replacement – and describe the procedure for disassembling and reassembling the entire machine, including panels, RAM, wireless cards, keyboards and touchpads and LCD screens, all the way down to the motherboard itself.
Gizmodo pose an interesting question: would you let power companies switch off your gadgets in exchange for a discounted bill? The scheme would use special smart meters that only kick in during peak periods, and only then for 30 minutes before rotating to your neighbours. The Council’s review is being conducted by the Australian Energy Market Commission, and the switch off idea is just one of many options being explored. The final report is due to go to the government in September 2012.
IBM have some new chips, modelled on the human brain. Big Blue is announcing today that it, along with four universities and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), have created the basic design of an experimental computer chip that emulates the way the brain processes information.
If you're going to hack and cripple your former employer's network, then doing it from McDonalds free WiFi is probably not a bad idea. But doing it 5 minutes after using your credit card to buy a burger there isn't too smart. Cornish had further made it easy for investigators by using his home IP address to install the vSphere software on Shionogi’s network as well as to access the Shionogi network about 20 times prior to February. He also used the same network login credentials during these visits from his home that he later used during his attack from McDonald’s.
Here's a cool sculpture of the Windows solitaire ending!
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