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(link) Thursday, 24-March-2011 15:12:45 (GMT +10) - by Sciby
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I think everyone is pretty much aware that Firefox 4 is now released and available for download. It brings quite a few new changes, so it's being covered fairly strongly. Here's a few of the articles popping up regarding the release:
Firefox 4 highlights from Games On Net.
Firefox 4 review at Ars Technica.
A video from one of Mozilla's design team, talking about the new interface at Mozilla Blogs.
Firefox 4 Tweak Guide at Tweak Guides.
Firefox 4 clocks up 7.1 million downloads within first 24 hours at Engadget.
How To Fix Annoyances With Firefox 4?s New Look at Lifehacker.
If you don't have the latest version, you can download it here.
Onto regular news...
If you thought aircraft carriers were big, take a look at this: CG images of a new class of 400m long container cargo ships. The Danish shipping company, Maersk, are hoping that the new ships will be more efficent and environmentally friendly: "Called the ‘Triple-E’ class for the three main purposes behind their creation — Economy of scale, Energy efficient and Environmentally improved — these new container vessels do not just set a new benchmark for size: they will surpass the current industry records for fuel efficiency and CO2 emissions per container moved held by the Emma Mærsk class vessels." Currently, the behemoths will only be sailing between Europe and Asia, as America has no ports capable of receiving the huge vessels.
This is one way to get kids interested in history: make it relevant to what they know now. An artist and a copywriter (who writes copy, not someone who protects intellectual property) have created a small number of fake advertising posters for the Smithsonian. I think it's inspired and helps otherwise ignorant folk find connection to historical events, but the Smithsonian isn't too impressed. They've requested that the photos be removed, boo. Thanks to Rezin for the link.
Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit, working with federal law enforcement agents, has brought down the world's largest spam network, Rustock. "Rustock, at its peak, was a botnet of around 2 million spam-sending zombies capable of sending out 30 billion spam email per day. Microsoft's wholesale slaughter of Rustock could reduce worldwide spam output by up to 39%." You just gotta love that. Damn spammers.
Speaking of worldwide (well, not really, but I needed a segway), Google has accused China of interfering with Gmail. China has a long history of censoring internet content, but if this proves to be true, it's hard to see it in a positive light. "Google has accused the Chinese government of interfering with its popular Gmail email system. The move follows extensive attempts by the Chinese authorities to crack down on the "jasmine revolution" – an online dissident movement inspired by events in the Middle East. ... In the wake of the catastrophic earthquake in Japan, Google set up an application to help people find relatives and friends lost in the disaster. This service too seems to have been blocked." Google also claims that China's 'cyberattacks' are becoming more and more sophisticated.
Bit-tech have asked a valid question: The Xbox 360's Xenos GPU has a less then a tenth of the processing power of a top-end PC GPU, so why don't PC games look ten times better? "...according to AMD, this could potentially change if PC games developers were able to program PC hardware directly at a low-level, rather than having to go through an API, such as DirectX." So will DirectX go the way of the Dodo?
Deadman has sent a link to this amazing plexiglass desk/case mod. I love it, and I want one. I especially love the separate hard drive tower mounted above the screens.
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