Topic: COMPUTER - on April 4, 2003 at 2:16:45 PM CEST
Bill Gates "dead" rumour causes panic in South Korea
AN UNSUBSTANTIATED RUMOUR that Bill Gates had been shot dead in Los Angeles caused share prices on the South Korean stock exchange to slump as panic selling ensued.
The rumour, started on a web site, was broadcast over South Korean TV and that caused other South Korean networks to start repeating the rumour.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on April 4, 2003 at 12:24:05 PM CEST
Spam Software Makes Strangers Pay To Send You E-Mail
Blue Squirrel on Wednesday introduced technology that uses several techniques to stop spam, including requiring senders to pay to send you e-mail.
Spam Sleuth 2.0 includes technology called "e-mail stamps," which allows the user to set a payment rate to receive e-mail from unknown senders, and receive payments using PayPal or any major credit card.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on April 3, 2003 at 11:39:37 AM CEST
Congresswoman's E-Mail Hacked
A hacker broke into a congresswoman's e-mail account Wednesday and used it to send a message condemning President Bush and the war in Iraq, her office said.
Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite drew attention last month when she proposed legislation to let families of Americans buried in France during the world wars bring home the remains if they are offended by France's stance against the war in Iraq.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on April 3, 2003 at 9:53:46 AM CEST
Earth Simulator
The ES is a highly parallel vector supercomputer system of the distributed-memory type, and consisted of 640 processor nodes (PNs) connected by 640x640 single-stage crossbar switches. Each PN is a system with a shared memory, consisting of 8 vector-type arithmetic processors (APs), a 16-GB main memory system (MS), a remote access control unit (RCU), and an I/O processor. The peak performance of each AP is 8Gflops. The ES as a whole thus consists of 5120 APs with 10 TB of main memory and the theoretical performance of 40Tflops.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on April 1, 2003 at 8:25:46 PM CEST
Chinesische Hacker planen Großangriff
Chinesische Hacker wollen mit großangelegten Angriffen auf US-amerikanische und britische Websites gegen den Irak-Krieg protestieren. Diese Information entschlüpfte unfreiwillig dem US Department of Homeland Security.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 31, 2003 at 7:35:11 PM CEST
PC screen turns into speaker
Computer screens of the future could offer sound as well as vision, eliminating the need for separate loud speakers. A British company called NXT has found a way to turn a computer display into a speaker, without interfering with the quality of the picture.
Its SoundVu technology has already been built into two models by Japanese electronics giant NEC.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 28, 2003 at 3:21:45 PM CET
Firewalls in den USA bald illegal?
US-Bundesstaaten planen Verschärfung des DMCA
In einem Kommentar weist der Informatik-Professor Edward W. Felten auf Gefahren hin, die eine geplante Verschärfung des Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) mit sich bringen könnte. Durch die in den Entwürfen einiger US-Bundesstaaten vorgesehenen Regelungen würde die Nutzung von Firewalls als auch die Verschlüsselung des E-Mail-Verkehrs illegal.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 28, 2003 at 8:20:18 AM CET
Project YS-2
Build a silent computer
I want to watch movies and listen to music on my computer, but my noisy, overclocked, highly cooled rig drowns out my speakers.
There's no reason I can't have a silent PC. Many companies make good, quiet products, from silent CPU coolers to whisper-quiet case fans. On today's show I build a silent computer case with a bunch of these products.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 27, 2003 at 1:04:07 PM CET
Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness screenshots frenzy
Over 20 new shots of Lara and Kurtis Trent in action from Paris to Prague We've just received an overload of new shots of Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness which show off both Lara Croft and new character Kurtis Trent in action.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 27, 2003 at 1:01:06 PM CET
New layout will save Bandwidth
ESPN.com Will Save 61TB in Bandwidth per Month with New Design By cutting 50KB out of its home page, ESPN will save 2,000 gigabytes per day in bandwidth! Even with less massive traffic, you're likely to save money and improve the experience of an overwhelming majority of your users.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 27, 2003 at 11:52:34 AM CET
Intel to Restrict Overclocking
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Intel has been trying to restrict overclocking for quite a long time already, however, its chips have been being overclocked for even longer time. Nothing can stop overclockers and hardware enthusiasts from boosting the performance for free and Intel definitely does not like this. Another aspect of overclocking is possible “mass-overclock” by unfaithful resellers, who remark the lower-end CPUs into more expensive ones and then sell for higher price. It is not a really wide practice, but we hear about such cases from time to time. So, Intel has at least two serious reasons to dislike overclocking and overclockers and also try to totally restrict such practice at all.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 27, 2003 at 12:32:54 AM CET
Der drahtlose LANsinn
23 Millionen PC-Benutzer, glaubt die Gartner-Group, sollen bis 2007 per Wireless-LAN ins Netz gehen. Das hat den UMTS-Lizenzinhabern gerade noch gefehlt. Leere Kassen hin oder her: Wer mit UMTS morgen Geld verdienen will, muss heute den WLAN-Markt unter Kontrolle bringen.
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