Somewhere hidden deep inside a physics lab on a secluded island, unknown to the rest of the world, a physicist yells a triumphant 'ah-ha!'. A spectacular beam of light bursts out of a photon thruster, and a space fighter breaks a hole through the lab walls, zooming into space at the speed of light. Space Invaders begins.
Well not really, but we're getting that much closer :O It even *looks* cool
"Microsoft has finally given a launch date of 2006 for the release of the long awaited 'Longhorn' desktop operating system. However, in doing so, it has had to jettison some of the key features from the release."Article.
AMD was demonstrating a new dual-core 64-bit server earlier today, it has multi-core desktop proccessors also planned for 2005.
Microsoft has gone into business with car company, Fiat. The software-giant will be working on computer systems built into the fiat, lancia and alpha-romeo lines based on the Microsoft Windows Automotive platform. It will include an entertainment system and the ability to connect to the internet, among other features. Article
19/6/04 - Tech News- MS AV, AMD64, Ebay-Scam, Zafi-B
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Sorry this is rather long, but ihavnt updated Tech in a while so yeah..
Microsoft has announced that it will be offering its own Anti-Virus program for customers to buy. It will not be bundled with windows.
AMD has said that they will be making 64-Bit Dual-Core proccessors for both the server (Opteron) and desktop (Athlon64 FX) lines. They are expected to arrive mid and second half 2005 respectively. The 'Toledo' 90nm dual core will be appearing in 2H05 in the Athlon 64 FX development line.
A US teenager has been jailed for nearly three years and ordered to repay $20,000 of his ill-gotten gains after being caught operating a scam on online auction site eBay. Nineteen-year-old Cole Bartiromo pleaded guilty to offering items on the site which were never shipped to the buyer and to bank fraud for trying to dupe bank staff into cashing checks and sending the money to an offshore account he had set up.He was sentenced in a Federal court to 33 months.
A new virus, Zafi-B, spreading via P2P and Email, gives users this msg when infected: 'We demand that the government accommodates the homeless, tightens up the penal code and VOTES FOR THE DEATH PENALTY to cut down the increasing crime. Jun. 2004, Pécs (SNAF Team)'. Not often does a virus go around asking for a death penalty on virus writers. Anyway, its email subject headings include 'Importante!', 'Ecard!', 'E-Kort!' and 'Atviruka!'. Its P2P progs are 'WINAMP 7.0 FULL_INSTALL.EXE' and 'TOTAL COMMANDER 7.0 FULL_INSTALL.EXE'. Link.
And now to tech news, the ATi X--Series processors will feature the new PCI Xpress bus, which is proposed to deliver up to 4GB a second, twice that of AGP 8x.
Also, AMD has realeased a 3 more chips to its AMD64 range, the Athlon64 3800+, 3500+ and the 3700+.
Finally, Symantec discovered the world's first 64-bit Windows virus. Named W64.Rugrat.3344, the virus is a direct-action infector, which infects and portable executable file in the same folder as the virus, except DLLs. However, this is only a proof of concept virus, most likely written by a 'white hat' programmer and passed to Symantec as a demonstration of potential danger. As XP-64 is still in beta, these holes and others will probably be fixed before its offical release.
Security researchers have discovered a serious boundary error vulnerability in multiple versions of Microsoft's Windows platform and warned that attackers could hijack systems via Windows Explorer and Internet Explorer (IE). Rodrigo Gutierrez, a researcher with Trustix AS, notified Microsoft of the flaw with a warning that it could be exploited by malicious attackers to cause a buffer overflow and lead to system takeover. The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error, which can be triggered via Internet Explorer and Windows Explorer when connecting to a file server. This can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow by setting up a malicious share with an overly long name (about 300 bytes) containing no lower case characters. Secunia rates the flaw as "highly critical" and urged Windows XP and Windows 2000 users to restrict traffic in border routers and firewalls as a temporary workaround. Users could also disable the "Client for Microsoft Networks" for network cards to impact file sharing functionality.
AMD have introduced another chip to its 64-bit series, this time running at 2.4ghz. Meanwhile, Ubisoft has announced that it will be also releasing a 64-Bit Optmizied version of FarCry. Looks like gaming is fianlyl starting to catch up with the 64-bit stuf. (yay!)
Sony wont be releasing the psp globally (in otherwords to here in Australia) till around march 2005. Sony will be relasing to north america and europe only slightly earlier, but still in 2005. However they will be releasing in japan in their original time (some time this year). They pushed the global dates back because htey wanted there to be enough titles out for the console when they released it.
Holy crap... you have no idea how much technology and power is going in to this beast. It will feature 3, yes thats right 3, whole 64-bit ibm cpu's at its base and will use an ATI graphics card which will be similar to its upcoming R500 chipset...
This information was ofcourse leaked somewhere and let out all over the web, so this isnt confirmed by officials though..
Nintendo have released plans for there next hand-held console. It odly has two screens which makes people call it the DS (for Dual Screen). There is also news that it may have wireless LAN capabilities and also use thin card type media. But you guys will have to wait... it'll be ages till it comes out.
