Dailytech

"Two security researchers demonstrate 'Net vulnerability. A pair of security researchers recently demonstrated that a theoretical attack possible against the internet’s most embedded infrastructure can, in fact, be very real.

The attack exploits normal behavior in the internet routing protocol BGP, which ISPs use to determine how best to route traffic destined for other parts of the internet. If an attacker is positioned correctly – which means, generally, that he either has control of an ISP’s routing equipment, has found a way to intercept and alter another ISP’s BGP traffic, or has found an ISP that doesn’t filter internal BGP traffic originating from someplace other than its routing equipment – he can use the protocol to trick the internet’s routers into diverting traffic to his network, making it available for snooping or man-in-the-middle alteration, all before it reaches its destination."

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Techreport

"While Seagate grabs headlines as the market share leader in the hard drive world, lately we've been more impressed with Western Digital's portfolio. The company's Black and Blue Scorpios fared very well in our latest mobile storage round-up, outpacing rival Momentus drives from Seagate. Then there's the radically redesigned VelociRaptor, which recently raised the bar for Serial ATA hard drive performance while riding a bold new form factor. For enthusiasts, the Caviar SE16 640GB offers the best blend of performance, capacity, noise levels, and overall value of any 7,200-RPM desktop drive. And let's not forget the power-efficient and nearly silent "GreenPower" Caviar GP drives with terabyte capacities."

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Digitimes

"Intel displayed a skull head sculpture made out of discarded motherboards, keyboards, chassis and monitors, during the recent IDF in San Francisco. The project was to promote recycling, while also recording the history of IT products."

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BBC

"Microsoft has released the second "beta" or test version of its latest browser Internet Explorer 8 (IE8). It remains unclear when a final version of the program will be shipped, with the test version currently available for download. IE8 offers a few surprises compared to the initial beta version released in March. New features will include improved privacy and search functions, and ways to keep track of portions of web pages.

The release debuts two functions that were not available in the March release. However, many in the blogosphere have noted that several of the improvements in IE8 have been available on other browsers for some time.

One feature new to the release is the "smart address bar". Microsoft senior product manager James Pratt pointed out at that 80% of the time, internet users were visiting sites they had been to before.

To address that, the new release archives visited sites based on their titles as well as their addresses. That means a search in the address bar for words and phrases will find previously visited sites, as well as bookmarks. "

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Tweaktown

"The HD 4870 has been quite the performer from the word go, but it’s in our blood that we have the need for even more power. This is where overclocking comes into play; today Palit has placed the HD 4870 under their Sonic naming scheme, which means we get a nice little out of the box overclock.

Palit hasn’t just bumped the clock speeds up, though, they’ve also decided to change it by removing the boring reference cooler that we’ve been seeing for so long and adding their own design.

Before we check out the cooler and the clocks the new HD 4870 Sonic from Palit offers, we’ll quickly take the time to have a look at the package to see if there’s anything inside the box to get excited about. "

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BBC

"A Briton accused of hacking into secret military computers has lost his appeal against extradition to the US. Glasgow-born Gary McKinnon was said to be "distraught" after losing the appeal to the European Court of Human Rights. He faces extradition within two weeks.

The unemployed man could face life in jail if convicted of accessing 97 US military and Nasa computers. The 42-year-old admitted breaking into the computers from his London home but said he sought information on UFOs.

Mr McKinnon asked the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg to delay his extradition pending a full appeal to the court against his extradition but his application was refused. He claimed the extradition would breach his human rights. "

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ReviewAge

"There's said to be two chips in the pipeline, the FX-80 at 4Ghz and  the FX-82 at 4.4GHz. The FX-80 at stock out performs a 5.0GHz Kentsfield. The Deneb core apparently has a multiplier of up to 25x! "

TechReport

"Far Cry 2 isn't even out yet, but Ubisoft has wasted no time starting work on a sequel. Ubisoft's Patrick Redding told videogaming247 the Ubisoft Montreal studio is at the "preliminary stages" of development on the "next game" in the Far Cry series.

Like Far Cry 2 but unlike Crytek's original, the third game in the series will take place in Africa. Redding explained, "For us Africa still has a huge amount of promise . . . There are still things we want to do with the African setting, and I think it’s safe to say we’ll continue to explore it." He added that, although the Far Cry 2 engine could handle gameplay set in a South-American forest, sticking with the Africa locale will "save time."

Now, Far Cry fans have two games to look forward to. Based on what we heard in March, Far Cry 2 is coming out some time this fall for the PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3. The game has reasonably tame system requirements and will reportedly feature varied, open-ended gameplay. (Thanks to Shacknews for the tip.)"

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Tweak

"MSI reveals its latest N9400GT series graphics cards! It's the N9400GT-MD512H and N9400GT-MD256H. The N9400GT-MD256H is passive cooled and have a 550MHz core clock and a 800MHz DDR2 clock."

Digitimes

"Nvidia will authorize native SLI support on Intel X58 motherboards without the need for its nForce 200 chip, according to Tom Peterson, director of Technical Marketing for MCP products at Nvidia.

Peterson detailed that the company's partners will need to certify their X58 motherboards through Nvidia and, after certification, will receive an approval key to place in the system BIOS. Nvidia's drivers will check for the approval key and the device ID of the chipset before determining whether to enable SLI support on the system.

Nvidia will charge motherboard makers for certification, but the price will be cheaper than that for its nForce 200 chip, costing around US$30, which until recently Nvidia insisted was required to enable SLI on motherboards not using its own chipsets. Peterson also noted that Nvidia will continue to support the nForce 200 solution.

Peterson stressed that certification will apply on an individual basis for each motherboard maker, meaning in other words that makers cannot just buy X58 chipsets from Intel and automatically gain a license to enable SLI. However, Nvidia remains open to further negotiations with Intel over the SLI licensing, he added.

As for whether SLI authorization will be expanded to other platforms, Peterson said Nvidia only plans to only allow SLI on X58 motherboards, alongside its own nForce chipset products, and is currently not considering supporting other chipsets.

Peterson also noted that although Nvidia has received a license to use Intel's QPI technology, the company is currently not planning to launch any chipsets supporting QPI. It will however launch Intel Socket 1160 platform-based chipsets supporting DMI."

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