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In a surprising move XFX is now stating that they do not provide ANY direct warranty to the consumer. According to their warranty information page they state “XFX does not sell its Product directly to the consumer therefore the warranty…
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Thursday, 02 February 2012 23:46
Google and Twitter agree to block posts in some countries
Written by Sean Kalinich
After fighting the SOPA and PIPA bills in the US Congress you would think that Google is a supporter of free speech and a free and open internet. However, they appear to be going back on their unofficial motto of…
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Thursday, 02 February 2012 09:34
New WiFi Vulnerability Found in Some HTC Phones
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As the mobile market begins to become more and more an everyday lifestyle (how often have you seen someone browsing the web on their phone during your morning commute) we are finding that simple things are being left open to…
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Wednesday, 01 February 2012 09:40
Swedish Supreme Court Denies Pirate Bay Appeal
Written by Sean Kalinich
It looks like the PirateBay founders have lost their final appeal (insert random nautical pun here). After initially being sentenced to 12 months in prison and fines of $6.8 Million US Dollars (which we will talk about in a minute)…
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Tuesday, 31 January 2012 15:40
MSI allows details of AMD's 7xxx series GPU roadmap to slip
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So the big news today is the release of AMD’s 7950 GPU. We are seeing a ton of reviews hit the internet covering everything from stock reference designs to stock cards with advanced cooling on them. The word so far…
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Tuesday, 31 January 2012 09:37
Fallout from the MegaUpload Takedown Starts to Hit
Written by Sean Kalinich
Unless you have been under a rock for the past few months you know that the big media companies have been pushing the copyright laws quite heavily. A pair of very dangerous laws call the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)…
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Monday, 30 January 2012 19:03
AMD's delay on 28nm Mobile parts could be a big win for nVidia
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So there is now a rumor out that nVidia is going release Kepler for the mobile market before launching for the desktop. This sounds great and on the surface seems simple, but is that all there is to this? Is…
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Yesterday there was a minor buzz around the internet claiming that Anonymous had gone after face book with a DOS (Denial of Service) attack. However, now that the morning has come Facebook is claiming that there was no attack. The…
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So Yesterday, January 18th 2012, was the great Internet Blackout in protest of SOPA. We contributed with a black out of the site for 24 hours. Many sites supported this on the surface but when it came time to draw…
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Wednesday, 04 January 2012 20:09
Quanta Sues AMD... But will it Hold up in Court?
Written by Sean Kalinich
They say the consumer has a very short memory and that may be true in many cases, but when news that AMD is being sued by Quanta (the largest contract notebook maker in the world) we saw many, many posts…
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Wednesday, 28 December 2011 22:32
Wireless Protected Setup Broken; We Wonder Why it Took So Long
Written by Sean Kalinich
We have said this before and we will say it again; what can be locked, can be unlocked. We also would like to add that nothing is “secure” unless it is powered off, unplugged and perhaps at the bottom of…
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Wednesday, 21 December 2011 07:05
Malformed IFrame Exploit Found In Windows 7 x64 When using Safari
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A new Zero-Day flaw has been found in Microsoft’s Windows 7 OS, but it only applies to a very limited set of circumstances. In this case the system in question needs to be running the 64-bit version of the OS…
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Monday, 19 December 2011 07:07
AMD Tahiti Press Event set for December 22nd
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Not that long ago we showed you some more information about AMD’s new Tahiti GPU. At the time there were rumors that AMD would have the official launch on or around December 22nd (which is in 3 days). We contacted…
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After hearing from some of the top security analysts that CarrierIQ did not have any means of logging key strokes on a mobile device we now find that it does have that and can be asked to transmit the data…
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AMD has begun shipping their 28nm GPUs to OEMs in preparation for the official launch in January at the 2012 CES. This news is good for AMD as they have been promising to be first to market with 28nm for…
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Wednesday, 14 December 2011 07:08
Nope, we are not done with CarrierIQ just yet...
Written by Sean Kalinich
Just when you thought it was safe to dial your mobile phone again. At the height of the CarrierIQ debacle a FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) request was put in to the FBI by the Blog MuckRock asking for “Manuals,…
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