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Report: AMD FX-9000 Series CPUs Priced

Some pricing information has surfaced regarding AMD's upcoming FX-9000 series CPUs, and they are expensive.

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Competitive Overclocking: The GIGABYTE OC Lab and HWBot.org

Every field has enthusiasts – the users that obsess over the smallest details to get the best, to be the best, and excel in their field. Well it turns out you can be a PC enthusiast as well, where the only thing matters is speed. This is the art of the competitive overclocker.

Many companies are negligent about SAP security, researchers say

10 hours agoTechnology / Hardware : Geek Tech

SAP has significantly improved the security of its products over the past few years but many of its customers are negligent with their deployments, which exposes them to potential attacks that could cripple their businesses, according to security researchers. Show More Summary

Will Ford admit defeat and add more buttons to Sync and MyFord Touch?

Was Ford's "touch screen with buttons and knobs" line in release a glimpse of the future for Sync, or just an awkward sentence that can be read two ways?

Apple will roll out iPads to Los Angeles public school students this fall

In my earliest school years, the Apple IIgs was cutting edge, because it could run Number Munchers like nobody’s business. But just to remind me how very, very advanced in age I am, Apple said on Wednesday that the Los Angeles School...Show More Summary

Nvidia Now Licensing Keplar Cores, Visual Computing Patents

Looks like Nvidia wants to be in every computing device known to man.

G.SKILL Achieved Six Overclocking World Records at Computex 2013

During the week of Computex 2013, six overclocking records were shattered by professional overclockers with G.SKILL extreme performance DDR3 memory. Memory Frequency - DDR3 4283.2MHz Overclockers:...

ECS Reveals Its First AMD Kabini Motherboard

ECS has just revealed its latest Mini-ITX motherboard family KBN-I featuring the world’s first Quad Core SoC (system-on-a-chip) processor with the newest “Jaguar” 28 nanometer...

Microsoft launches security bounty programs for Windows 8.1 and IE 11 Preview

12 hours agoTechnology / Hardware : Geek Tech

Microsoft will pay security researchers for finding and reporting vulnerabilities in the preview version of its Internet Explorer 11 (IE 11) browser, for finding novel techniques to bypass exploit mitigations present in Windows 8.1 or...Show More Summary

Massive Java update won’t get Oracle out of attacker’s crosshairs

12 hours agoTechnology / Hardware : Geek Tech

Java continues to be Public Enemy No. 1 when it comes to computer and network security. Oracle released a huge update for the virtually ubiquitous software, but attackers aren’t done exploiting Java as the weakest link in the security...Show More Summary

The first-ever 3D-printed battery is less than 1mm wide

ExtremeTech readers know by now that new battery tech is always promising and perpetually just over the horizon, but never quite seems to be attainable. Harvard just added to that field by 3D printing a lithium-ion microbattery that could be used to power devices in a number of markets, such as medicine.

Richland-based AMD Athlon X4 FM2 CPUs Launched

A number of Athlon X4 chips for the FM2 socket have silently surfaced on numerous retailers and sellers.

Data wiped from 630 Megaupload servers

13 hours agoTechnology / Hardware : Geek Tech

LeaseWeb, one of Europe's biggest hosting providers, has wiped 630 servers that contained Megaupload data and countered claims from the company that the file-sharing site wasn't warned. "This is the largest data massacre in the history...Show More Summary

John McAfee Makes Crazy Video On Removing McAfee

Everyone's favourite eccentric millionaire wants to help you uninstall McAfee.

GF2045: Brains, avatars, androids, and the future of humanity

This past weekend in the New York arguably the most important conference of the year, Global Future 2045, was held. This might sound like an overstatement but no other conference exists that states grander goals, and then tries to chart the path to those goals through science.

US Armed Forces angry over Xbox One lockout, Microsoft’s uncaring response

Military personnel are noticing Microsoft's new policy on armed forces users -- specifically, that the console isn't supported overseas or in areas of spotty internet connection. Unsurprisingly, soldiers aren't happy; Redmond is on the verge of losing a core demographic.

Huawei: We Don't Have Any Plans to Buy Nokia

Nokia's shares enjoyed a nice bump following reports that Huawei was open to an acquisition.

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