6th August 2007 Archive

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Market News

• Wife of Rambus CEO outed as message board troll Can we sue anyone for this?

News

• Lenovo to ship Linux laptops Microsoft’s source code departments begin shaking”

PC Builder

• Staff cut off in Evesham 'rescue' deal Evesham re-emerges as Geemore
• UK, France and Germany PC shipments moving on up Jumps more than nine per cent as laptops drive sales growth

Security

• Black market for malware a thriving place Defcon It slices, it dices . . .
• Hacking for hijinks DefCon Blog: Day 1 So much fun, it should be illegal
• The romance and mystery of a good hack DefCon Blog: Final Plus an actual wedding
• US govt password security still dismal Clueless civil servants leave citizens at risk
• VeriSign worker exits after laptop security breach Man overboard

Servers/Storage

• AMD's Opteron goes to 3.2GHz High-end chips gussied pre-Barcelona
• F5 buys Acopia for $210m Web traffic firm buys into the storage market
• HP's graphics library goes GPL LinuxWorld Visualize Xen love and penguin per use too
• Sun releases world's fastest chip - at 1.4GHz Nice try, guys