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The idea of offering bounties for discovering bugs might sound a bit odd to some, but it's not that uncommon. Both Google and Mozilla have been offering up cash to those who find both serious and mild bugs in their respective browsers, and for the most part, it seems like the idea has been a...

It should be an unknown to no one at this point that GPGPU processing is a good thing, as when highly parallel jobs are able to take advantage of the massive number of cores found in even a modest graphics card, a typical CPU could be found eating its dust. But as we're well aware, due to the...

Hi Psi - good read. The water cooling is a little beyond me but raises good points regarding airflow contention through a radiator and tub kinks. There is no reliable method to test filters, only real conclusion would be that the more restrictive the filter, the more dust it will catch and...

The developers of LastPass, the program/extension that allows you to encapsulate all of your passwords underneath a "master" one, are encouraging users to change their master password if it's defined as "weak" (as in, is a dictionary word). On Wednesday, the company noticed an anomaly with...

It mainly comes down to space. 5.1 only works if the speakers are setup properly and are balanced to create an accurate envelope of sound. If it's not setup correctly then you're often left with a ball of sound, rear sounds like side, center to the left, and so on. It gets even more tricky when...

OCZ has added another model to the venerable Vertex 3 solid state drive family. In addition to the Vertex 3 for consumers and the Vertex 3 Pro for enterprise customers, OCZ has introduced the Vertex 3 Max IOPS SSD. As the name implies the max IOPS on this drive is a whopping 75,000 IOPS...

Being such a popular Linux distribution, almost all of Ubuntu's bi-annual releases experience a good deal of hype right up to their launch, but 11.04, or 'Natty Narwhal', took things to the next level. Ever since Canonical announced that its 'Unity' desktop environment would ship as the default...

This reminded me of one of the stunts pulled at DEFCON 2007, someone created a honeypot stack of 8 Linksys routers to cover different channel ranges. They had the routers stacked on-top of each other, but they kept failing due to heat, so they had to put fans in-between to keep it all cool. It...

In a report published by Freedom House, a non-for-profit organization which advocates human rights and political freedoms, we can gain an understanding of which countries have the most open Internet freedoms, and which have no freedoms at all. And no, that's no typo in the title. Estonia, a...

That's right. I said router cooler, so don't go all pretending like you've never once said, "Geez, I wish I could throw a fan in that thing!", because I'm confident enough to say that most of us have been there. Even if a router isn't giving us signs of failure, no one wants to feel like their...

Prior to the discovery that SSDs could experience performance degradation over long periods of time, no one seemed to care about what a "secure erase' was, much less had the need to run one. Hard drives, due to their design, don't benefit much if at all from a secure erase, but in some cases...

No sympathy from me... while I can blame the hacker(s), I blame Sony more for letting it happen in the first place - then waiting 6 days before telling anyone. Never used a credit/debit card on PSN, haven't touched my system in 6 months since it decided to stop reading BDs and no longer outputs...

This is one of the strange things. Here in the UK, Yahoo POP access has always been free, using it for free for over 10 years. Even with ymail and rocketmail, POP was always free in the UK. Chalk it up as unfair if you want.... maybe it's for legal reasons, who knows. Last.fm is free in the UK...

For enthusiasts, picking up a super-fast kit of RAM and tweaking it to its correct values in the BIOS may seem like no big deal, but to the regular user, the mere thought of it could be overwhelming. But, to take advantage of those fast speeds, it's sometimes required, and the reason simply has...

To say that Netflix posted a successful first quarter would be a gross understatement. During those three months, the company managed to add a staggering 3.6 million subscribers, bringing its total subscriber count to 23.6 million. Not impressed? Perhaps adding the fact that the company's total...

It may seem obvious that most Hollywood leaks come from within Hollywood itself, but it's not often - if it's happened at all - when someone gets caught red-handed. Usually, it's a cammer who gets caught, or someone who found their way to a screener somehow, and then proceeded to upload it. A...

When I discovered Xfire in late 2004, it felt like I had stumbled on a pot of gold. It was a chat client like no other, because it had a major focus on the PC gamer, and as a result, it quickly became a tool that millions of gamers kept in their virtual toolboxes. A social network before the...

If I simply said "three-and-a-half years", what would immediately come to mind for you? If you replied "the amount of time passed since Episode Two's release", you'd either be unbelievably on top of things, or the topic of this news post was too good of a hint. Either way, we're nearing four...

A great thing for Linux is that its popularity is rapidly growing, and thanks to the countless number of "Live CDs" out there, anyone can download and burn an image to allow them to test drive a distro with no risk to their PC. But, what about those who either don't have blank CDs lying around...

The BIOS update only allows B3 revisions to appear as B3, since they were being incorrectly displayed as B2, it does not upgrade a B2 to a B3 (the chipset errata is hardware based, can not be fixed via software). I have the same board and the same BIOS, still displays a B2 revision. Just use one...