Software

Microsoft fixes critical IE problems.

Microsoft this week fixed a widely reported flaw in its Internet Explorer browser that had been used by attackers over the past few weeks to take over the PCs of unsuspecting users. The flaw was one of four IE bugs fixed Tuesday in Microsoft"s regularly scheduled software update, which also addressed some problems caused by Sony"s XCP copy protection software. (PC World)

Social networking sites a ticking security time bomb, study indicates.

Islandia (NY) - Social networking websites such as MySpace and Facebook may pose more security risks than physical threats such as sexual predators contacting kids and teenagers. A survey raises the concern that fraud, identity theft and computer spyware and viruses combined with negligent user behavior could flourish on social networking sites.

What is behind the chipset shortage, and is Intel on the right track.

With rumors indicating that Intel has recently adjusted its capacity strategies by putting more effort on producing high-profit mobile chips and phasing out some lower-end desktop PC-use chipsets, Taiwan chipset makers including Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) have been pushing to ramp up their production to fill the gap in supply.

AMD's RV670 Does Double-precision At Half The Speed.

Markham (ON) - More and more we see graphics cards manufacturers touting the GFLOPs capability of their cards, hinting to the potentially enormous processing power that is hiding in those graphics processors. But those numbers, which recently hit 1 TFLOPs, aren"t exactly comparable with TFLOPs rankings on the Top500.org list, since there are different instructions and there are different ways to calculate these numbers. An example for this dilemma is AMD"s RV670.

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