New Multi-GPU Technology With No Strings Attached
Original post provide by Slashdot: ITVigile writes “Multi-GPU technology from both NVIDIA and ATI has long been dependent on many factors including specific motherboard chipsets and forcing gamers to buy similar GPUs within a single generation. A new company called Lucid Logix is showing off a product that could potentially allow vastly different GPUs to work in tandem while still promising near-linear scaling on up to four chips. The HYDRA Engine is dedicated silicon that dissects DirectX and OpenGL calls and modifies them directly to be distributed among the available graphics processors. That means the aging GeForce 6800 GT card in your closet might be useful once again and the future of one motherboard supporting both AMD and NVIDIA multi-GPU configurations could be very near.”
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Judge Rules Man Cannot Be Forced To Decrypt HD
The question of whether a criminal defendant can be legally compelled to cough up his encryption passphrase remains an unsettled one, with law review articles for the last decade arguing the merits of either approach." Update: 08/19 23:49 GMT by KD : Several readers have pointed out that this story in fact did not go unnoticed.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
MIT Students' Gag Order Lifted
We've discussed the case over the last 10 days. "Judge O'Toole said he disagreed with the basic premise of the MBTA's argument: That the students' presentation was a likely violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, a 1986 federal law meant to protect computers from malicious attacks such as worms and viruses.
Web API Expert: The Concept Of A Web API
The catalysts of this change are non-visual communications that are enabled using APIs, or Application Programming Interfaces. These APIs allow you to leverage within your own application both behavior and data that somebody else has built and hosted, as if both the functionality and information were local.
A Good Reason To Go Full-Time SSL For Gmail
Ashik Ratnani writes with this snippet from Hungry Hackers: "A tool that automatically steals IDs of non-encrypted sessions and breaks into Google Mail accounts has been presented at the Defcon hackers' conference in Las Vegas. Last week Google introduced a new feature in Gmail that allows users to permanently switch on SSL and use it for every action involving Gmail, and not only, authentication.
Can You Build A Fiber Test Kit On A Budget?
Commercial test equipment is extremely expensive, running the gambit from a few hundred dollars for a basic light source, to tens of thousands for an OTDR. What equipment do you consider essential to your fiber kit? Is there a way to save costs when it comes to fiber test equipment?
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SOA Consortium Releases New Podcast From K. Scott Morrison, Layer 7 Technologies
Scott Morrison, VP of Engineering and Chief Architect at Layer 7 Technologies, on "How to Fail at SOA," recorded at the SOA Consortium meeting in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, in June. Calling on Layer 7 Technologies' six years of experience Scott warned meeting attendees about repeated patterns of bad practices, pitfalls and bad decisions.
Adobe Flash Ads Launching Clipboard Hijack Attacks
In the Web attacks, which affect Mac, Windows, and Linux users running Firefox, IE, and Safari, bad guys are seizing control of the machine's clipboard (probably using the Flash command setClipboard) and inserting a hard-to-delete URL that points to a fake anti-virus program.
Arioch Mail
A separate script provides a replacement for the mail() and ezmlm_hash() functions that uses this class to send messages when the PHP mail() function is not available. This class reuses several methods from the Nomad MIME Mail class originally written by Alejandro Garc�a Gonz�lez, and is therefore LGPL licensed.
QCP135
Package: QCP135 Summary: Compute checksum of variable data with QCP135 Groups: Cryptography Author: Simon Roberts Description: This package can be used to compute the checksum of variable length data using QCP135 algorithm. It takes as parameters a string and data to compute the check, a seed value and the length of the checksum.
Why Corporates Hate Perl
Many of these systems date back to this company's first steps onto the Internet and were made by separate departments who had no interaction with each other. Its not really a surprise that the systems don't interact well and a lot of the code is hard to maintain."Read more of this story at Slashdot.