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Monthly Archives: July 2009

Charlie Demerjian
Jul 31, 2009
1

Apple keyboard firmware hack demonstrated

Apple needs to patch it ASAP

APPLE KEYBOARDS ARE vulnerable to a hack that puts keyloggers and malware directly into the keyboard. This could be a serious problem, and now that the presentation and code is out there, the bad guys will surely be exploiting it.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jul 31, 2009

Defcon 1 memorabelia shown off

Dead Addict cleans the closet

IN A BLAST from the past, a hacker named Dead Addict dragged out a bunch of his memorabilia from Defcon 1. It pulled into focus exactly how far the show has come in the 16 years since that first gathering.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jul 31, 2009

Getting arrested in Las Vegas

What to do, what to expect, and why

WHAT HAPPENS IF you do something really stupid at Defcon, or even in greater Las Vegas? You get arrested, which is precisely why Jim Rennie gave a talk titled, “So You Got Arrested at Defcon….”.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jul 29, 2009

Miracles happen, GT300 tapes out!

Warning: flying pigs and huge chips

LOOK, OUT THE window, a squadron of flying pigs! No, really, they do fly, there are frozen lakes of fire being reported all over, and Nvidia’s GT300 has finally taped out.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jul 29, 2009

ATI Evergreen to be called “7 Series”

Picture of the new logo inside

THE UPCOMING ATI Evergreen family finally has a name and logo, or at least they will when it is announced shortly. With a stunning level of kissing up to Redmond, the new family will be called the “7 Series”.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jul 29, 2009

Global Foundries grabs STMicro business

Customer #2, the snowball is rolling

GLOBAL FOUNDRIES HAS finally announced customer #2, AMD being customer #1. While this is significant, there is a hidden gem in the press release, an unannounced new process node.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jul 28, 2009

Nvidia starts cutting costs

Eerily targeted cuts

THE VOICES IN our head that talk to us and tell us the secrets of the industry are now saying that Nvidia is going to cut one of their most prominent people. It is going to be a sad day when he goes, working with this man was never boring.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jul 27, 2009

WD hits 1TB in 2.5″ drives

Twice the capacity, same size

WESTERN DIGITAL IS on a roll, owning the next great ‘mine is bigger than yours’ plateau in hard drives. Today, they introduced 750GB and 1TB 2.5 inch laptop HDs.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jul 27, 2009
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When caught, don’t destroy evidence

Plagiarism rule #1, the Internet doesn’t forget

WHEN YOU DO something wrong, the best thing you can do is come clean and not cover it up. Covering things up only makes things worse, especially if you do it in a panicked way.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jul 27, 2009

Plagiarism is rampant in IT journalism

Enough is enough – time to call it out

ONE OF THE few things worse than being woken up by an alarm clock at 7am after getting to a hotel well past midnight is being woken up before 7am by a phone call from a very angry Wolfgang Gruener. That was the first time the dirty underside of plagiarism in the IT journalism world directly made my life interesting, but far from the last.
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Rodney
Jul 26, 2009

It’s time for Black Hat once again

Corporate security in the high desert

THIS WEEK WE celebrated the 40th anniversary of putting people on the moon. Next week we’ll hear how San Francisco’s parking meters are hackable, have we really moved forward technologically?
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Charlie Demerjian
Jul 26, 2009

ATI Evergreen mobile parts outed

And a look at the (non-)competition

IT LOOKS LIKE Tweakers.net has spilled the beans of the upcoming Evergreen mobile parts from ATI. While that is the best recent leak, it is far from the only news.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jul 23, 2009

How to peek at chip guts without killing them

Look under the lid

IF YOU WANT to inspect a chip, there are various ways to do it, from cheap to expensive, easy to hard. If you want to peer inside the guts of a chip package, your options are more limited, but Scanning Acoustic Microscopy is one good way to do it.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jul 22, 2009
1

Nvidia’s netbook is called Firefly

Only a year late so far

WORD HAS REACHED us that there is an Nvidia prototype crotchtop that the company is shopping around called Firefly. The ODMs say that it will be out in the September time frame, but since Tegra is a year late already, don’t hold your breath.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jul 21, 2009

Larrabee has two HD decoders

Almost generalist

WORD HAS REACHED our tender ears that Larrabee, the upcoming Intel GPU, will not be quite as generalist as they claim. The fixed function parts will be two HD decoders.
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