PS3 Loses Linux Support

Sony’s next PS3 update will remove the "install other OS" option. The company says they are removing this feature because of security concerns.

SCEA's Senior Director Corporate Communications & Social Media, Patrick Seybold, says the move is "due to security concerns". He also says that disabling the feature "will help ensure that PS3 owners will continue to have access to the broad range of gaming and entertainment content from SCE and its content partners on a more secure system."

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Senate Hearing Focuses on Laptop Spying

Kevin Bankston of the Electronic Frontier Foundation is scheduled testify in front of Congress today, urging lawmakers to update wiretap laws to include secret video surveillance.

Monday's field hearing is being led by U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa. It comes amid a lawsuit that accuses a Pennsylvania school district of spying on students through webcams on school-issued laptops. Lower Merion school officials say they were only trying to locate missing computers.

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Why 3D TV is Just a Pointless Gimmick

While I may not agree with everything this guy says, you have to agree with his point that there is nothing news about 3D movies. I know the movie industry makes it sound like 3D is the latest "must-have" technology but the truth is, they’ve said that every time…since 1950.

3D is just another gimmick, right down there with Smell-O-Vision, electric shocks coming through the seat, vibrating cinema chairs and, of course, the last 17 times that the industry has tried to make 3D into the Next Big Thing. And we still don't need it. I've never, ever seen a 3D movie that so much as breathed softly on my socks, never mind blew them off.

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Warner Bros. Recruits Students to Spy on Pirates

Warner Bros. is recruiting interns to spy on pirates. My question is this, what is stopping a flood of pirates from applying for the jobs to thwart the studios efforts?

During the 12 month internship, duties will include: monitoring local Internet forums and IRC for pirated WB and NBCU content and in order to gather information on pirate sites, pirate groups and other pirate activities; finding new and maintaining existing accounts on private sites; scanning for links to hosted pirated WB and NBCU content and using tools to issue takedown requests; maintaining and developing bots for Internet link scanning system (training provided); preparing sending of infringement notices and logging feedback; performing trap purchases of pirated product and logging results; inputting pirate hard goods data and other intelligence into the forensics database; selecting local keywords and submitting local filenames for monitoring and countermeasure campaigns and periodically producing research documents on piracy related technological developments. Various training will be provided.

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Join The [H] Folding Team!

This is our weekly shout out to all of you out there that aren’t currently folding and could spare a bit of your PC’s resources to help a wonderful cause. Although [H]ardOCP has the #1 Folding team on the planet, we still need your help to stay there. Folding is easy, all you have to do is download and install the Folding@Home program, set your team number to TEAM #33 and you are all set.

If you still need help or have any questions, forum member "Xilikon" put all the Folding guides that a person could possibly need into one easy-to-find location. Hit the link, follow the directions and you’ll be up and folding in no time at all.

Chinese City is World’s Hacker Hub

I was shocked, shocked I tell you, to learn that most malicious e-mail comes from one town in China. It’s just not like the Chinese to do such a thing.

Researchers for Symantec found almost 30% of "malicious" emails were sent from China and that 21.3% came from the city of Shaoxing alone. They were able to identify key targets for the hackers as experts in Asian defense policy and human rights activists, strongly suggesting state involvement.

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LA Newsman Accused of Google Leak

Lawyers for Google have accused a broadcast news journalist of leaking confidential court documents related to the depositions of YouTube and Google executives.

In a hearing Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, attorney Andrew Schapiro of the law firm Mayer Brown cited circumstantial evidence that he claimed pinpoints Tur as the source of documents leaked to CNET's Greg Sandoval. Those documents included a deposition on behalf of Google CEO Eric Schmidt, which led to the revelation that Google knew it had overpaid for YouTube, which it acquired in late 2006.

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AMD Launches Opteron 6000 Series 8 - 12 Core Processors

AMD announces availability of a new server platform featuring the world’s first 8- and 12-core x86 processor for the high-volume 2P and value 4P server market. The AMD Opteron™ 6000 Series platform addresses the unmistakable needs of server customers today - workload-specific performance, power efficiency, and overall value - while delivering more cores and more memory for less money.3 Leading OEMs including HP, Dell, Acer Group, Cray, and SGI are introducing new systems based on this highly scalable and reliable platform.

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MSI Launches Next-Gen Top Gaming Graphic Card Series

Urged over and again until it appeared! In order to fulfill the demand for extreme 3D performance of hardcore gamers, internationally renowned motherboard and graphic card brand- manufacturer MSI launched today the long expecting premium graphic cards N480GTX-M2D15 and N470GTX-M2D12. Both models are built with the latest 40ìm GPU coded Fermi from NVIDIA. Along with the advanced GDDR5 graphic memory, military class components, and the MSI-exclusive Afterburner overclocking software for voltage adjustment to increase performance up to 15%, these graphic cards can absolutely bring gamers to experience the unprecedented extreme performance!

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25 Years Old and Still Kickin'.

Can anyone tell me the original dot-com'er? Does "symbolics.com" ring a bell? Well on March 15th, 1985 they were the first. They plowed the way for all of this to happen. They took that step. Now we have some 1.7 billion people in our midst which amounts to about 25% of the world.

In the Internet economy, consumers not only find the specific product or service they are looking for, but they can also shape and customize those same products and services. Remarkably, this is just the beginning.

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Where is Your SSN Residing?

A theft of a portable media device that contained personal information on some 3.3 million people with student loans has a non-profit and the Gov't jumping. Educational Credit Management Corp. is a contactor for the Dept. of Education.

ECMC said it has arranged with credit protection agency Experian to provide affected borrowers with free credit monitoring and protection services. Borrowers will be receiving letters from ECMC soon on how to sign up, gain access to fraud resolution representatives, and be provided with identity theft insurance coverage.

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Self Checkout Means Walking out the Door?

Now how many people would quit complaining about the checkout aisles at your local WalMart if you could just walk out the door? That is becoming closer to reality with the invention of a new RFID tag made from ink laced with carbon nanotubes.

"You could run your cart by a detector and it tells you instantly what’s in the cart," says James M. Tour of Rice University, whose research group invented the ink. "No more lines, you just walk out with your stuff."

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