[H]ardNews 3rd Edition - Weekend Week-In Recap

I really do pick the links at random

So another week gone by and you know what time it is, time for me to take a nice long nap. Well, as soon as I recap the happenings of the week, starting with the capture of a DDoS for hire group that was nabbed by authorities. At least they caught real criminals, instead of people like RIAA who sued 896 of their own customers. Hopefully all that work with IP tracking will lead to people being able to catch crackers, like the ones that created the Porn Worm, to be caught faster.

Speaking of legal issues, Verisign lost its lawsuit against ICANN, and MS was found guilty of misleading consumers concerning cost differentials between Linux and Windows. There are reasons behind that, what with AMD’s no execute bug in Service Pack 2. At least problems like that should alleviate the AMD shortage that has occurred, well that and Intel’s price cuts as well.

Intel is the world largest supplier of chipsets in the world, but Nvidia hopes to bite into that even further with the release of their nForce4 chipset in the future. Maybe it will have some good stuff on it like hidden Easter eggs containing game girls in Playboy. Well, women might end up less “overtly sexy” in future games, if the gaming scholarship for women takes off, so we better enjoy it while we can.

Alright, we talked about Nvidia, so now it’s time for the mention of ATI. It looks like they cut some of their business from Compeq because of impurities. Hey at least they are getting some return on other investments, seeing as how the Half-Life 2 PreLoad occurred this week. Maybe it’ll have some dual disc action in there when it finally goes gold.