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11th March 2000 Archive

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  • Nvidia's Virtual AGP design…

    ...will beat competition to market with boards

    Virtual AGP design is also one of the many features that have emerged from Nvidia’s laboratories. This is one of the basic proofs that this company wants to have its fingers in all categories, from the lowest to the highest. Virtual AGP is designed for older computer systems without any AGP slot. Specially targeted machines are …

    Business 11 Mar 2000, 09:43

  • AMD claims Intel giving away chips for X-Box

    To see the world in a grain of truth...

    The head of AMD's investor relations made a statement yesterday about Microsoft not using its technology in its sort of up-and-coming X-Box. Thanks to AMD Zone and Ace's Hardware for pointing us to this post on Silicon Investor and to some other useful information. Toni Beckham, from AMD Investor Relations, said: "Microsoft will …

    Business 11 Mar 2000, 09:54

  • Congress subpoenas damning DoJ report

    Yet another contempt citation for Reno in the works

    Netizens worried about the US Justice Department's swashbuckling entry into cyber-space might take some comfort from the past week's fiasco in which a report excoriating Attorney General Janet Reno and implicating her in a cover-up of President Clinton's alleged campaign finance abuses was leaked to the Los Angeles Times. The …

    Business 11 Mar 2000, 11:19

  • Council shuts nude cybercafe night under ‘decency law’

    Bare-faced cheek

    City authorities have shut down a nude night at London's newest cybercafe, following complaints from neighbours. Nutopia last month opened its doors in Covent Garden with an evening of naked Web surfing, the first in a series of regular theme nights. The idea, which Nutopia representative Roz Arratoon says was dreamt up in the …

    Business 11 Mar 2000, 15:22

  • Hacktivist group jumps on the DDoS bandwagon

    Ad majorem Dei gloriam

    A new distributed denial of service (DDoS) tool which will enable socially-conscious crusaders to attack offensive Web sites without breaking into intermediate clients has been developed by hacktivist group Electrohippies. A victim Web site associated with genetically-modified crops will be chosen and attacked some time next …

    Business 11 Mar 2000, 21:13

  • MIT grade changes not caused by hacking

    The Register: more butt work, greater accuracy

    When it transpired that 22 student test scores had been changed on a computer system at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology last week, the mainstream press immediately cried "hackers". The Register did not, and all for the best. As it turns out, a teaching assistant accidentally altered the grades of 22 students in an MIT …

    Business 11 Mar 2000, 22:03