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BusinessWeek site hacked

Hackers have broken into BusinessWeek's online site and set up an attack scenario in which visitors to a section of the site could have their own computers compromised and their data stolen, a security researcher said on Monday in the US. Read more »

PlayStation 3 site hacked, 2.40 upgrade suspended

Sony has suspended its PlayStation 2.40 firmware upgrade following reports it has fouled up some users' systems — Sony has also removed hacked pages on its Playstation web site. Read more »

Inside the Top500 supercomputers

Roadrunner has topped the Top500 supercomputers list to be released Wednesday at the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany. Read more »

Google, Yahoo make lawmakers impotent, says Judge

Australian High Court Judge Justice Kirby has said computer code is more potent than the law -- and legislators are powerless to do anything about it. Read more »

Sony slashes PS3 development kit cost

Sony announces an almost 50 percent price cut to the cost of its development kit hardware. Read more »

Nintendo opens Wii to developers

From early next year, developers can sell original games through the Wii Shop channel. Read more »

It's Adobe's game to lose, CEO says

Bruce Chizen discusses open source, the importance of video and increasing competition from the likes of Google. Read more »

The big Digg rig

Digg became one of the top sites for tech news because it lets Web-savvy geeks decide what's newsworthy, offer up stories they like and vote on their favorites. Now rankings spammers threaten to destroy the social media balance. Read more »

IBM wins hybrid supercomputer deal

IBM has won a deal to build a supercomputer at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) that will pair more than 16,000 AMD Opteron processors with more than 16,000 Cell processors to try to reach a new computing milestone for the company. Read more »

Linux gets built-in Cell processor support

Linus Torvalds released a new Linux kernel on Monday that supports features in IBM's Cell processor, includes Oracle software for clustered databases and improves how the open-source operating system runs on multiprocessor systems. Read more »

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Multi-core state of play

It promises to be the biggest revolution in programming since object orientation -- but it remains virtually unheard of to most developers. Thanks to the development and uptake of multi-core CPUs, developers must begin to consider truly programming in parallel. Read more »

Programming for Cell

As the Cell has seven usable cores and some exotic memory features, it can offer more parallelism than other chips in the marketplace but it comes at the cost of ease of programming. We discuss the challenges faced by this difficult yet highly parallel architecture. Read more »

Despite its aging design, the x86 is still in charge

With most of the world's software written with x86 in mind, it's doubtful that any future chip architecture would be able to displace it. Read more »

Octopiler helps multicore coders

IBM's compiler helps adapt programs to use the Cell chip's nine cores. Read more »

What if? an alternative history of tech

Michael Kanellos imagines a world where Apple licenced the Mac and wrestling is a corporate sport. Read more »

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Giveaway to gadget showcase

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- We are giving away free passes to the upcoming "Experience More" product showcase. Read more »

Adobe MAX conference day 2: Cumby, Mobiles, and Winners

Andrew Muller [blogs:nouveauricheinternet] -- Today was the second day of the Adobe Max conference in Las Vegas. There was some big news for Flash developers looking to target mobile devices. Read more »

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  • Staff Crying, mooning and leaving

    In this week's roundup we see that continuous whining can get results, Linux users get 64-bit Flash and Moonlight previews, the latest in the Yahoo/Microsoft relationship and Senator Conroy ducks and weave in Senate Question Time. Read more »

    -- posted by Staff

  • Brendon Chase Sun eye Web developers with Netbeans 6.5

    Despite the recent employment axe hitting Sun the company has pushed out a new release of its Netbeans open source IDE with an eye to appeal more to Web developers. Read more »

    -- posted by Brendon Chase

  • Renai LeMay BarCamp buzz: Let the hacking continue

    Attending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector. Read more »

    -- posted by Renai LeMay

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