New Attack Compromises Apple Keyboards

From DailyTech: No one wants to get their computer hacked or infected with viruses. For a long time, Windows PCs were the only real target of hackers and nefarious users, but as Apple Mac computers have become more popular hacks for these systems are now becoming more common.

A new...

TSMC’s 40nm Yields Improved to 60% - Company

From X-bit Labs: Morris Chang, the chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, said during a conference in Taipei, Taiwan, said that yield rate of the company’s 40nm manufacturing process is now considerably higher than it was earlier this year. This is a good news for...

Firefox to hit 1 billion downloads Friday

From InfoWorld: The Firefox Web browser is fast approaching its billionth download and is likely to hit that milestone some time on Friday.

Mozilla has a Web site and a Twitter feed where people can keep track of the total. On Thursday afternoon, the feed showed more than 999,180...

Adobe Patches 12 Flash Bugs, 3 Caused by Microsoft

From PC World: Adobe on Thursday patched 12 vulnerabilities in Flash Player, including three it inherited from faulty Microsoft development code and one that hackers have been exploiting for at least a week.

In a security advisory published Thursday afternoon, Adobe briefly spelled...

Nikon Unveils D300S and D3000 D-SLR Cameras

From DailyTech: Nikon has announced new D-SLR cameras today including the new D300S and the D3000. The D3000 D-SLR from Nikon is hailed as the simplest and most accessible D-SLR to date. The camera is a D-SLR for those who just want to use automatic settings, which seems contrary to...

Taiwanese DRAM Makers to Bundle DDR2 and DDR3 Memory

From X-bit Labs: In an attempt to stimulate demand towards DDR2 memory, unnamed Taiwan-based producers of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) plan to sell bundles consisting of both DDR2 and DDR3 memory chips. If the information is correct, this may close the gap between pricing of...

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