AMD to Prolong the Life of the AM3+ Socket - Report

AMD seems interested in prolonging the life of the recently launched AM3+ socket, as the latest reports to come to light suggest the Sunnyvale-based company will retain this socket for their second generation of desktop CPUs based on the Bulldozer architecture. The first pieces of information to make their appearance in June of this year suggested that these chips would be using a new socket which goes by the name of FMX. However, it now seems like these CPUs will actually plug into the same AM3+ socket as the upcoming FX-Series processors, as two separate reports on 4Gamers and Xbit Labs seem to agree on this point. What the two sources don't seem to conform on is the names of the features of these processors, as one source says AMD's next-generation...

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Update for Windows 7 SP1, Vista SP2, XP SP3 Revokes All DigiNotar Root Certificates

Microsoft reacted extremely rapidly to protect users of Internet Explorer against attacks leveraging fraudulent DigiNotar root certificates, and is now providing an update for all supported versions of Windows designed to revoke the trust of all DigiNotar root certificates.  Customers running Windows are advised to deploy KB 2607712 as fast as possible, and ensure that DigiNotar certificates are moved to the Microsoft Untrusted Certificate Store.  KB 2607712 is available for Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1), Windows Vista SP2, Windows XP SP3, but also their server equivalents, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003 – links at the bottom of this article.  “Based on our investigation, we’ve deemed all DigiNotar certificates to be untrustworthy and have...

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LRO Snaps Detailed Photos of Lunar Landing Sites

Officials at the American space agencies have just released several new high-resolution photos of a number of Apollo landing sites. The batch of images was made available yesterday, September 6, and many of them show the disposition of equipment that was left behind on the Moon.  The datasets were collected by the NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), which has been studying Earth's natural satellite for a couple of years now. This is not the first time that the spacecraft has imaged lunar landing sites, but the new photos are the most detailed to date.  Instruments aboard the LRO are so precise that they can even snap images of tracks left behind as NASA astronauts were traveling on the lunar surface aboard their rovers. Given...

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AMD Cancels Next-Generation CPUs (Komodo and Corona)

The new CEO from Advanced Micro Devices did say he was aiming for a more aggressive approach, and it looks like that approach may include essential modifications to the CPU roadmap. Those users keeping track of happenings on the IT industry will invariably invest some attention into the CPU segment. In the case of AMD (Advanced Micro Devices), the company has been known to be working on a certain set of next-generation CPUs that would succeed, in 2012, this year's FX Zambezi units. Leaks and reports had mentioned 8 to 10 Bulldozer cores (Piledriver) and the Fusion Controller Hub which, among other things, brought a built-in PCI Express 3.0 controller to the equation. They were going to be the foundation of the Corona platform, complete with...

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