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The Dutch botnet called Shadow which seems to have affected 150,000 victim computers has been neutralized by the Dutch High Tech Crime Unit with the help of Kaspersky Labs. The 16 and 19 years old creators have been arrested. The botnet has seemingly been (ab)using windows Live Messenger to contact its victim machines’ users via a message (that’d appear as being from a friend) asking the user to visit a link, which in turn would download a file and hence infect his machine once run.

Shadow apparently had a majority of its victims in Netherlands, and all the messages etc were sent in Dutch, but there could be many victims worldwide. 

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Apple’s value of stock shares summed up to $157 billion today, hence exceeded the $156 billion stock shares value of Google, says Slashdot. Thats quite an achievement surpassing a giant like Google, but its mostly because of the the superb marketing tactics Apple uses to sell its products. Apple has also left alot of big players like Intel,  HP & Dell way behind now, infact Apple’s worth 3 times the value of Dell now.

What do you think about Apple’s current position in the Market? Is Apple gonna keep conquering the market at pace or is it just a temporary jump because of the current Iphone & MacBook Air hype? Share your thoughts by commenting.

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You wont be needing to wait patiently till Nvidia releases its laptop drivers Caz you can now enjoy the more-regularly released desktop drivers by Nvidia. Driver Heaven has created a software that modifies the desktop version of Nvidia GPU drivers to make them work for your laptop Nvidia GPU. So if you’re a mobile enthusiat gamer, head over to Driver Heaven for there Mobility Modder Tool.

This Mobility Modder Tool is created by the same DH team that created the famous ATI mobility modder tool and which has already been downloaded over 10 million times. The current version 0.3.0 for Nvidia drivers is in public beta stage, but if you cant wait to get your hands on the recently released Physx-supporting desktop Nvidia drivers, here’s your chance to join the bandwagon.

Get the Modder Tool From Driver Heaven here.

[via The Inquirer]

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Well no doubt Crysis is a real power-hungry game and I can understand about people being worried if their rigs would be able to handle the almighty follow up in the series, that is Crysis: Warhead. Fear not though, EA has just released the official system specifications and they are not THAT much extra-ordinarily demanding, just compare your rig, I know most of you will happily find yourself (and your beloved rig) in the safe-zone. Here are the official specs:

CPU: Intel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz (3.2 GHz for Vista), Intel Core 2.0 GHz
(2.2 GHz for Vista), AMD Athlon 2800+ (3200+ for Vista) or better
RAM: 1GB (1.5GB on Windows Vista)
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT, ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
(Radeon X800 Pro for Vista) or better
VRAM: 256MB of Graphics Memory Storage: 15GB
Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c Compatible ODD: DVD-ROM
OS: Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or Microsoft Vista
DirectX: DX9.0c or DX10

The official site is ready for pre-orders. Crysis: Warhead will be released on Sept, 12th in Europe, followed by a Sept, 16th release in North America. For some new screenshots of the game 

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There were some issues between the parties involved in the USB3.0 game back then in May, that could’ve possibly led to forks (and ended as a disaster, same as what happened to USB1.0). Now though, it looks like all the parties i.e. Microsoft, AMD, Dell, NEC have finally signed up for the new specs and all the forking issues have been resolved (through unknown negotiations probably).

Intel has already released the Extensible Host Controller Interface (xHCI) as well. Hit the read link for Intel’s USB3.0 specs page.

You might be thinkin’ whats so good about USB3.0? Well, we’re talking about 5Gbps of bandwidth for all our future USB devices. That’s alot of data transfer speed to handle. I can’t wait to copy all of my favorite MP3s at speeds of 5Gbps to my future USB3.0-ipod. Can you?

[Read] [via The Inquirer]

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Motherload is probably the most addictive and time-wasting flash game i’ve played so far.

You control a drilling tank on Mars, the goal is simple; keep drilling going deeper and deeper, filling your storage bay with precious minerals. Once your storage tank is full, get back to surface, sell your minerals, earn cash,  refuel, then get back to drilling.

The game is addictive in the sense that in the beginning you are pretty much limited on all accessories. Your fuel-tank holds very little fuel so you have to get back to surface at short intervals, as you earn more you get to buy new upgrades and your drilling machine gets more faster and convenient, although the game’s difficulty also increases as you go more deeper.

You get rewards for finding treasures and artifacts. All in all Motherload is an awesome way to spend a boring afternoon on. I’d recommend to try this 2D game atleast once. Do comment about how addictive you think this game is.

[Play Motherload]

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With less than 3 months left to the release of Tombraider: Underworld, Eidos Interactive has brought a new Lara Croft Model into the spotlight, this time a 23 year old professional display-gymnast, Alison Caroll. She had to make her way up by beating out hundreds of other applicants, each of which was wishing to be the next Lara Croft Model.

The first few release pics look promising albeit a bit amateurishly done. See the mole on her left knee? Click on the thumbnails for close ups. The 3rd and 5th pics look specifically gross.

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