Tech Round Up

• AMD Athlon 64 X2 Black Edition Spotted - AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+ Black Edition will be available on 20 August in Japan
• NVIDIA Mid Range 8600 GT vs 7600 GT Performance Comparison - The 7600 GT is no longer a valuable option if you are shopping for a new PC, the 8600 GT comes at the same price with better performance, the XFX version with higher default clock speeds is slightly more expensive, but the factory overclock doesn’t give enough of a boost to push the 7600 GT past the 8600 GT.
• Hitachi's Deskstar 7K1000 1TB hard drive tested - On the performance front, the Deskstar may be faster overall than Seagate's 750GB Barracudas, but those drives are more than a year old. Against Western Digital's latest 750GB Caviar SE16, the Deskstar most often finds itself trailing. That's a disappointing result considering the 7K1000's higher areal density and massive 32MB cache.
• EIZO FlexScan HD2441W Reviewed - Few monitors on the market can match the HD2441Ws' image quality
• ATi Catalyst 7.8 Drivers - They add support for the HD 2000 series and boast an enhanced version of ATI Overdrive for the ATI Radeon HD 2600 Series and ATI Radeon HD 2400 series
• Vista SP1 Beta Analysed in Depth - Some testers claims there is a very noticeable performance increase.
• 27 Years of Warez Scene Release Info Leaked in Giant SQL Database - Huge SQL database of 2.6 million NFO entries (sometimes with included registration serial numbers, etc) has become available on the internet.
• The Madness Begins with a 300-Page AT&T Bill for iPhone - Justine Ezarik has just got her first iPhone bill - Three-Hundred-Pages!
• Germany's new antihacking law: Bad for security? - As of Saturday, it's a crime in Germany to build, sell, distribute or obtain so-called "hacking tools" designed to allow access to protected data or promote other illegal acts.
• SCO never owned UNIX copyrights, owes Novell 95 percent of UNIX royalties - A federal district judge has issued a ruling declaring that Novell is the owner of the UNIX copyrights.
• Beginners Guide To Lock Picking - You never know where and when you may need to pick a lock.
• The Lives of Homeless Americans - Great photos, but it looks to me as if these kids made a very specific life choice...There are homeless people who are a lot worse off
• Compilation of High FPS Clips (video) - I always like watching those high FPS slow motion videos.
• Phonesex at its best - ROFL (video) - hah, check it out
• Resident Evil: Extinction Trailer - The film is set to be released in the United States on September 21, 2007, and in Europe on September 28, 2007.