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• Twitter Email Security cause of Iranian hack
• S.T.A.L.K.E.R Call of Pripyat hits shelves on Feb 2nd
• ATi Mobile HD 5650 DirectX 11 Gpu tested

Twitter Email Security cause of Iranian hack Posted: 20 Dec 2009 06:09 AM PST Recently twitter was hacked and its security was compromised by Iranian hackers.The reason for it is twitter’s own email security.How this was executed was hackers gained access to an email account and changed the password then redirected Twitter.com traffic to some place else.When twitter was fired up there was a message from Iranian Cyber army.Early reports confirmed that Twitter itself had not been compromised rather the DNS records (which points web users to the right place when hitting Twitter.com) had been changed to point to another location. Twitter's DNS provider, Dyn Inc. has absolved itself of blame by claiming that the DNS records were changed by an authorized user.In other words, the attacker had the password to Twitter's Dyn Inc account, logged in and changed the settings. That points to one likely cause: a Twitter administrator had their email security compromised, and a password reset request was made. So if such cases of security imbalance takes place there might be chances of same instance happening in web based apps like Google apps.So choose a strong password and the security questions wisely. Via Mashable

S.T.A.L.K.E.R Call of Pripyat hits shelves on Feb 2nd Posted: 20 Dec 2009 01:05 AM PST S.T.A.L.K.E.R Call of Pripyat the DirectX 11 game will hit markets of North America on February 2nd 2010 via the release.Viva Media, bitcomposer and GSC Game World have announced that the sequel of Shadow of Chernobyl,popular first person shooter willl show up on North American shelves on February 2nd 2010. As you may already know, the game was released on November 5th but only for Germany, Austria and Switzerland, while the rest of the Europe, Australia and the USA will share the same February release fate. S.T.A.L.K.E.R Call of Pripyat is also one of the games that features DirectX 11 support, and hopefully we will see more cards with support for it in February, until then see the difference between DirectX 10.1 and DirectX 11 in this game..

ATi Mobile HD 5650 DirectX 11 Gpu tested Posted: 20 Dec 2009 12:16 AM PST Not much importance is given to the laptop gaming sector.The graphic cards embedded aren’t suitable to play high end games at max settings.Both ATi and Nvidia need to find a amicable solution regarding this to boost the laptop sales too.One of Fudzilla’s forum members managed to spot that Notebookjournal.de scored Deviltech’s 15.6-inch Fire DTX notebook featuring ATI’s Mobility Radeon HD 5650 graphics card with DirectX 11 support, and has run some benchmarks on it just to see what can we expect from ATI’s latest Mobility lineup. The new mainstream DX 11, 40nm GPU offers decent performance and much lower power consumption when compared the competition. The ATI Mobility HD 5650 features 1GB of GDDR3 video memory and works at 600MHz for the GPU and 800MHz for memory. This is codenamed as Madison, ATI’s mainstream mobile GPU.There are two more namely the entry-level Park and performance/high-end Broadway are yet to show up. All of these chips are scheduled for CES launch. Deviltech’s Fire DTX config includes a Intel’s Core i7 720QM CPU with 4GB of memory, which is powerful enough to run Dirt 2 at 1920 x 1080, but only at medium details, and even then it churns out an average of 28 FPS. The same goes for STALKER Call of Pripyat, which is sort of disappointing, as native resolution of its 15.6-inch screen is indeed 1920×1080. On the other hand there is always the more powerful Broadway GPU that will probably show up in some high-end desktop replacement notebooks. The ATI Mobility HD 5650 equipped Deviltech notebook performs close to the similar equipped MSI GT640 with Nvidia GTS 250M GPU, but has a much lower power consumption which is a nice improvement even when compared to the previous generation Mobility HD 4650.Hope more of these pop in the market soon to play the future games.What’s say !

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