Sunday, June 13, 2010

MSI's GT660 Gaming Notebook Gets Spec'd

A few months back at CeBit, MSI showed off a gaming notebook that looked pretty amazing.With a 16-inch HD display, USB 3.0 and Intel's Core i7 CPU, things looked very promising.
MSI yesterday revealed the full list of specs for the GT660 and while we'll reserve judgment until we find out what kind of money they're asking for the machine, we think it looks pretty damn sweet.

Aside from the aforementioned 16-inch HD display, 2xUSB 3.0 and Intel Core i7, the GT660 packs Nvidia's GeForce GTX 285M Graphics with 1GB VRAM; up to 12GB of RAM; a 500GB harddrive (with an option for a second 500GB HDD); HDMI out; and a 9-cell battery.
Electronista reports that the desktop replacement will also come with MSI’s Turbo Drive Engine+ (TDE+) technology, which doubles the CPU, RAM, and graphics performance with the push of a button. However, MSI didn't provide any more details on the technology.

FBI Launches Investigation into AT&T iPad Breach

A couple of days back, Gawker revealed an AT&T data breach that affected more than 100,000 iPad users.

On Wednesday, a security team spoke to Gawker about anAT&T vulnerability it had exploited to gain information about iPad users. As a result of their research, they had obtained what the web is now calling, "the most exclusive email list on the planet." Goatse Security's list includes the email addresses of NYT CEO Janet Robinson, Harvey Weinstein, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and Diane Sawyer of ABC News. While the breach was reported to AT&T and the security hole closed, Goatse shared the exploit with third parties and is unsure who took advantage before AT&T had the chance to fix things.