Next-gen AMD Fusion CPU + GPU Coming in 2015

AMD planning big things for its Fusion of the future.

AMD's initial product based on its Fusion initiative, codenamed Llano, is now sampling with vendors. This first iteration will combine the GPU and CPU on the same die, which will drive down power requirements and costs.

While Llano will be based off of Phenom II technology and will be paired with ATI Radeon GPU design, AMD says that its next-generation Fusion will blur the line between CPU and GPU. That next big change is planned for 2015, Leslie Sobon, vice president of marketing at AMD, told IDG.

The next Fusion will have the philosophy of full integration of both GPU and CPU, aiming to take full advantage of new standards like OpenCL.

Seagate: Industry Not 3TB HDD Capacity-Ready

While confirming that a 3 TB HDD will be announced later this year, Seagate has explained the hurdles the company is facing to make it happen.

While confirming that the company will indeed announce a 3 TB hard drive later this year, Seagate product manager Barbara Craig admitted that moving to a capacity greater than 2.1 TB requires more work than merely upping the areal density. In fact, most PCsjust aren't built to cope with hard drive capacities beyond that limit thanks to the original logical block addressing (LBA) standard set by Microsoft and IBM twenty years ago.

Oopsie! Google Accidentally Harvested WiFi Data

Google today revealed in a blog post that the company's street view cars had been accidentally collecting data from open WiFi networks.

Google today admitted that, in the years that it's been photographing the streets of the world for Google Maps, it has also been unintentionally collecting payload data from open WiFi networks and public hotspots. The revelation came after the German Data Protection Authority asked to audit the WiFi data collected by the Google Street View cars.

Dell Demos Streak, Confirms AT&T

Michael Dell whipped out the Streak Thursday at the Citrix Synergy conference in San Fransisco.

On Thursday, during the Citrix Synergy conference in San Francisco, Dell founder and CEO Michael Dell reached into his pocket during the keynote speech and whipped out Dell's upcoming Android-powered, 5-inch Streak MID (mobile Internet device). This was the first time anyone had seen the device since Engadget's hands-on preview with a prototype back in February.

We already know the specs of Dell's Streak: a 1 GHz Snapdragon processor, a 800 x 480 capacitive touch-screen display with multi-touch zooming, a 5MP camera with a dual-LED flash, Wi-Fi and 3G support, and more. What wasn'tspecified in Dell's surprise demo were changes to the device hardware--if any--since February's preview.

German Court Says Secure Your Wi-Fi or Get Fined

Be responsible netizens, says Germany.

If you live in Germany, then you'd better put a password on your wireless router now.

A German court ruled that those with internet connections hooked up to a wireless access point must put a password to secure it or else face a fine of up to 100 euro, or around $126.

"Private users are obligated to check whether their wireless connection is adequately secured to the danger of unauthorized third parties abusing it to commit copyright violation," the court said, according to the AP.

This ruling came after a musician sued an internet user whose open wireless connection was used to illegally download music over a file sharing network.

The courts, however, will not be holding users responsible for what happens over their wireless network. So, it seems that making a password mandatory is the sensible measure of legal responsibility to put on internet subscribers.