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Saturday Shortbread
by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on January 31, 2009

Saturday

1. TG Daily: Nvidia CEO says Intel's Atom could hurt the hardware and software industries
2. IT Examiner reports Seagate censors complaints (about hard drive failures)
3. U.S. judge says will likely rule for Micron (and against Rambus in patent case)
4. Hitachi warns of $7.8 billion loss, to restructure
5. DailyTech reports Senate massages bill to postpone DTV transition and sends to House, again
6. Fudzilla reports 22W Athlon X2 removed from roadmap
7. ATi-Forum: Phenom II X4 to clock as high as 3.5GHz this year and
   Radeon HD 4995 X2 comes with RV790 (write-ups in German)
8. Channel Register reports Dell quietly jacks up EMEA prices
9. Dell plots smartphone foray, eyes Apple: report
10. InfoWorld reports researchers cool CPUs with nano-size fridges
11. TestFreaks interview Jeff Sasaki, CEO of Element Case
12. Digital Trends has netbook buyer's guide

Software

1. Engineering Windows 7: Our next engineering milestone (release candidate)
2. Microsoft neuters UAC in Windows 7
3. Sacrificing security for usability: UAC security flaw in Windows 7 (with proof of concept code)
4. AnandTech: Revealing the power of DirectX 11
5. TweakTown's Catalyst 9.1 analysis - XP & Vista
6. Google Toolbar in Firefox: a personalized new tab page
7. InfoWorld reports Mozilla delays Firefox 3.1 again
8. PCStats previews Internet Explorer 8 (IE8)
9. Nvidia PhysX system software 9.09.0121 WHQL released
10. OCCT 3.0 released (overclocking tool)

Gaming

1. Ensemble Studios: Goodbye and thanks
2. Ars Technica: Judge's ruling that WoW bot violates DMCA is troubling
3. gamesindustry.biz: Electronic Arts to slash prices in the US?
4. Steam's weekend deal: 30% off all Rockstar Games
5. Joystiq reports Gridplane shows off what the NXE could have been
6. Shacknews reports four Need for Speed games in development (updated)
7. Eight new StarCraft II screenshots posted
8. Ars Technica's hands-on with Halo Wars

Systems and storage

1. HotHardware reviews Lenovo IdeaPad Y530
2. CPU3D reviews DFI LANParty JR X58-T3H6
3. Phoronix reviews 3GB CSX DDR3-1600 triple channel kit
4. TechwareLabs review 500GB SimpleTech [Re]Drive - external HD
5. Legit Reviews on Thecus N4100 Pro NAS

Multimedia

1. HardwareZone on CUDA for professionals - Nvidia's newest Quadro GPUs
2. FiringSquad reviews Asus EAH 4850 / 4870 Matrix
3. XSReviews on HIS HD 4670 IceQ
4. ITreviewed on Sanyo Xacti VPC-HD2000 camcorder and HTC Touch HD smartphone
5. Guru3D reviews Hercules XPS 2.1 50 speaker kit
6. Hi Tech Legion reviews Razer Moray in-ear noise isolating gaming earphones
7. techPowerUp! reviews Jays c-Jays headphones

Power, case, and cooling

1. DriverHeaven reviews 1200W Enermax Revolution 85+ PSU
2. accelenation reviews 1000W akasa PowerMax PSU
3. Björn3D reviews Tagan TG680-U33II PSU
4. PC Perspective reviews SilverStone Fortress FT01 case
5. Ninjalane reviews Thermaltake SpinQ heatsink