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In some shocking news Apple has decided to stop using IBM powerPC chips, and wants to switch over to Intel in the future:
Apple has used IBM’s PowerPC processors since 1994, but will begin a phased transition to Intel’s chips, sources familiar with the situation said. Apple plans to move lower-end computers such as the Mac […]

Looks like the iPodLinux have done what Apple couldn’t (or doesn’t want to) do. They’ve added video support to the iPod. The video player from the iPodLinux project will do 24-bit, uncompressed AVI files at iPod-native screen resolution only. You can download the binaries and the test video via the Read link. Demonstration video can […]

Bruce Schneier has written a piece on how trivial it is to control a Bluetooth device, as the secret “key” it uses to connect to another device is only 4 digits long (ie, VERY easy to brute force on any laptop):
There’s a new cryptographic result against Bluetooth. Yaniv Shaked and Avishai Wool of Tel Aviv […]

CNN has an interesting article on how long Google hangs on to the stuff they log from you (read indefinately):
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — When Google Inc.’s 19 million daily users look up a long-lost classmate, send e-mail or bounce around the Web more quickly with its new Web Accelerator, records of that activity don’t go away.
In […]

Anandtech has written a piece comparing the G5 to x86 architecture (and OSX to Linux) purely on a performance basis. Their results are interesting, but not really suprising:
The G5 is a gigantic improvement over the previous CPU in the PowerMac, the G4e. The G5 is one of the most superscalar CPUs ever, and has all […]