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Lenovo’s G560 and G460 laptops now available to order
Good news, laptop hunters! No, not those laptop hunters …. Anywho, two of Lenovo’s CES-announced machines are now ready for you to customize and order, with the 14-inch G460 packing a 2.13GHz Core i3-330M processor, integrated Intel graphics, Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit), 4GB of DDR3 RAM, a 1,366 x 768 resolution panel, 320GB hard drive, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, dual-layer DVD writer and a 6-cell battery.
3G GSM encryption cracked in less than two hours
Looks like all that GSM code-cracking is progressing faster than we thought. Soon after the discovery of the 64-bit A5/1 GSM encryption flaw last month, the geniuses at Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science went ahead and cracked the KASUMI system — a 128-bit A5/3 algorithm implemented across 3G networks — in less than two hours. If you must know, the method applied is dubbed ‘related-key sandwich attack’ where multiple values of known differentials are processed through the first seven rounds of KASUMI, then using resulting quartets that are identified sharing key differences, subkey materials can be obtained in round eight to build up the 128-bit key.
Via debuts M’Serv 2100 server with 64-bit Nano CPU
If you’re a small business customer or very serious about your reality TV habit, you just might want to take a look at Via’s newest.
Boxee Beta unveiled: refreshed UI, DirectX support, and new content partners
Boxee ’s growing up! The media center’s hit beta status, and with the new Greek letter comes a revamped UI and some new functionality.
Chromium OS gets unofficial 64-bit port
64-bit support for an OS designed primarily for low-powered netbooks may not be at the top of everyone’s list, but it looks like those hoping to crank Chrome OS up a notch are now finally in luck. While it’s of course still completely unofficial, and pre-alpha, the OS is now available in a 64-bit port called ChromiumOS64, which even includes niceties like Xen virtualization support and a relatively modest 1GB download size.
