Details of Advanced Micro Devices’ upcoming six-core Phenom II X6 desktop processors have apparently leaked online, giving users a first look at the chips ahead of their expected introduction later this month.

AMD announced plans to ship a series of six-core desktop chips during the Cebit exhibition in Germany last month, saying the chips would be available during the second quarter, but held back on details of the chips, including clock speeds and cache size. However, copies of four AMD presentation slides containing details of the chips, dated March 2010 and marked “Confidential — NDA Required,” referring to a non-disclosure agreement, were posted online by tech Web site VR-Zone, and later removed from the site without explanation.

Fellow geeks, click here to continue reading this article, including data on clock speeds and cache sizes. I’m drooling!

Courtesy Wired:

Contrary to public statements made by the Transportation Security Administration, full-body airport scanners do have the ability to store and transmit images, according to documents obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center.

The documents, which include technical specifications and vendor contracts, indicate that the TSA requires vendors to provide equipment that can store and send images of screened passengers when in testing mode, according to CNN.

The TSA has stated publicly on its website, in videos and in statements to the press that images cannot be stored on the machines and that images are deleted from the scanners once an airport operator has examined them. The administration has also insisted that the machines are incapable of sending images.

But a TSA official acknowledged to CNN that the machines do have these capabilities when set to “test mode.”-

-Article continues @ Source.

Courtesy Scientific American:

New research by leading alternative energy research firm New Energy Finance finds that solar power will cost less by about 50% at the end of 2009 compared to the end of 2008.

The costs are pre-subsidy, so they could be much lower if you take better government subsidies into account.

But it isn’t only solar that’s down in cost. It’s other renewable energy sources, too.

The research company found that equipment costs (in solar, wind, and other sectors) decreased throughout the year but these were offset by increasing financing costs. However, equipment prices are expected to continue falling whereas the financing market is expected to get better.

-Article with links continues @ Source.

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Our good mate and master musician David Rovics has given us a rough cut of a new song he’s written about the assassination of Dr. Tiller. As usual it’s a great song. If you’ve never caught David on tour, I assure you, you are missing out.

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Download “In the Name of God”

From David’s email yesterday

Hi folks,

Another doctor who provided abortions has been murdered in the US,
this time in Kansas. He had already been shot back in 1993. Google
Dr. George Tiller and you’ll find out lots more. I’ll get a scratchy
MP3 of the song up on http://www.myspace.com/davidrovics soon, but
here’s the lyric…

In the Name of God

I woke up this morning
And I turned on the news
It was a Sunday morning
They were sitting in the pews
The doctor’s wife was in the choir
She was about to sing
She saw it all in front of her
And she heard that awful ring

In the name of God he held his pistol
Pointed at the doctor’s head
In the name of God he pulled the trigger
Now the doctor’s lying dead

Dr. Tiller had a family
Three daughters and a son
Two girls were both doctors
Who were proud of what he’d done
They knew someone had to do something
Before they left this world behind
If it wasn’t them then who would serve
The cause of womankind

In the name of God…

This is not Afghanistan
It’s the Heartland USA
Where a girl has to wonder
If she’ll get acid in her face
Where they bomb the women’s clinics
Because the preacher told them to
Where the man there on the TV
Tells them that’s what they should do

In the name of God…

David Rovics

http://www.davidrovics.com
http://davidrovics.guestbooks.cc
http://www.soundclick.com/davidrovics
http://songwritersnotebook.blogspot.com
http://www.myspace.com/davidrovics
http://twitter.com/drovics

Please visit David’s site or twitter and tell him what you think. And for the unfamiliar, you can get all his music at http://davidrovics.com

Jon Fox