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FBI raids hacker over Miley pics - News.com.au A TEEN computer nerd who hacked into Miley Cyrus’s email account and stole a series of provocative photos has been raided by the FBI. Josh Holly was busted overnight in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. The 19-year-old, who went by the screen names TrainReq .
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£700 Computer System Build: SEPTEMBER 2008
This article contains the links for September’s £700 system build. The review follows, any changes from last month will be reflected in the table and in the relevant paragraphs!
£600 Computer System Build: SEPTEMBER 2008
This article contains the components for September’s £600 PC. Not many changes this month, as always changes are noted in relevant categories.
£500 Computer System Build: SEPTEMBER 2008
This article contains the components for September’s £500 gaming PC. Again not much happening in terms of changing components, just price this month.
£400 Computer System Build: SEPTEMBER 2008
This entry will concentrate on September’s offering for a £400 Gaming PC. Any updates from the previous month will be noted in the specific paragraphs.
Google Chrome: Surprised anyone?
So I am writing this using Google’s new offering, their new Web Browser called chrome, which amongst all the rumours circulating around, we all knew was going to happen soon.
£300 Computer System Build: SEPTEMBER 2008
Round and round we go! Back to the beginning of the budget range for September, starting with the £300 pound computer, not much movement in the way of prices, but you know I like to keep you updated ;).
CUDA: One of the Ways Forward
CUDA is Nvdia’s API for using their graphics card (8000 series and upwards) for computational tasks. So processing is done on the graphics card rather than on the processor. Why you ask, well a graphics card is massively parralel by design and this parralelism is exploited by creating programs that use thousands of threads to [...]
Budget Workstation: AUGUST 2008
Continuing last month’s trend, this machine is intended for a student, office environment or a home worker. This machine should be capable of providing enough processing power to run multiple applications at once, whilst still providing enough power for a single application to run well without any delay.
£1000 Computer System Build: AUGUST 2008
This article contains the components for August’s £1000 system build. Any updates on prices and different components will be reflected in the related categories.

