Computers-Plus

By the time you read this story, the third Transformers movie will have made a ton of money at the box office.

True, that’s no big news flash. 

Still, it is surprising to see that Transformers: Dark of the Moon actually received (gasp!) a number good reviews. 

Not uniformly good notices (the Hollywood Reporter called it a “spectacularly empty spectacle”), but the fact that Hollywood’s long time whipping boy has been getting any good reviews at all is definitely a change of pace.

There’s certainly plenty of reasons to hate Michael Bay. His mov

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AMD AMD, A6, 3650, 2.6GHz, 4 Cores, 4MB L2, 100W, 32nm, FM1, AD3650WNGXBOX $990
AMD AMD, A8, 3850, 2.9GHz, 4 Cores, 4MB L2, 100W, 32nm, FM1, AD3850WNGXBOX $1190

Looks like it is a pretty cheap APU to get that includes a mid range graphics to pair up with a good A75 board.

A bit of sour news for those anticipating the release of Intel’s next-gen Sandy Bridge-E series (to replace the aging LGA-1366 core platform) that was originally said to be Q3, then delayed to Q4, and now as a reliable source has indicated, is looking to be more like Q1 of 2012.    VR-Zone has a possible reasoning behind why Intel keeps pushing back the launch, but it’s all only speculation at this time. The Sandy Bridge-E series units are based on the same core used in Intel’s upcoming LGA-2011 and LGA-1356 Xeon processors. As these chips are larger in size, it means fewer per wafer, so it could simply be a case of Intel making efforts to stock up on a good amount of these for its refreshed Xeon family before moving attention back onto the consumer market again. < Read more…

Fox has already suffered two embarrassing hacks this year. The first saw details of X-Factor contestants leak including their full names, date of birth, zip codes, and phone numbers. Then LulzSec broke into a Fox database and stole a bunch of employee usernames and passwords. Today, there’s been a very public third hack that has seen the Fox Twitter account compromised.

For the past few hours the hacking group Scriptkiddies has been in control of Fox’s News Politics Twitter account. While that alone is embarrassing, the messages being posted make this ten times worse. The

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