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Intel Ivy Bridge Overclocking with the Core i7 3770K and Core i5 3570K CPUs @ TweakTown and other reviews from around the web can be found by visiting our forums!

“We started off with a look at the upcoming Intel i5 3570k and then followed that up with a look at the upcoming Intel i7 3770k. If that wasn’t enough to get your taste buds tingling then the Ivy Bridge High-Speed RAM Run with G.Skill PC3-20800 2666MHz RipjawsZ should’ve sealed the deal. But something was missing! Overclocking results on the new processors and a look at just how performance goes when we overclock them. Because we’ve covered the GIGABYTE Z77X-UD5H already along with both processors there’s not a real need to go into too much detail again.

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Educational institutions and social networks are the worst when it comes to leaving their Web sites exposed to known vulnerabilities, with health care and banks doing the best, according to a study by WhiteHat Security.

According to its 11th annual Web Site Security Statistics Report, 71% of schools have unpatched software vulnerabilities on their Web servers all the time, while 58% of social networking sites always have such vulnerabilities. By contrast, 14% of health care organizations and 16% of banks have unpatched vulnerabilities all the time. The average for all business sectors was 44%.

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In an effort to get users to start using Apple’s brand spanking new Mac App Store when it launches next month, the company will completely shut down its existing Web-based digital download store.

The Mac App Store aims to make downloading computer software as easy as it is to download apps to the iPhone and iPad. It will serve as a visually pleasing, centralized hub for all officially licensed Mac programs. Developers will have to opt-in to the service, but those who already use Apple’s “Downloads” service can make the transition fairly easily.

Nevertheless, some developers no doubt got a bit shaken when they saw a mass e-mail from Apple saying the Web-based Downloads service will be shut down instantly on January 6.

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Apple’s iOS mobile operating system is now the third-most popular platform on the Internet, with a share nearly six times larger than Android’s, a Web measurement company said Wednesday.

Collectively the devices that run iOS — the iPhone , iPod Touch and iPad — accounted for 1.1% of all hardware on the Internet last month, more than enough to shove Linux off its perch as the third-place operating system on the Web.

For the month of August, Linux fell to a 0.85% share, the third month in a row that the open-source operating system lost ground. Windows and Apple ‘s Mac OS were the No. 1 and No. 2 operating systems on the Web, with 91.3% and 5%, respectively.

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