Google to buy 4chan?

I am quite busy these days (hence no summary on Trinity or other things) but I just couldn't pass this one over.

Ivy Bridge's high temps mystery now solved

Remember how Ivy Bridge became quite a bit hotter than Sandy Bridge? I thought this was very strange since Intel's new transistors should in theory have had much better efficiency and heat output. Well, a while ago someone on Overclockers.com's forums posted an image of an Ivy Bridge processor without the IHS (integrated heatspreader) and found out that Intel is not using their normal "fluxless die-to-heat spreader" setup, but are using regular thermal paste.
How big is the difference between regular paste and the fluxless soldering method? Overclockers.com says the thermal paste is roughly 1/16 as efficient at transferring heat from the actual CPU to the IHS.

Mozilla and the Windows 8 browser issue

So a lot of people seem to be furious that Microsoft is blocking Firefox from Windows 8 on ARM. However, I have also seen a lot of misinformation being spread and I thought I should clear some of it up.

Stallman just collapsed

Yes Stallman apparently collapsed on stage during a speech in Barcelona. He felt ill but not badly enough to actually take the situation that seriously, because he joked about how the health care budget cuts are made to kill people (it took the ambulance 20 minutes to get to him).

Anyway, he managed to leave the building without help so he is most likely fine now. However, the conference was canceled.

Source: Spanish article translated with Google Translate


Edit: He is currently at the hospital but he is OK. He did not have a heart attack or something like that. Any significant info will be posted on FSF's website.

Apple puts your password in plain text

The disk encryption software in OS X called FileVault recently got updated. However, the update writes a log file which contains lots of uninteresting things, but also the users password in plain text. The logfile itself is not encrypted so if someone were to double click it, they would see your password.
This has apparently been known for three months. All users who has logged in since Lion was updated to 10.7.3 has their passwords stored in this unencrypted file.
FileVault 2 is apparently unaffected, but this is a pretty serious mistake from Apple.

Source: ZDnet

The Galaxy S 3 finally announced

Yes it is finally announced. The live stream just ended (I was lazy and didn't write the rest of the article for almost a day) and I am very pleased with the Galaxy S 3. There are loads of new stuff but only a few things which are (in my opinion) worth mentioning. It seems like Samsung put a lot of focus on software and "innovative" features this time around instead of just throwing more powerful hardware at the phone. So what is the new Galaxy S 3 like?

Response to MG Siegler on TechCrunch

I was looking at my RSS feeds today and noticed an article entitled "Android Is Either "Winning" Because Apple Is Letting It, Or Losing" and I thought it sounded interesting so I decided to check it out. I was not surprised when the whole article was filled with fallacious arguments, biased ways of looking at things and other misleading things. Well I got nothing better to do so I might as well respond to it.