Confirming the compatibility of AMD processors with Socket AM3 Bulldozer

Over the past several months have followed news about the compatibility of the new AMD Socket AM3 Bulldozer with the old, as we have seen in previous news houses prodruttrici motherboards have confirmed compatibility with the update of the bios of some products and AMD recently confirmed that the new processor will be compatible.

The Bulldozer CPU was not compatible because of an extra pin that made it unusable on mechanically Socket AM3, AMD to address the problem at least temporarily eliminated the pin for the first series of CPUs in order to extend the compatibility, this pin very probably will serve to abvilitare new features like the Core 2 Turbo and additional features to save energy and certainly will be reinstated with the next generation.

• Socket AM3 to work with AM3+ CPUs? Sort of... (10/04/2011)
• AM3+ (Black Socket) Motherboards Announced (06/04/2011)
• AMD Bulldozer Will Bring Socket Shift To PCs (04/04/2011)
• AMD gases up Bulldozers for Intel push back (04/04/2011)
• AMD's Bulldozer architecture to battle Intel's Core i7 (15/03/2011)

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No Internet filtering law without prior, according to the Advocate General of the European Court of Justice

A national court can not compel an ISP to filter all Internet communications to block those violating copyright, says Advocate-General of the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg, Thursday, April 14. Such a blocking measure is only admissible if it is based "on a legal basis for national, accessible, clear and predictable," the Court stated in its press release (.

Pdf). The opinion of Advocate General, Pedro Cruz Villalon, is not binding, but it is followed by eight in ten by the Luxembourg judges when they make their decision. This time they are entered by the Court of Appeal of Brussels, who asked an opinion before deciding a dispute between the Belgian supplier of Internet access, Scarlet, the Belgian society of copyright management, the Sabam.

Spotify severely limits its free music service

Spotify, a broadcasting services streamed music the most popular, announced on Thursday significant limitations in its free version, which no longer allow users a limited number of plays. New users of the free version of the program will not listen to them more than one song five times, and their total playing time per month will be capped at ten beyond the first six months of registration.

Until now, plays on Spotify were not limited, and the playing time per month was twofold. The free formula is funded by advertising, while offering with subscription offers unlimited plays and without advertising. DIFFICULTIES OF A MODEL-time earned by artists and music publishers as a solution to the crisis of the disc and a cure for illegal downloading, streaming sites are increasingly the subject of criticism from artists who believe that revenues generated by these sites are very low.

ÜberMedia plans to launch a competitor to Twitter

ÜberMedia, the creator of several customers for the micro-Twitter posts, could launch its own competitor to Twitter, says CNN. The company, which publishes such Echofon or Twidroyd, is also under discussion with Tweetdeck, another Twitter client publishers, plans to buy it. But if the software ÜberMedia are used to send more than one tweet out of ten, according to figures from the firm Sysomos, the company's relationship with Twitter have been strained in recent months.

France Telecom fined EUR 10 million in Numericable

The operator France Telecom has been fined 10 million euros in the French cable operator Numericable for anti-competitive behavior on the Internet access market in 2001-2002, according to information published by La Tribune, Thursday 14 April. This behavior was sanctioned by the European Commission in 2003 had condemned France Telecom was fined 10.35 million euros, without indemnify operators (Free, Neuf Cegetel, Alice, Club Internet ...) victims of these practices, said the newspaper.

Apple wants to limit targeted advertising on Safari

The next version of Safari, Apple's browser, will have a system to prevent against targeted advertising ("do not track"), reports the Wall Street Journal, Thursday, April 14. With such a device, the user indicates that the site visit he does not want to be tracked. But such a system is not binding: the sites are free to follow or reject the will of the user who does not want to be tracked by online advertisers.

A large network of zombie computers dismantled

U.S. authorities announced Wednesday they had neutralized a network of zombie computers, or botnet, infected with the virus Coreflood ("Flood of the heart") that would have allowed its creators to capture passwords and banking information. Thirteen people, including several in Russia, continued in this investigation.

According to court documents released Wednesday, 2.34 million computers in Tech News Buzz were infected with the virus Coreflood in February 2010, including 1.85 million in the United States. Five servers and 29 Internet domain names have been seized in this operation, described by the Department of Justice as "the most comprehensive ever conducted by U.S.