From ArsTechnica:

Modern Warfare 2 has long earned the ire of PC gamers for its lack of dedicated servers, but Infinity Ward has now announced that it's taking away much more than control over hosting with the game in one long face-palm of a question and answer session. No servers, no console, no mods, no problem!

From Computer World

Inadvertent disclosure forces vendors to speed effort to produce a fix

IDG News Service - Software makers around the world are scrambling to fix a serious bug in the technology used to transfer information securely on the Internet.

New card will likely be the most powerful solution on the market when it lands late this month

From Daily Tech

The AMD/ATI success story in the GPU sector has shown little signs of fading with the transition from the 4000 series to the 5000 series.  Continuing its competitive pricing, AMD's 5870, 5850, 5770 and 5750, the world's first DirectX 11 GPUs, are all showing strong sales in their respective price ranges, leaving NVIDIA in a painful wait for its Fermi series to reach market readiness.

From TechSpot:

Last September Intel unveiled its highly regarded Core i5 processor along with the new LGA1156 platform, delivering a brand new chipset aimed at the all-important mainstream market. As you learned from our previous coverage the Core i5 700 and Core i7 800 parts are based on the “Lynnfield” architecture, while the Intel P55 chipset goes by the codename “Ibex Peak”.

From DarkReading:

New technology 'patches' the operating system kernel, protects it from rootkits

Researchers at North Carolina State University and Microsoft Research have come up with a way to combat rootkits by using the machine's own hardware-based memory protection: the so-called HookSafe tool basically protects the operating system kernel from rootkits.

One of the top copyright lawyers in the US takes Big Content to the woodshed in his new book, saying that "the Copyright Wars are a fight against our own children and it is a fight that says everything about the adults and very little about the children."

By Nate Anderson | Last updated November 3, 2009 11:31 PM CT

William Patry might not look from the outside like a man with a fire in his belly. A copyright lawyer for 27 years, Patry has written one of two definitive accounts of US copyright law (all 5,500 pages of Patry on Copyright can be yours for the low, low price of only $1,589). He served as a key counsel to the House of Representatives and is currently Senior Copyright Counsel at Internet behemoth Google.

From X-bit Labs:

EVGA, a leading maker and supplier of advanced graphics cards and mainboards, has unveiled a unique graphics board that features Nvidia GeForce GTX 275 graphics chip to process graphics and Nvidia GeForce GTS 250 (G92, 9800 GTX, 8800 GTS 512MB) chip to process physics effects using PhysX application programming interface.

Third correction traced to October's massive Patch Tuesday

By Gregg Keizer
November 3, 2009 11:47 AM ET

Microsoft yesterday re-patched Internet Explorer, the third time it's been forced to repair one of the updates from its largest-ever bug fix, which was delivered on Oct. 13.

Mozilla has announced the availability of the first Firefox 3.6 beta release. Ars tests the new version, which introduces support for fullscreen video and lightweight theming.

By Ryan Paul | Last updated November 3, 2009 8:13 AM CT

Mozilla announced the availability of the first Firefox 3.6 beta last week. Firefox 3.6, codenamed Namoroka, is an incremental update that introduces a handful of new features, enhanced performance, and some noteworthy improvements to Web standards support. The final version of Firefox 3.6 could be released next year.

From the Inquirer:

Smooth Windows upgrade it ain't

Ubuntu 9.10 is causing outrage and frustration, with early adopters wishing they'd stuck with previous versions of the Linux distro.