Since the hot topic of the day seems to be TPB being sold for just under $8 million, I think this interview with Peter Sunde will be of interest.

What’s Next managed to secure a recorded audio interview with The Pirate Bay’s Peter Sunde. In it Peter says why the site was sold, talks a little about the future for the site and touches on the huge disappointment being expressed by the site’s fans. It’s a very interesting interview, although in common with everything else going on today, it raises even more questions.

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Cases & Modding
Antec ISK300-65 Mini-ITX HTPC Computer Case @ BmR

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Microsoft Wireless Desktop 3000 (German) @ Technic3D

Memory/ Storage
G.Skill Falcon 128GB SSD @ Bit-Tech
OCZ DDR3 PC3-12800 Reaper HPC @ Legion Hardware

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Sapphire Radeon HD 4730 512 MB @ techPowerUP!

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Micron Technology, Inc. today announced mass production of new NAND flash memory products using its award-winning 34-nanometer (nm) process technology. As consumers demand increased capacity to store more music, videos, photos, and applications in ever smaller portable electronic devices, manufacturers need a storage solution that delivers on capacity, performance, and size. Micron’s new 16- and 32-gigabit (Gb) NAND chips pair large capacity with performance, providing a compelling solution for today’s demanding portable storage requirements that are tailored to end-customer product dimensions.

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Let me get this straight, someone has come up with a way to shield buildings from earthquakes? I’m not calling BS on this one just yet but I live in earthquake country, I’d have to see this to believe it.

Sound like fiction? It’s not! Stefan Enoch and his team at the Fresnel Institute in Marseilles, France have been studying other applications for the physics behind invisibility cloaks. The result of their research is an “earthquake cloak” that could render objects “invisible” to shocks, storm waves or tsunamis. And they aren’t even Level 8 mages!

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In the [H]ot deal section today we have this RaidMax ARES ATX case for only $49.99. Make sure you use the exclusive [H] promo code to get the instant rebate and free shipping. You can also get $20 off and free shipping on this SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 4850 1GB as well. Also, we still have that deal on RatPadz GS or RatPadz XT for $5 off with free shipping (in North America). Show your [H] pride and grab one today!

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Remember the $11k phone bill that Mythbuster Adam Savage got from AT&T for using the internet in Canada? It looks like the bill has been dropped. Pretty funny how fast you can get things done when this stuff happens to a celebrity with a huge following.

“Today the tweeps became twoops. Just got off the phone with AT&T and they’ve taken care of everything to my great satisfaction.#twitterrules,” Savage wrote. But though Savage’s story may be an extreme, he’s not the first – nor will he likely be the last – to suffer a cellular bill snafu.

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MAINGEAR Offers Free Copy of Windows 7

Buy any MAINGEAR PC with Windows Vista today, and get a coupon for a free copy of Windows 7 when it is released later this year

Union, New Jersey – June 25th, 2009 – MAINGEAR Computers, award-winning builders of high performance custom computers for PC gamers and enthusiasts, is excited to offer its customers a free copy of Windows 7 with the purchase of any of MAINGEAR’s award-winning line of custom PCs. Customers will be able to redeem a coupon for a free copy of the highly anticipated Windows 7 upon its availability on October 22nd.

“We’re building the finest custom computers and gaming PCs on the market right now” said Wallace Santos, CEO and Founder of MAINGEAR. “We don’t want our customers to have to worry about waiting for Windows 7, we’re making sure they can buy our award-winning systems today and get Windows 7 for free when it’s released.”

MAINGEAR’s systems have won numbers awards in 2009, including three straight Editor’s Choice Awards for its flagship system, the ePhex, and the strongest showing of any PC in the history of G4TV’s Attack of the Show. Recently, MAINGEAR has continued to push the envelope by releasing the Pulse, the world’s greenest gaming PC, and the Axess HD Gamer, a 3D-capable gaming computer built into an A/V form-factor chassis. MAINGEAR continues to design, build, and support its products here in the United States.

About MAINGEAR

MAINGEAR is the premier high performance systems integrator in North America. MAINGEAR custom builds gaming, home office, mobile, multimedia, small business and 3D workstation solutions of the highest quality, which have won them many editors’ choice awards in every major computer publication such as C-Net, [H]ard|OCP, Maximum PC, CPU Magazine, etc. For more information on MAINGEAR, please visit www.maingear.com or call, toll-free,

(888)624-6432.

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Spire’s TherMax II is a new DHT CPU cooler for AMD and Intel CPUs. Its four heatpipes make direct contact with the processor for optimum cooling. Also included in the package is a fan controller which allows you to control the UV reactive fan in any way you want.

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“The ECS X58B-A delivers a little of the good, the bad and not so much on the ugly. The board is a full featured board that at stock speeds delivers performance on par with some hardware that costs as much as $180 more than the X58B-A. The onboard debug LED is useful for diagnosing no boot conditions and just in case you go too far the CMOS reset button is within easy reach on the I/O panel. The onboard power and reset buttons are easy to use and come in handy on a tech bench when you don’t want to spend the time to hook up the front panel connections. Overclocking the ECS X58B-A was a challenge. All of the boards I have looked at were able to hit at least a 200+ MHz bclock without any drama. The ECS was just not going to play nice at this level. No amount of tweaking would get me there, voltages, timings, nada! That’s not to say that the ECS X58B-A can’t overclock, indeed it can taking my little CO stepping i7 920 up to 3.7GHz running at 185×20. This means that the overclock is just over 1GHz from the ECS X58 solution. The one thing I feel holding it back is that there is a serious drop in voltage to the CPU when loading it heavily. When the CPU core voltage is set to 1.425 in the BIOS, under load I saw as little as 1.35 volts during some serious Prime 95 load testing. The CPU I used in this review runs Prime stable at 4.1GHz with 1.4125 volts.”

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Just because I am old and crusty, and I actually remember playing all these games when they came out, it doesn’t change the fact that this is an awesome video.

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