First time accepted submitter Diggester writes with this snippet from PC World: “Sony took a page out of the playbooks of Microsoft and Apple, announcing it would buy out its smartphone partner, Ericsson, to more tightly integrate smartphones with Sony’s laptops, tablets and televisions. The move gives Sony complete control over its smartphone business, while Ericsson will now focus more broadly on wireless connectivity for products beyond mobile handsets. Sony purchased Ericsson’s share of the Sony Ericsson partnership for about $1.47 billion. Rumors about Sony’s takeover of Sony Ericsson surfaced in early October.”

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Orome1 writes “Two U.S. satellites have been tampered with by hackers — possibly Chinese ones — in 2007 and 2008, claims a soon-to-be released report by the the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. The two satellites, Landsat-7 and Terra AM-1, had been interfered with on four separate occasions, allowing the attackers to be in command of the satellites for two to over twelve minutes each time. Luckily, both of the satellites are used only for observing the Earth's climate and terrain, and the hackers never actually misused their control over them in any way.”

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Hackers Briefly Controlled US Government Satellites

New submitter wesbascas writes “Have you ever wanted to play a new PC game, but weren’t sure where your PC falls between the minimum and recommended system requirements? I don’t have a whole lot of time to game these days and with new hardware perpetually coming out and component vendors often tweaking their model numbering schemes, knowing exactly what kind of experience I’m buying for $60 can be difficult. Luckily, somebody benchmarked Battlefield 3’s campaign on a wide range of hardware configurations and detail settings. If you’ve purchased a system in the past few years you should be in luck. The video cards tested start with the AMD Radeon HD 4670 and Nvidia GeForce 8500 GT, and go up to the brand new Radeon HD 6990 and GeForce GTX 590. I hate it that my aging Radeon HD 4870 isn’t going to cut it at 1080p, but am glad that I found out before buying the game.”
If you’re curious about the game itself, here’s a detailed review from Eurogamer and a briefer one from Rock, Paper, Shotgun.

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Battlefield 3 Performance: 30+ Graphics Cards Tested