"Today is the launch date for Intel's new "Ivy Bridge" CPUs, officially known as the company's "third-generation Core" processors. Essentially a die shrink of the current "Sandy Bridge," 32-nm second-generation Core chips, Ivy Bridge represents the first implementation of Intel's 22nm manufacturing process. This means that the newer processors will perform as well or better than today's models, with lower power requirements and better cooling."

More:
Intel Ships Third-Generation Core (Ivy Bridge) Processors | News & Opinion | PCMag.com

And:
Technology News: Chips: Intel Aims to Bridge GPU Gap
Intel releases 22nm Ivy Bridge processors - The Inquirer
Intel Releases Ivy Bridge: First Processor with "Tri-Gate" Transistor


Seems they won't be available for purchase until 29 April.

Apple's Mac platform has long been promoted as safer than the competition, but as Mac sales and market share grow, it's become a bigger target.

Nowhere is that clearer than with the Flashback Trojan, a gnarly piece of malware designed to steal personal information by masquerading as very mainstream browser plug-ins. Yesterday [April 4, 2012] Russian antivirus company Dr. Web said that an estimated 600,000 Macs are now infected as a result of users unknowingly installing the software....

The Flashback Trojan is the latest malware attack to target Apple's Mac platform. Here's your guide to what it is, whether you have it, and how to get rid of it

Also see:

Mac Malware Outbreak Is Bigger than 'Conficker'

Flashback Trojan Hits 550,000 Macs

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www.pcworld.com/article/250887/windows_8_consumer_preview_initial_impressions.html#tk.hp_fv

www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2392889,00.asp

download.cnet.com/8301-2007_4-57387755-12/windows-8-faq/?tag=TOCcarouselMain.0

www.anandtech.com/show/5611/windows-8-consumer-preview-available-for-download

A team of European and American mathematicians and cryptographers have discovered an unexpected weakness in the encryption system widely used worldwide for online shopping, banking, email and other internet services...

"Some people may say that 99.8 per cent security is fine," he said. That still means that about as many as two out of every 1000 keys would not be secure.


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The site is closing it's virtual doors in protest against the proposed SOPA act (Stop Online Piracy Act) which is currently being debated by the US House of Representatives, while the Protect IP Act is the version before the Senate.

Under the legislation, a single website would be held responsible for all of the content on it no matter how it had got there and whether users had put it up.

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales announced the planned global block-out of the site's English pages on Twitter this morning, after first raising the idea on Monday.

Mr Wales said the block-out would run from midnight US Eastern Daylight Time on Wednesday to midnight the next day (4pm – 4pm AEST).



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Intel's market-moving statement today (December 12, 2011) that it expects a fourth-quarter revenue shortfall of roughly $1 billion has crystallized the impact of the hard disk drive shortage. So how bad is it? ....

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-57...col;topStories

Today Intel announced the new LGA 2011 platform that includes six-core Core i7 processors from Sandy Bridge-E family and a new X79 Express chipset. This platform will most likely become highly desirable for all computer maniacs, because it not only allows you to use the today’s most powerful processors, but also supports PCI Express 3.0 graphics bus and high-speed quad-channel memory. In other words, this is the best thing that is available for a desktop system today. Nevertheless, let’s try to find out how much more superior the new Core i7 model is to everything we have worked with before....

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu...60x-3930k.html

Also:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5091/i...high-end-alive

While "market gurus" and financial pen pushers tend to dwell on Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT) recent misses, they tend to miss that in the operating systems business, the company is relishing the greatest sales success in its history. Selling faster than any other version of Windows -- or any other operating system in the history of the world, for that matter -- Windows 7 soared to a 40.21 percent (appr.) installation rate in under 2 years, bumping the much beloved Windows XP to second place (38.64 percent).

http://www.dailytech.com/Windows+7+P...ticle23016.htm

Rob Pike announced that longtime colleague Dennis Ritchie, father of the "C" programming language, has died at age 70.

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Apple has announced the death of Steve Jobs

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http://m.theage.com.au/technology/te...006-1lag8.html