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So, this week is National Cyber Security Awareness Week. Didn't we just have one of these recently? This year's National Cyber Security Awareness Week will be held from 30 May to 3 June. Events and activities held during the week across Australia will help Australians understand cybersecurity risks and how to protect their personal and financial information online.
Meanwhile Jeff reminds us that CeBIT is on this week in Sydney. They've cunningly timed it to coincide with Computex Taipei, which will surely have all the marketing people busy over there. The tenth anniversary of CeBIT Australia promises to be the biggest and most extensive BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY EVENT OF 2011.
Gigabyte have a motherboard on the way with an integrated SSD. The new board, dubbed the Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3-iSSD, uses Intel’s new Z68 chipset and will feature a tiny m-SATA SSD module that effectively functions as a small Intel Solid State Drive 311.
Speaking of which, NGOHQ and HWSecrets both took a look at Intel's Smart Response Technology. Intel's SRT lets you use a low capacity SSD to boost the performance of a mechanical drive by using the SSD as a cache.
PeteOdeath pointed out this cool timelapse video of the Very Large Telescope at work. What makes this time lapse particularly amazing--because we’ve all seen plenty of time lapse videos of the night sky--is the four telescopes in the foreground. Watching these instruments work against a black background would be endlessly fascinating on its own. Unfortunately you won’t be able to pay them too much attention. Because damn, what a sky. It is pretty amazing, but also slightly motion-sickness inducing, even though I don't normally suffer from that!
Techgage have an Intel P67 roundup. We've been a little short on motherboard content lately, so to kick things back into action we're taking a look at four P67-based motherboards at once - all benchmarked using our newly revised test suite. The boards we're looking at are the ASUS P8P67 Deluxe, GIGABYTE P67A-UD4, Intel DP67BG and MSI P67A-GD65.
Linus Torvalds has confirmed his earlier comments and is moving the Linux Kernel to version 3.0 after years of 2.6. The whole renumbering was discussed at last years Kernel Summit, and there was a plan to take it up this year too. But let's face it - what's the point of being in charge if you can't pick the bike shed color without holding a referendum on it? So I'm just going all alpha-male, and just renumbering it. You'll like it.
Clinton sent in some concerns about Skype installing some malware, but it seems it was just an error. This latest update from EasyBits included elements of their desktop games organizer in error, but it neither installs nor un-installs correctly. This update has been disabled while we work with them to correct the problems and user experience.
GamePron demonstrated how easy it is to play censored games in Australia. I expected some kind of note saying they’d picked up my game and burnt it, but no. I guess the Customs guys are about a diligent as you’d expect when being asked to enforce a law so ridiculous that it makes other countries laugh at us. A printed out sticker on the parcel read, “Cleared — Customs”.
Today's timewasters are circle the cat from Marty, which I'm sure we've seen before but is quite fun, and My Balls (ahem) from Matt.
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