From ArsTechnica:

Here’s an important safety tip, courtesy of the Privacy Commissioner of Australia’s state of New South Wales: erasing data on a USB drive doesn’t mean it’s gone. Encrypting USB data is the only way to keep it safe.

From ArsTechnica:

Google has rolled out experimental support for running Chrome in the Windows 8 Metro environment. The feature landed yesterday in the Chrome developer channel and is available for testing on the Windows 8 Release Preview.

From TechRadar:

Whether you play games all the time or just want something to fill a few quiet moments here and there during the day, passing the time doesn't need to be expensive.

From ArsTechnica:

The developers behind the Fedora project have announced the official release of Fedora 17, codenamed Beefy Miracle. The update includes the latest version of the GNOME desktop environment and a number of other improvements.

Fedora is a community-driven Linux distribution that is sponsored by Red Hat. It serves as a testbed for new functionality that is later included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It tends to be closely aligned with the upstream Linux desktop ecosystem and is often slightly ahead of the curve on adopting new technologies.

Over-priced at launch, but is Facebook over-rated?

Around lunch time today, in the US, the Facebook share price dipped to about $29.50 after large volumes of shares were traded on NASDAQ.

That's a big fall from the initial IPO price which valued the company at around $100bn, if only momentarily.  Today's price puts the value of Facebook at about $63bn.

But, how much is it really worth, and will it go the same way as MySpace?

"Flame" - complex malware has been exposed by Kaspersky Labs

Malware known as Flame could have been targeting specific countries such as Israel, and Iran, since 2010.

Kasperky Labs, a Russian outfit, thinks that this could be the work of a government, and that the malware causes no damage, but steals private data from targeted organisations, and individuals.

Reviewed by Overclockers Online:

AMD has continued to release more models in the 7000 series, following the 7700 series with the 7800 models. HIS once again gives its stamp to this series and with it also has released a tweaking program called iTurbo that gives easy access to tweaking and overclocking the card settings.

From TechRadar:

We recently looked at various techniques you can use to hide data in Windows, from simple filename tricks to complete encryption of the OS. Now we're going to turn the tables and discover ways to uncover hidden activity.

From Bit-tech.net:

Throughout the years, I've always struggled to get on with Blizzard games. Warcraft somehow passed me by, StarCraft always seemed like a samey, hokey space western and WoW lost me as soon as I realised that there wasn't really any meaningful goal to the game. Even Diablo, long held up as Blizzard's greatest achievement, failed to impress me when I was bullied into playing it years after release.

From HardwareHeaven:

The Club 3D GeForce GTX 670 is the fastest and most power efficient GPU after the recently introduced GTX 680. But we didn't stop there. GPU Boost dynamically boost clock speed for performance. New FXAA and TXAA modes eliminate jagged edges. And NVIDIA Surround lets you game on three monitors from a single GPU.

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