TECH... 

• Software Round-Up (April 1) - FAR Manager 1.70, Paint.NET 2.6.1, Style XP 3.17, DOSBox 0.65, NiBiTor v2.8a, Realtek AC97 Driver v3.85 and more
• StarForce Class Action - Hate Starforce? Want to sue them? Well, this complaint outlines a $5 million class action suit being formed by Christopher Spence against Ubisoft for using StarForce copy protection in games.
• BBC used to entice cyber victims - Hackers are using excerpts from BBC news stories as a lure to trick surfers into visiting a website that exploits a new, unpatched vulnerability in IE.
• Russian download site introduces iTunes-style software - You can choose between many codecs, and there is no DRM involved either!
• Tight Timings vs High Clock Frequencies - the extra money you pay for more memory speed would be better invested in a faster graphics card.
• HIS X1900 XTX/X1900 Crossfire Edition - It looks like that NVIDIA's SLI still provides a better value since you don't need to pay a premium for a master card.
• Intel plans $400 laptop for developing countries - That might be a little pricey for students in countries like Brazil where the GDP per capita is only around $8,000.
• Transparent OLED displays on the way - If you've seen the movie Minority Report and marveled at the transparent computer screens Tom Cruise's character uses, you'll appreciate what German researchers have concocted in their labs.
• HP Pavilion ze2311ea review - It use AMD Mobile Sempron 3000+ with PowerNow! technology running on 1.8GHz.
• Samsung SPH-S4300 revealed - With a built in 1GB of capacity, it can hold up to 250 songs.
• How To Reinstall Windows XP - Laptop Gamers written a guide to reinstalling Windows XP that is a checklist of sorts for anyone doing a complete reinstall
• Light shed on mysterious particle - Physicists have confirmed that neutrinos, which are thought to have played a key role during the creation of the Universe, have mass.
• The perfect penis? WTF...- Heh!
• April Fools hoaxes in 2006 - check it out!

GAMING... 

• More CS: Source And Day Of Defeat Source Content Coming - Valve's weekly Steam news update has some new info on upcoming content for Counter-Strike: Source and Day of Defeat Source: "Counter-Strike: Source and Day of Defeat: Source also have some new content nearing completetion. Counter-Strike: Source will see the addition of two new player models and an HDR enabled version of de_dust. Day of Defeat: Source has a new map on the way that will introduce a new gameplay mode."
• Daemonica Demo/Trial -  Meridian 4 has released a playable demo for Daemonica to offer a chance to try out the top-down 3D medieval adventure by Czech developers RA Images and Cinemax. This is a trial version that allows you to play the game for up to a generous 60 minutes, but also includes all content of the full game that you can activate after purchasing a license key online. Another mirror: FileFront.
• The SoulKeeper GDC Trailer (UT2k4 mod) - The preview trailer (85MB DivX) is about 6 minutes long, shows some of our redesigned melee, first person melee for ranged and spellcasters, our brand new "helm view" for ranged classes, new spells, catapults, new maps, and of course everyone's favorite; dragons!
• Enemy Territory Fritz Bot - The bots are aware of objectives, the game's offensive and defensive phases, and the needs of teammates. Sounds impressive.
• The Movies Expansion Info - There is a new post about the Stunts & Effects expansion pack for The Movies on the Lionhead website, revealing that a Free Cam option will be added. With this Free Cam, players are free to position the camera whereever they want it in any scene.
• World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade Q&A - GameSpot has posted a Q&A with lead game designer Jeffrey Kaplan answering questions about the expansion pack.
• New Lego Star Wars 2 Diary - LucasArts sent out a new Lego Star Wars II diary which includes some developer commentary and new screenshots. This month's topic is "All the Characters in the Galaxy."
• Prey Dev Diary #12 - This week's update offers an update on animation, recently re-recorded dialogue, and also offers the latest changelog while asking for people to submit their questions.
• Free Xbox Live Weekend - While your gamercard will still show as silver on Xbox.com and in the console, the Xbox Live service will ’see’ you as a gold account. That means that all this weekend (3/31-4/2) all US based silver accounts will be able to experience online Xbox 360 multiplayer play. If you still have a silver account, now would be a good time to earn some of those multiplayer achievements like the ones in Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighteror Perfect Dark Zero.
• Star Wars KotOR3: Not in development...yet - Contrary to recent rumours that Obsidian is already developing KotOR3, TotalVideoGames revealed some comments from Feargus Urquhart made during an upcoming NWN2 interview: "We have been talking with LucasArts to do KOTOR3 since August 2004 and we hoped to do it since KOTOR2 was done. LucasArts is thinking what they want to do with it and we would happily make KOTOR3, if that's what LucasArts wants to do."
• Square Enix Responds To FFXIII On PS3 Rumors - The Square Enix PR team has responded to all the rumors flying around in the last 48 hours or so about Final Fantasy XIII on the Playstation 3. They claim that they have not released any information on the game, and remind us that April Fool's day is today. IGN screws us yet again!
• Unrealeased GDC Ps3 Videos - check it out + Motorstorm demo footage.