TECH... 

• Microsoft wants access to your private information - They are currently pushing bills in various U.S. states...
• Spanish police target 15 indexing sites - The spanish police has developed a new operation against websites dedicated to illegal filesharing, specially movies, music, games and applications. In this operation, without precedents in Europe, 17 websites were blocked and 15 persons arrested in distinct places of the country.
• Windows Vista beta Fully Installed on an Intel Mac - There are still a few glitches...
• Top Video Sharing Sites Reviewed - Great review! So, we have a list of 155 sites that host video
• MacBook Pro XP vs. the PC competition - check it out
• AMD Sempron 2600 Palermo Core - the Sempron 2600 is 24% slower than the Sempron 3100.
• Deeper with the GeForce 7900GTX - We finally have a card that's fast enough for 4x transparency antialiasing with supersampling.
• BFG Ageia PhysX Accelerator In Stock - $320 - From this day forward you can pre-order the "3Dfx of physics calculations" - Ageia PhysX Accelerator.
• Going the SAS Storage Way - THG's comprehensive look at hard drives, host adapters and storage applications shows what you can expect out of SAS for enterprise storage applications.
• XGene Imperial 2.4 GHz Wireless Keyboard + Trackball - This unit would be excellent for users with HTPC setups because the keyboard and mouse are combined.
• ARM offers first clockless processor core - Imagine the potential battery life when this gets into laptops!
• Transparency and Adaptive AA explained - TMS AA, TSS AA, PA AA, QA AA... is transparency anti-aliasing getting you a bit confused?
• ForceWare 87.45 for Windows Vista - download
• Massive List Of Photoshop Plugins, Filters, Brushes, Actions - Here's the most extensive list of Plugins, Filters, Brushes, Actions & Gradients for Photoshop 7+.
• Free USB drive for USA -and- Canada - Get a free 32MB USB thumb drive from Audi!
• ATI Oblivion Driver Q&A - Hexus.net has posted a Q&A with ATI's 'Chuck', the programmer responsible for the recently released beta Catalyst driver that enables the use of HDR and AA at the same time in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.
• Optimising Oblivion v2.0 - This is a greatly overhauled and updated guide, with new tweaks and advice for getting the most out of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.
• DHTML Yoshi's Island in (almost) 3D - Written entirely in Javascript, it is a 3D-ish version of the opening screen from Yoshi's Island.
• Will Straight to DVD Kill Theaters? - If you follow movies at all, you know that the idea of releasing a movie straight to DVD or simultaneously with a theater opening is the end of the world according to the movie industry
• Video of high-tech Honda Civic hatchback that the U.S.A can't buy - check it out
• Official Spider-Man 3 Site Live! - Sony Pictures has launched the official website for Spider-Man 3, in theaters on May 4, 2007. There, you'll find a new Flash animation of Spidey in the black suit with rain falling (even water pooling up and dripping off his costume), and you can download a screensaver and wallpaper.

GAMING... 

• Bone: The Great Cow Race Interview - Firing Squad has posted an interview with Telltale Games's Dan Conners talking about the upcoming second chapter in their episodic comic book based humor adventure game.
• Abyss Lights Demo - Abyss Lights: Frozen Systems is a space-based fly ’n’ shoot-style 3D game that applies the physics capabilities of AGEIA PhysX technology in the context of outer space.
• Dawn of War Patch Plans - Tranj from THQ has posted a preliminary pre-beta changelog for the upcoming patch 1.5 for Dawn of War
• HoMM5 Demo Next Week - There will be English HoMM V demo released sometimes next week 11.-13.4., with 3 single player maps (last map from Human campaign at Haven city; first map from Hell campaign; one skirmish map with beating hero Maeve) /thanks jd/
• The SoulKeeper SE Released - Without a doubt this is both one of the best and most professional mods (962MB) to exist for UT2004