Here’s a small collection of recent news items that may be of interest.

• Virtual Router and Connectify – Make your laptop a hot spot. An alternative to the MiFi.
• Newsweek: A decade in review
• Panda Cloud Antivirus Available for Download
• Intel Swears That It’s Gonna Stop Its Firmware From Bricking Any More SSDs
• YUI Storage Utility Presentation
• Man-In-the-Middle Vulnerability For SSL and TLS
• The World’s Wittlest 320GB Hard Dwive
• The First USB 3.0 Flash Drive Is a Wide Load
• Won’t someone PLEASE think of the hard drives?!
• Performance drain: The first public perception test of the Windows 7 era
• AT&T Sues Verizon Over “Map For That” Ads
• Secret Copyright Treaty Leaks. It’s Bad. Very Bad.
• Allmyapps Bulk-Installs Your Favorite Apps, Makes System Rebuilding Less Painful
• Firefox Passes IE6 In Browser Share
• The Machine SID Duplication Myth
• Does Slow Growth Equal Slow Death? – A look at company growth rates
• The Tech Aboard the International Space Station
• Dell Rugged Laptops Not Quite Tough Enough
• Dutch Hacker Holds Jailbroken iPhones Hostage For €5 Ransom While Exposing Security Vulnerability
• Homemade USB Charger Runs Off a 9V
• Nothing Makes You Feel Insignificant Like a 648-Megapixel Image of Our Galaxy
• RIM Is Definitely Developing a WebKit (Read: Decent) Browser
• Droid vs iPhone: The Comparison Chart
• Would you like a _ with that $? New library gives JS what it should have
• Cookies for Comments – A new approach to comment spam
• jQuery Dev Bemoans Overwhelming Spam On Google Groups
• Intel X-25M G2 SSD “TRIM” Firmware Pulled Due to Data Corruption Problems in Windows 7
• Microsoft Opening Outlook’s PST Format
• Ninite Bulk-Installs Great Free Windows Apps
• Time Warner Cable Modems Expose Users
• Microsoft’s move to counter LAMP: WebsiteSpark