Computex 2014: When we reviewed In Win's amazing D-Frame chassis last year, we gave it 96% - which is nearly as good as it gets. Well, In Win is back with what seems like yet another hit with its shrunken down chassis, the D-Frame Mini.

We were hands-on today at the In Win factory tour, where we got some video footage (that you can watch above) and a slew of pictures for you to drool over. The new D-Frame Mini supports mini-ITX motherboards, which should see some interesting builds in the chassis. On the front of the D-Frame Mini, we have two USB 3.0 ports, something that has slid on over from the bigger brother, as well as two HD audio ports.

Fans of the video game Red Dead Redemption have been clamoring for a sequel to that game for a long time now. There seemed to be some concern that a sequel wouldn't be made. Considering the original Red Dead sold 13 million units, the fear of no follow up to the original seems out of place.

Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick has made some comments recently that seem to indicate that a sequel to the game is in the works. He described the Red Dead franchise as being permanent and sitting alongside Grand Theft Auto and Borderlands. Those are two of Take-Two's most popular franchises putting Red Dead in good company.

Zelnick also mentioned during the conference where he talked about Red Dead that his company uses a selective approach to releasing games. He says Take-Two doesn't want to flood the market with games. Rather than giving consumers more, he says they want better games.

The owner and operator of BlackShades has plead not guilty to computer hacking charges, for his role in selling malware software. Alex Yucel, 24, was arrested last November and extradited to the United States, and now faces up to 15 years if convicted of conspiring to commit access device fraud and access to device fraud, among other charges.

The group reportedly sold its Remote Access Tool (RAT) to thousands of customers across the world since 2010, authorities noted.

Recently, authorities announced 100 people have been arrested in multiple countries for their participation in BlackShades. Federal authorities are trying to clamp down on cybercrime groups, though tend to only make arrests following major incidents - and have been largely unable to stop groups before they compromise users.

Microsoft is gearing up to release a smartwatch that will be compatible with its Windows Phone OS, along with support for Google Android and Apple iOS devices. Using technology refined by Kinect engineers, the watch will have two days of battery life and support continuous heart rate monitoring. A product announcement and launch date have not been released, though it could be available to consumers later this summer.

Throughout much of its dominant era, Microsoft didn't put a lot of effort into cross-platform compatibility, though including support for Android and iOS makes smart business sense. Both the iPhone and Android-powered smartphones currently control the market, and excluding users would greatly hurt potential sales.

It is an exciting time for the smartwatch market, with Samsung, Fitbit, Nike, Jawbone, and other companies already deeply involved - with Microsoft, Apple, and other companies expected to release their own devices. However, continuous heart rate monitoring would be a valuable asset for Microsoft, providing a better overall health analysis of watch owners.

As the situation grew more tense in the Ukraine and Russia over the annexing of Crimea, so did malicious activity between the two states in cyberspace.

According to a new report from security company FireEye, malware "callbacks" - where communications from compromised machines go back to the attacker's first stage server- increased dramatically over the period. Although the reasons cannot be known for sure, FireEye says it sees a "likely correlation" between the number of callbacks to Russia and Ukraine and the intensification of the crisis.

For 2013, Russia was seventh place in the amount of malware callbacks but in March 2014 it jumped to third place - at the same time its parliament authorized the use of force in Ukraine and Putin incorporated Crimea into the Russian Federation.

Seagate was an early investor in SandForce. At one time, we expected to read about Seagate acquiring the company that brought SSDs to the mainstream market but LSI stepped in before that could happen. As part of LSI, SandForce contributed to two product divisions, Accelerated Solutions Division and Flash Components Division. Seagate will acquire both for $450 million in cash.

The acquisition strengthens Seagate's position in the SSD market. Seagate also has a strategic agreement in place with Samsung for advanced NAND flash supply. Current Seagate 600 SSDs use Micron NAND flash and Seagate 1200 SSDs use Samsung flash so the company has the flash side covered.

The acquisition comes at a good time for everyone involved. The SandForce team has the most anticipated NAND flash controller coming to market later this year, SF370. The SF3700 is the first controller to run both SATA and PCIe on the same silicon and early first hand testing at LSI's AIS event last year proved SandForce's claims of over 1800 MB/s sequential reads.

Google has admitted in a blog post that its entire workforce suffers from a clear lack of gender and racial diversity.

Senior vice president of People Operations at Google, Laszlo Bock, penned a blog post - in which he says Google is the first to admit it's "miles" from where the company wants to be in terms of diversity.

In the opening paragraph, Bock says the company has generally been reluctant to disclose official figures on the diversity of its workforce. And it's not difficult to see why from a PR point of view - the official numbers in a new report break down the workforce by gender and ethnicity. Just 30 percent of Google are women, while 61 percent are of a white ethnicity, and 30 percent Asian, leaving just ten percent who are "two or more races," Hispanic, Black or "other" all together.

Autonomous cars are something that will be on the market in the next several years. Vehicles that can drive themselves and passengers to and from locations with no intervention will revolutionize the way people travel. Autonomous vehicles will be very helpful for those who can't drive due to medical or other reasons.

One of the places where autonomous vehicles will definitely be adopted is in the taxi market. Not having to pay a driver will significantly, increase profits for taxi and for hire car services. Uber has announced that it plans to adopt self-driving cars in the future.

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick says that the company will adopt autonomous cars when they are readily available and made the comment at the Code Conference in California recently. Uber also announced that it was making a partnership with AT&T at the conference to pre-load its app on some smartphones. The upside to replacing drivers for passengers is that fares could be lower.