CNet has a good read up about the pitfalls of the new iTunes Plus that Apple has been pushing as the next big thing.

It is interesting to note that while you can buy the songs DRM free Apple has still chosen to tag them with personal information. This means that if a "DRM free" song is loaded up on a P2P site it can still be tracked right back to you.

There are some other pitfalls too, since iTunes does not use the .mp3 format you cannot simply load these songs to any player. The player has to support ACC files with the .m4a extension.

You know a game is popular when spammers and phishers use it as a basis to get to people.

Well Call of Duty has reached that level of popularity. According to a post over at Fourzerotwo.com by one of the Developers there is an e-mail claiming to be an invite to a new BETA. But there is no BETA; in fact there has not even been an announcement about the next game in the series.

So if you get an e-mail like the one below, just delete it.

Two of the top Overclockers have broken the World Record for FutureMark's 3D Mark Vantage.

Together Vince "k|ngp|n" Lucido and Peter Tan "Shamino" have pushed an Intel i7 CPU and a pair of nVidia GTX 295s in Quad SLI to an amazing 40,398 Marks in Performance Mode.

The CPU and the 295s were super cooled by LN2 for this amazing feat.

It had to happen sooner or later. Someone has had...*gasp* a BSOD in the new Windows 7 Beta!

The unfortunate people to receive this life changing screen were the gang over at Gizmodo. They seem to feel that MS should revamp the BSOD and make it a little more informative.

However the issue they show in the screen is easily found; a quick search on Google and a load of information pops up everything from Logitech Keyboard issues to ATi drivers.

With the new Windows 7 Public Beta now being freely distributed to millions of people until Jan 24 when they pull the plug, Ars Technica has provided a full insight which talks about its features, progress and overall characteristics which should help many of you determine whether or not you'd like to grab a copy yourselves and give it a whirl.

The full review can be located here.

A group of researchers from Bonn University and RWTH Aachen University have found a cure for one of the most insidious botnet worms out.

Called the Storm Worm Botnet, this devious little bit of code turned millions of systems into drones. Even after a concerted effort to remove this bug there remains hundreds of thousands of systems still infected.

The team basically reversed engineered the code from infection down to transmission of commands.

Following in our paranoia and big-brother vein today we find an interesting and potentially scary article over at Fudzilla.

It seems the Jobs Mob wants to put tiny hidden cameras on all of their equipment. These cameras could be turned on remotely to view the person sitting at the system.

On the surface Apple is claiming this is a theft deterrent. Under the surface it is very concerning. It would be possible for malicious code to turn this on also. This means that a hacker could sit back and take pictures of you or video of what you are doing. I think this one should go in the "Bad-Idea" drawer.

The Home Office of the UK Government has a new plan to protect its citizens from the boogieman.

Under this new plan ALL (yes all) e-mails sent and received by everyone would be stored by individual ISPs for a period of one year. Logistically this means that ISPs will need to add additional storage to cope with the extra data.

Realistically this means (considering the fact that 90% of e-mails are spam) that ISPs will have to maintain Spam e-mails sent and received for one year.

President Elect Obama is still clinging to his blackberry despite the potential security risks.

For some odd reason he feels the need to maintain a publicly controlled communication device that can be tracked by not one but three spate methods. In addition to being able to pinpoint its location by the unique GPS transceiver in the device you can also use cell tower pings and radio frequency triangulation to nail him down. In fact using Cell Tower Data Pings is a proven method for tracking criminals and finding their patterns. Not good for a President.

This is in addition to the insecure RIM network that opens all of his emails to the hackers out there.

Whilst in attendance at CES, a storage mob by the name of pureSilicon made it big by introducing the world's largest capacity solid state drive released to date; a whopping 1TB model dubbed part of the new Nitro series.

The 1TB Nitro SSD is the most compact SSD per gigabyte: 15.40GB per cubic centimeter in a 2.5-inch form-factor -- at least three times greater than any other SSD on the market. This high density in a small form factor has been achieved through innovative engineering techniques coupled with advanced industrial design that yields an exceptionally thin enclosure.