Here, courtest of the 3DProfessor site, is just one of the benchmarks for the processor.

Security experts were cheering when they thought they had killed the Zeus botnet. Apparently they had done this by cutting network connectivity to Troyak, an ISP associated with the Zeus botnet.

The sack of Troyak was something that legends are written about but it turns out the shut out was nothing to write Homer about.

Troyak spokesman Roman Starchenko told IDG News Service that the ISP has fixed itself and will become “concrete stable.” We guess it is the sort of thing you keep a concrete trojan horse in.

A concrete stable means that the 68 Zeus botnet command-and-control servers associated with Troyak can reconnect to hacked systems and issue new instructions.

this means that Zeus with its Zeus servers is back online and hurling thunderbolts at those that miffed him. It will probably be making love to beautiful maidens in the form of a swan or a golden shower or something moderately pagan.

Insecurty experts will next try to "de-peer" Troyak from its new service provider, either an ISP named Nassist or its upstream provider, Hurricane Electric.

The team has discovered a new physical phase related to superconductivity.

According to the scientific journal Physical Review Letters , which we get for the “Schroedinger's cat lost and found” ads, Georgios Koutroulakis and Vesna Mitrovic have been tinkering with quantum mechanics.

They were especially interested in the relationship between superconductivity and magnetism. Apparently it is all very strange relationship where magnetism was supposed to want to kill superconductivity on sight, something to do with a particle which said something nasty about a relative on Christmas day.

However, Koutroulakis and Mitrovic found that not only were magnetism and superconductivity talking they could be even be seen to be working together.

It is the sort of relationship that the boffins describe as “unconventional” superconductivity, and they think it is going to create a new perspective in the field of quantum mechanics. We guess it will do well provided that it is observed.

The discovery was partly a stroke of luck for the researchers and they did not expect to make this kind of discovery.

Mitrovic said that it was only this summer that some theory suggested this would exist.

Android is the open saucy operating system put out by Google, and was designed mostly to drive more users to the search engine.

Motorola said the partnership with Microsoft means that a Bing bookmark and search widget will be loaded on cell phones.

To rub salt in the wounds, the new phones will be launched in China which does not have a particularly good relationship with Google.

Motorola knows this as it struck a similar deal to let consumers in China use Baidu among others, as the default Web search instead of Google on Android based phones.

It seems that Motorola does not want to anger the Chinese authorities by sticking a search engine onto its machines that anger mandarins.

Motorola is banking on its ties to Google's Android and its sales in China to help in a big turnaround effort. Having search alternatives on the Android phones should lessen Motorola's dependence on Google, in China or elsewhere.

Still, it is a bit like running the MacOS and and only running Windows 7 via boot camp, or insisting on eating fish and chips in an Italian restaurant in Rome.

It is among a record 237 individuals and organisations nominated for this year's Nobel Peace Prize.

The internet's nomination has been championed by the Italian version of Wired magazine for helping advance "dialogue, debate and consensus".

The secretive outfit does not release the list of nominees, but nominators sometimes announce their choices.

According to the Beeb, the internet's nomination is supported by 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi and the founder of the $100 laptop project Nicholas Negreponte.

The final list was decided by the Norwegian Nobel Committee - which has responsibility for the Peace Prize.

It is not clear that if the Internet wins, who will pick up the prize money.

Indeed, it's so tough, that many of us have been forced to contemplate other job options, even considering the horrid unthinkable and going over to the dark side.

The organisers of this year's GDC conference seem to be acutely aware of this sad and ugly truth, and have obviously decided to partner with the forces of darkness to steal hack souls. How else could we explain the fact that our press bags were jam packed full of job offers and 'consider a change in career' fliers?

"Blizzard Entertainment is hiring!" proclaimed one of the dozens of colourful glossy ads in our press kit. "Nintendo needs YOU!" read another, whilst WB was also kind enough to inform us that if we just popped round to the booth with a CV and a business card, they'd be sure to get right back to us. If we played our cards right.

Ahh well, such is the game of life.

For two years America has been pressing a secret treaty on the rest of the world at the bequest of the movie and music studios.  

The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement is a trade agreement to establish international standards on intellectual property rights.

It is so secret that only a dozen or so people in the world know what is in it and they are the ones who are expected to sign it.  Those who talk about it have to sign and NDA which makes Intel's look like walk in the park and if you leak any details about it you have to formally agree to shoot yourself.

The European Commission, which is lead by failed or retired real politicians who are looking for more work on the side, have given the secret deal the nod.  However if they hoped that the European Parliament would see it their way they were sadly mistaken.

Today the European Parliament voted down the secret treaty and were so angry that they threatened to take legal action at the European Court of Justice unless the Commission stops being such a load of tossers.

But when more than 663 MEPs vote against the treaty with only 13 in favour it could send the whole thing back to the drawing board.

What upset them was that the secret treaty broke EU law in its desperation to keep the US entertainment business in fat profits.

Laws like the 'three strikes' rule which basically allows a movie studio representative to hit a P2P pirate roughly about the head three times with a large haddock and lose their internet connection breaks European fishing quotas and food hygiene laws.

The treaty requires the sort of loss of freedom that only a nation that was formed by middle class businessmen who were part-time terrorists could come up with. Draconian penalties that are out of step with the rest of the Euro justice system as a sop to business interests who can't be bothered reforming their industry.

EU Trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht reassured MEPs at a debate yesterday that the EU was not considering all of the measures in the ACTA text.

EuroISPA said this denial was not what it has been told. 

EU rules, which were agreed upon after lengthy negotiations last year, say that ISPs are mere conduits of information and are not liable for pirated content if they take measures to remove that content.

The Music and Film industry have consistently insisted that ISPs should be its unpaid army in the war against pirates.  They have argued in Australian courts that if you are not doing what they say, then you are a pirate yourself and crucifixion is too good for you.  Much to the content industry's surprise an Aussie judge told it to XXXX off, and tossed its case against an ISP onto the Barbie of Broken Dreams. It is a rebuke the industry is appealing.

The Commission's secrecy over the the treaty was one of the biggest things to miff the Euro politicians.  They point out that the Lisbon Treaty stipulates that the European Parliament should have full and immediate access to information at all stages of international negotiations.