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Speed up Windows XP is one of the most googled phrase on the Web. Obviously, computers are meant for speeding up work, hence, there is no chance to stay with a slow PC.

Yontoo Trojan, detected by noted security company Dr. Web is blamed for tracking the browsing behaviors across a range of popular browsers like Safari, Chrome, and Firefox. It may pretend as a media player, download manager, or other plug-in, thereby directing you to some maliciously crafted Web sites disguised as sources for file sharing and movie trailers.

The objective behind the introduction of Windows Experience Index was to facilitate users with a quick and easy feature to evaluate the performance of hardware components of any PC. It first appeared in Windows Vista. This rating score is displayed in System Properties window as shown in following screenshot:

Google offers secret glimpse into 'where the internet lives' http://t.co/u37e94mS via @zite

Wow, no one saw this coming.  The University of Florida announced this past week that it was dropping its computer science department, which will allow it to save about $1.7 million.

The conclusion is that either people are in a big rush to learn about computers, or that computers are somehow fabulously easier to learn than anything else. There are no books on how to learn Beethoven, or Quantum Physics, or even Dog Grooming in a few days. Felleisen et al. give a nod to this trend in their book How to Design Programs, when they say "Bad programming is easy. Idiots can learn it in 21 days, even if they are dummies.

This classic Eric Lippert post describes, in excruciating, painful detail, exactly how much work it takes to add a single ChangeLightBulbWindowHandleEx function to a codebase at Microsoft:

CS4HS 2012 Workshop Schedule

Download epub or PDF versions of Think Python: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist here

The FBI is investigating an incident where pictures of teen girls were taken from Facebook and placed on a pornographic website. The victim's ages range from 14-17 years old.

Google discusses the trends in CS education and the job market. I am interested in the revised CS AP pilot program they are running.

Speaker Presentations and Keynotes from the 2012 CS & IT Symposium ACSE members, you may wish to have a look at some of these presentations! 

"We have devised an interactive curriculum aimed to support teachers of secondary students (approximately ages 13-17). The curriculum helps educate students on topics like: YouTube's policies How to report content on YouTube How to protect their privacy online How to be responsible YouTube community members How to be responsible digital citizens We hope that students and educators gain useful skills and a holistic understanding about responsible digital citizenship, not only on YouTube, but in all online activity."

Kiley's overview of Java

EasyGUI is a module for very simple, very easy GUI programming in the Python programming language.

Show students this if they complain that JavaScript isn't a real programming language.

Looks like a great article for promoting Computer Science in the school.