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Producing computer scientists and engineers to fill the demand from domestic companies should be a national priority, said Jeannette Wing, head of the computer science department at Carnegie Mellon University.

If you've ever built your own PC, you know it can be a rewarding and cost-saving experience. But unless you're really fluent in pin counts and socket shapes, remembering which pieces go where requires a lot of Googling. Reddit user Proteon shared a fantastic image that itemizes all the ports, connectors, sockets, cards, slots and cables you'll need to identify when piecing your baby together. The valuable resource quickly reached the front page of /r/pics, and Redditor zeug666 pointed out in the comments that the poster was created by deviantART user Sonic840. There's a larger and more up-to-date version on his profile which we present to you here.

Get ready with your "slow news day?" comments, because Microsoft has introduced an Achievement system to its Visual Studio programming environment and this is indeed a news story highlighting that fact.

Teach children how to write computer programs British schools should impart skills that will help pupils create the next Google, Twitter and Facebook

Birgitta Jónsdóttir's Twitter account: a US court has ruled that Twitter must comply with a Department of Justice demand to release private data held by the social media company, which it seeks as part of its investigation into WikiLeaks. Photograph: guardiannews.com

Negative reviews and untrue comments are pushing their way to the top of search engine rankings. Our experienced ORM professional at BluEnt shares 7 ways to fix online negative reviews.

Ever since I was told about a list of Movies for Computer Science Students and wrote some comments about that list I have been thinking book. Fiction books. Novels that tell stories that involve computer science and the sorts of issues of privacy, philosophy, ethics and social change that computers make in our society.

I've included every type of computer virus in this article that I felt was relevant, but this isn't a list of every type of virus known to man. Also, I did not include any worms or trojans, two common threats that are similar to viruses but technically not the same. If there is a specific type of virus that you feel was missed and is important, let us know in the comments.