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" .. a major international study released Thursday found Australian girls are more computer-literate than their male classmates."

On the first day of the second Formula One preseason test, the Marussia team saw its 2014 car complete only three laps around the track because some witless oaf in the team garage downloaded a "Trojan-type virus" onto its computer system. Whoops.

On the first day of the second Formula One preseason test, the Marussia team saw its 2014 car complete only three laps around the track because some witless oaf in the team garage downloaded a "Trojan-type virus" onto its computer system. Whoops.

VCAA Victorian Certificate of Education Study Design for Computing

"The BBC has published computer programming study guides, quizzes and other support materials on its Bitesize site to coincide with the new computing curriculum's introduction in England."

"STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math - all of which are critically important for students to learn (regardless of the economy or jobs). Our governments tout STEM because of the growth opportunities, without looking at where the growth really is. Within all the noise about the "STEM job gap," our focus should be on computer science - on the software and digital hardware that is revolutionizing the world around us and disrupting every industry known to man."

A Tongue in Cheek Look at Cloud Computing

"The border between our physical world and the digital information surrounding us has been getting thinner and thinner. Designer and engineer Jinha Lee wants to dissolve it altogether. As he demonstrates in this short, gasp-inducing talk, his ideas include a pen that penetrates into a screen to draw 3D models and SpaceTop, a computer desktop prototype that lets you reach through the screen to manipulate digital objects."

"The cool kids these days are spinning vinyl discs on antique record players, and the analogue fightback may have made its way to the very top, according to a report that says the Kremlin is returning to typewriters in an attempt to avoid damaging leaks from computer hardware."

"Bebras is an international initiative whose goal is to promote computational thinking for teachers and students (ages 8-17 / school years 3-12). Bebras is aligned with and supports the new Australian Digital Technologies Curriculum. Bebras is run by NICTA under the  Digital Careers program, funded by the Australian Government as represented by the Department of Communications."

he Cisco Binary Game is the best way to learn and practice the binary number system. It is great for classes, students and teachers in science, math, digital electronics, computers, programming, logic and networking. It is also a LOT of fun to play for anyone who likes to play fast-paced arcade games.

People in denial about the cloud.

"In response to the ever-increasing role of technology in society through various academic and engineering developments, one fundamental question remains in the movement to arrest the decrease in students studying Computing at high school and university: what should we be teaching about IT to high school students? "

"FedEx has responded to a video posted on YouTube earlier this week that shows a delivery man literally throwing a computer monitor over a fence and casually walking back to his truck. The clip went viral, amassing over 4.5 million views since Monday and ticking off a lot of customers in the process. "

"Back in January, when Wolfram Alpha launched an updated version of its Personal Analytics for Facebook module, the self-billed "computational knowledge engine" asked users to contribute their detailed Facebook data for research purposes. The researchers at Wolfram Alpha, having crunched all that information, are now offering some data on how users interact with Facebook."

"AppleJack is a user friendly troubleshooting assistant for Mac OS X. With AppleJack you can troubleshoot a computer even if you can't load the GUI, or don't have a startup CD handy. AppleJack runs in Single User Mode and is menu-based for ease of use." Great for refreshing older Mac OSX systems.

"Hackers have begun exploiting the newly identified "Shell Shock" computer bug, using fast-moving worm viruses to scan for vulnerable systems and then infect them, researchers have warned. "