Not quite as epic as a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away is the still amazing news that "near perfect" light cloning could revolutionise ultra secure quantum communications.
Last week Microsoft released Disk2VHD, a utility produced by its Sysinternals acquisition to convert a physical Windows hard disk into a Virtual PC disk image. While handy, Microsoft is treading ground Linux already covered in the form of open source program Clonezilla, which handles a far richer variety of disk formats and platforms.
Chip and Pin has reduced payment card fraud in the UK by £145.8 million to 'just' £73 million in the three years since it was introduced. It has also driven overseas card fraud through the roof: up 77 percent in the past year alone. News of a new criminal exploit could push that figure even higher...