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With the "new iPad" only days old, users are complaining about over-heating issues.  Although they probably didn't read the instructions, we have the solution.

AMD's 'Fusion' processors, initially aimed at the more mobile market, have arrived in Australia, with more powerful versions due to come later in the year - is it enough to defeat the competing ARM tablet threat?

On Tuesday the 18th of January, Intel will launch its new 'Sandy Bridge' processors in Australia, followed by AMD on Tuesday the 1st of February, which will do the same with its Fusion 'APU' range.

Last year saw Intel's 'Core' processors go mainstream, 2011 now sees the second generation of Core processors arriving with cool new features, from ever faster performance, better built-in HD and 3D graphics, quicker video transcoding capabilities and support for wireless transmission of video to HDTVs.

The new Fusion family of processors from AMD puts the performance of a discrete graphics unit onto the same chip as the CPU.

As expected, Chinese supercomputers have taken the first and third places in the latest list of the world's top supercomputers and only five of the top ten are from USA.  Linux continues to reign supreme.

Updated: Hot on the heels of yesterday's Top500 supercomputer announcement comes a reminder that Australia is a significant player in the field with the only NVidia CUDA research centre in the southern hemisphere.

A Russian password recovery outfit has announced a patent pending technology that dramatically accelerates the brute-force cracking of WiFi security encryption when a compatible Nvidia graphics card is employed. So, is WiFi security now a dead duck?