Initiator and main developer of the Milkymist project, Sébastien Bourdeauducq, showed a prototype of his visual synthesizer at the latest Chaos Congress and builds his own board for it.

Kernel developer and Novell coworker Greg Kroah-Hartman manages new drivers in a separate tree for the Linux drivers project. He most recently reported that a few projects will have to depart from Kernel 2.6.33, among them also Google.

PC maker Dell has announced the Inspiron Mini 10 netbook that runs on the new Intel Atom CPU.

Intel's reworked Atom platform enhances netbooks and Internet devices with integrated graphics and memory controller.

AMD has issued an update of its proprietary 3D drivers for the current ATI cards. Version 9.12 fixes a number of bugs for multi-monitor mode and enhanced the Catalyst Control Center.

After releasing a new Kernel version, Linus Torvalds needed a few days of rest to put some remaining patches into the next release. The so-called merge window has closed, with the 2.6.33 branch now open.

In simple terms, the ODROID game console comes down to iPhone hardware mixed with Android software in a Nintendo box.

Russian security experts Kaspersky ventures a forecast for malware development in 2010 and sees new types of attacks coming our way.