Fake Steve Jobs revealed

The no-holds-barred diary, which lampooned everyone from tech industry figureheads to tech journalists to venture capitalists, has enthralled and amused the blogosphere for the past 14 months, says SMH.com. However, the mystery scribe was revealed by The New York Times reporter Brad Stone as Forbes Magazine senior editor Daniel Lyons, bringing to an end a six-month search that in recent months bordered on the illegal.

In Business 2.0 magazine's recent list of "The 50 Who Matter Now", Fake Steve Jobs ranked 37th, ahead of Evan Williams, founder of Twitter, and just a few spots behind Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook.

However, the mystery surrounding who penned the pseudonymous diary - which has attracted readers from the highest echelons of tech, including Steve Jobs himself and Bill Gates - captivated industry watchers more than the content.

Video game developer id Software, the Texas-based firm that spawned classics Doom and Quake, is blasting its way out of the first-person-perspective shooting genre it pioneered, reports USA Today.

In the works is Rage, a futuristic story-driven game that promises Grand Theft Auto-style exploration and adventure, as well as the expected claustrophobic gun-wielding action. "We have expanded out the game. It's more than 10 guns and a bunch of bad guys," lead designer Tim Willits says.

Rage represents the first totally new game from the developer since Quake infested computers back in 1996. Id's games, coupled with those designed by other firms using its programming "engines", have sold more than $1 billion worldwide.

Websense has developed a threat detection system designed to spot Web 2.0 attacks soon after they are launched, says PC World.

Called HoneyJax, the system will root out attacks on social networking sites, blogs and wikis, and then update the company's Web security suite to protect users from malicious Web sites or pages.

Similar to "honeypot" systems, which are placed on the Internet to lure conventional online attackers, HoneyJax is designed to attract this new generation of Web-based attacks, said Dan Hubbard, VP of security research with Websense.

Mercury Systems has introduced its MultiCore Plus SDK for PS3" Base Package" just ahead of Siggraph and will follow up with a more elaborate version today, reports TG Daily.

Provided the user does not have only casual development experience, Mercury promises the kit offers the tools to dive into the processing power of the Cell processor in an "affordable" way and simplify the transition to multi-core programming for developers.

According to the company, the SDK will automatically run YellowDog Linux on the PS3 without overhead, data movement and computation, and fine-tune application performance. Included in the $399 per seat software is a trace analysis tool, which monitors dynamic multiprocessor and multi-core interactions and detects performance bottlenecks and visualises deadlocks.