In print: laser fusion, safe and unsafe passwords, the Wikipedia sweatshop and more

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• Lasers point way to clean energy
  Laser fusion Magnetic fusion has long been heralded as the future of renewable energy, but could it be lasers that hold the key? James Randerson looks into science's latest power saviour
• Magnetic fusion: seaching for the spark
  While laser and magnetic fusion both use the same principle of squashing two isotopes of hydrogen together, research into magnetic is far more established

• Is Windows Vista slower than Windows XP?
  "The 'Wow' starts now," said Microsoft when Windows Vista was launched. For some users it was, "Wow, how can this computer be so slow?" But is Vista really slower than Windows XP? It seems so
• Inside, Wikipedia is more like a sweatshop than Santa's workshop
  Seth Finkelstein: Wikipedia is frequently touted as a marvel of collaboration, a model of peer production. But it may be more instructive as a laboratory of pathologies of social interaction
• Newsbytes
  Trend spotting | Dig these pictures | Q numbers available | E-petition on e-crime | The wireless, wirelessly | Sing it! | Half the world mobile? | Video addicts?
• Games
  Clive Barker's Jericho | Uncharted: Drake's | Unreal Tournament 3

• Government continues to dither as a series of deadlines loom
  A year after the competition watchdog called for fundamental change in the way the government trades in information - the issue at the heart of the Free Our Data campaign - ministers are still dithering. However, the government's hands may be forced by a looming series of deadlines.
• Game on for our wiki community of developers
  Aleks Krotoski: Three months ago I put a challenge out to the Gamesblog community: we spend so much time thinking about and playing games, let's see what goes into actually creating one. And so, The Guardian Gamesblog's Text Adventure Wikigame - that's the working title - was born.
• How secure are your online passwords?
  Just as you hit the button to pay for your online purchase it happens: "First, create a username and password."

• Dating moves from the PC to the mobile
  Victor Keegan: Social networks typically put you in touch with friends or friends of friends. Dating sites let you meet strangers anywhere on earth with whom you might share a passion. Never before has it been possible to trawl so many people to discover the person of your destiny
• Letters and blogs
  It's about competence | Keep it simple, stupid | Durable solar cells | Copyright should last | Grow up, Apple
• Technophile
  The Asus Eee PC has brought computing within reach of most pockets, and for the price, we can't complain

• Ask Jack
  Programming revisited | The security lottery | Updating .Net | Emulating 95 | Wireless and stone walls | Outlook problem? | Backchat

• How the low-powered Wii moved aside the big boys
  Coming up to its second Christmas, the Nintendo Wii is still in short supply in some markets, including the US and the UK. And while electronics products are supposed to fall in price - like Apple's iPhone and Sony's PlayStation 3 - the Wii has got more expensive.
• Microsoft to ease draconian activation procedure
  The "Windows Genuine Advantage" scheme used by Microsoft to verify its Vista products will stop disabling systems it regards as counterfeit in Service Pack 1, an update to be delivered next year.
• Digital generation dismisses email as 'for old people'
  The art of correspondence faces another rude shove towards oblivion: even email is getting the big E for being "too formal"