In print: paying hackers, Apple's announcements analysed, no more Scrabulous and more

This week's print edition of the Technology supplement is online too.. and looks at the ethics and effects of paying hackers to tell you what they've found, analyses Apple's Tuesday announcements, looks at "CarTorrent" (you'll find) and why North and South Korea are cooperating on a version of Linux. Plus commentary and more. Click through for the full list, or just see the stories here.

• Security breakdown
  
  As the market for selling exclusive information on software vulnerabilities grows, Sean Hargrave reveals how the hackers' gain is your loss when it comes to PC security
• Why the quest for simplicity drives designers to distractions
  Probably the fastest laptop I have ever owned was the first: a Compaq machine with a screen that showed four shades of orange and had a gigantic 20MB hard disk
• Newsbytes
  Way beyond HD TV | Service picker | Widescreen touchphone | ETech 2008 | Website builder | Got games? | Neighbourly networking | The spin on video
• Games
  Sun Age | Burnout Paradise | Sensible World of Soccer
• Is Facebook's Scrabble game going to disappear?
  It might, because Hasbro, the toymaker which owns the rights to the famous board game in the US and Canada, has served a shutdown notice on the site which provides the Scrabulous feature to Facebook
• Broadband uptake slows along with progress on speeds
  
  As richer countries reach saturation, there's little sign of the roll-out of enhanced fibre-based networks, says Charles Arthur
• Apple pushes film rentals and takes to Air
  Steve Jobs wowed the faithful at Macworld with hardware updates, software tweaks and an almost wire-free size zero laptop
• It's opinions that count, not just the ranking score
  Something has happened to the videogame review score, says Keith Stuart. The humble rating that used to conclude rather than define each reviewer's opinion has morphed into some monstrous online arithmetical totem
• Letters and blogs
  Looking ahead | Imprisoned data? | Well done, Mustek | Switch over
• Technophile
  Spock looks set to conquer new frontiers with its dedicated people-based search engine
• Social sites develop a social conscience
  Online meeting spaces have dominated web news but they're not the only - let alone the most useful - social sites on the block, says Victor Keegan
• YouChoose
  Human Tetris, revisited | "Like it's from another planet" | Plastic pal, fun to work with
• Peer-to-peer network invites drivers to get connected
  CarTorrent could smarten up our daily commute, reducing accidents and bringing multimedia journey data to our fingertips
• Ask Jack
  Wait, or Leopard? | What's up, docx? | Deluged with bounces | Hearing voices? | Backchat
• We need vision for next-generation broadband, not complacency
  What's depressing is the complacency. The sheer head-in-sand, not-invented-here, civilisation-ends-at-Folkestone complacency. I'm talking about Britain's broadband policy
• 'No one in government IT will have done this before'
  Last Saturday, an ad hoc group of citizens interested in improving an aspect of public policy sat down with the civil servants responsible and designed a web service to do the job
• Can Linux finally unite Korea?
  Along with political cooperation, Seoul's plan to help the North with IT could shatter the last Cold War boundary