Thong-wearing burglar nailed by video evidence
You've been framed
A Kentucky ne'er-do-well who decided it was a very bright idea to video himself carrying out a burglary while dressed in only a thong, is safely behind bars after leaving vital evidence at the scene of the crime, Associated Press reports.… 
© 2024 The Register Fri, 29 Sep 6:11am Microsoft backup beta is go
NYC Sanitation Dept's backup choice
Microsoft has unveiled a public beta of version 2 of its System Centre Data Protection Manager - continuous backup software for storage kit.…
© 2024 The Register Fri, 29 Sep 6:10am Gaming firms feel the pinch
Losing execs and share price
Authorities in Louisiana are warning executives working for online gaming companies to stay away from the state or risk arrest.…
© 2024 The Register Fri, 29 Sep 6:10am Intel preps Pentium E1040-friendly chipset
945GC to debut next year
IDF Intel's upcoming 'Conroe'-based Pentium processor, the E1040, will be supported with its own 945-series chipset, reports coming out of Taiwan claim. The part will also be pitched to customer who buy the Core 2 Duo E4000 line.…
© 2024 The Register Fri, 29 Sep 6:10am AMD ordered off US front in Intel suit
Delaware judge limits scope of anti-trust case
Intel's lawyers will have their laptops searched at one less airport, after a US district judge limited the scope of AMD's antitrust action against the company.…
© 2024 The Register Fri, 29 Sep 6:10am Nokia taps the Wisdom of Experts
Collective intelligence?
Analysis Nokia is defying the conventional wisdom of Silicon Valley with its new music service. And that's probably the coolest thing about it.…
© 2024 The Register Fri, 29 Sep 6:10am Naive 'hacker' escapes punishment
Hanging on the telephone
Here's a cautionary tale for would-be penetration testers: get permission from a bank before you try to bill them for helping to identify and fix the security short-comings of their services. New Zealander Gerasimos Macridis, 39, learnt that lesson the hard way after his attempts to help the country's Reserve Bank in improving its telephone banking systems resulted in a court appearance.…
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Europe's central banks caught in US spy scandal
Called to account over post-9/11 snooping
The European Central Bank (ECB) knew the US was conducting a secret probe of the world's private financial records without official oversight but failed to tell privacy authorities.…
© 2024 The Register Fri, 29 Sep 6:10am Virtual pet craze moves to mobile
It's a dog's life
Not content with friends and work colleagues interrupting you with calls and texts? Or maybe you work alone and have no friends? In either case, what you need is a virtual pet to look after, and what better place to find one than on your mobile.…
© 2024 The Register Fri, 29 Sep 6:10am  Intel orders software makers to obey Moore's Law
Get with our 2014 program
IDF Once in multi-core processor denial, Intel has well and truly moved past the anxiety that follows abandoning the "boost GHz at all costs" mentality that served the company well for so long. So firm is Intel's new multi-core embrace, that it now even accepts the idea that non-Intel architecture products may soon find a place on its own chips – at least in theory.…
© 2024 The Register Fri, 29 Sep 6:10am  Intel readies SSE 4 for 2007
x86 ISA to be extended with application-specific opcodes too
IDF Intel has said it will extend the x86 instruction set with even more Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE), this time pledging to add a further 50 instructions to the ISA - the largest number of extra program codes the chip giant's added to the x86 lists since the introduction of SSE 2 with the debut of the Pentium 4 in December 2000.…
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