Channel News

• Intel said to have released G31, P31 entry-level chipsets

  Dual-core Pentium friendly

Comms News

• ISPs face down Tories on file sharing

  Cameron plan for internet police state rejected

• BT opens wallet for Brightview

  Customer service experts brought in

Developer News

• Microsoft tells GPLv3 to talk to the hand

  Nothing to do with us

Hardware News

• Ebuyer.com runs on a Commodore 64

  Time for an upgrade, boys

• Alex Tatham leaves Bell Micro

  Brief Off to pastures new

• Microsoft boots Savvis from data centers

  So UnGooglerific

• Shy IBM storage spin-off tries to erase itself

  Will store your info, just not its own

• AMD blasts $7.5m right into Transmeta

  Impressed by lawsuit against Intel low power IP

• University boffins squeeze 500GB onto a DVD

  Aiming for a terabyte

• Verbatim buys into portable HDs

  Media maker finally notices nobody uses floppies anymore

Management News

• EU's anti-fraud boss to be hauled before European Parliament

  Olaf accused of irregularities and conflicts of interest

• Rain fails to douse iPhone fever, bans and bombs

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• Google: Our data retention is not data protection watchdogs' business

  It ain't your field

Music and Media News

Odds and Sods News

• Durex seeks hardened condom testers

  200 positions must be filled Down Under

• BOFH: Computer room deluge

  Episode 23 If you mix water and wires...

• Dinner party guest makes gruesome discovery

  Host's wife and son in freezer

• Nintendo launches face training game

  Pull faces, look younger

• Police hunt renegade cow sex youth

  Warning: no IT angle Nocturnal bovine botherer caught in the act

Reg Hardware News

• Intel schemes to confound online gaming cheats

  FOGS of war

• Sonnet Tempo SATA Express 34 ExpressCard eSATA adaptor

  Review Add-in eSATA ports for laptop Macs

• Insuring iTunes: are your digital downloads covered?

  Not all insurance policies will protect your music

• Apple 8GB iPhone components 'cost $220'

  Does the remaining $400 cover software development etc?

Science News

• Dawn mission hiding out after lightning threat

  Brief Well, slightly postponed

• Skin cancer claims sun bed 'addict'

  Tragic end for 29-year-old mum

Security News

• Security flaw marketplace lays out its wares

  Get yer luverly 0day IE exploits 'ere

• Turing test challenges spam filters

  Fuzzy PDF menace

• Psst - wanna buy a pirate MPack toolkit?

  Dirty deeds done dirt cheap

• Trojan creates bogus webmail accounts to punt drugs

  Hotmail and Yahoo! captchas defeated?

• Heathrow to trial RFID tags

  No more lost luggage?

Software News

• UK firm preps iPhone unlocking software

  Walls come tumbling down

• Oracle sends bloke cardboard laptop

  Why? God alone knows