The RegisterBiting the hand that feeds ITUK.gov serves up GM food as price hike fix- July 7, 2008 Brown pushes Greens off plate while slamming food waste The government's former chief science adviser Sir David King has said genetically-modified crops represent our best chance for improving yields sufficiently to deal with current food price problems.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/07/gm_foods_time/ Bavaria sanctions police spyware- July 7, 2008 Trojan horse rides roughshod over opposition Bavaria has become the first German state to approve laws that allow police to plant spyware on the PCs of terror suspects.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/07/bavaria_police_spyware_pla... NZ sports fans cop eyeful of hardcore- July 7, 2008 Rooting housewives invade Grass Roots Rugby Shaken NZ sports fans have recounted how a relaxing Sunday afternoon in front of Prime TV's Grass Roots Rugby turned to horror and disbelief as they were treated to three minutes and 50 seconds of rooting Desperate Black Wives 2.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/07/prime_tv_blunder/ Sony spin-off planning 2009 FED TV launch- July 7, 2008 OLED Pah... SED Fuggedaboutit... A Sony affiliate plans to launch large Field Emission Display (FED) TVs next year, a move that could see the firm trump attempts by rivals to commercialise a similar next-generation telly type: Surface-conduction Electron-emitter Display (SED).http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/07/07/sony_fet_fed_plans/ Final Arthur C Clarke novel on the way- July 7, 2008 Last Theorem is last hurrah The final novel by legendary sci-fi author Arthur C Clarke is to be published in August.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/07/last_theorem/ Pioneer proudly pitches 400GB Blu-ray optical disc- July 7, 2008 16-layer disc detailed Pioneer has pressed what it claims is the world's first 16-layer optical disc. It's keeping mum about the medium's format, but it's telling that each data layer has the same capacity as a Blu-ray Disc.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/07/07/pioneer_16_layer_bd/ Daily Mail loses employee info- July 7, 2008 Names, addresses, bank accounts and sort codes Northcliffe Media, owner of the Daily Mail, is the latest company to lose a laptop load of sensitive staff information.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/07/daily_mail_lost_laptop/ Trojan trawls recruitment sites in ID harvesting scam- July 7, 2008 All your CV are belong to us Hackers have turned the harvesting of personal information from Monster.com and other large US jobsites into a lucrative black market businesshttp://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/07/jobsite_data_hackharvestin... O2 starts 3G iPhone stampede - and runs away- July 7, 2008 Chokes the upgrade madness O2 today started taking pre-orders on its website for Apple's iPhone 3G - and stopped taking them again within minutes of opening the doors.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/07/o2_apple_3g_iphone_upgrade... Prius hybrid to get rooftop solar panel- July 7, 2008 A 20 one from Maplins would do just as well Motor mammoth Toyota, maker of the famed Prius hybrid car, is rumoured to be thinking about fitting some new Prius models with solar panels. The possible move is unlikely to seriously affect the car's fuel consumption, however, and is being seen by some as a PR stunt.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/07/prius_solar_panel/ |