The tenth person to plead guilty in that Galleon insider trading case was a former treasury department executive at Intel. According to the New York Times, the man has agreed to cooperate with authorities but still faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted.

Throughout 2007, the executive, Rajiv Goel, provided Mr. Rajaratnam with details of Intel’s quarterly earnings before they were publicly released. He also tipped Galleon’s founder about a pending joint venture between the Clearwire Corporation and Sprint Nextel, a deal that Intel planned to invest $1 billion in.

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What was the big news ten years ago today? AMD launched the 1.1GHz Athlon with on-die L2 cache, a Voodoo 3 3500 was $169.99 and T&L was “the future.”

AMD has “demonstrated” a 1.1GHz Athlon. We ain’t in Kansas anymore girls. I would have to say that is some serious stuff.

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Thinking about leaving your 16 year old kid home alone in your $1.5 million home while you are away for the weekend? Better hope he doesn’t have a Facebook account. Didn’t this just happen a while back?

A 16-year-old schoolboy saw his parents’ £1million home trashed by gatecrashers after he advertised a party on Facebook when he was left alone for the weekend.

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[H] forum reader polonyc2 posted a link in the forums to the DirectX end-user redistributable. The package weighs in at just under 105MB and supports Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 & 2008, Windows XP 64-bit and Windows XP Service Pack 3.

This download provides the DirectX end-user multi-languaged redistributable that developers can include with their product. The redistributable license agreement covers the terms under which developers may use the Redistributable. For full details please review the DirectX SDK EULA.txt and DirectX Redist.txt files located in the license directory.

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You know you are a bad mofo when you hack a Trusted Platform Module chip with a needle, some acid and rust remover. Thanks to Henrico D. for the linkage.

Deep inside millions of computers is a digital Fort Knox, a special chip with the locks to highly guarded secrets, including classified government reports and confidential business plans. Now a former U.S. Army computer-security specialist has devised a way to break those locks.

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Cooling
Spire TherMax Pro CPU Cooler @ Tech-Reviews

ETC.
How To Reverse Engineer A Motherboard BIOS @ Phoronix
NZXT’s Avatar Gaming Mouse v2 @ TechREACTION
QNAP NMP-1000 Network Media Player @ techPowerUP!

Video
EVGA Geforce GTX275 CO-OP @ BmR

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NVIDIA and ATI dominate the market for gaming-oriented video cards. But neither company sells video cards directly to the consumer; rather, they produce “reference designs” that are manufactured by a number of “partners”. Most partners simply produce the reference design and slap an identifying sticker on the card’s cooler; although some might replace the reference design cooler with a quieter or more powerful solution, with few exceptions there’s little to distinguish one partner’s version of a specific card from another partner’s version of the same card. EVGA breaks out of this rut with their EVGA GTX 275 CO-OP PhysX Edition, model 012-P3-1178-TR, which combines NVIDIA GTS250 and GTX275 GPUs on the same card, and Benchmark Reviews takes it around the block to see what it’s got.

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We have reviewed quite a few Foxconn motherboards over the years and the high end boards tend to have a lasting impression on us. In most cases performance is exceptional; design and style are outstanding. All of these features can be found in the latest Quantum Force motherboard, the Inferno Katana.

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Ultra, the company who’s claim to fame is inventing the modular power supply, brings us another one of their X4 creations. Their last power supply got good marks in the lab, lets see if their more powerful version can pull off the same.

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“With the continued flux of PC cooling companies on to the international scene, reputation is key and perhaps it is this, Noctua’s seemingly legendary status as a premium quality cooling Solutions Company that has held them at the forefront of the market for several years since its establishment in 2005. Formed through the merger of Austrian Rascom Computerdistribution Ges.m.b.H and the Taiwanese Kolink International Corporation, Noctua has focused predominately on the cooling of the central processing unit with an array of aluminium heatsinks and fans symbolised by their peach and brown colour schemes.

Noctua’s fan selection is reasonably extensive and previous designs such as the NF-P12 have been highly decorated with awards but it is until now that the cooling company has decided to add a larger, 140mm fan to its prestigious range.

With limited coolers requiring a 140mm fan though, the NF-P14 FLX is essentially an alternative for the more commonly used 120mm designs making use of a larger impeller for a superior airflow/noise ratio but with the ability to fit on to both 120mm and 140mm mounts. Let’s take a closer look…”

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