ShackNews posted a story Thursday night about 3D Realms' newest job listings with a link to the Gamasutra page that includes the new screen. That sparked speculation about the nature of the pic in the site's comments section, which prompted 3D Realms president George Broussard to chime in with a short note simply saying, "In-game shot." Broussard confirmed for GameSpot today that he did indeed post that bit in the site's comments.

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    The two announcements promised to keep alive Moore's Law, which holds that the number of transistors on a chip doubles every two years. It's good news for users because the more transistors that can be packed on a microprocessor, the faster it runs a PC.

    Intel, the world's biggest maker of microchips, said Friday the advances will be used later this year when it shrinks existing chip designs to smaller dimensions, meaning they will run faster and use less power.

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    Initially, only the 60GB model will be available in these markets, with the lower-end 20GB version to follow later this year depending on demand, the company said in a statement dated Thursday.

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"We bought a small number of chips from Intel recently, but we continue to be supplied by more than one vendor," spokesman Barry Schnitt told us in a statement and then returned to his cocoon.

 Google's displeasure with Intel's blog gossip making its way to the press is evident in the company's terse statement. Such PR rumblings between the two companies are sure to make things uncomfortable next time Intel CEO Paul Otellini shows up for a Google board meeting.

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A German court has sentenced a software dealer to nearly three years in prison for distributing Microsoft Corp. products with forged licenses. The dealer, a 42-year-old Turk, was arrested in June 2006 by German police for selling Microsoft products with falsified licenses on a large scale, Microsoft Deutschland GmbH said Thursday. He had been held in custody until the court ruling, which ended with a sentence of two years, 11 months in prison.

After eight days of hearings, the district court in Bochum, Germany, found the Turkish dealer guilty of reselling 18,555 products with forged licenses to other dealers who were unaware of the illegal activity. The court referred to the dealer as a "clever offender" who was driven by greed. The dealer was not identified. Microsoft estimates the loss of the forged licenses at $5.2 million, including the money paid by customers who acquired software they were unable to use.

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8 in 10 Americans More Dependent on their Computer than 3 Years Ago

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Jan. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- 65 percent of consumers are spending more time with a computer than with their significant other, according to new independent research commissioned by support.com.

Conducted by independent research firm Kelton Research, the "Cyber Stress" study confirmed consumers' growing relationship with technology in their everyday lives. In fact, more than 8 out of 10 Americans (84%) say they are more dependent on their home computer now than they were just three years ago(1).

Like any relationship, the test comes not when things are going well but when times are tough. And unfortunately in the case of their computers, things aren't going so well for Americans.

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The project, dubbed "immortal computing," would let people store digital information in physical artifacts and other forms to be preserved and revealed to future generations, and maybe even to future civilizations.

After all, when looking that far in the future, you never know who the end users might be.

"It is definitely a long-term project," said Andy Wilson, the Microsoft researcher whose musings on the ephemeral nature of digital information inspired the research initiative.

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Chicago Sun-Times columnist Andy Ihnatko reports that both official briefings and 'you and I never spoke, all right?' conversations have revealed that the new OS, which is due to be released to Mac users in the spring, is alive and kicking on the phone-iPod hybrid.

'Everything I've learned...says that it truly does run Leopard, the upcoming 10.5 OS that will be released for the Macintosh late in the spring,' he wrote.

'Those spiffy UI animations, for instance, come courtesy of Leopard's Core Animation suite.'

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Over the last 15 months, Nordea customers have been targeted by e-mails containing a tailor-made Trojan, said the bank.

Nordea believes that 250 customers have been affected by the fraud, after falling victim to phishing e-mails containing the Trojan. According to McAfee, Swedish police believe Russian-organized criminals are behind the attacks. Currently, 121 people are suspected of being involved.

The attack started by a tailor-made Trojan sent in the name of the bank to some of its clients, according to McAfee. The sender encouraged clients to download a "spam fighting" application. Users who downloaded the attached file, called raking.zip or raking.exe, were infected by the Trojan, which some security companies call haxdoor.ki.

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