Microsoft announced the final version of the final version (RTM, Release to Manoufactoring) of the new Windows 8 operating system, which will be the first to receive PC manufacturers for installation on new devices. The release of the RTM version means completing the cycle of development and testing of the operating system and the availability of its final code manufacturers of personal computers, reports CNews.ru .

Severe riders on iron horses also need rest. However, ordinary guys on the Harleys do not need luxury and comfort, but only a place where you can knead their heads and put a motorcycle. A special motorcycle engine was built for them in Tokyo, reports "Business Style" . For the implementation of the project, three architectural firms combined their strength - Akiyoshi Takagi Architects, Nakae Architects and Ohno Japan.

In the Khamovnichesky Court of the capital, on Thursday, the process on the scandalous case of the participants in the punk group Pussy Riot, accused of committing a hooligan campaign in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, continued. The meeting began at 10 in the morning and ended at about 9 pm. The next meeting is Friday at 11:30.

Specialists of the Center for Viral Research and Analysts by ESET revealed a new version of the Butokta ROVNIX, previously present as part of the Trojan Carberp program, which allows attackers to attack the remote banking service (DBO) and devastate the accounts of both legal entities and individuals.

The Russian Handball Women's team suffered the first defeat at the group stage of the Olympic tournament in London. In the match of the third round of the group "A", the wards of Evgenia Trefilov lost today the Croatian team - 28:30 (15:15). - Diary of games-2012. Schedule and results of competitions The most effective among the Russians were Emilia Turey - 6 goals, Olga Chernoyvanenko, Lyudmila Gollnova and Ekaterina Davydenko - 4 each, ITAR -TASS reports.

Yakutsk and nearby areas on Thursday, August 2, shrouded in smoke from fires. There are also ten more regions of the region under the threat of smoke: in the next three days they can also be in a smoke curtain, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Ministry of Emergencies in the republic. According to rescuers, there are no forest fires on the territory of Yakutsk: forests are burning in the Ust-May and Amginsky districts.

An investigation of the massacre at the borderpost "Arkankergen" ("Mountain") on the Kazakh-Chinese border in the Almaty region turned into one of the most resonant cases of recent times. The public does not trust the authorities about the fault of the only surviving, 19-year-old ordinary Vladislav Chelach . He himself, recall, refused the confession, saying that he had given them under the threat of rape. He also informed the lawyer that an attack was committed from the outside .

The Russian payment system "Yandex.Money" allowed customers to transfer money from abroad, the press service of the company reports. The company itself will not take a commission for money transfers, it will be done by foreign banks. So, for 14 European states, including Great Britain, France, Italy, Spain, as well as the countries of Scandinavia and the Baltic states, such a commission will be no more than 1%.

US President Barack Obama signed an order allowing the CIA intelligence service and other American departments to assist the Syrian rebels. This was reported by the British agency Reuters representatives of the US administration. The document signed by Obama, the so-called reconnaissance orientation, allows the US intelligence services to provide Syrian opposition in the overthrow of Syria President Bashar al-Assad, ITAR-TASS reports. The exact date of signing the document is not reported.

The United Russia faction in the State Duma is ready to deprive Gennady Gudkov’s deputy of the deputy immunity from criminal prosecution, if the corresponding appeal from the prosecutor general of the Russian Federation receives an appropriate appeal to the Lower Chamber, ITAR-TASS reports.

A group of Turkish hackers hacking a traffic police department in the Kiev region. On Thursday morning, on its main page, the inscription Hacked by Turk Kursun , email address of the hacker group and two photos appeared on its main page. One of them depicts a little boy who celebrates a small need for the head of a soldier in an ambush, and on the second - the burning star of David, the Ukrainian News report. The photo is posted under the photo in English: “We never recognize Israel.

The US police took custody of a scientist from the University of California Rainer Reinshad. He is suspected of a series of arson, as well as in preparing a mass massacre at school. The teacher conceived these crimes after his son committed suicide. Suicide father considered that the school administration was to blame for the tragedy, the newspaper The Washington Post writes.

The police of the city of Luga in the Leningrad Region conduct an audit on the fact of detecting corpses in a hospital town. The bodies were found lying right on the ground, which caused a great resonance on social networks and regional media. In the morgue where the corpses were supposed to be located, they found a simple explanation of the incident.

Italian police officers conducted a successful special operation to capture the 50-year-old leader of the Calabrian Mafia Ndrande. Giuseppe Aquino, nicknamed the Jacket, was arrested after the lawyers of the law partially destroyed the bunker in the house of his mother, in which Mafioso was hiding. The raid on the leader of the ndranget was held on Wednesday in the Primorsky town of Marina-Dzhioza-Ionika, reports ANSA .

The creation of new political parties in Russia does not take place cloudlessly. Immediately several political figures who decided to establish their own political power had unexpected problems. So, the ex-head of the Rosmolodezh and the founder of the “Our” movement, Vasily Yakemenko, has not yet registered his “party in power” .