Business Week looks at the state of free ISPs Juno and NetZero, exploring their passed and forseeing their future.

Reuters reports that France is planning to introduce a blank digital-media tax to compensate musicians and filmmakers for the potential loss from copied works. Slashdot has a lively discussion on the topic.

Computer World reports on the introduction of a new OC192 (10Gbps) backbone between Massachussets and California. It is the fastest single backbone linking the two shores of the US.

SEUL.org has the latest SEUL/edu Linux in Education Report for January of this year.

SecurityFocus.com has a story about Honeynet’s Forensic Challenge, which lets you wear the white hat and bust the hacker. In the contest, you match wits with the “perpetrator of a dastardly attack on an unnamed Linux machine last November.”

CBSnews.com reports that Motorola Inc. said
Monday it is halting cellular-phone
manufacturing at a plant in Illinois and laying off about 2,500 workers.

BSD Today has this advisory: “If agent or X11 forwarding is disabled in the ssh client configuration, the client does not request these features
during session setup. This is the correct behaviour.

However, when the ssh client receives an actual request asking for access to the ssh-agent, the client fails to
check whether this feature has been negotiated during session setup. The client does not check whether the
request is in compliance with the client configuration and grants access to the ssh-agent. A similar problem
exists in the X11 forwarding implementation.”

From the CBC: “OpenHack III, a computer-hacking contest
sponsored by eWeek magazine opened Monday. An
army of hackers is up against PitBull, a computer
security product.
Argus Systems Group makes PitBull and claims it’s
virtually impenetrable. That’s why they’re offering a
$50,000 US reward to the hacker who can crack their
code.”

From InfoWorld: The new server company will put out a line of products called “ICE,” which will use Transmeta’s low-power Cursoe chip. Other reports have the servers running Linux, too.

Slashdot readers discuss an article from LinuxDevices.com about Linux-friendly embeddable computers. The story’s rather extensive.