MSNBC reports on some research out of Berkeley on why penguins waddle along so comically. It turns out our favourite flightless birds walk like pendulums to save energy.

ZDNet reports that ICANN is taking flack from the people responsible for 8 of the 37 rejected top level domain names.

Highlights from the article: “The Internet reaches a demographic milestone as a new study reveals that for the
first time, the majority of U.S. Internet users are FBI agents posing as teenage girls,” and “Online advertising network DoubleClick, under fire from the New York state attorney general for its plan to
personally identify Web surfers and their habits through its software, denies it ever implemented the scheme and
offers to make amends by paying for online subscriptions to “any of the numerous porn sites” the attorney general
frequents daily between 11:35 a.m. and 2 p.m. from his Dell XPS D300 office computer running Windows 98 and
Netscape Communicator 4.6.” Sure, every news Web site in the world does some sort of “Year in Review” feature in December or January, but only SatireWire’s version of this tradition is full of items (like the samples above) that’ll make you laugh so hard you’ll need to wipe your monitor after you read them

SecurityFocus reports: “jpilot is a palm device synching suite designed to run on the Linux
Operating System, and written by Judd Montgomery. A problem exists
which could allow users unauthorized access to sensitive information.”

“Insecurely-structured calls to syslog() found in certain versions of
Stunnel (prior to version 3.9) pass user-supplied data to the syslog()
function in such a way that maliciously embedded format specifiers in
this data can cause the process to overwrite sections of its own
memory with arbitrary data.” Full details at SecurityFocus.

Linux Journal reviews Richard Monson-Haefel’s Enterprise JavaBeans, Second Edition.

LWN.net has the details of Red Hat’s Zope fix.

From this week’s update, posted at LWN.net: “Effective today, 0.4.1 has been released, and it incorporates fixes to
a couple of bugs from 0.4.0. If you haven’t gotten it yet, and you
aren’t heavily invested in your 0.4.0 install yet, make life easier
for yourself–download the RPMs for 0.4.1 and install those.”

From LWN.net: “Continuing the popular tradition of our 1998 and 1999 Linux Timelines, here is our attempt to summarize what has happened in the Linux world over the last year.”

The tenth issue of LyX Development News is now online at LyX.org.