Another new work is capable of updating itself, warns Russian anti-virus firm Kaspersky Lab, according to InternetNews.

A NASA researcher says that Mars may not be wet as research earlier this year suggested. Using data from research on Devon Island in northern Canada, Pascal Lee offers a different explanation. The story is at the Boston Globe.

InfoWorld is covering the source code release of POSSL: Panther Open Source Software for Linux. JYACC hopes to help jumpstart Linux application development.

BSDi has received an infusion of cash from Livin’ On The Edge, a Japanese firm, reports Linux PR.

ZDNet reports that BlueTooth is being released by IBM for Linux developers under the name BlueDrekar.

From SecurityFocus.com: The FreeBSD advisory regarding this vulnerability (FreeBSD-SA-00:61) offered
the following possible solutions:

1) Upgrade your vulnerable FreeBSD system to 4.1.1-STABLE or
3.5.1-STABLE after the respective correction dates.

2a) FreeBSD 3.x systems prior to the correction date.

From the humor site Segfault: The University of Southern California today continued to defend its
lawsuits claiming ownership of the term ‘Trojan horse.’ In the wake of a serious breach of
Microsoft system security, USC officials and representatives have steadfastly held that the
university holds a trademark on the phrase ‘Trojan horse.’ USC President Steven B. Sample
today added, ‘the Men and Women of Troy will pursue all available avenues to defend USC’s
software-related intellectual property.’ The author even manages to work FreeBSD into the piece.

Oreilly.linux.com has an article on installing Linux on a Mac G4: “What was once a Unix-geeks operating system
is now drawing attention from people in all corners of computing: from those
developing massively parallel computing architectures at universities to senior
citizens at home wanting to get a handle on this Internet revolution. Among this
diversity I’ve noticed that a noteworthy segment of users are attempting to install
LinuxPPC 2000 on their PowerPC G4s. Because I happen to share the opinion
that the G4 hardware is very appealing, I’m going to describe in laymen’s terms
how to perform a LinuxPPC installation on a Macintosh PowerPC G4.”

Maximum Linux reports that OpenSales, the provider of Open Source e-commerce apps will change its name to Zelerate, which has expanded its services department and
brought on a new member to the executive team. A press release is at LWN.net.

From LinuxDevices via ZDNet: “Agenda Computing has manufactured a limited pre-production build of several hundred VR3 PDAs and is going to make them available at a highly discounted price to developers who want to be in the forefront of creating apps for the new Linux PDA.”