Wired.com reports: Tests indicate that the latest portable Macintoshes trail their predecessors in performance. But it’s a popular benchmark, and not the computers, that needs retooling.

PCWorld.com reports that Microsoft won no small victory when the US Supreme Court decided not to
hear a speeded-up appeal of the company’s court-ordered breakup. The case
was sent instead to the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia,
effectively delaying a final decision in the case for as long as two years.

USAToday.com reports that the U.S. Supreme Court signaled
interest in deciding whether antitrust law in some cases forces copyright and
patent owners to sell their products to rivals in other fields.

The Trojan has been distributed on Usenet newsgroups
with various file names, including
SexxxyMovie.mpeg.exe. According to the ISS research
team, X-Force, computer criminals are using infected systems to
test new distributed denial-of-service attack methods
and strategies. From TechWeb.com.

CNET.com reports that Motorola said Tuesday it would boost its G4 processor to 1 GHz and beyond, although it is unclear
when or if Apple Computer will adopt the faster chips.

Software developers are contaminating free software by adding their bits of non-free code to it and re-packaging it. Richard Stallman explains why this is a very bad thing, at MaximumLinux.com.

CNET.com reports that the Orange County Register’s website was vandalized, and an article stating that Jason Diekman had cracked NASA computers was changed, implying that world’s richest man Bill Gates was the culprit instead.

OpenOne corporation announced at LinuxPR.com that it had simplified its MailOne Linux-based licensing model

They say that quantum mechanics and atomic physics will come into play more often as the solution to getting all that technology packed into something as tiny as a single gold hoop. From Infoworld.com.

LinuxPPC has licensed the Hard Disk Toolkit partitioning tool from FWB Software, which should allow Mac users to skip the disk erasing/partitioning step of Linux installation. From LinuxPR.