ZDNet focuses on the gender imbalance in the technology industry and the roots of the problem.

The EE Times is reporting on a new standard to be ratified in 2002… 10 gigabit ethernet.

“Microsoft, Red Hat Software, and Sun microsystems have sued the maintainers of BUGTAQ
for violations of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, or DMCA. A spokesperson for the
three companies said in a press release that BUGTRAQ for years has been publishing and
distributing hyperlinks and plaintext code that allow people to subvert the security systems in
their operating systems.” That’s from the humor site Segfault.

From the humor site, Segfault: “Some call the remarkable appearance of a MS Office clone written in Perl a gift from the Almighty;
others say it proves that Perl is indistingushable from line noise.:

Reports InfoWorld: “Although the stringent testing process Microsoft put in place for Windows 2000 Datacenter Server brings the server closer to the realm of Unix-based hardware and software integration, competitors are not convinced that Windows can compete with Unix. Vendors that build both the hardware and software can more effectively integrate the two, said Rich Sands, analyst for Solaris marketing at Sun Microsystems.”

Fujitsu will release two notebooks using Crusoe processors from Transmeta in November; that brings the total number of companies coming out with Transmeta-based
products to seven, reports CNet.

From a story at LinuxWorld:”Even though Trolltech responded to the GNU community and placed KDE under an
open license, developers may still turn away. Nick Petreley fears they just won’t want to
pay the license fee associated with the Qt toolkit with which KDE was created.”

There’s been a lot of reporting about the first virus targeting handhelds. From CNet : “The first virus targeting Palm users has been discovered by antivirus software makers,
raising new questions about the security of handheld computers and wireless devices. The Phage.936 virus was discovered by antivirus researchers at McAfee.com and Finland-based
F-Secure last night. The virus erases third-party applications on infected Palm operating systems,
filling the display screen with a dark gray box.”

The Washington Post has a story about the long-running domain-name dispute between animal rights group PETA and peta.org, the fictitious People Eating Tasty Animals, which links to mink merchants, trapping clubs and cattle breeders.

CNet has a story on SafeMessage, a messaging service that lets people send heavily encrypted
email directly to each other, which could be a boon for privacy advocates but a
headache for law enforcement authorities.