CNet tells us that Dow Chemical has fired two dozen employees from a Texas plant over sexual and violent pictures sent within their email system.

Daily Radar has a silly feature that allows you to be rejected by cheerleaders in a hurry. Perhaps lessons could be learned from such a script.

Despite their label’s law suit against Napster, punk band ‘Offspring’ is planning to release their next album on line before the CD hits the stores. ZDNet has the story.

D-Link has introduced a new set of wireless LAN cards and control points, priced lower then other existing wireless LAN hardware. The story at NW Fusion.

NW Fusion tells of the internet community’s refusal to participate in SDMI’s encrpytion tests.

ZDNet cites a series of moves by Apple Corp lately, accusing the company of trying to gain, as the article says, control.

MSNBC is reporting on a warning that many computers are compromised and could be used in a new wave of distributed denial of service attacks, similar to what we saw in February.

SecurityFocus is reporting that a common un*x mail client is vulnerable to remote denial of service attacks. The site claims that pine is vulnerable to a malformed-header attack which can render the programme useless until an offending email message is removed.

A CRN story talks about the high-end server’s capabilities:
“The system comes in three configurations that scale from two to
64 processors, 192 PCI slots and 256 Gbytes of memory. Initial
editions run PA RISC chips, but the systems can be upgraded to
the IA-64 processor family in the future. The server supports
HP-UX 11, the company’s current Unix version, as well as the
upcoming HP-UX 11i. It also supports Linux and Windows NT.”

How’d Linux supports get IBM, Intel and other tech heavyweights to back the Open Source Development Lab? LinuxWorld has a story about the lab’s beginnings.