Online music maverick, MP3.com, is continuing to negotiate with Universal Music, just a week after a judge ruled it violated copyright laws and should pay the music giant $250 million in damages, reports the CBC.

While a staunch competitor of Napster, Bob Kohn, founder and chief executive officer of EMusic.com actually voiced some support for the rival music-swapping site during the Internet Law & Policy Forum held here Monday. The story is at PC World.

Learn more about Perl — whether you’re a beginner or on your way to Guru status — at the O’Reilly University of Perl 2000. O’Reilly’s tutorial programs for Perl programmers, feature intensive two-day programs, taught by core Perl developers, in four locations across the country. The press release is at LinuxPR.

A bug exists in two PAM modules: pam_smb and pam_ntdom. They are
pluggable authentication modules that allow authentication of usernames
and passwords in PAM-compatible environments against Windows and Samba.
Both modules contain remotely exploitable stack buffer overflows. This
bug allows an attacker to execute arbitary code as root. The versions
affected are: pam_smb advisory is at LWN.net.

What would it take to get former Netscape CEO James Barksdale to give money to the lead engineer behind the Web browser that crushed his company and launched the federal antitrust suit against Microsoft? A dozen top Microsoft engineers, including the lead engineers for Internet Explorer and Access, and the head of the “Dot-Net” initiative, are starting a company to try to take the hassle out of running an Internet company. And Barksdale thinks it’s a good enough idea that he joined a $10 million venture round, reports ZDNet.

From a story at afr.com.au: “Recording and movie companies were fighting a losing battle to try to control the copying and distribution of their products over the internet, John Gage, the chief scientist at computer maker Sun Microsystems said.”

“This is the mother of all computers.” So claimed Hewlett-Packard Co.’s Duane Zitzner, president of computing systems, as he helped roll out HP’s latest high-end Unix server line, the Superdome HP 9000, in New York City on Tuesday, reports ZDNet.

Libertarian Party presidential candidate Harry Browne has a message for some of the folks in Silicon Valley: You might think you’re libertarian, but you’re not. The story is at ZDNet.

The community at Slashdot discusses Intervideo’s promise to deliver a “legal” Linux DVC player.

From a review of IBM’s new notebook at ZDNet: Transmeta Corp.’s Crusoe chips may also be in the future for the X-series.