LinuxDevices: “SnapGear, Inc. has announced the development of a Linux-based secure embedded appliance for sports and race wagering and fixed odds sports betting over the Internet and telephone, in Australia.” Read more here.

CNN: “IBM Corp. will pay the city of San Francisco $100,000 for an ad campaign in which sidewalks were spray-painted and also will cover cleanup expenses, which could run another $20,000.” Read more here.

Kernel.org: Linux kernel 2.4.17pre1 has just been released. You can download it from the master kernel archive, or from one of the mirrors.

pre1:

- Change USB maintainer 			(Greg Kroah-Hartman)
- Speeling fix for rd.c				(From Ralf Baechle's tree)
- Updated URL for bigphysmem patch in v4l docs  (Adrian Bunk)
- Add buggy 440GX to broken pirq blacklist 	(Arjan Van de Ven)
- Add new entry to Sound blaster ISAPNP list	(Arjan Van de Ven)
- Remove crap character from Configure.help	(Niels Kristian Bech Jensen)
- Backout erroneous change to lookup_exec_domain (Christoph Hellwig)
- Update osst sound driver to 1.65		(Willem Riede)
- Fix i810 sound driver problems		(Andris Pavenis)
- Add AF_LLC define in network headers		(Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
- block_size cleanup on some SCSI drivers	(Erik Andersen)
- Added missing MODULE_LICENSE("GPL") in some   (Andreas Krennmair)
  modules
- Add ->show_options() to super_ops and 
  implement NFS method				(Alexander Viro)
- Updated i8k driver				(Massimo Dal Zoto)
- devfs update  				(Richard Gooch)

Jack Valenti, President and C.E.O. of the MPAA, today praised the ruling by the New York Appeals Court for the Second Circuit on the Eric Corley DeCSS case, stating that “[t]he decision of the Second Circuit confirms the constitutionality of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. It makes very clear that anyone who makes available material which circumvents encryption of creative works violates the law.” Read more in this press release.

Jack Valenti, President and C.E.O. of the MPAA, today praised the ruling by the New York Appeals Court for the Second Circuit on the Eric Corley DeCSS case, stating that “[t]he decision of the Second Circuit confirms the constitutionality of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. It makes very clear that anyone who makes available material which circumvents encryption of creative works violates the law.” Read more in this press release.

Jack Valenti, President and C.E.O. of the MPAA, today praised the ruling by the New York Appeals Court for the Second Circuit on the Eric Corley DeCSS case, stating that “[t]he decision of the Second Circuit confirms the constitutionality of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. It makes very clear that anyone who makes available material which circumvents encryption of creative works violates the law.” Read more in this press release.

Jack Valenti, President and C.E.O. of the MPAA, today praised the ruling on the Eric Corley DeCSS by the New York Appeals Court for the Second Circuit, stating that “[t]he decision of the Second Circuit confirms the constitutionality of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. It makes very clear that anyone who makes available material which circumvents encryption of creative works violates the law.” Read more in this press release.

Linux Security: “A malicious user could get postfix to exhaust a machine’s memory by abusing its session cache which could result in a denial of service attack. The updated postfix packages will fix these potential problems.” Read more here.

“LinuxTrainers has opened its doors, er, ports for the support and informing of all trainers who use, support or teach open systems. The site features articles, classroom howto’s and an email list to begin with. Contributions of time or articles and howtos are appreciated.” Read more in this press release.

NewsAlert.com explains how Google became the success it is today, from the simplicity of its design to the use of Linux servers and its stubborn concentration on its purpose: web searches.