The Register asks the question: “Is there a co-ordinated attempt taking place to force defacement archives off the
Internet?

After Safemode.org told us that a distributed denial of service attack against it had
caused its ISP to drop it, the question needs to be asked.”

Posted at LWN.net: “This new release fixes some focus problem (the routines in charge of focus in
xfwm have been deeply modified) and includes an entirely rewritten sound module
(xfsound) that can now take advantage of audiolib and aRts (optionnaly, support
for aRts must be specified at ./configure time)”

From MSNBC: “Osama bin Laden has displaced
Pamela Lee Anderson in cyberspace and people looking for
information about the American flag outnumbered those
curious about Britney Spears. For the first time in the short
history of the Internet, popular search engines report that ‘sex’
dropped off their lists of top 10 search terms in the days
following the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.”

From PRNewswire: Driving the development
of emerging Linux-based digital media applications, Texas Instruments
Incorporated (NYSE: TXN) (TI), Ingenient Technologies, Inc. and RidgeRun, Inc.
today announced the availability of an embedded Linux(TM) operating system for
TI’s imaging digital signal processor (DSP) solution, enabling faster and
easier development of streaming video multimedia devices. RidgeRun will
provide its DSPLinux(TM) operating system and Board Support Package (BSP) for
the innovative TI imaging platform, and Ingenient will integrate its MPEG-4
technology, a premier streaming media standard.

That’s the estimate from the National Post on the damage done by the Nimda worm.

From ZDNet Anchordesk: “Microsoft says it wants Passport and Hailstorm, its foundation services for Web-based
applications, to play well with others. So in a shocking move, the company is announcing today
that Passport will be changed to use an Internet-standard security model and Hailstorm won’t be
the only place for users to store their personal information.”

IDG News Service reports that a Tiawan company is close to mass-producing a
tablet PC using Transmeta’s Cruose processor. The PC will run Linux or Windows CE.

The Register: “A Compaq Proliant server cluster is capable of running up a billion transactions a day – apparently a
first in TPC-C (Transaction Processing Council) validated benchmark.

In real life, this is equivalent to the requirements of “more than triple the transactions handled daily,
worldwide, by a large consumer credit card payment processing system”, Q helpfully points out.”

Anonymous Reader writes: “Sensate Inc has launched a system that will deliver streaming MP3 music to wireless devices. Called 2nR-Musiker, the wireless media server for Real Jukebox was released today as a beta.

http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/2001/sensate.ht ml“

CNET: “Microsoft refuted claims Wednesday that the main Web site for its FrontPage software had been infected by the
Nimda virus, despite the antivirus software alarms set off by viewing the site.

On Wednesday, several security experts believed that the software giant–which has often put the responsibility on
customers to patch software holes–had apparently failed to patch at least one major server.

However, Christopher Budd, security program manager for Microsoft’s security response center, said that wasn’t the
case.

“No one is being infected,” he said. “There
is no code to infect people.”

According to Budd, a third-party content
provider that apparently created the
elements for the FrontPage site had been
infected by Nimda.”