From The Associated Press: “Microsoft reiterated its desire Wednesday for the
Supreme Court to decide whether a federal court judge was biased against
the company and tainted antitrust proceedings that resulted in a guilty
verdict and breakup order.”

From Net-Security.org: “A buffer overflow exists in xli due to missing boundary
checks. This could be triggered by an external attacker
to execute commands on the victim’s machine. An exploit
is publically available. xli is an image viewer that is
used by Netscape’s plugger to display TIFF, PNG, and
Sun-Raster images.”

The Associated Press reports that the 17-year-old computer cracker who jammed major Web sites was sentenced Wednesday to eight
months in a detention center and fined $165.

eeTimes: “As the death toll mounted Wednesday (Sept. 12) from the terror bombings that hit New
York and Washington, the victim roll began to stretch across the technology spectrum.

Four Raytheon employees, three top managers at a German CAD company, the founder of an
Internet-services company and at least two employees of communications companies have been
identified so far among the known dead.”

ZDNet reports that
Lineo has laid off more than half of its work force, and Ebiz Enterprises has filed for
bankruptcy protection. More from IDG News Service.

Anonymous Reader writes, “It seems a Swedish company is trying something new: bringing companies to the Free Software community instead of the community to the companies. Read about it at WildeBeest.se.”

PCWorld: “A cloud of depression hovered over attendees at a Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association event held here, but the group turned to the very
technology that they have helped create to contact workers in the affected areas and elsewhere.

A number of vendors here touted the power of text messages, which run predominately over Internet Protocol, and wireless modems as a way to avoid clogged
cellular networks.”

The Register: “Maxtor this week began volume shipments of a very big, very fast hard drive (HDD) and announced a
even bigger, and even faster HDD, supposedly the biggest and fastest drive the world has ever seen.
(Actually, the company is claiming the world’s biggest desktop drive – Seagate has a 180GB
monster.)”

NetworkWorldFusion: “In the wake of Tuesday’s terrorist attack, technology
companies are rushing to aid the families of victims, for
disaster relief and to businesses affected by the tragedy.”

Wired: “The Coup, a California hip-hop duo, finds itself in the hot seat over an eerily prescient CD cover depicting twin explosions at the World Trade Center towers.”