Herring reports that Moore’s law is starting to be broken by the massive increases in CPU technology, with the shift from 0.18 to 0.13 micron circuits.

Kelly McNeill writes “Amid speculation by critics and analysts that Microsoft is employing stall tactics in order to launch its Windows XP operating system, the company is reportedly ready to sit down this week and discuss a possible settlement to the four-year-old antitrust suit.”

KDE dot claims that the city of Largo, Florida, is switching to KDE for its production systems, though there are a list of features which have KDE has been asked to improve to help.

From PR Newswire: A shareholder sued Transmeta
Corporation (Nasdaq: TMTA) today, claiming that the company misled investors
about its main product, the law firm of Berman DeValerio Pease Tabacco Burt &
Pucillo said.

Wired.com reports that Adobe is recommending the FBI free jailed Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov, instead of prosecuting him for copyright infringement, like Adobe originally wanted. NewScientist.com has background on the case. Here’s the EFF’s press release on Adobe’s latest stance.

From CNet: “A flaw in widely used Unix software could allow attackers to gain control over computers
running Solaris, HP-UX and several versions of Linux, security analysts and the company
selling the software warned Monday.

SSH Communications Security, a Finnish company, reported Monday that the latest edition of its
SSH Secure Shell software, version 3.0.0, released June 21, can let an attacker gain control over
some Unix or Linux computers.”

Reuters reports that Sen. Charles Schumer will “demand that Windows XP allow
users to choose their media player, messenger service and
other applications instead of being forced to use Microsoft
applications.”

ZDNet has more information on recent staff cuts by SuSE, and its promotion of its CFO.

ZDNet has a column about Linux’s ability to turn old “mutt” computers into working machines.

Interactive Week has more on Korean Air’s switch to Linux on an IBM mainframe.