CRN reports that the modern computer industry appears to be out of new innovations for at least a few more years, and that all innovations are just built on old developments.

International Data Group reports that the “collaborative development model called open source that spawned Linux and the Apache Web server is on the ropes, criticized publicly by its foes as unworkable, weighed down by internal strife and bruised by a dragging economy” is regrouping at the O’Reilly Conference which will begin Monday July 23rd, with a more executive focus than before.

Wired reports that a “computer glitch mistakenly announced to hundreds of AOL users that they had won a $10,000 prize,” before the announcement caused fake winners’ computers to crash. The real winners of AOL’s contest received a confirmation screen instead of a blue-screen.

In light of the recent arrest of a Russian presenter at Def Con in Las
Vegas, Linux Journal explains why the Digital Millennium Copyright
Act (DMCA) is a bad thing. At the same time as Dimitry Sklyarov was
being arrested for violating the DMCA, some 300,000 Windows NT and
2000 IIS webservers were compromised
by the Code Red worm (up from yesterday’s estimate of 12,000), which was apparently designed to
attack the website of US
President George W. Bush, according to this ZDNet article.
While all this was happening, again
according to ZDNet, US “Attorney General John Ashcroft said
federal officials would crack down on an increasing wave of
cybercrime by beefing up 10 specialized units so they can better
concentrate on catching hackers and pirates.”

use Perl reports that MacPerl version 5.6.1a4 has been released, but warns that the ‘a’ in the version refers to an alpha release.

International Data Group reports that “Linux operating system vendor SuSE Linux AG on Friday named Johannes Nussbickel as its new chief executive officer (CEO).”

The announcement’s at ApacheWeek.com. “The ApacheCon Europe 2001 conference scheduled for Dublin in October has been cancelled, due to financial difficulties
with Camelot Communications. Camelot are the production company who produced all but the very first ApacheCon
conferences.”

From CNet: “U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft said federal officials would crack down
on an increasing wave of cybercrime by beefing up 10
specialized units so they can better concentrate on catching
hackers and pirates.

The squads, dubbed Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property, or
CHIP, units will focus on copyright theft, computer fraud and hacking.” We hope they mean “cracking,” but that would make the name CCIP. More from Wired.com.

CNet catches up on reports that MandrakeSofthas begun an initial public
stock offering to raise about $3.7 million.

Posted at LWN.net: “I’ve released Python 2.1.1 today. This is the final version of this
bugfix release for Python 2.1, and should be fully compatible with
Python 2.1. There should be *no* reason to use 2.1 any more.”