Anandtech: “After months and even years of waiting the first dual processor Athlon platform is here with a new processor to boast as well. Find out how Dual Athlon MPs stack up to Intel’s Xeon and find out about the successor to the 760MP that will be released later this year.”

Wired: “With Napster signed on as a distribution partner, RealNetworks became the company most likely to bring music to your PC — with security. Their security.”

The Register: “Crackers could ferret their way into a victim’s email by exploiting the way that
Exchange 2000 allows users to access their in-boxes over the Web.

Microsoft has issued a patch; the flaw revolves around the interaction between
Outlook Web Access and Internet Explorer in handling message attachments.”

Globe and Mail: “On-line
music fans, however, know that Napster is already quite dead
– or at the very least critically injured and close to flat-lining.
The major labels may try to shock it back to life, but there is no
sign of brain activity, and the humane thing to do would be to
admit the obvious.

Napster’s demise has been a death of a thousand cuts, ending with a whimper rather than a bang.”

ComputerUser: “Thirty-six Defense Web masters had tracking code on their sites. Ten knew about them, of which seven said they didn’t know
that the Defense department forbids them.”

LinuxJournal: “Many people really do have everything sitting in one network, so it does pay to watch that network. Unfortunately, there is an awful lot happening, and it
can be darn difficult to imagine what it all looks like.”

ZDNET: “Red Hat has remained the most visible Linux packager
and a prominent Windows competitor by releasing
high-quality products with lots of extra features and
plenty of professional sheen.”

Linux Weekly News: “Last week we posted a reader survey and a request for
volunteers to fill it out for us. We have received thousands of responses over the last
week, despite the fact that numerous people had difficulties with the Tucows survey form. We greatly
appreciate all of you who have taken the time to fill out the survey and provide us with much-needed
information. One of the best things about producing LWN is the quality of readers we have been able
to attract. Thanks!”

LinuxJournal: “The face of Linux gaming has changed enormously in the last couple of years. As people started to put down their named.conf files and YP maps and
started to pick up their plasma rifles and rail guns, commercial Linux games hit the big time. Today, commercial Linux games can be found in the aisles of
retail store chains and all over the Internet.”

Kelly McNeill writes “One aspect of Microsoft’s new cryptography-based security — and a more troubling one at that — is that programs will need to be digitally signed in order to be executed, similar to how ActiveX controls are currently signed. However, like ActiveX controls, no internal controls exist to prevent a malicious program from being executed.
…
Mandatory Access Protocols, on the other hand, force all applications to conform to a certain set of security protocols. While Mandatory Access Protocols are not available in any commercial operating system, the NSA rewrote the Linux kernel to include and enforce Mandatory Access Protocols in what it calls Security-Enhanced Linux updated to the 2.4.3 kernel. The NSA proved that Mandatory Access Protocols could be incorporated into a commercial operating system, and the code is available for free at the NSA Web site.”