The Register: “AOL’s service was hit by a major “meltdown” last night leaving millions of Net users
unable to access email or the Web.

The monster Internet company blamed the incident on a major power failure which
hit Northern Virginia (where its operation is based) at around 7.30pm (GMT).”

Wired: “Napster use goes global, raising the stakes in the copyright protection fight going on in America. Regardless of the outcome, the record labels are probably going to be OK.”

CNET: “Self-declared “start-up junkie” Michael Lin is kicking his dot-com habit–at least
temporarily–by hitting the road.”

The Register: “The latest version of the IA-64 Linux kernel has been released, bringing with it
support for Intel’s McKinley processor, the successor to Itanium.”

Wired: “Hollywood is putting out a new hacker movie with John Travolta. “Swordfish” isn’t as bad as it sounds, however. It actually distinguishes between hackers and crackers.”

PCWorld: “This distinctive-looking CD-RW drive works with either a USB, IEEE 1394, or PC Card
port.”

MSNBC amusement for the day: “If a Windows 95/98 system is experiencing problems accessing
Random Access Memory (RAM), a General Protection Fault
message or an Except EGP Fault error may erupt while running
Kiplinger TaxCut 2000 on a Windows 95/98 based computer.
H&R Block Solutions suggests one of these solutions should
correct the problem: 1) Shutdown and reboot the computer, or;
2) Close any unnecessary programs.”

“This paper provides an introduction to the Lion (1i0n) Worm author and a technical analysis of the Lion Internet Worm. Three unique variations of the Lion Worm have been
released on the Internet over the past month.” More at WhiteHats.com.

InfoWorld: “Sun Microsystems Inc. caught and fixed a bug in
some workstations with its new UltraSPARC III microchip, but technical and scientific
computing performance will drop up to five percent, Sun said Thursday.”

“The scientist behind the CPRM copy control caper took a swipe at The Register in
a lecture at Stanford University yesterday.

Unfortunately Jeff Lotspiech, manager Content Protection Technology Group at
IBM’s Almaden, marred an otherwise excellent talk on the subject with a display of
selective amnesia,” says The Register.