joabj writes: “From the Irish Times: “US President George Bush has stopped using email as a form of communication, citing privacy concerns.”

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.”