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General News & Current Events:
TODAY'S KEY NET-NEWS HEADLINES
Telecom rural subsidy 'not on'
Regional Development Minister Jim
Anderton has ruled out Government subsidies for
Telecom to provide rural areas with new technology...
NZ Herald
Chris Tyler arrested over cocaine charge in 1981: report
The former head of Solution 6, Chris Tyler, was reportedly arrested in the United
States on cocaine charges almost 20 years ago...
Fairfax
Claims Axed in PlayStation Suit
A federal judge dismisses most charges in Sony's suit
against a company that sells software for playing its
games on home computers. Sony vows to press on
with remaining claims...
Wired
Slashdot struck by denial-of-service attacks
Slashdot.org, the "news for nerds" Web site popular among Linux fans, fell victim to
a series of hacker attacks for three days last week...
CNet
Glitch sends Yahoo Calendar data astray
Yahoo account holders are battling a vexing calendar problem--and a
potentially serious privacy violation--in which the portal is sending their calendar
reminders to the wrong people...
CNet
Oracle Unveils Internet File System
Ellison says the iFS is the first file system designed
for the Internet...
TechWeb
G8 Wants Cooperation on Cybercrime
Imagine Intel or Microsoft riding posse with the Feds to track down vandals on the Internet. It isn't
happening yet, but the world's most powerful industrial nations - desperate to combat global Internet
attacks - made an unprecedented appeal Wednesday to the business world to help police the Web...
Yahoo/AP
Gov't Filing Microsoft Rebuttal
The government will defend its proposed breakup of Microsoft in what essentially will be the last official
word before a federal judge holds a hearing on what remedies to impose on the company's business
practices...
Yahoo/AP
Microsoft's 'Clippy' a security nightmare?
The power behind the oft-unused and much maligned
paper clip assistant can help others break into
Windows computers...
ZDNet
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