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Flaw Found In Popular E-Mail Scrambling Program Hacker Could Take Control Of User's Computer POSTED: 8:31 a.m. EDT July 11, 2002 WASHINGTON -- The world's most popular software for scrambling sensitive e-mails suffers from a programming flaw that could allow hackers to attack a user's computer and, in some circumstances, unscramble messages. The software, called Pretty Good Privacy, or PGP, is the de facto standard for encrypting e-mails and is widely used by corporate and government offices, including some FBI agents and U.S. intelligence agencies. The scrambling technology is so powerful that until 1999 the federal government sought to...

Gamers invade Army Web siteThu Jul 11,12:34 PM ETDavid BeckerThe U.S. Army announced that more than 400,000 people have downloaded the service's new recruiting game since it became available last week. More resources from CNET:  ?  CNET News.com: Top CIOs  ?  Tech gifts for Father's Day, click here!  ?  Find a job you love. Over 1 million postings.  ?  Live Tech Help. Submit your question now. CNET Newsletters: News.com Daily Dispatch News.Context (weekly) News.com Investor (Daily) More Newsletters(CNet/ZDNet Privacy Policy) News.com Video:  ?  Tech hurdles ahead for e911    As previously reported by CNET News.com, "America's Army" is a pair...

<p>SAN FRANCISCO (AP) --  Online search engines are built to find information in seconds. But most leading sites appear to be taking their time meeting a federal request for more transparency on how money influences their display of search results.</p>

By Andrew Orlowski in LondonPosted: 07/10/2002 at 08:27 EST In January we revealed that Microsoft had acquired a chunk of SGI's graphics portfolio. At the time we mused if the Beast had a plan to scupper OpenGL. This was taking paranoia too far, wise heads told us. But in the minutes of the OpenGL developer meeting, it's clear that Microsoft has staked an IP claim on portions of the OpenGL spec, and it's willing to license it's patents on RAND terms. "Microsoft believes they have patent rights relating to the ARB_vertex_program extension. They did not contribute to the extension, but...

Tech Pioneer's Death Called Suicide Tue Jul 9, 7:48 PM ETBy RON HARRIS, Associated Press Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A pioneer of the technology that took Internet file-sharing far beyond Napster ( news - web sites), Gene Kan became something of an unofficial spokesman for one of the hottest software developments to survive the Internet boom. Photos AP Photo On Tuesday, the 25-year-old Kan was mourned by colleagues after being found dead of what authorities said was an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound. Sue Turner of the San Mateo County medical examiner's office said Kan's body was found July 2...

July 9 — Broadband providers are cracking down on popular Wi-Fi networks, threatening to cut service to customers who set up the inexpensive wireless systems and allow others to freely tap into their Internet access. Time Warner Cable of New York City has given 10 customers less than a week to stop using their accounts to provide a wireless local area network available to anyone within 300 feet. The letters are just an initial volley; Time Warner expects to send additional letters, while AT&T Broadband also is preparing similar letters for some of its customers. The crackdown is reminiscent of...

Boosting the power of "Passport" By Paul Hales: Tuesday 09 July 2002, 10:19 MICROSOFT HAS PLANS to incorporate credit card details into its controversial Passport system, allowing users to make online purchases with the system and the Vole to track individuals wherever they go. News.com says Microsoft will strike a deal today with Arcot Systems -- which makes credit card payment systems -- to build a service which will allow banks to verify credit card transactions using Microsoft's Password username and password. According to research firm Gartner, the Passport service has about 14 million registered users, but one advantage of...

Big backing for Opteron, if true By Adamson Rust: Tuesday 09 July 2002, 09:27 THE WALL ST JOURNAL could hardly be described as a rumour mongering site so the rumour it mongered yesterday in a story it wrote about Intel's Itanic has to be taken more seriously than, say, any British publication whatsoever. The Wall St Journal has been known to fact check a story so much that the hacks feel they're being given the third degree. Yesterday, a long and worthy piece about whether big corporations will follow up their IA-32 server farms with IA-64 "big tin" terminated with...

No systems spotted on the horizon By Paul Hales: Tuesday 09 July 2002, 12:58 INTEL YESTERDAY TRUMPETED the launch of its new high-end server ship (Oops...) and said that a whole gang of systems makers were lining up to build nice, robust server boxes based on the fantastic new Itanium 2. So where are they? Well, apart from the "New HP", which has embraced the announcement whole-heartedly and even produced a cheesy little a cartoon here on its corporate propaganda pages, (we don't recommend it) to herald the new age of IT2, other "partners" have been conspicuously quiet amidst the...

Computers of the future could be controlled by eye movements, rather than a mouse or keyboard. Scientists at Imperial College, London, are working on eye-tracking technology that analyses the way we look at things. The team are trying to gain an insight into visual knowledge - the way we see objects and translate that information into actions. "Eye-trackers will one day be so reliable and so simple that they will become yet another input device on your computer, like a much more sophisticated mouse," said Professor Guang-Zhong Yang of the Department of Computing at Imperial College. Needle in a haystack...

Recently, the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution (ADTI) released a report entitled Opening the Open Source Debate, which condemned open source software. While the ADTI may be a little-known research firm, the white paper created quite a stir in the Internet community. This may have been due in part to the fact that the document was heralded by a panicky ADTI press release entitled Open Source Software May Offer Target for Terrorists. According to the announcement, "terrorists trying to hack or disrupt U.S. computer networks might find it easier if the federal government attempts to switch to open source as some...

    Light turns into glowing liquid   09:20 07 July 02 Eugenie Samuel   Light can be turned into a glowing stream of liquid that splits into droplets and splatters off surfaces just like water. The researchers who've worked out how to do this say "liquid light" would be the ideal lifeblood for optical computing, where chips send light around optical "circuits" to process data. The concentrated light pulse would bounce off a surface just like a liquid drop Liquid light sounds like a contradiction, since the three phases - gas, liquid and solid - usually only apply to atomic matter....

<p>Irvine -- The Saleen S7 has everything you need to get to work in style: CD player, leather seats, air conditioning and power windows.</p> <p>There is a catch: It sells for $395,000.</p> <p>Despite the car's hefty price tag, Saleen Inc. is selling its Saleen S7 models faster than it can make them.</p>

<p>Despite the tech doldrums, this computer-security outfit has just secured $24.3 million in new VC funding, and sales are exploding.</p> <p>Can you give something away and still make money? That was the way of the early Web, and few companies that charted that course in those treacherous waters lived to tell the tale. Then there's ZoneLabs, which started out in 1997 handing out free downloads of an advanced personal firewall.</p>

Opteron and Itanium: Two Roads to 64-bit ComputingBy Johan De Gelas Friday, July 5, 2002 7:51 AM EDT A flood of articles have already been written about AMD's Opteron, otherwise known as Sledgehammer and Clawhammer DP. Quite a few editorials believe it will become a very popular server and workstation CPU which will force Intel to follow in AMD's footsteps and introduce 64-bit extensions in their current 32-bit x86 line. At the same time, Intel and many industry analysts claim that 64-bit CPUs for the workstation and desktop are more of a marketing gimmick than anything else, at least...

SHANGHAI, July 6 (Xinhuanet) -- PC giant Dell said Friday its first research and development center outside the Untied States has been set up in Shanghai, the biggest industrial and business center in China. Ken Lanshe, general manager of the Dell (China) Product Research & Development Center, said Dell made the decision to open the center because it is confident in the Chinese economy and in the other parts of the Asian and Pacific region. He also cited abundant human resources, convenient transportation and logistic support systems as other major reasons Dell has selected Shanghai as the location for...

<p>NEW YORK (AP) It could be the new superhero of metals.</p> <p>More than twice as strong as titanium and steel, it doesn't rust and it can be cast like plastic and honed to an edge as sharp as glass.</p> <p>And like any superhero, it has a weakness: don't heat it too much, or it loses its strength.</p>

Justice probe of Sun could spur new look at H-1B visas By Margaret Quan EE Times June 28, 2002 (12:10 p.m. EST) MANHASSET, N.Y.—A Justice Department preliminary investigation to determine whether Sun Microsystems Inc. might have discriminated against U.S. citizens and favored foreign workers could spur a congressional reexamination of the H-1B visa program, legal experts say. Guy Santiglia, a former Sun Microsystems hardware test engineer who lost his job when the company laid off 3,900 employees last November, filed a complaint with the Department of Justice claiming the company favored H-1B visa workers in the layoff while primarily cutting...

Ambitious Lindows tries to put a friendly face on Linux By Kristi Heim July 5, 2002 Mercury News • Tech Test Drive: Lindows makes Windows look good If Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is Goliath, Michael Robertson wants to be David. He hopes, at least, to knock some chinks in Gates' armor by loosening Microsoft's stranglehold on the market for PC desktop operating systems. A couple of years ago, Robertson went up against the recording industry and lost as the creator of popular music site MP3.com. This time, as founder and CEO of San Diego start-up Lindows.com, he's aiming at Windows, the...

PALO ALTO, Calif. -(Dow Jones)- If at first you don't succeed, bring out Itanium 2. That is what Intel Corp. (INTC) will do on Monday to rising expectations that this new top-of-the-line chip will do what its predecessor couldn't: compete for the most demanding of corporate computing jobs. That will mean taking on the titans of high-tech computing, International Business Machines Corp. (IBM), Sun Microsystems Inc. (SUNW) and Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ), all of whom make the powerful Unix servers companies rely on for their internal business systems. Intel is expected to unveiled three Itanium 2 chips, and computer makers such...