Amid growing criticism of the FBI for not releasing its Carnivore e-mail reading software to the public, one company has released its own version to the specifications of Carnivore. CNN has the story.

Just days after losing a lawsuit to Seagram’s Universal Music Group, MP3.com is facing a new lawsuit. This time from its own shareholders. ZDNet tells us why.

Intel sources have said that, using new technologies, 850 MHz laptops are on the way. They will drop to 700 MHz when they’re running on battery to preserve the life of the on-board power. The story at NW Fusion.

ZDNet is reporting that an anonymous institutional investor is investing over $50,000,000 in embattled software company Corel.

More humor from Segfault: “Most people on the Internet are familiar with the mass broadcasts of email known as spam.
These broadcasts are based on lists of email addresses harvested from the net. Such lists
have traditionally been closed and sold at high prices. We at the FreeSpam Project aim to
end this by providing free, in both the libre and beer meaning, high-quality lists with email
addresses harvested from the net by our network of volunteers. We believe that everyone,
not just people with power or money, should have the right to send high-quality spam.”

Seminars are scheduled in Octobor addressing why Linux is the best solution for embedded
systems, and how you can use it for real-time performance, plus how to
build data acquisition and telecom servers using Linux and achieve both top
performance and maximum flexibility. The seminar is Oct. 3 in Burlington, Mass., and Oct. 5 in Vienna, Va. The
annoucenment is at alllinuxdevices.com.

Linux seller Caldera Systems has
invested $3 million in Ebiz Enterprises, which operates LinuxMall.com and The Linux Store, reports CNet.

“Early this morning, a number of not-quite-open source corporations, ranging from Microsoft to
IBM, annouced that they would begin to publish many part of their applications under the UYF
(Up Yours FSF) license. The upshot of the license is that you are allowed to do anything you want
with the code it is designed for, except compile it.”
The story’s from the humor site Segfault.

AbriaSoft, a Silicon Valley
provider of database solutions for the Internet,
announced its release of the Abria
MySQL Admin Training CD-ROM, its first in a series of MySQL education products.
AbriaSoft is the first company to commercially distribute MySQL into a boxed
package for online database solutions. The press release is at Internet Wire.

From a column at Securityfocus.com: “Every season yields a bumper crop of computer security stories: break-ins, new vulnerabilities, new
products. But this season has also given us a crop of stories about computer security philosophy. There has
been a resurgence in opposition to the full disclosure movement: the theory that states that publishing
vulnerabilities is the best way to fix them. In response, defenders of the movement have published their
rebuttals. And even more experts have weighed in with opinions on the DeCSS case, where a New York
judge ruled that distributing an attack tool is illegal.”