Wired story in “gee whiz” vein about new high-tech, ultra-wired communities that allow mere millionaires to live as electronified a life as Bill Gates and the other super-rich have for the past few years. (Doubts are raised in the story about whether all this is worthwhile.)

Series of articles debuts at Linux Journal about not rebuilding your kernel. Or rebooting. Good meat here for strong techies, but in language not-so-strong techies can follow (and learn from).

It seems that Compaq and other PDA makers can’t keep up with can’t keep up with demand because parts (especially LCD screens) are in short supply. (Story at ZDnet.co.uk.)

Slashdot story (links to NetCraft survey) describes the difference between stats showing active Web sites being served by various operating systems and server software packages and the typical total sites hosted numbers usually cited.

It’s over for popular (but money-losing) APBNews . Wired.com says SafetyTips.com withdrew from an agreement to buy the company for $950,000, so APBNews is now up for auction (although not on eBay – yet).

There was some noise and
more traditional press back in April about Intel releasing their Common Data Security Architecture as
open source in May. That initial open sourced code built only on Windows. But now Intel has released an update to CDSA that includes a Linux port. CDSA provides cryptographic and security services through a
unified API while still allowing custom modules to provide those services. CDSA is an Open Group standard that was created by many companies and is freely available. –Patrick Ryan

Does household income determine the amount of time Internet
users spend online? asks this TechWeb story. And it answers, Yes, and it also indicates site genre and content preference, said
Media Metrix Inc., a New York-based Web research firm.

According to an exclusive Chicago Tribune piece, KACD-FM 103.1, an adult alternative rock station in Santa Monica, CA, is the first traditional radio station to give up over-the-air broadcasting and move 100% onto the ‘net.

(with many reader comments) A Slashdot story (with over 300 reader comments attached) links to an MPAA brief in one of the many lawsuits surrounding DeCSS. The opening lines of said brief attack the …so-called “open source” movement, which is dedicated to the proposition that material, copyrighted or not,
should be made available over the Internet for free.

News.com story says,

Yahoo plans to let its email account holders use data scrambling to protect the privacy of their
messages, marking a potentially significant advance for the mainstream use of encryption.