Thursday, March 11, 2004

Microsoft behind $50 million SCO investment Executives from Microsoft Corp. introduced The SCO Group Inc. to an investment fund that provided the Lindon, Utah, company with a US$50 million investment last October, a spokesman for the fund confirmed Thursday. [MacCentral] 11:39:25 PM

GOP shifts priorities, advocates Cheeseburger Bill while Rome burns Republican lawmakers are trying to enact the "Cheeseburger Bill," which will sheild restaurant chains from lawsuits for inducing super-sized obesity in their customers. Opponents said the legislation was unnecessary and irresponsible in light of this week's government report identifying obesity as a condition fast catching up to tobacco as the No. 1 preventable cause of death in the United States. Democrats said the fact that the House was devoting almost a full day to the proposal illustrated the misplaced priorities of the Republican majority. [via Boing Boing Blog] 11:56:41 AM

The great escape Immediately after 9/11, dozens of Saudi royals and members of the bin Laden family fled the U.S. in a secret airlift authorized by the Bush White House. One passenger was an alleged al-Qaida go-between, who may have known about the terror attacks in advance. Our first excerpt from "House of Bush, House of Saud." [Salon] 11:51:39 AM

Microsoft Says Latest Software Flaw 'Critical' (Reuters) Microsoft Corp. upgraded a recent security warning to "critical" after discovering new ways in which an attacker could run malicious software on a vulnerable computer. [Yahoo! News - Technology] 11:47:05 AM

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