Astronomers find new evidence for dark energy. Astronomers have used radio telescope observations to conclude that two-thirds of the universe is made of a bizarre "dark energy" that may explain why the expansion of the universe is accelerating. [spacetoday.net]
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Microsoft to invest $400 in India over three years. Company will increase size of software development center [InfoWorld: Top News] Well, that's their headline but I have a feeling they meant $400 million... unless this is a Register story that snuck its way into InfoWorld.
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California Coast, Now Online. A former tech exec is photographing California's 1,100-mile coastline and posting the shots online. The database has already helped environmentalists catch polluters, and that has some property owners worried. [Wired News]
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DOJ indicts alleged British hacker. A former systems administrator from London is indicted on charges of hacking and shutting down military systems just after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. [CNET News.com]
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Supreme Court mulls library Net filtering. Debate could set new standards for online speech [InfoWorld: Top News]
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Jedi Archives In Dublin Library? [Slashdot] Heh! Slashdot has picked this up. Not my link, but a Reuters story.
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Cory Doctorow links to O'Reilly's Emerging Technologies Conference call for papers. Sounds fantastic. He discusses it himself here. BTW his guest mini-blogger on Boing Boing at the moment is Clay Shirky, whose fan club I joined after hearing him speak at the O'Reilly P2P conference noted below. A man who is always thought-provoking.
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Ecademy offers free Wi-Fi news site: Excellent aggregation of feeds from many locations for news relating to Wi-Fi.

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Classic Computer Magazine Archive [Slashdot] Nice! Now you'll never get any work done...
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IBM: Linux development pace skyrockets. Company cites 4,200 new apps in past five months [InfoWorld: Top News]
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Three new domains may be added in 2003. ICANN president recommends three sponsored top level domains [InfoWorld: Top News]
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Salesforce.com goes wireless. Hosted CRM company to take wraps off of wireless edition [InfoWorld: Top News]
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World's richest man tries to hold back 'gathering tempest'. Bill Gates announces his biggest philanthropic donation ever - a $100 million initiative to fight the spread of HIV/Aids in India. [Guardian Unlimited] Eh? I was just reading that in 1998 he gave $131 million for vaccines to the developing world...
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Believe It When We See It Dept: Oracle C.F.O. Sees Tech Turnaround in 2003. Jeff Henley, the chief financial officer at Oracle, on Monday said 2003 should mark the end of nearly two years of revenue declines for the world's second-biggest software maker. [New York Times: Technology]
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P2P stars trade up to new gigs. Having helped spark the file-trading revolution, some stars of the peer-to-peer networking world are swapping their original anarchistic philosophies in favor of capitalism. [CNET News.com] Hmmm. Excuse me? Most of these people would have been looking at commercial applications from the beginning... I was out in Calif for the first O'Reilly P2P conference -- nearly 2 years ago now?... and even then, the focus was on creating viable applications and services. The fact that P2P is a classic disruptive technology -- eg enables rather than restricts communication possibilities -- may make it a tool in support of dissonance or freedom of speech or surreptitious activity. But even (most) anarchists need to pay the rent and eat! [grin]
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