July 19, 2002

A man has been arrested in connection with the kidnapping and killing of 5-year-old Samantha Runnion, police in California said today. Authorities identified the man as Alejandro Avila. [ CNN ] 1:02:19 PM

From Slashdot: : "One year ago today (July 19, 2001), more than 359,000 computers were infected with the Code Red worm in less than 14 hours. At the peak of infection, more than 2,000 new machines were infected each minute. Servers running Internet Information Services from Microsoft were propagating this worm across the Internet faster than anything has up to then or since. For the first time, systems running the Apache web server were getting requests for a document called "default.ida". Here we are a year later, and my web log shows an average of forty-two requests per day for default.ida over the last five days. To really appreciate the spread of this program, look at this animated image." 9:57:54 AM

Ask Jeeves Links Up With Google. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Hoping to end its history of losses, Ask Jeeves Inc. said its online search engines will start listing advertising-driven results provided by its more popular rival, Google, in a deal expected to generate sales of at least $100 million during the next three years. By The Associated Press. [New York Times: Technology] 8:53:55 AM

Lawyers defending British-born Islamic militant Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh said they had appealed on Friday against his conviction and death sentence for the kidnap and murder of U.S. reporter Daniel Pearl. 8:35:03 AM

A businessman has won a court battle against beer giant Molson over the rights to the Internet domain name Canadian.biz. In an Ontario Superior Court ruling released Thursday, Justice Blenus Wright determined that Douglas Black is the rightful owner of the domain name and Molson has no claim to it. Black's lawyer, Zak Muscovitch, was elated with the court's decision. 8:09:10 AM

New Scientist. An amino acid, one of the building blocks of life, has been spotted in deep space. If the find stands up to scrutiny, it means that the sorts of chemistry needed to create life are not unique to Earth rifying one of astrobiology`cherished theories. [Daypop Top News Stories] 8:02:12 AM