Wednesday, October 23, 2002

Armed Men Take Moscow Audience Hostage. Armed men entered a Moscow theater today and took the audience hostage, the Federal Security Service said. By The Associated Press. [New York Times: NYT HomePage] 12:50:36 PM

Washington Post: Attack On Internet Called Largest Ever . Around 5:00 p.m. EDT on Monday, a "distributed denial of service" attack struck the 13 "root servers" that provide the primary roadmap for almost all Internet communications. Despite the scale of the attack, which lasted about an hour, Internet users worldwide were largely unaffected, experts said. [Tomalak's Realm] 12:50:15 PM

Simple Code a Model for Universe?. Speaking at PopTech, scientist and author Stephen Wolfram awes attendees with his simple yet startling theory that basic computer code can uncover complex patterns in the natural world. Katie Dean reports from Camden, Maine. [Wired News] 9:38:41 AM