Last night the a group affiliated with the environmental organization Greenpeace cracked the distributed.net statistics web site. The front page was replaced by a image of a giant panda and a notice about the contribution to global warming of the heat given off by processors running the RC5-64 contest.

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates announced today the acquisition of popular Las Vegas nightclub Studio 54 in a stock swap valued at over 2 billion dollars. When contacted, a company spokesperson announced, "Mr. G had such a great time there during Comdex, he just had to buy it!"

Be, Inc. has won a surprising injunction against eBay, the popular Internet auction house. Be, Inc. CEO Jean-Louis Gassee reportedly got the idea to sue eBay when GoTo.com recently successfully forced The Disney Corporation to stop using the traffic-light style logo for its Go.com and Infoseek web sites (see related story).

Transmeta, the secretive and much discussed chip maker, unveiled itself to the world in Linux developer Linus Torvalds keynote Comdex speech here Monday evening.

Pasadena, California -- Astrophysicists and engineers at the California Institute of Technology and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory woke up this morning to disappointing news: The Hubble Space Telescope had suddenly become unable to relay images. "We were downloading the latest batches of images from the Horsehead Nebula when we noticed that all the images were blue with white text on them." reported Dr. Amy Finkel, an astronomer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "We immediately realized that the downloaded imagery was not consistant with our current model of the morphology of the cosmos, so we forwarded the images to our IT department."

It has recently been discovered that the file used as the license for almost every program licenced under the GNU General Public Licence is NOT Y2K-compliant. Two lines of the 'Copying' file, distributed with almost every GPLed program, reference the date with a fixed 19 for the century.

Driven by the current Linux-mania, Microsoft has been forced towards radical countermeasures in order to keep its share of the OS pie. 8.00 AM GMT today Microsoft announced it has now permanently eliminated so called "Blue screen of death" from future Windows versions.

The Federation in all its glory have one major drawback... they refuse to install a decent operating system on board their flagship... The Enterprise. Even the new Sovereign Class warship still has Windows installed. Microsoft may well provide funding for 89 percent of the Federations operations, but still... enoughs enough eh?

CUPERTINO, Calif. November 8, 1999--Symantec Corporation (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced that it will begin supporting users of the Linux operating system with the release of Norton CrashGuard for Linux.

NEW YORK - Late last Friday evening, U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ruled in his findings of fact that Microsoft had Monopoly power in the market for PC operating systems; however, Jackson did not release a statement regarding Microsoft's abilities in the field of Scrabble.

Microsoft Chairman and CEO Bill Gates announced today a new marketing and distribution plan for Microsoft's entire product line. Spurred on by the recent encroachment of the various Linux distributions into the operating system arena, Microsoft has decided to take a fresh approach to software sales, borrowing on the success of such marketing engines as those run by Avon, Shaklee, NuSkin Mary Kay and Tupperware.

A high school student was arrested today in his home for a web page he had created on which he threatened to pound his fists, kick his feet, and cry like a little baby because his parents didn't love him enough.