"Microsoft suffered utter defeat at a crucial pretrial hearing in what appears to be the highest-stakes patent litigation ever; one in which a tiny company called InterTrust Technologies claims that 85% of Microsoft's entire product line infringes its digital security patents." That HAS to hurt.

Are YOU on the RIAA hit list?

Powell's son's, Powell, plan to have all communications mediuims owned by one or two corporation has been nixed by a bipartisan effort. (Well, ok, according to Trent Lott and NPR, House Republicans were a bit hard to turn on the issue, but it had NO support in the Senate. You know you've gone too far when you scare Trent Lott...).

"Cryptographic researchers have outlined techniques to greatly reduce the time it takes to crack alphanumeric Windows passwords." Actually, I think the media hype on this one is a bit greater. One of the first comments in their article on Bugtraq was that everyone always knew it was possible, they just carried the theory through with an application. Nevertheless, that's scary.

SCO's attack on Linux appears to be having some real effects.

"Google, though, is living like the meltdown never happened."

However, Sony suffers 98% profit drop.