Linux systems with the KDE desktop (which also runs on Windows) are
to be deployed to 36 million students in Brazil, 52m by Q4 2009:
http://piacentini.livejournal.com/7871.html
Hans Reiser, creator of the ReiserFS file system used in several
commercial Linux distros, is found guilty of first-degree murder:
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/04/reiser-guilty-o.html
David Litchfield publishes hacks that allow date and number data
types to inject malicious content to Oracle databases:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9080378&intsrc=hm_list
Cray collaborates with Intel to boost their positions in the high-end
computer market:
http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN2849495620080428
And finally. Scientists in Germany create a prototype chip capable
spinning rough spider silk fibres. Spiderman need not worry though:
http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn13790-glass-chip-spins-silk-just-like-a-spider.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=news5_head_dn13790
News collated from various sources by Vik Olliver for Diamond Age Solutions Ltd. The views presented in this document are the personal opinion of the collator, and should not be taken as any more than that.