The English language version of Wikipedia has now acquired its one millionth
article. For comparison, Britannica has 120,000:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia_reaches_one_million_articles
Skype put some code into their 10-way conference program limiting it so that it
will only function on Intel dual core CPUs - and get sued by AMD:
http://news.com.com/AMDs+lawyers+call+on+Skype/2100-1006_3-6044365.html
The Knoppix Live CD is turned into an accelerated variant by optimising the
loading sequence of files off the CD, a process is applicable to other live CDs:
http://www.alpha.co.jp/ac-knoppix/index_en.html
Commentary on the NZ govt's guide to using 'infectious' Open Source, produced by
Chapmann Tripp - coincidentally Microsoft's council on copyright enforcement:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/01/0611253
Nanoscale piping is made to form spontaneously on crystal surfaces, forming
sophisticated networks:
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/mech-tech/dn8789.html
And finally. The US military gets to experiment with remote-controlled sharks.
But no frickin' lasers strapped to their frickin' heads:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-03/ns-sst030106.php
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.