Wired: The most productivity-enhancing feature of Microsoft’s Windows XP, set for release in October, won’t be mentioned in the ad campaign. But somewhere between adding product activation and Passport authentication to the new OS, Microsoft programmers finally installed a fix for the most dreaded bug of all: the Blue Screen of Death.
Sunday Mail: AMERICAN investigators are hunting a Pakistani man, who overstayed his visa, so they can question him about two anthrax-laced letters.
Wired: Researchers from Johns Hopkins University, IBM and the University of Maryland are developing speech recognition software to allow historians and scholars to search through more than 51,000 video interviews from Holocaust survivors, witnesses and liberators.
Register: PC sales for Western Europe dropped 12 per cent in the third quarter, with the spread of the economic slowdown into continental Europe being blamed.
Gartner: Free IM systems introduce a host of security concerns: instant messages are transmitted as clear text, using simplistic, proprietary and unsecure protocols. Furthermore, messages enter corporate networks through nonstandard TCP ports. Unlike e-mail systems, IM attachments cannot be easily scanned for viruses.
BBC: Concorde is flying to New York on its first full transatlantic test flight to New York since the Paris crash.
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