Another FastTrack licensee, Grokster, has emerged, showing that Morpheus/KaZaA growth at Gnutella's expense is continuing.

"Given this attack, we believe that 802.11 networks should be viewed as insecure. We recommend the following for people using such wireless networks:

Assume that the link layer offers no security."

Clip2 is going out of business.

Cracks in the RPC model for the Internet OS.

If you've been running file sharing or distributed computation software over your employer's network, even if you're not causing anyone any harm in any way, now would be a good time to stop.

When will bandwidth shaping and throttling come down to the home gateway, or the OS?

Dmitry Slkyarov, the Russian coder who has been sitting in a Vegas jail for three weeks, was just released on $50,000 bail, Wired reports. He has to remain in Northern California until the trial. Used to be Russians who got to visit the U.S. made a beeline to apply for asylum. Now the U.S. seems like the asylum and Russia the land of the free.

Dmitry Sklyarov has been released on bail and instructed to remain in Northern California under a friend's supervision until his pre-trial hearing on August 23.

There's a scene in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" where this tough guy with a sword puts on a big scary show with the sword, twirling it around to show what a master he is, and Indiana Jones just pulls out his gun and shoots the guy. What makes the scene work is the contrast between a master with a old weapon and an average schmoe with a new weapon. AOL's recent moves against .NET are like the guy with the sword.

The movement to build a new-generation internet through a global computer "grid" will receive a big boost on Thursday when International Business Machines, the world's largest computing company, commits itself to the new technology.