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MSBlast copycat set to pounce, firm says By Ina Fried CNET News.com September 16, 2003, 5:42 PM PT Tools now exist to exploit a recently announced Windows flaw, further increasing the likelihood that new viruses will emerge soon, a security firm has warned. Ken Dunham, an analyst at Reston, Va.-based iDefense, said Tuesday it is "highly likely" that new worms or Trojan horses will emerge in the next few days. They are expected to prey on computers that have not been updated with the latest security patch for Microsoft's operating system. "A new Blaster-like worm family could be created in...

Crisis talks as poor nations stand firm Time to avert a collapse is fast running out Larry Elliott and Charlotte Denny in Cancun Saturday September 13, 2003 The Guardian (UK) Britain gave warning last night that time was running out for the global trade summit in Cancun as negotiators prepared for a weekend of crisis talks to save the meeting from collapse. Margaret Beckett, the environment secretary, said the standoff between rich and poor nations had to be resolved quickly to secure a deal by tomorrow night's deadline. The United States and European Union urged developing countries to compromise after...

BLUFFDALE -- Linux Networx Inc., already the proud parent of the world's third-fastest supercomputer, on Thursday boasted it is building an even more powerful system for the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The $10 million contract calls for delivery next month to the New Mexico lab's Metropolis Center for Modeling and Simulation of what will be one of the largest Linux-based clusters -- a supercomputer melding 2,816 AMD Opteron processors -- and among the fastest Linux Intel-based supercomputers in the world. Dubbed "Lightning," Los Alamos' newest mega-brain will come with a theoretical performance of 11.26 teraflops (Tflops), or 11.26 trillion calculations...

Australia to stand firm over 'racist' sign By Kathy Marks in Sydney 26 April 2003 The Australian government is preparing to flout a demand by the United Nations for it to intervene to remove the word "nigger" from a sign on a sports stadium in Queensland. The ES Nigger Brown Stand at the stadium in Toowoomba, near Brisbane, was named after the town's first international rugby league player, Edward Stanley Brown, who toured Britain in the 1920s. He was nicknamed Nigger Brown not because he was Aboriginal – in fact, he had fair skin and blond hair – but because...

Edwards returning $10,000 that might be tainted Friday, April 18, 2003 2:36PM EDT By JOHN WAGNER, Washington Correspondent CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa -- Sen. John Edwards' presidential campaign said Thursday that it is returning $10,000 in contributions from a Little Rock law firm in response to an allegation that an employee of the firm expected her boss to reimburse her donation. Federal election laws prohibit individuals from funneling donations through someone else to hide the source. Doing so could allow the reimburser to exceed the legal contribution limit, recently raised from $1,000 to $2,000. The money in question came from employees...

Seed firm says USDA regs are delaying orders.

<p>Officials strongly deny rejecting a tentative pact to lower costs of an expensive long-term contract.</p> <p>One of California's biggest electricity suppliers blasted the state Friday for walking away from a tentative deal to reduce the cost of its long-term contract.</p>

Tuesday, 10 September, 2002, 10:46 GMT 11:46 UK German police raid 'terror link firm' German police have raided the premises of an import-export firm suspected of being a cover for the smuggling of Islamic fundamentalists into the country. The German-Syrian manager of Tatex Trading along with his wife and their two sons, were being questioned for possible links to people involved in the 11 September attacks, the federal prosecutor's office said in a statement. The family was being held on suspicion of membership of a criminal organisation, the statement said. Federal prosecutors said the company, with premises in Hamburg and...

Venezuela fears coup as loyalists stand firm By Jan McGirk Latin America Correspondent 15 June 2002 Venezuela is bracing for another coup attempt against the leftist President, Hugo Chavez, today as a flurry of clandestine videos, pamphlets and e-mail speculation feeds hysteria. People have been stockpiling weapons and food, wary of a repeat of April's violence in which at least 70 people were killed in street protests and looting. Pro-government supporters have converged on Caracas to keep a constant vigil outside the Presidential Palace. Massed protests calling for the President to resign are scheduled for today. The Defence Minister, General...