Top Stories from Wired News Emails with the subject line "ILOVEYOU" are spreading quickly around the world. They contain a nasty, self-replicating worm that is clogging major networks. By Michelle Finley
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Lasers Illuminate Search for E.T. Harvard University, Princeton University and the University of California at Berkeley have each developed programs to find a specific kind of signal -- lasers -- penetrating our atmosphere, from extraterrestrials attempting to communicate with humanity.
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Monday, April 17, 2000

The Cosmos is Coming Researchers at Microsoft are working on an ambitious Internet database that will make the data from a massive survey of the cosmos available to anyone with a Web browser. The project is the first in a series of initiatives to bring to the public "virtual telescopes" that scientists are saying will herald perhaps the greatest revolution in the history of astronomy.
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Sunday, April 16, 2000

MS Servers Leave Back Door Open Microsoft acknowledged its engineers included a secret password in some of its Internet software that could be used to gain access to websites globally, the Wall Street Journal said Friday. The article said the manager of Microsoft's security-response center Steve Lipner "acknowledged the online-security risk" and said such a backdoor password is against the company's policy. The employees had not yet been identified.
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Techdirt. Wired is running a story about some porn sites that basically hijack your computer and call some distant country and leave you stuck with the phone bill. I remember companies getting in trouble a few years back for the same thing. I think the difference this time is that the new companies apparently warn you in very small print before it happens. Since no one reads that small print, they just click through and discover the mess they're in once they get their phone bill.
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WonkoSlice - Reporting geek news with a tiny slice of sanity. It now appears the Russia has decided to resume funding of Mir. This has raised questions as to who exactly will operate Mir, since MirCorp has already invested millions in the station. But all those questions won't matter, of course, if the current mission to fix the station fails.
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WonkoSlice - Reporting geek news with a tiny slice of sanity. French archaeologists have discovered the burial chamber of Queen Ankh-Sn-Pepi the 2nd, the first Queen of Egypt. The text in the burial chamber is making the archaeologist change their views on how ancient Egyptians looked at the afterlife. The source is in Real Audio format.
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TechNewsWorld.Com: Real-Time Technology News from Around the World Emeril Lagasse is known for his cuisine, restaurants and television shows. So when negotiations didn't persuade a local caterer to stop using "Emeril" to lure customers to his Web site,...
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Monday, March 20, 2000

Metafilter | Community Weblog The most fun I've had with an applet, ever.
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Battle.net News Diablo II Beta Sign-Ups Announced! We will be holding beta sign-ups for 1,000 North American Diablo II beta slots starting Monday, March 20.
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Friday, March 17, 2000

Sorry, no news right now, I'm going to watch a movie called 'Subway'. Luc Besson's first direction. (seen it before, liked it)
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Thursday, March 16, 2000

Ars Technica: Game.Ars - Page 1 - (3/13/2000) DirectX 8.0 details announced
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Ars Technica: The PC enthusiast's resource It looks like the world's largest network of supercomputers, the backbone of the NSA's Echelon spy system, went down for the first time on January 24th. Apparently it took them four days to get the thing rebooted and running again. Wow, that's even longer than it takes for NT to reboot. The crash was allegedly caused by a "software anomaly" (is that the government term for "bug"?), and not any sort of haX0ring or espionage.
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Nando Times: Technology A judge dismissed charges against an 18-year-old accused of trying to recruit street gang members through a Web site.
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WonkoSlice - Reporting geek news with a tiny slice of sanity. zorn writes, "This article at the San Jose Mercury News site mentions that Iridium satellites may be de-orbited. That could be some great pyrotechnics! Failure with style. You gotta love it." Oooh, fun. Good thing, too...there's too much space junk up there as it is.
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Tuesday, March 14, 2000

Nando Times: Technology New York girl wins Intel talent search with encryption project WASHINGTON (March 14, 2000 10:31 a.m. EST) - A 17-year-old Romanian-born girl who embedded a computer message in the gene sequence of a DNA strand has been named the nation's best young scientist.
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