• Sun promises to make Java open source. It will be the loss leader for a lovely set of Sun steak knives. [VNUnet]

Blue Security (site's down), the anti-spam service run by former Russian spammers, is a favorite spammer target due to its ruthless de facto DDOS attacks on spam senders. (This tactic recently earned it some revenge spam from a spammer who checked their mailing list against Blue Frog's public e-mail list and targeted the overlap.)