contributed by Seraphic Artifex
Swatch is planning to broadcast a series of voice and HTML text messages via an orbiting amateur communications satellite in direct violation of International Telecommunications Union treaty and U.S. FCC regulations. Needless to say HAM Radio enthusiasts are more than a little upset and have started a boycott of Swatch

Wired
Swatch Protest and Boycott Website
NASA Watch

contributed by Code Kid
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California have all suspended the use of classified systems in an effort to raise security awareness.

MSNBC
ZD Net

contributed by Fluxx
Yesterday HNN linked to a story written by a Mr. John Howell, a self described 'security expert' who had claimed to track Zyklon to his 'lair' and then had him arrested. The article was published in the Toronto Star and did not paint a very flattering picture of Zyklon. A friend of Zyklon's, Fluxx, has written a rebuttle to that article.

Toronto Star
Rebuttle (http://www.cybersurferz.com/article.txt)

contributed by nVir
With the Melissa virus sort of dying off the mainstream media has to look to other sources to scare the general public. IBM inadvertantly exposes a few thousands Aptivas with CIH.

ZD Net

contributed by Macki
Well someone took our advice and asked Matt Groenig about the opening credits of his new show Futurama. Here is a part of the transcript:

host-KwestShun: Question from chlorine.poop:At the opening credits of futurama does the sign in the lower left corner really say "DEFCON Cult of The Dead Cow"?
Guest-Matt_Gro..: No. But we'll change it to that right now. That's a good one!

WooHoo! Can't wait to see that.

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Futurama

contributed by gh0zt
Last week HNC opened its new servers, one of which was the homepages server. An entire server has been dedicated to this project to give free home pages to ANYONE in the underground scene. Yes, even an aoler can get a homepage but NO PORN or WAREZ is allowed on this server and applicants must pass a screening process to make sure they will use the space in an ethical manner. The homepages project is being run by Madman of HNC.

Hack-Net.com

contributed by Anonymous
Cracked
The following sites have been reported as cracked:
http://www.wrestlingtitan.com/
http://www.redmanfamily.net
http://www.china.com
http://www.zavallis.com/
http://www.mxcert.org.mx
http://www.affiliatedrecords.com/
http://www.egallery.com/
http://www.zapnow.com/
http://www.thecaboose.com
http://www.linux.org.mx