Apple ‘It’ Girl Breaks Silence. Ellen Feiss talks to a college newspaper about her surprising fame after being featured in an Apple ad. Among the revelations: she was on drugs, the infamous advert was a lucky accident and Hollywood is keen to make her a star. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]

fun facts about solar system simulation [jwz]

Islamists riot over Miss World report. Muslim radicals in northern Nigeria burn down the offices of a newspaper which referred to the Prophet in an article on the Miss World contest. [BBC News | WORLD]

At a stroke, MS cuts critical vuln reports. It’s easy [The Register]

Microsoft Spills Customer Data. A server glitch makes internal Microsoft documents, including a massive database of customer names and addresses, accessible online. By Brian McWilliams. [Wired News]

Secret U.S. court OKs electronic spying. A secretive federal court grants police broad authority to monitor Internet usage, record keystrokes and employ other surveillance methods against terror and espionage suspects. [CNET News.com]

Fiorina echoes Gates’ optimism. In her Comdex keynote, the Hewlett-Packard CEO picks up where Bill Gates left off, saying that in spite of current woes, the tech industry still has plenty of forward momentum. [CNET News.com]

For W3C, it’s a question of semantics. The influential Web standards group upgrades its Semantic Web activity, a push to make the Web a little more intelligent. But don’t call it AI. [CNET News.com]

MS exec rattles sabre, suggests Linux could infringe patents. Whose patents he doesn’t say… [The Register]

Segways go on sale. No need to walk ever again. Sidewalk interloper [The Register]