Understanding DIME and WS-Attachments. Dig into the rationale behind attachments, explore the key ideas around packaging and message delineation, and learn how DIME and WS-Attachments arose from these ideas. [MSDN]

Trojan Found in libpcap and tcpdump. msolnik writes “Members of The Houston Linux Users Group discovered that the newest sources of libpcap and tcpdump available from tcpdump.org were contaminated … [Slashdot]

W3C recommends online forms standard. The Web’s leading standards organization reaches a critical stage in a new standard that governs how developers use forms on the Internet. [CNET News.com]

Microsoft to launch corporate IM. The software giant is expected to release a corporate version of its popular instant messaging product, named MSN Messenger Connect for Enterprises, to tap a fast-growing market. [CNET News.com]

Microsoft’s Shared Source CLI Now Supports Mac OS X. Download the complete implementation of the ECMA CLI and C# standards that now runs on Mac OS X as well as Windows XP and FreeBSD. [MSDN]

Berkshire Hathaway. “A society like Europe whose people have lost their will to compete is not a danger to those who embrace and thrive on competition.” [The Motley Fool]

U.S. Shifts Emphasis in Afghanistan to Security and Road Building. The Pentagon is preparing to shift its focus in Afghanistan towards improving security in important cities and rebuilding the war-battered infrastructure. By James Dao. [New York Times: Politics]

Oracle in buffer overflow brown alert. Blitz that bug [The Register]

Changing the landscape rather than following the established path [Fast Takes]

mmm… politics [recursive]
An intresting article mentioned the alliance between some of the left and the right in avoiding cloning techonologies.