BBC Hails “fair” Microsoft XP SP1 [Slashdot]

The Warriors Stood in the Shape of a Heart [Slashdot]
Online communitys make a heart.

MS Exec: ‘Our products just aren’t engineered for security’ [Slashdot]

China admits one million HIV cases. The Chinese Government revises its estimate of the number of infected people as it slowly owns up to the extent of the Aids crisis. [BBC News | WORLD]

Storage technology clears key hurdle. A technology that promises to bridge the worlds of data storage and networking has passed a key point on its path to becoming a usable standard. [CNET News.com]

The Bully’s Pulpit. The Bush team’s pronouncements rely on doublethink, the ability to believe two contradictory things at the same time. By Paul Krugman. [New York Times: Opinion]

How We Won the War. Recently, in an elaborate war game, the American fleet confidently steamed off to war in the Persian Gulf and promptly got creamed. By Nicholas D. Kristof. [New York Times: Opinion]

Linux Replacing Windows More Than Unix [Slashdot]

Math = beauty + truth / (really hard). Explaining what the winners of the world’s top awards in mathematics actually do isn’t as easy as adding 2+2. But we’ll give it a try. [Salon.com]