the judge presiding over the government's antitrust case against Microsoft rapped the software giant's knuckles. judge Kollar-Kotelly issued an order rebuffing Microsoft's request that AOL Time Warner be directed to more fully disclose any contact between AOL and the nine hold-out states.

InfoWorld is reporting that judge Kollar-Kotelly ordered the two companies to resolve this dispute themselves.

Sugar Land police say an Enron executive found dead in his car committed suicide.

the AP is reporting that the executive was of the few who felt nervous about Enron's accounting and business practices.

there's a new Gnutella client on the block for Mac OS X users: Xlife.org is has released Aquisition 0.4. it's based on the gnut client and it sports a Cocoa application layer and Aqua user interface. like any "0.x" release, it's not quite feature-complete, but it already provides a remarkably polished user experience.

Mac OS X's Services (available to both Cocoa and Carbon apps) are a real undiscovered gem -- you almost never see them demonstrated -- but great new uses for them are being found all the time. this is a nifty one i saw on the Mac OS X Hints site that lets you select text in any Services aware app and launch a Google search.

Intel's Yamhill project aims to extend the x86 architecture into the 64-bit world. SiliconValley.com sees the effort as the chipmaker's "Plan B" in case the EPIC-based Itanium/McKinley processor design fails to take off with customers.

proving that the penguin has a place in the glass room, Reuters is reporting that IBM has introduced two Linux-only maniframes.