Security firm McAfee warned of a new trojan that installs itself as a Firefox extension on Tuesday, saying it had found Web sites linking to a virus known as FormSpy. Once loaded on the infected computer, the trojan begins sending personal information entered in the Web browser to a malicious site.

After four years of development, the Bugatti Veyron 16.4, as it will now be called, is ready for series production. The most exclusive sports car of all time is following in the footsteps of the legendary Bugatti, those universally-coveted limousines and unbeatable racing cars of the 1920s and 1930s which today are among the most sought-after creations from the early days of automobile construction.

This brings to an end the era of design models and concept cars which since the late 1990s have signposted possible paths to the Bugattis of the future. Design and technological concept have finally become reality in the Veyron model’s final form and will be available from the beginning of 2004 as a strictly limited edition of just 300 cars. Technologically futuristic and packed with creative engineering, the first Bugatti of the 21st century has arrived.

ATmaCA has discovered a vulnerability in Winamp, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

In an online statement Wednesday, Linux creator Linus Torvalds has said that his kernel is licensed under Version 2.0 of the GPL, has always been under Version 2.0, and always will be under Version 2.0.

Torvalds was responding to rampant speculation that open source licenses will have to move to Version 3.0 of the GPL when work on that is completed, and that Version 3.0 might have all sorts of requirements tacked-on it, like a requirement to give government officials access to files through the filing of private encryption keys.

As part of its ongoing cost-cutting and reorganization effort, Sony has cut its line of robotic Aibo dogs, along with another, more-expensive, humanoid robot called the Qrio, which was never sold as a product.

Screenshots and code for the most recent build of Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 browser have leaked to the Internet, several Windows devotee sites reported Friday.

Internet Explorer 7, which is being co-developed for the upcoming Windows Vista and the current flagship Microsoft OS, Windows XP -- has been posted to at least one German Web site -- links are available from JCXP.net -- where it can be downloaded as an 11MB file in .rar format.