Sun Microsystems backed industry body, Java Community Process (JCP) oversees development of platform and language, voted to alter community structure, officially supporting OSS implementations of Java, JCP 2.5. [The Register]

"Online hacker magazine 2600 has emerged victorious in its campaign to retain ownership of the controversial FuckGeneralMotors.com domain." By John Leyden. [Register]

"Crowd surveillance kit using face recognition technology by Visionics has been a comic failure in tests by the Tampa, Florida police, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has discovered." By Thomas C. Greene. [Register]

Two Los Angeles men are to go to jail for their part in a bulk email scam which duped 12, 000 people and severely impacted the operations of several large US ISPs. [The Register]

Lobbyists for the European Internet industry believe their campaign for a ban on spam is gaining momentum. [The Register]

An influential body of data protection experts could be about to recommend that Europe bans spam. [The Register]

A European committee has blocked plans to outlaw unsolicited commercial email dealing a major blow to anti-spam supporters. [The Register]

The European parliament has bungled its latest attempt to outlaw spam. [The Register]

Obituary by Andrew Orlowski, The Register.

"A Spanish travel site is considering an appeal against a US court's decision to strip it of its domain name." By Tim Richardson. [Register]