Via Kuro5hin: A new bill, the Security Systems Standards and Certification Act, would make it a crime to build a computer without government approved security built in. Here's a summary from Politech.

Companies are finding unexpected benefits from environmental activities.

The Solar Electric Light Fund is bringing solar power to areas of third world countries without access to electricity. The NY Times article is here.

Via Robot Wisdom: Is Fischer back, playing anonymously online? Some game transcripts have been offered up as proof. A newsgroup post in May claiming to be from an ICC administrator supporting this theory started quite an uproar in alt.chess.ics.