[H]ardNews - Blair's Tech Ed.

Amazon Sues Spammers:

Amazon.com Inc. said Tuesday it has filed federal lawsuits in the United States and Canada against 11 online marketers that the Internet retailer claims are using its name without permission to sell products ranging from health pills to automobile warranties. Amazon is seeking millions of dollars in punitive damages to deter others from sending E-mails falsely labeled as coming from the company.

US Sponsored Anti-Censorship:

A pact between the U.S. government and the electronic privacy company Anonymizer, Inc. is making the Internet a safer place for controversial websites and subversive opinions -- if you're Iranian. This month Anonymizer began providing Iranians with free access to a Web proxy service designed to circumvent their government's online censorship efforts.

SuperComputer Stuff:

The Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is now home to the United States’ fastest operational unclassified supercomputer. The laboratory’s 11.8 teraflops industry-standard HP Integrity system came to full operating power this week, marking the next advance in high-performance computing designed to enable new insights in the environmental and molecular sciences, including chemistry, biology, climate and subsurface chemistry.

Global Warming Victims:

While most of official Washington was captivated with the fight on the Senate floor to pass an energy bill before Congress left town for its August vacation, a vicious campaign was under way behind the scenes to smear two leading scientists for pointing out serious flaws in the science behind the theory of human-caused climate change.