In recent news

Nothing really interesting.

Well, ArsTechnica has a tidbit about a new GNU VOIP (Voice Over IP) solution, which will probably never get used, for same reasons everyone sticks to their crashing NT and their bloated Exchange servers.
At Slashdot, you can find Opera CEO, Jon von Tetzchner (gesundheit)'s answers to reader questions.

And to close it off with a more spiritual node, let's all close our eyes and pray that the Ubuntu Breezy Backport people will FINALLY get around to packaging Firefox 1.5 and OpenOffice 2.0.1. I mean, it's not even funny anymore, guys.