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Thursday, April 25, 2002

eBay to cancel customer service e-mail. The online auction giant will close its direct e-mail link to SafeHarbor, its department that responds to questions about suspicious activity on the site or specific fraud complaints. [CNET News.com]
8:38:41 PM

NewsForge: The Online Newspaper of Record for Linux and Open Source:"In late May, DreamWorks' new animated film "Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron" will hit theaters and mark a major milestone for the studio, as well as for the Open Source community at large. "Spirit" was created entirely on Linux. While "Shrek" and other movies including "Lord of the Rings" have used Linux to power server farms, the creators of "Shrek" also used IRIX on SGI workstations. So "Spirit" is DreamWorks' first animated feature using Linux both on the front and back ends."
5:32:46 PM

Hackers turn tables on file-swapping firms. For the past several weeks, programmers have been releasing versions of popular file-swapping programs online with the advertising and user-tracking features stripped out. [CNET News.com]
5:31:43 PM