Tech Week In Review 2001.03.05 - 2001.03.11 A summary of the past weeks technology news. Updated every Sunday. General IT RELATED STORIES: DVD copy protection hacked with 7 lines of code. Microsoft's X-box. A long term investment? Napsters filter failed it's objective. FBI reveals the largest organized hacker attack ever. Microsoft may delay X-box release in Japan. Napster is taking heavy fire. HDTV through compression looks promising. Napster gets a list (from RIAA) of 135000 songs that must be "blocked". The RAMBUS patent discussion rages on. CHIP (CPUs, CHIP-SETs, MEMORY) Roundup RELATED STORIES: nVidia presents 2 new versions of the GeForce2 MX. nVidia press release. The story on "the 1.3 GHz Athlon". The G4+ trade-off. More MHz give less performance? SUN is researching on a clockless CPU. SiS is making chipsets for the .13u Pentium III (Tualatin) VIA to subsidize DDR memory. Intel delivers the first standard EUV Photomasks. AMD 760MP chipset now slated for Q2 release. Intel & AMD lower CPU prices. The whole list is here. (S) Software Roundup RELATED STORIES: Mac OS X finally done? Golden Master is "out". Direct X8.0a is out. New software will record Internet radio broadcasts. CIA patches "Echelon". Misc Science Roundup (Astronomy & other) RELATED STORIES: Light emitting silicon breakthrough. Single atom switch close to reality. NASA tries to make one last "phone call" to the Pioneer 10 spaceprobe.