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Suck may no longer be the Net's enfant terrible, but that smarter-ass-than-thou attitude is now being regurgitated as an online marketing strategy, as Upside magazine has just revamped its Web site with "below-the-belt" coverage of the high-tech/high-finance world, according to an ad that's been running in major daily papers.

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Attorney General Janet Reno promises that federal law enforcement authorities will do all in their power to track down the hackers that are crippling top Web sites.

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Ten years after Bill Gates and Janet Reno shook hands, the jury is out on the real impact of their agreement.

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A three-judge panel heard the last witness today for ACLU vs. Janet Reno and scheduled final arguments on the Communications Decency Act case.

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Attorney General Janet Reno urged Congress to approve a $1.1 billion to fight the threat of online terrorism. President Clinton asked for the extra funds as part of a plan to tighten security at airports and federal buildings. Reno said the money would double FBI agents assigned to counterterrorism, create a computer investigations and threat assessment center, and expand the number of U.S. attorneys responsible for prosecuting terrorism cases, according to Reuters.

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Attorney general Janet Reno says law enforcement will seek out and stop attacks on the Web. Recent victims include online trading sites E*Trade and Datek.

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APBnews.com has revised its complaint against the federal judiciary, which it filed after being denied access to financial disclosure forms. To avoid jurisdictional issues, the media organization's attorney dropped the names of the individual federal judges originally in the suit and instead sued the Judicial Conference, Administrative Office of the Courts, U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno, and the United States Marshal Service. Oral arguments are scheduled for late April.

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House Majority Leader Rep. Dick Armey (R-Texas) sent a letter to Attorney General Janet Reno seeking clarification on the administration's policy toward encryption export controls. In the letter, Armey questioned the Clinton administration's commitment to personal privacy; the administration recently said it would loosen encryption export regulations. Armey also asked the White House to clarify its position on the Federal Intrusion Detection Network (Fidnet), which would monitor government computer systems for hacker activity.

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Now that Janet Reno has clipped Microsoft's talons a bit, rumor has it that Intel geeks sequestered at its Hillsboro, Oregon, R&D facility are hard at work on a top-secret plan to introduce an alternative to Microsoft's dominant DirectX technology for 3D computer graphics. Especially interested in this technology are said to be famed Microsoft victim Netscape Communications and its buyer and Microsoft archrival America Online, rumored to want the technology for the Communicator browser.

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