What's News?

Test your knowledge of current industry events with the following quiz

1. A new worm dubbed Ahker-F is making the rounds via e-mail, promising salacious video clips of celebrities such as Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. Few users have yet opened the virus, however, which security experts credit to:

   a. heightened awareness of viral threats.

   b. improved security measures.

   c. the most common version of the worm bearing the file name “StarJonesNaked.exe.”

2. “Signposts in Cyberspace,” a $1 million National Research Council study of the Internet begun in 1998, finally reached completion. According to its 7-year-old findings:

   a. a fledgling start-up named Google may develop into a leading search engine.

   b. file-sharing sites like Napster may incur the wrath of the recording industry.

   c. Al Gore really did invent the Internet after all.

3. Moore's Law — Intel co-founder Gordon Moore's assertion that data density doubles approximately every 18 months — celebrated its 40th anniversary. Intel marked the occasion by:

   a. republishing Moore's original April 1965 article on its Web site.

   b. publishing Moore's latest theories and observations on its Web site.

   c. taking out trade ads reading “Lordy, lordy, Moore's Law's 40!”

4. In other anniversaries, The Well — one of the first and most influential online communities — celebrated 20 years of existence. The Well marked the event with:

   a. a special chat session moderated by founder Stewart Brand.

   b. the launch of new hardware.

   c. two words, dude: Virtual kegger!

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