Day June 9, 2006

From Microsoft via Chris Pirillo on the massive demand for the new (and free) beta of Vista, the next generation of Windows. We are hitting ceilings on bandwidth. Right now we are serving out product keys 10x faster than we…

A man who purchased SunCruz Casinos with lobbyist Jack Abramoff in 2000 has told authorities he knows who killed the casino’s founder the following year, according to a report published Friday. Adam Kidan told authorities in a 2 1/2-hour interview…

British police have apologized to the Muslim minority for last week’s anti-terror raid on a house in east London, which resulted in the arrest and shooting of [one] apparently innocent Muslim and undermined the minority’s trust in the police establishment…

The Akaka Bill was an attempt to bring some limited self-government to Native Hawaiians. Some in the burgeoning Hawiian sovereignty movement opposed it as too little, the Right has savagely attacked it whenever it could. The sovereignty movement continues to…

The Senate rejected a major Republican effort on Thursday to eliminate the estate tax on inherited wealth. The vote was a big defeat both for President Bush and for Senate Republican leaders, who had framed their opposition to what they…