News to know: Linux galore; Black Hat Europe; Vista reliability; Google and censorship

Notable headlines:
Paula Rooney: Microsoft partners with open source Jaspersoft, Sourcesense
- Ubuntu's Shuttleworth: Linux server, client will be big in the cloud and mobile sectors
- Red Hat CEO: We haven't done a good enough job as an industry leader, or project leader
- OSBC: Acquia to launch this fall "Carbon" social web publishing system based on Drupal
- GroundWork launches enterprise edition, version 5.2 upgrade
- Dana Blankenhorn: Does open source need a Micro-cop?
- What does IBM mean for an open source start-up?
Nate McFeters: Blackhat Europe, Day 1: The Waag, the Bulldog, a
Larry Dignan: Google's proxy: Internet censorship; Schmidt's security detail
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft delivers yet another updated XP SP3 RC 2 test build
David Morgenstern: Troubleshooting Mac OS X software issues
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Analyzing 3 months of Vista reliability data
Dana Blankenhorn: The joy of Russell
Robin Harris: Massive memory servers
Steve O'Hear: Microsoft in "spam" partnership with five social networks
George Ou: 55W PC power supply powering the dual-core computer
Matthew Miller: Is Microsoft looking to bring Office to the iPhone? Ryan Stewart: Does the iPhone count as a "desktop"?
blist rolling out a bunch of new features
Jason O'Grady: Circumventing iPod's FairPlay DRM
TechCrunch: Defection Watch: Google's Director of Social Media Decides It's More Social at Facebook
AP: New entry in space tourism industry
Paul Miller: Semantic Web Gang forms, debates Semantic Web 'readiness'
Dennis Howlett: TopCoder: breaking the development cost rules
Citigroup says Microsoft likely to raise Yahoo offer
Joshua Greenbaum: The Eternal Floppy Disk: The Icon that Never Dies
Dana Gardner: Elastra emerges to make cloud computing more attainable for enterprises
IBM moves to expedite mashups for mobile
Hitwise: Facebook traffic back to Christmas peak
Turkey blocks Web site over insults to country's founder
Michael Krigsman: More on dinosaurs and extinction
Modu claims lightest mobile phone; Will you buy it? Photos: Modu named world's lightest phone
O'Hear: imeem brings licensed music to the Platform party
Ed Burnette: Microsoft, Apple, and the death of the desktop
Roland Piquepaille: VR game to help burn patients
Josh Taylor: Turn your PC into the ultimate DVD changer