Well it seems that several news source picked up the "story" of the release of JDK 1.4. It's still RC1.

Here's a few examples:
http://www.internetwk.com/story/INW20020207S0001
http://www.cafeaulait.org/
http://www.javalobby.com/discussionContext/showThreaded/frm/javalobby?folderId=20&discussionContextId=11361

Here's the original press release:
http://industry.java.sun.com/javanews/stories/story2/0,1072,42449,00.html

If there's one thing that Sun could learn from Microsoft it's how to do a press release.

Of course now that they are supporting Linux on Intel it's all better:
http://www.sun.com/2002-0206/linux/