An attacker can gain control of another user's machine using an HTML-formatted e-mail with an attachment that contains a small remote-control program. The e-mail can be sent directly to the victim, or can be placed on a website.

Describes a security hole which can be exploited to change users' search sites or to serve up offensive ads.

Coverage of the Microsoft Refund Day event, by an on-the-spot reporter.

Some iPod users are swapping jacks with strangers and finding new musical tastes. Should Apple add wireless broadcast and Rendezvous to the iPod so we can all tune in?

Article on the initiation of the web service that later became about.com.

LookSmart has released a screensaver that harnesses the spare computing power of volunteers whose machines are indexing the Web.

"Google's catalog search combs the pages of more than 600 current catalogs -- 1, 500 including back issues -- to help both consumers and corporations find everything from apple butter to zipper doodles."

A collection of interviews with notable IT people, including computing and Internet pioneers.

Current and back issues, plus the Wired Index, and the Encyclopedia of the New Economy.

Interviews and stories.