Background of the phenomenon of comment spam and how bloggers responded.

About the release of the developers preview version of Gecko, the new standards based layout engine.

Within days the Cryptozilla team produced a mozilla binary with crypto which mozilla.org was unable to release because of federal law.

A hearing is underway in Atlanta to determine whether CNN's request for a temporary restraining order will be granted, in which case Exley's site will be repressed for 10 days while the court decides the merits of case. By Aparna Kumar. [Wired]

Article from Wired describing the allure of the Macintosh.

New usability research on electronic books. [Wired]

Carl Toups usually doesn't blink at unsolicited junk mail in his Hotmail account, but a piece of spam recently caught his eye. [Wired]

EBay is either a scheming marketing company or an innocent victim of mass paranoia launched by a well-intentioned e-mail it sent to its users. [Wired]

Examines the dropping prices and costs of e-book readers and titles. [Wired]

Story in culture section of Wired News. By Leander Kahney.