CNET News.com: eBay picks up PayPal for $1.5 billion (also see AP, CNN Money, InternetNews.com, Reuters)

CNET News.com: Yahoo relaunches with streamlined look (Yahoo's popular web site directory now appears in smaller type buried in a corner of Yahoo's home page. For a more usable version, go directly to dir.yahoo.com instead)

Salon.com: It's time for ICANN to go (interview with John Gilmore)

Reuters: ICANN squeezes out regular folk

San Francisco Chronicle: FBI checking out Americans' reading habits; bookstores, libraries can't do much to fend off search warrants

A page on NPR's web site says that "Linking to or framing of any material on this site without the prior written consent of NPR is prohibited." (NPR is National Public Radio.) Oops, I just linked to NPR's web site without asking for permission. Please don't sue me, NPR! (Also see Wired News story about this ridiculous policy, and a follow-up story (also from Wired News).)

InternetNews.com: Cloudmark unveils P2P anti-spam system

The Specious Report: Internet to shut down for two weeks in August

CNET News.com: Old code in Windows is security threat (last week, a Finnish security company warned of a serious vulnerability in the gopher protocol support in Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser; several days later, Microsoft responds by simply removing gopher support from the browser entirely, rather than trying to fix the vulnerability)

Reuters: China paper bites on Onion gag (Beijing Evening News reports that the U.S. Congress may relocate from Washington to Charlotte or Memphis, based upon a report in The Onion)