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Carl Icahn has moved from writing letters to writing blog entries. The NY Post says it's really him - but he's writing the entries long-hand on a yellow legal pad.

Executives are fleeing Yahoo. Three more people are leaving - add that to the four that already left. One of them is Brad Garlinghouse - the athour of the famous "Peanut Butter Manifesto." Yahoo says it's normal attrition, but in the meantime, someone has created a handy instant Yahoo resignation letter for anyone else who wants to leave.

Two men stole $750,000 after getting account numbers and PINs that were stolen when a Citibank server was hacked. Citibank denies their server was breached, but many customers are getting letters saying their PINs are being replaced.

Was that a DDOS or just Tiger Woods? ISPs reported record traffic during the U.S. Open.

Someone who had just started lifecasting did so just in time. The day after he set up his webcam, he left it on by accident - and caught his neighbor stealing from him!

The Smithsonian is adding some photos from their collection to the Flickr Commons project. Flickr and the Library of Congress started it earlier this year. It's great to be able to see some of these pictures - and you can interact by tagging them or leave notes identifying things or people.