The Future of Solar-Powered Homes (New York Times Blog)

This year's Solar Decathlon illustrates that "solar" no longer means “hippy hangout,” “ugly box” or “Spartan shack.”

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New Apple Trojan Means Mac Hunting Season Is Open (Wired)

The Mac has officially gone mainstream.

The proof? On Halloween, professional online criminals were found using Trojan-horse software to target, for the first time, computers running Apple's OS X operating system -- just as they have been doing for years on the more ubiquitous flavors of Windows.

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A Computer That Works With Google, Not Microsoft (New York Times)

Advocates of Linux, the free open-source operating system, like to say that buying a standard-issue computer involves a Microsoft Tax, because you have no choice but to pay for Windows. New versions of Linux and inexpensive hardware like the new Everex gPC TC2502 make that tax avoidable.

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NBC axes DotComedy website (Variety)

NBC Universal is pulling the plug on its little-viewed DotComedy website, barely a year after the service first launched.

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Gallery: Wired Readers' Coolest Geek-o'-Lanterns (Wired)

Geeks really love their jack-o'-lanterns — that much is clear from the dozens of entries and thousands of votes racked up on Wired's Show Us Your Geeky Jack-o'-Lanterns blog post.

Gallery: Our Readers' Coolest Geek-o'-Lanterns

Sprint in talks with Google on mobile apps: source (Reuters)

Sprint Nextel Corp, the No. 3 U.S. mobile service, is in talks to put applications from Web search leader Google Inc on its cell phones, a person familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.

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