Churning through the World Wide Web you come across tons of "cute iPad" stories -- this one from the Associated Press, with a very slight twist on a story that actually surfaced in January: apes using iPads.

As Congress wrestles over cybersecurity legislation related to securing critical infrastructure and the electric power grid, arguments are surfacing on whether the power companies should handle any new federally mandated network protections or whether the U.S. government -- in particular the National Security Agency -- should be in the middle of it.

The Iranian government has severed some citizens' connections to secure websites and services, including Twitter and Google's Gmail, according to reports by Iranians and network experts.

In a perfect world, wireless carriers would respond to the discovery of Carrier IQ with straight answers.

The Washington Post has alerted job seekers who use its employment pages of a data breach that compromised up to 1.27 million accounts.

Google is looking to change the way you read news online. The online giant, whose Google News page is a major - and conroversial - news aggregator, has teamed up with The New York Times and the Washington Post to develop a new online tool that's designed to prioritize articles on major news stories as they develop.

US President Obama later this week will formally appoint a cyber czar to coordinate a national strategy for securing cyber space the Washington Post reported today.