Excerpts from Playboy's interview with Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page in the magazine's September issue:

About half of e-mail users say they get more unwanted e-mail than ever, according to a Consumer Reports survey. In its September issue released yesterday, Consumer Reports published the results of a survey of 2,000 Internet users that was completed in March.

Online advertising, as we know it, has once again become the Wild West. Witness the Google IPO, where its valuations are higher than some Fortune 500 companies. Though search engine marketing (SEM) is certainly the current darling of online advertising, there has been a lot of enthusiasm for that other comeback kid, behavioral marketing.

Online news sites say we should just believe their claims that information in their user-registration databases is accurate. But given the circulation scandals among their print brethren, why should we?

Antivirus experts are sounding the alarm about another new variant of the nefarious Bagle virus -- Bagle.AM, Bagle.AQ or Bagle.AC, as it is variously known. The virus already has climbed to the top of the list of 20 most-detected viruses this month.

Dan Gillmor argues in his new book We the Media that journalism is stronger than ever because of the Web. But Hollywood is strengthening its grasp on copyrights, threatening speech and freedom. Xeni Jardin interviews the author.

PC chipsets are inexpensive, lack brand names and rarely get promoted to consumers, but they are the components Intel uses to colonize new markets.

Some computer security and privacy experts are warning that such a day may not be far off for customers of new Internet phone services, which marry the immediacy of a voice call with the conveniences--and inconveniences--of e-mail.

The 100-meter dash and other cherished Olympic moments will for the first time be beamed to computers and mobile phones during the Athens Games. But while many Europeans will be able to see them live on the Internet, Americans will have to settle for tape delay.

Two security companies say that AOL's Instant Messenger application contains a serious vulnerability that could allow malicious hackers to take control of a user's PC.