Remember Yahoo? They've been big but rarely supreme in nearly every online category: search, mail, messaging, news, finance, sports, games, horoscopes. Now they're trying on a new CEO with hopes of regaining your attention. Former Google exec Marissa Meyer is bringing optimism. Michael Arrington at Uncrunched calls Mayer "a new hope for Yahoo." At AVC, venture capitalist Fred Wilson says because of Meyer's hiring, Yahoo is no longer dead to him. Marc Andreesen calls it a hiring well done and told Business insider he was amazed Yahoo could attract someone so talented. Now what? Street Fight, a blog focusing on "the business of hyperlocal," says Mayer "must take a product that has lost relevance and either add entirely new product sets or reshape it for the times." That means becoming the king of local news, shopping and so forth. The Atlantic advises "What the Internet Wants From Marissa Mayer, in Five Words... Actually, one word: 'Flickr'... the Internet has a suggestion for what she should put at the top of her agenda: making Flickr awesome again."

There were apocalyptic forecasts about the impact that the dreaded DNS Changer Malware thingy would have on Internet users this past Monday. "Internet Blackout Threatens Thousands Worldwide," MSNBC reported. DNS Changer Malware Could Shutdown Internet for Quarter Million Monday, reported security firm Bit9 on its blog. "Thousands, if not millions of computers could lose Internet access on Monday, July 9, 2012," warned sites including Thomason Tech. Ok, so here's what didn't happen: that. "No major companies experienced issues related to the so-called 'Doomsday Virus,'" Mashable reported. Bits called it "the Internet Apocalypse That Wasn't." Why no disaster as promised? "As part of a federal court order, the F.B.I. arranged for a private company to swap the rogue DNS servers with legitimate servers to keep millions of infected users connected to the Internet." Then "Internet service providers like AT&T and Verizon temporarily substituted their own DNS servers for those set up by the F.B.I. " So it may it's not Apocalypse Now. Maybe later.