Viacom's war against YouTube over the illegal reposting of video content it owns has finally won it a huge victory in the court of law. Last night a judge ruled that YouTube (and owner Google) is required to turn over a mountain of information to Viacom, including every user's IP address and user name and a list of every video that user has ever watched on the service. (Yes, that's a lot of data.) Google is also required to give Viacom a copy of every video it has ever taken down from the YouTube service, regardless of the reason.

If your laptop has an "older" graphics chip from Nvidia, be prepared for the screen to possibly go dark without notice. Nvidia is warning consumers (and Wall Street) that a flaw in some of its chips will lead to a monstrous charge of up to $200 million to repair laptops that croak. The company has also said it will be releasing a driver for affected systems that will keep your fan running longer in order to prevent chips from overheating, but a timeline for the driver has not been announced.

If you've ever tried to lug a 50-pound suitcase on to a bathroom scale to see if you're over the weight limit for your airline, you know how hard it can be to accurately gauge the weight of your bag before you get to the airport and get it up on that metal platform. You also know the consequences for going over the weight limit: Go over 50 pounds and you could be slapped with an extra $125 fee (or more!) for oversized baggage.

Friday is the day you get off work to grill meat and watch fireworks explode (oh, and celebrate Independence Day), and that means the camera shutters will be snapping like crazy.

California's hands-free cell phone law is now in effect, so if you're rollin' down 101 you need to either get a headset or a speakerphone system pronto.

IBM's Luis Suarez got "tired" of answering email every morning, which he says sucked hours out of every day. Rather than moan about it and maybe install a plug-in to help him cope, Suarez did something drastic. He just stopped using email.

Miffed that, if you return home from travel overseas, U.S. Customs can decide to search, and even seize, all the files on your computer, your camera, and even your cell phone? So is Senator Russ Feingold, who opened Congressional hearings on the matter last week with a scathing indictment on the practice.

It's no secret that sales of music CDs are now in free-fall: In 2007 alone the market for physical CDs and music DVDs dropped a whopping 13 percent. Unfortunately for Hollywood types, while digital media is on the rise, it's not rising quickly enough: Digital song sales climbed 34 percent last year, but didn't make up the loss in sales of physical media.

Console gaming may be the future for consumers, but in the business world things are looking grim. The latest sign that things aren't going swimmingly: Sony has now lost an accumulated $3 billion on the PlayStation 3.

All good things must come to an end, and in the case of Bill Gates' career at Microsoft, it's coming to an end today.