On Oscars night, computer infections around the USA are expected to soar by a whopping 30%, making it the biggest increase in attacks for any day of the year so far.

FORBES: Oscar Night Could Be An Award-Winner For Computer Viruses

Dr. David Palat, a pulmonologist who works on sleep disorders, told me that a technician had scanned the data I had generated that night nowadays, of course, sleep data are recorded by computer, rather than on a ream of paper and had analyzed the information so that it could be presented in a series of tables.

NEWYORKER: Up All Night

The backstory of the lost fourth-gen iPhone prototype acquired by Gizmodo last week is certainly already the stuff of some legend, but hold on tight, because it just got even wilder: Giz editor Jason Chen's house was apparently raided by California's REACT computer crimes task force under the authority of a search warrant on Friday night and his computers and several other items were seized.

ENGADGET: Police investigating lost iPhone prototype raid Gizmodo editor's home

BuyComp.com also got a lot of attention at the U.S. computer trade show Comdex last November by dispatching 20 people to slip bumper stickers under hotel doors in the middle of the night.

FORBES: Yo, customer!