• Google pays Apple $1 billion to be the default search engine for the iPhone, iPad and Mac.
• The New York Times profiles LulzSec-leader-turned-informant Hector "Sabu" Monsegur.
• A new bill introduced in the house would give the Mercury, Apollo and Gemini astronauts the right to own and sell artifacts from their space missions.
• Lenovo recalls 160,000 of its all-in-one PCs due to fire hazard. Neither of the two incidents of smoke and fire reported thus far have resulted in injuries.
• Portal 2 once had competitive multiplayer, but it was cut because it was too hard to follow the action.
• Uncle Owen manages to entirely ruin Star Wars. (Still beats the prequels, though!)
• Mental Floss rounds up some notable man-made objects that came back to Earth.

[Double Fine's Tim Schafer putting that Kickstarter money to good use via venturebeat]