BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The board of directors for Micron Technology Inc. has named Mark Durcan the company’s chief executive officer, a day after longtime CEO and Chairman Steve Appleton died in a plane crash. The board on Friday appointed Durcan the interim CEO hours after Appleton’s experimental plane crashed moments after takeoff at the Boise Airport.

STOCKHOLM (AP) — A group linked to the hacker network Anonymous on Saturday said it had attacked the Swedish government’s website, bringing it down for periods of time by overloading it with traffic. Government spokesman Jacob Lagercranser confirmed the website — used by all departments of Sweden’s government — had experienced some problems, but he declined to give further details, saying the government never comments on security issues. ACTA is a far-reaching agreement that aims to harmonize international standards on protecting the rights of those who produce music, movies, pharmaceuticals, fashion, and a range of other products that often fall victim to intellectual property theft.

For most people, that word means something malicious — shady criminals who listen in on private voicemails, or anonymous villains who cripple websites and break into email accounts. Zuckerberg penned those words in a 479-word essay called “The Hacker Way”, which he included in the document the company filed with government regulators about its plans for an initial public offering. “Symbolically, it doesn’t bode well to Facebook and to potential investors,” says Robert D’Ovidio, an associate professor of criminal justice at Drexel University in Philadelphia who studies computer crime. Just this week, members of the loose-knit group Anonymous hacked into law enforcement websites around the world and gained access to information about government informants and other sensitive information. Kevin Mitnick, who was convicted and sent to prison in the 1990s for computer hacking, now works as a security consultant. The term “hacking” dates back more than half a century, when geeks at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology were tweaking telephone systems and computers. The small community of hackers in the 1950s and ’60s judged one another on their creative and technical abilities, and wore the term as a badge of honor, says Levy, in much the same way that Zuckerberg does today. Some blame Robert Morris, a computer science student who discovered a vulnerability in the Internet’s inner workings and unleashed the world’s first computer worm in 1988. Morris was the first person charged under the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act that had been enacted two years earlier. […] came movies like 1983’s “War Games,” which also fueled the public’s fear of hacking. The ’80s and ’90s were also a time when computers spread from geek circles to office cubicles and home desktops. Among the principles: “Hackers should be judged by their hacking” and “Always yield to the hands-on imperative.” Technology companies, from the tiniest startups to those such as Facebook and online game maker Zynga, take the hacker ethic to heart.

Facebook has filed paperwork for an initial public offering of stock. In part by riding on Facebook’s coattails, Zynga Inc. and Jive Software Inc. set new highs on Friday. Below is a look at how the stocks of some recently public companies are faring. — Zynga Inc., developer of online games, first day of trading on Dec. 16, 2011 — Jive Software Inc., creator of tools to run social networks for businesses, first day of trading on Dec. 13 — Pandora Media Inc., Internet radio company, first day of trading on June 15 — Demand Media Inc., online content publisher, first day of trading on Jan. 26, 2011