Levchin. (Loic Le Meur.)

New Yahoo director Max Levchin, blogging about joining the company's board: "Yahoo! showed me that computer geeks can start companies that create that future. I’d love to do my part in helping the company that inspired me." [Max Levchin]

Twelve Seattle neighborhoods are getting faster Internet connections from Gigabit Squared and the University of Washington. Us too, please? [Ars Technica]

General Catalyst is launching Roughdraft.VC to fund student-entrepreneurs at Boston colleges and universities. First Round Capital and NEA have launched similar programs. [TechCrunch]

Stephen Hawking and other British scientists are calling for a posthumous pardon for Alan Turing, the noted codebreaker convicted in 1952 after acknowledging an affair with another man at a time when homosexuality was illegal. [BBC]

British police identified Anonymous members behind Operation Payback by mining IRC logs and piecing together digital identities from Xbox handles. [The Register]

Forget to look skyward on your way home from the holiday party circuit last night? There's still another night to catch the Geminid meteor shower. [Washington Post]

Loeb.

Daniel S. Loeb, the Third Point LLC hedge fund manager whose fight for control of Yahoo paved the way for Marissa Mayer's appointment as CEO, is on the verge of gaining control of another seat on the company's board.

According to the New York Times, Yahoo plans to announce that former PayPal chief technology officer Max Levchin—a Loeb nominee—will join the company's board, in a move that may signal Yahoo's push to develop new offerings.

Mr. Loeb began his battle for control of Yahoo's board last September, when he disclosed a billion-dollar stake in the Internet company and launched a poison pen campaign, mocking Yahoo's "stupid logo" and "crappy interface." The fight came to a head in May when Mr. Loeb discovered that former Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson had fudged his resume to include a computer science degree he'd never earned.

Mr. Thompson resigned, and the Yahoo board struck a deal with the hedge fund manager, giving Mr. Loeb control of three seats on the board. Soon after, the company hired Ms. Mayer to take the reins, a move widely seen to have breathed new life into the company.