- Steve Ballmer to retire as Microsoft CEO
- Why Steve Ballmer Failed—He calls the development of Microsoft Vista the biggest regret of his tenure.
- Pogue: How Ballmer Missed the Tidal Shifts in Tech NYT
- If Steve Ballmer Ran Apple—To the ground, creativity- and innovation-wise that is.
- The Poisonous Employee-Ranking System That Helps Explain Microsoft's Decline
- Facebook use 'makes people feel worse about themselves'
- Florida fraternity censured, loses national charter over Facebook posts
- Using Facebook is about to get a lot more annoying
- Addicted to Facebook? Try Shock Therapy
- Hacker posts bug report to Zuck's wall after security team blew him off—"Facebook refuses to pay $500 to hacker who reported bug because he 'violated the TOS.'" Because of that, the Palestinian programmer received $10,000 from the community.
- Extra, Extra! Newspaper Crisis Hits Germany—"It came to Germany almost a decade later than America, but the newspaper crisis is sweeping the country, with plummeting circulations and revenues. The German news media must reinvent itself in order to retain readers."
- SF Chronicle Releases Statement Confirming That All Chron Content Is No Longer Behind A Paywall
- Craigslist has cost U.S. newspapers $5 billion—And saved users $5 billion.
- Kevin Spacey urges TV channels to give control to viewers—"Give people what they want, when they want it, in the form they want it in, at a reasonable price, and they'll more likely pay for it rather than steal it."
- Americans are starting to cut the cable TV cord, and here’s what it looks like
- Time Warner Cable Sued Over CBS Blackout
- Time Warner Cable offers antenna to customers who want CBS
- Apple reportedly blows off cable companies, talks directly with HBO, ESPN for iTV service
- SOPA Has Returned, Time to Kill it Again
- Cross a border, lose your ebooks—Ones that were legally bought.
- Newest YouTube user to fight a takedown is copyright guru Lawrence Lessig—"EFF has filed a second lawsuit over a "bogus" takedown, hoping for better results."
- Reddit's gay gamers knock out "gaymer" trademark
- Getty Just Made 4,600 Incredible Images Free to Download and Use
- Geek Squad Accused Of Stealing, Distributing Customer's Naked Photos. Yes, Again
- Comcast letter said to confirm that Prenda, Steele planted porn torrents—"Hard to claim copyright infringement if you create and seed the torrent."
- Webcam spying goes mainstream as Miss Teen USA describes hack
- Report: Teens Actually Do Care About Online Privacy
- 'Boyfriend Tracker' app raises stir in Brazil
- Paysafecard Begins Banning VPN Providers
- Huffington: Trolls uglier than ever, so we're cutting off anonymous comments
- Dear Internet Tough Guys: Cut it out—"The plague of ridiculous "do you know who I am" threats has to stop." Salon
- BioWare writer received death threats to family—More Internet fuckwads.
- "ebayisajoke" BUSTED By Fox2 News HALL OF SHAME Rob Wolchek
- Comment threads? They're a fight to the death. Look, you know I'm right—"The reason why we can't quite let go of those online arguments turns out to have psychological roots that go a long way back. Don't argue, just read."
- DOJ Decided To Ratchet Up Case Against Aaron Swartz Because He Spoke Out Publicly About Being Innocent—And that the "Internet community rallied on his behalf."
- Documents show Secret Service kept tab of Swartz
- Changing IP address to access public website ruled violation of US law—"CFAA forbids easy method of evading IP blocking used by 3taps (and Aaron Swartz)."
- British Library's wi-fi service blocks 'violent' Hamlet—"A man using the British Library's wi-fi network was denied access to an online version of Shakespeare's Hamlet because the text contained 'violent content.'"
- Wikipedia Co-Founder Refuses to Comply With China's Censorship—And China retaliates with grounding Wikipedia's China editor until 2016.
- Finnish Court Censors Website That Criticizes Censorship
- Web-based apps pose tricky problem for Saudi monitors—"Saudi Arabia is seeking to tighten control over web-based applications that offer a freedom to communicate that is impossible for most Saudis in the real world, and may even seek to ban such apps altogether."
- On Day of Suicide, Blogger Launches Site About His Life and Death—And the increasingly irrelevant Yahoo takes the pre-paid site down, claims TOS breach.
- Obama Was Wrong: NSA Employees Have Deliberately "Abused" Their Power
- Corker: Congress in the dark on NSA—"The American people want to know that those of us who are elected... understand fully what's happening here. I don't think we do. [...] I would imagine there are even members of the [congressional] intelligence committee themselves that don't fully understand the gamut of things that are taking place."
- Matt Damon: Snowden did a great thing
- Former Salt Lake mayor: NSA snooping is the scandal of the century
- NSA hacked into encrypted UN communications, leaked documents show
- How to Decode the True Meaning of What NSA Officials Say—"A lexicon for understanding the words U.S. intelligence officials use to mislead the public."
- A Guide To The Latest Flurry Of NSA Revelations
- NSA Snooping Was Only the Beginning. Meet the Spy Chief Leading Us Into Cyberwar
