- Computers are too difficult and people are computer illiterate
- The digital revolution's lingering literacy problem—"If so many of the 2.7 billion people already online still have trouble with basic computer concepts, how will the next 2.5 billion fare?"
- Pew: 15% Of Americans Don't Have Internet. 5% Think It's Irrelevant
- YouTube gets the yuck out in comments cleanup
- Are search engines and the Internet hurting human memory?
- Anger explodes at Yahoo Mail redesign disaster: Key functions removed or broken—"The redesign is Yahoo Mail's second redesign within a year (under the leadership of former Google executive, current Yahoo chief executive Marissa Mayer). It was publicized at launch as Yahoo's bid to make Yahoo Mail more like Gmail." Unfortunately, in my own experience, the new Gmail sucks donkey balls.
- And Then Steve Said, 'Let There Be an iPhone' NYT
- Apple Never Really Meant to Sell a 'Cheap' iPhone—The 5c didn't seem worth getting at its price with the 5s around.
- California man sues Apple CEO Tim Cook over automatic iOS 7 update
- Chinese couple sold baby to pay for iPhone—"Unemployed parents mastermind 'sinister conspiracy', auctioning daughter for £5,000 and using proceeds to buy luxury shoes and iPhone."
- Blast from the Past: No, phone app can't cure acne -- Sellers claimed that by holding iPhone to your face it could clear up your skin
- This is how a Helsingin Sanomat journalist tried to save Nokia
- BlackBerry pleads for patience in open letter to customers, partners
- 'They were completely oblivious'—"Hundreds of passengers on packed commuter train were so engrossed in mobile phones that they failed to spot gun-wielding student killer."
- Bill Gates admits Control-Alt-Delete was a mistake, blames IBM—A single button would've made things worse.
- 3 Steve Ballmer Quotes That Explain Why Microsoft's Mobile Effort Failed
- Microsoft bug hunter won't see much of that $100,000 bounty—"James Forshaw scooped a $100,000 reward from Microsoft – but his company and the taxman will get most of it."
- Crowd-backed EFF files to kill off 'podcast patent'
- Apple Patent on Touch Typing, Multitouch Upheld; Allows Ban on Most Androids
- Google Patents 'Heart-Shaped Hand Gesture,' But Taylor Swift Shouldn't Worry
- Why Wikipedia Does Belong in the Classroom—A counterpoint to Why Wikipedia Doesn't Belong In The Classroom.
- The battle to destroy Wikipedia's biggest sockpuppet army
- How Much is Wikipedia Worth?
- This video is no longer available: The Day One Garry's Incident Incident—Wild Games Studio should be called out for abusing the DMCA to censor critiques, but their game is embarrassing by itself as it is.
- Gaijin Entertainment has Served Me with a UDRP Complaint—Trying to steal another's legitimately registered domain.
- EA finally "exploring the possibility" of offline mode for SimCity—After burning their fans, they claim the game is a "success".
- New York Comic Con Tweets From Attendees' Accounts Without Permission—Fuck @NY_Comic_Con's non-apology.
- The Darkest Place on the Internet Isn't Just for Criminals—"Darknet is populated by precisely who you'd expect to be skulking in the darkest corners of the online world. They have something to hide. But the Darknet, by itself, isn't evil, and we can use it too."
- How stores use your phone's WiFi to track your shopping habits WaPo
- Experian Sold Consumer Data to ID Theft Service
- Contrary to public claims, Apple can read your iMessages—"Control of keys gives Apple ability to read iMessages, despite end-to-end encryption."
- This Game Shows You How Terrible Facebook's Privacy Settings Really Are—First they make every profile searchable.
- Facebook changes privacy settings for teens—Then they sacrifice teen's privacy to keep them from leaving.
- This Won't Be Awkward: Mark Zuckerberg's Sister Writes Children's Book Telling Kids to Get Off Facebook
- Obama has chance to reshape the NSA—"The upcoming retirement of National Security Agency Director Gen. Keith Alexander will give President Obama an opportunity to transform the agency."
- US asks top court not to take case on NSA cyber-snooping—Subverting check and balances.
- Fresh Leak on US Spying: NSA Accessed Mexican President's Email—Naturally, they're angry.
- US spy agency 'taped millions of French calls'—"France said on Monday it would 'immediately' summon the US ambassador in Paris to respond to the 'shocking' claims in Le Monde newspaper on Monday that the US NSA spy agency secretly recorded millions of phone calls made in France. Le Monde cited documents from whistleblower Edward Snowden."
- The NSA Spying and Lying Does Relate to 9/11
- UK secretly arrested 16-year old boy for world's 'biggest' DDoS-attack
- 13 members of Anonymous indicted
- Japan promoting programs to produce more hackers for cybersecurity
- Silk Road: suspicions grow that server was hacked ahead of arrests
- Adobe source code breach; it's bad, real bad
- Cryptolocker Ransomware: What You Need To Know
- To pay off webcam spies, Detroit kid pawns $100k in family jewels for $1,500—"Video was so embarrassing, theft seemed the better option."
