- The Unmitigated Inanity of Cyber Monday—"The dumbest fake holiday of the year."
- T-Mobile and AT&T went head-to-head on Twitter over a customer… T-Mobile won
- Yahoo sends rambling memo demanding employees start using its webmail—"A close read of the anachronistic historical universe where Yahoo takes place."
- The internet mystery that has the world baffled
- Stuxnet's Secret Twin—"The real program to sabotage Iran's nuclear facilities was far more sophisticated than anyone realized." ForeignPolicy
- Amazon says drone deliveries are the future—Starting to fly in China.
- Hexacopter used to smuggle tobacco and cell phones into Georgia prison
- Army Scores a Super-Stealthy Drone That Looks Like a Bird
- Google Is Ordered to Block Images in Privacy Case—"The Internet company said it would appeal a French court's ruling that it strip from its search results nine images of the former European racing chief Max Mosley." NYT
- Google's frightening patent: collect data and interact with others automatically on your behalf
- Will This Google+ Flaw Abruptly Shut Down Your YouTube Account?—User gets false-flagged as an impersonator and Google requires photo ID to have it reinstated.
- YouTube hilariously impotent against ASCII comment pornographers
- Google employee goes on Facebook rant after cafe bans him from wearing Google Glass—What a self-entitled Glasshole.
- Gmail is boiling the frog – and we are the frog
- This Google ad has moved people to tears across India and Pakistan—Frickin' onions, I tell ya.
- Louis C.K. parody reveals the one button Facebook needs—"No, it's not a 'hate' button or 'private' button. It's something far more pertinent to the truth of social networking."
- On Facebook, a growing teenage wasteland
- Fraud problem makes Facebook more attractive to online advertisers, say ad insiders
- Why I'm (Still) Not Going to Join Facebook: Four Arguments that Failed to Convince Me
- Snapchat turned down more than $3B from Facebook
- Study shows removing DRM increased music sales
- Russell Brand: Get My New DVD From The Pirate Bay
- Copyright Monopoly Disintegration Inevitable As It Only Takes A Single Country
- Young adult readers 'prefer printed to ebooks'—"Survey finds that 62% of 16 to 24-year-olds prefer traditional books over their digital equivalents."
- A Brief Whine About E-Books, Digital Publishing, and International Nonsense
- Apple Doesn't Want to Pay the Feds' E-Book Lawyer $70,000 a Week
- UK's Internet-Porn Crackdown Threatens Free Speech—"Critics of the law fear it will give the gov. the power to censor any information it feels is dangerous."
- Apple Blocks "Sex Criminals" #2 on comiXology iOS App—It recently rejected #3 and retroactively removed #1.
- Amazon removes abuse-themed e-books from store
- 'Ryse: Son of Rome' design director comments on cutting sex scenes in U.S.
- Let us say 'faggots' on Facebook, says maker of pork snack—"Mr Brain's, which makes the traditional pork product, is urging Facebook to allow people to use the word 'faggots' to refer to the dish."
- Prenda's massive trolling take revealed: $1.9 million in 2012
- Prenda's John Steele: Accused of identity theft by his own mother-in-law
- Porn trolls slammed again: Minnesota judge calls in the feds on Prenda—"Prenda Law is referred to investigators—and it must repay its victims."
- Copyright troll starts filing ADA lawsuits—without knowledge of his "clients"—"Disabled 'tester' didn't know Hansmeier sued small businesses in her name."
- Unhappy Thanksgiving for Prenda Law, ordered to pay $261K to defendants
- We need anonymity to make democracy safe – Stallman talks bitcoin
- Texas Hacker Debunks Link Between Bitcoin Founder and Online Drug Market
- E-sports site settles covert Bitcoin mining case for $1 million
- The secret Hong Kong facility that uses boiling goo to mine Bitcoins
- Bitcoin Thefts Surge, DDoS Hackers Take Millions
- Sheep Marketplace Scam Revealed, $40 Million Stolen
- Missing: hard drive containing Bitcoins worth £4m in Newport landfill site
- Malware Analysts Say Breaches Are Not Being Disclosed by Their Employers—40% of infections come from company executives visiting porn sites.
- How Somebody Forced the World's Internet Traffic Through Belarus and Iceland
- Alleged Windows support scammer forfeits money earned by "fixing" PCs
- Estonia to extradite 3 men for "Operation Ghost Click" malware scheme—"US government claims botnet group took in $14 million from traffic diversion."
- Ding Ding Ding! Video Poker 'Hackers' Cleared of Federal Charges—"Two gamblers who took advantage of a software bug to win a small fortune from casino video poker machines will enjoy Thanksgiving without the threat of federal prison hovering over them like a carving knife. A federal judge in Las Vegas this morning dismissed federal charges against the men, ending a nearly two-year-long legal battle over when beating the house becomes a crime."
- The gentle art of cracking passwords
- Hack of MacRumors forums exposes password data for 860,000 users
- Password hack of vBulletin.com fuels fears of in-the-wild 0-day attacks
- Cupid Media Hack Exposed 42M Passwords—Stored as plaintext. Oy.
- Now Selfies Can Be Used as Passwords
- Obama Administration Says Health Care Website Is Vastly Improved NYT
- Report: 100,000 Signed Up For Obamacare As Website Was Revamped
- Consumer tips for HealthCare.gov show administration's cautious optimism WaPo
- HealthCare.gov will work. That means Obamacare can work, too. WaPo
- Obamacare website progress garners muted reaction from Congress
