- The Internet isn't making us dumb. It's making us angry.—"A Chinese study finds anger spreads more easily than other emotions on social media. How should society respond?"
- Sexting, Shame and Suicide—"A shocking tale of sexual assault in the Digital Age."
- The dumbest generation? No, Twitter is making kids smarter
- Court grants First Amendment protection to Facebook 'Like'—"Liking a political candidate's Facebook Page is the Internet equivalent of displaying a political sign in your front yard, a federal appeals court ruled."
- Charles Carreon finally quits fighting, calls Oatmeal battle "a dumb thing"—"Lawyer tells Ars he was 'rapeutated,' unjustly lowering his reputation online." I blame FunnyJunk.
- Chinese teen arrested for getting more than 500 retweets
- NBC Universal Funded Study Shows, Yet Again, How Infringement Is Hollywood's Own Damn Fault
- Warner Bros. DMCA Fraud and Abuse Case Goes to Jury
- Court Gives a Victory to Pandora Over Licensing Streaming Music NYT
- U.S. court denies ABC request to halt sales of Dish's 'Hopper'
- Downloading Is Mean! Content Industry Drafts Anti-Piracy Curriculum for Elementary Schools
- Obama administration urges FCC to require carriers to unlock mobile devices
- Verizon, caught red-handed—Violating FCC regulations with impunity.
- Fighting Big Telecom: Good Things Happen When Canadians Speak Out—Monopolistic practices in Canada are screwing the customers.
- Step Away From the Phone!—"Smartphone addicts are starting to curb the habit." NYT
- BlackBerry announces major job cuts, quarterly net operating loss of $1 billion
- Ballmer sees Microsoft's 'almost no share' in mobile as an opportunity, regrets mistakes
- iPhone frenzy takes ugly turn in Pasadena—"A scheme to exploit vanloads of homeless from L.A.'s skid row to hold spots in line leads to fistfights as promised payments fail to materialize."
- Here's The Evidence That Apple's Gold iPhone Shortage Is Actually Deliberate
- Nokia's 'Thanks Apple' Taunt Goes Down As One Of The Most Retweeted Brand Tweets Ever
- Hardbitten NYC cops: Sir, I'm gonna need you to, er, upgrade to iOS 7
- iPhone 5S' Touch ID can also detect… nipples?!
- Federal Courts Still Scaremongering About RECAP and Spooky "Open Source" Software—Which, they claim, "can be freely obtained by anyone with Internet access and modified for benign or malicious purposes...." Projection, much?
- Argentina arrests teen hacker who netted $50,000 a month
- Chaos Computer Club breaks Apple TouchID
- Pornhub Average Visit Duration and Top 3 Search Terms by State
- Porn In Parliament: 300,000 Viewing Attempts
- Key & Peele: Clear Cookies
- Close the N.S.A.'s Back Doors—"The National Security Agency undermines confidence in communication by weakening encryption." NYT
- Close ties between White House, NSA spying review—"[T]he review panel has effectively been operating as an arm of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which oversees the NSA and all other U.S. spy efforts."
- Bruce Schneier: NSA Spying Is Making Us Less Safe—"The security researcher Bruce Schneier, who is now helping the Guardian newspaper review Snowden documents, suggests that more revelations are on the way." He also says metadata equals surveillance.
- These 12 Bills are the NSA's Worst Nightmare—"Your guide to the pending legislation seeking to curb the government's vast surveillance powers."
- NSA Leaks Bring the Whole Idea of "Net Neutrality" Into Question
- The FBI’s Trojan Horse?—"Over the past few decades, a paradigm shift has occurred within policing. Known generally as community policing, the basic idea is that state and local law enforcement officers should integrate themselves into the communities they serve."
- Will the Supreme Court Stop Cops From Reading Your Text Messages?—"In many states, police can rifle through your smartphone—even if you've just been arrested for not putting on your seat belt."
- Homeland Security to test BOSS facial recognition at junior hockey game
