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How Do You Solve a Problem Like Pizzagate?“This is a problem that’s not going to be solved, probably, by the law,” one expert says.
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Could Cops Use Facebook Reactions to Target Criminals?The fraught relationship between law enforcement and social media will only be further complicated by Facebook’s new feature.
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How China’s Biggest Social Network Works With the GovernmentAccording to a whistle-blowing former censorship employee of Weibo, China’s largest social-networking platform with some 222 million active users, the Chinese government dictates exactly which posts can be published, or not, if they include “sensitive” words.
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DA: Shooter’s Phone Contains ‘Cyber Pathogen’Syed Rizwan Farook’s iPhone may have been “used as a weapon to introduce a lying dormant cyber pathogen,” DA claims.
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Talking With Twinks4Trump, the Best Pro-Trump Twitter AccountA conversation with the creator of the one bright spot in this election season.
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The Internet’s New Celebrity Cat Is a Coconut-Oil Addict Called ‘Goal Kitty’You may have seen the tragic pictures floating around the internet: a black cat with a white splotch on her front, her paws awkwardly splayed up and out.
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Amazon Is Removing Encryption From Its TabletsAmazon has quietly removed enterprise-level encryption from its Amazon Fire tablets, which run its proprietary operating system Fire OS.
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Some Doctors Tweeting About Drugs Aren’t Disclosing PaymentsLike the rest of the internet, Doctor Twitter is becoming overrun with sponsored content.
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Headlines From the Future: What If the FBI Beats Apple in Court?Based on conversations with experts, we’ve imagined a set of hypothetical future news stories describing scenarios that could come to pass if the FBI wins.
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France to Parents: No More Kid Pics on Facebook!“You can all be proud moms and dads to your magnificent children, but be careful,” someone, presumably a police officer, wrote.
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Congress Grills FBI Chief Over Apple ShowdownIf this is the debate we’re having over encryption and security, we’re screwed.
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Kanye West Got Caught Torrenting From Pirate BayPSA: Don’t tweet out screenshots when you have illicit websites open in your tabs.
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Spot the Bot: Watch Google Robot Play With a DogSee Spot Run. See Spot Bark at Terrifying Robot Google Dog.
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Another Fired Yelp Employee Pens Open LetterAnother week, another open letter on Medium written by a recently fired, low-level Yelp employee detailing mistreatment and a disturbing lack of empathy from Yelp managers.
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Google’s Self-Driving Car Hit a Bus (and Is Still a Better Driver Than You)According to a report filed with the California DMV, the Google car was attempting to avoid sandbags in the road.
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Did You Know Facebook Is Probably Tracking Your Sleep Habits? Sleep Tight!Facebook isn’t watching you sleep. It just knows when you go to bed and when you get up!
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Florida Voters: Ted Cruz Might Be the ZodiacNearly 40 percent of Florida voters say they believe it’s within the realm of possibility that Ted Cruz is the Zodiac Killer.
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Americans Broadly Back FBI in Apple CaseThe majority of Americans believe that Apple should unlock the San Bernardino shooter’s phone — and that it would worsen device security.
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Nice, 69 Cock Lane Is for SaleThe rudest address in Britain.
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Sam Pepper Apologizes for His ApologyThe crux of what he says in the video is that really, he’s a great guy who just made some dumb videos and lost his massive fanbase.
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‘Damn’ Daniel Lara Back at It Again With a Lifetime Supply of VansDaniel Lara and Josh Holz, the two teenagers responsible for “Damn, Daniel!,” were on Ellen Tuesday, because that is how memes work in 2016.
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Terry Crews’s Anti-Masturbation Facebook Crusade“You cannot accept any pornography in your man’s life,” he instructs. “Terry Crews! I’m ridin’ around in L.A. with the top down! Woo-hoo!” he yells about a minute later.
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Report: Apple Labor Practices Still Fall ShortA labor report found that workers at one Apple supplier were working over 60 hours a week, above Apple’s stated cap.
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Happy Wednesday, Meet Your DoomAs Facebook deploys fun new buttons, Google is building a terrifying robot.
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Fired Yelp Employee Criticized for Generally Pleasant InstagramYou don’t get to challenge the assumptions of an entire industry without facing some criticism, after all!
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Unknown Meme Terrorists SWATed Josh Holz, the Creator of ‘Damn, Daniel’“Ever since their video has gone out there, they’ve received a number of what they call strange phone calls and emails,” Riverside police lieutenant Kevin Townsend told KABC.
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Feds Want Apple to Break In to at Least 12 Other PhonesProsecutors in all of the cases the DOJ is requesting Apple assist authorities with used the same broad 18th-century law, the All Writs Act.
