Twitter has added two-step verification to increase its security after all the recent hacks into high profile media accounts, but you should go sign up for it right this minute — because everyone's vulnerable to password attacks these days, even if the new cellphone hiccup seems cumbersome.
After getting the entire Gawker network banned from nearly 70 subreddit sections, Gawker's Adrian Chen has followed through with what got him kicked off in the first place—unmasking a Reddit user he called the "biggest troll on the Web," known as Violentacrez, in a lengthy post on Gawker.com.
Despite all the whining about the new smaller iPhone cord and the $30 it costs for an adapter to make it compatible with old accessories, consumers appear to care about that zero percent in their phone-buying decision. Not one person surveyed by 451/ChangeWave Research said the smaller cord would keep them from getting the iPhone 5.
Contrary to a rumor going around, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo insists that founder Jack Dorsey is not difficult to work with, though we're not sure we believe him.
Reddits creeps are losing their Internet war, with the site banning the subreddit r/CreepSquad, which was already a replacement for the recently blocked r/CreepShots, both places for men to upload photos of unsuspecting women.
Apple is totally psyching everyone out with its iPad Mini launch, for which the supposed release date keeps getting changed.
One would think the side to take in the Gawker-versus-child-pornography-on-Reddit war would be an easy choice, but Gawker writer Adrien Chen's ban from the site has led to an Internet divide over the matter.
Sprint has confirmed it is in talks with Japanese telecommunications company Softbank for a "potential substantial investment" that could change control of the company, report Reuters' Taro Fuse and Sinead Carew.
The iPhone 5 and any phone running iOS 6 not only by default tracks users for advertising purposes, but also makes it difficult to opt out.
Reddit has blocked Gawker from several of its threads in order to protect "a prominent member of Reddit's community, Violentacrez," who started the /r/picsofdeadchildren and /r/jailbait sections.
The biggest innovation coming out of Google these days is not Google Maps for the iPhone, nor those future-now Google Glass goggles, but Google's driverless cars, says Google chairman Eric Schmidt.
Mitt Romney has managed to achieve something other politicians only got after having cajoled pranksters into doing it for them: He has his very own Google bomb... that he created himself.
The two interns suing Fox Searchlight for their unpaid internships on the set of Black Swan just had their case upgraded to a class action by a New York federal judge, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
If it weren't for some Security and Exchanges Commission vetting, Facebook would have gotten away with the following lie in its pre-IPO filings:
Developers who played with Maps before its official debut told Apple that its software was awful.
This new dating advice website HeTexted.com masks itself as a way to help women decipher text messages from boys, but is actually all about making fun of how "clueless" women are when it comes to men.
If Walmart's same-day shipping experiment goes well, the discount retailer could be the go-to place for shoppers' immediate online purchasing needs across the country.
Twitter founder Jack Dorsey has confirmed on his personal Tumblr that he indeed doesn't work as much as he used to with Twitter, an assertion made in this weekend's Nick Bilton's profile of Twitter CEO Dick Costolo in The New York Times.
Here's a modest proposal: Let's dose up kids stuck in low-income schools with Adderall, even if they don't have A.D.H.D, to compensate for the advantages enjoyed by kids in richer schools.
The same year Instagram got bought up for $1 billion dollars, Hipstamatic, the original retro filter-based photo sharing app laid off all but six of its employees because of one huge oversight: Social.
Apple is supposed to release a smaller iPad this month and 9to5Mac researcher Sonny Dickson has posted a series of convincing photos to Instagram and Twitter of the device, which he alleges are leaked photos, not mockups, of what we will see in the coming weeks.
Facebook has confirmed that it is working with certain retailers to try out a "want" button, which unlike the "like" button would accurately indicate consumer desires.
Hey females (and maybe males?) there's a female CEO who had a baby. New York has a feature story, "Can Marissa Mayer Really Have It All?" about what the event means for females, CEOs, and babies everywhere
Though we applaud the go-getter-ness of these college kids who started their own hedge fund, we don't think we would trust them with our money.
After 15 months on the job, Facebook's VP of communications Joe Lockhart is leaving the social network because he doesn't like the West Coast, though the timing suggests otherwise.
The buzziest part of the economy — the social media startups centered in Silicon Valley — were once heralded as a way to kickstart the economy. Now that there's some good news on the job front — unemployment lower than it's been since January 2009 and 114,000 new jobs last month — it's clear that's not where job growth is coming from.
It has been one year since the death of Apple founder Steve Jobs, and once again the Internet has taken time to remember its favorite tech icon.
It's kind of tragically hilarious that people wondered if Zynga underpaid for OMGPOP, the company that makes mobile game Draw Something, since Zynga's earnings report out today has OMGPOP at half its purchase value.
Microsoft has started sending out invitations for an October 25 "Microsoft Surface Reception," where the company will presumably tell us all the details about its tablet that were left out of the initial announcement back in June.
The Internet has brought to our attention a horrible invention called a Like-A-Vest that hugs you when you get a Facebook like, to which we say: no more.
Former Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz has some advice for current CEO Marissa Mayer: Change is harder than you think.
The Weather Channel's unilateral decision to name winter storms has the rest of the weather community feeling left out.
While Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made the media rounds to talk up the site's one billionth user, he ended up spending a lot of time defending the future of the site.
Just as Facebook announced its 1 billionth monthly active user, the social network released its first major commercial, in which the company tries to show how human the Internet activity that involves no face-to-face interaction really is.
Beyond all the hype surrounding the pre-phone launch Apple store line-up ritual, when it comes to selling iPhones, Apple does a worse job than its retail partners, even with its meticulously designed stores.
Nokia may have not been the most obvious choice when Apple CEO Tim Cook sent unhappy Maps users to competitors, but as The Atlantic's Alexis Madrigal explains, the company has one huge advantage: An army of drivers.
Following the Apple's iOS 6 Maps letdown, some suggested Steve Jobs never would never have released such an inferior product. But "Apple insiders" have told Bloomberg Businessweek's Brad Stone, Adam Satariano, and Peter Burrows that an Apple-made mapping service was all his idea.
Over the last week Eric Schmidt has sold 174,165 shares of Google stock for a $130 million pay out, which for normal people would be a lot of money and power, but for the Google chairman it's neither of those things.
We're not certain it is coming this month, but we might as well get ready now because "people with knowledge of the situation" claim Apple suppliers have started production of a "new tablet computer smaller than the current iPad," reports The Wall Street Journal's Lorraine Luk.
Data from the Buzzfeed network has found many fewer page views are coming from email than they used to, as other modes of sharing, like Facebook and Twitter have taken off. We have a theory for why: emailing links around takes too much effort.
New research says that even Facebook, where we use our real names and identities, makes us behave terribly. Is the Internet really making us so awful, or were we, perhaps, just bad to start with, and getting worse? We discuss.
Over the last month, Facebook has been spelling out its new take on advertising, a lot of which involves giving your personal information to marketers. Over that same period, its stock price, which had been in freefall since its IPO, has climbed back 25 percent, leading us to believe that Wall Street likes its new data-driven, privacy-challenging ad strategies.
Facebook says it's protesting online child privacy protection laws that would make it harder for kids to "like" things with the social network. They say they want to encourage kids' freedom of expression, but we bet it also has a lot to do with advertising.
This 30th birthday of the compact disc got us wondering what the CD is doing in its post-fame life. Warning: This is not a happy story.
Now that some iPhone 5 owners have had their hands on the gadget for a little over a week the ravings have subsided and we're starting to hear more about the phone's flaws and glitches.
In its first foray with Datalogix, that company that uses rewards card data to make advertising more effective, the social network has found that fewer than 1 percent of in-store sales could be tied to brand advertising campaigns on Facebook, reports Reuters's Alexei Oreskovic.
Today Freedom Pop debuts an ultra low budget cell phone plan, but even with the free data the service gives away, it's not likely the enticing offer will catch on with the mainstream.
Though at least a few people are giving up their cell phones as a cost-cutting measure, it can be quite a luxurious state of being.
In the year since Steve Jobs died has taken on a mythical role for people who write about Apple that's very similar to the way conservative pundits invoke the late President Ronald Reagan: a mythical do-no-wrong hero would would have kept us out of the latest myth.
The new iPhone has a different motor than its predecessors, which has changed the phone's vibrate for the better.
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