We all know that the leaders of the personal computer revolution were criminals. From Bill Gates hacking his school computer so he would mostly have female classmates to Steve Jobs’ first business being selling blue boxes that hacked AT&T’s phone network for free long distance calls. But this current crop of technologists are truly rotten [...]

All your tweets are belong to us. Under a program initiated by Twitter and the Library Of Congress 170 Billion Tweets have been archived: The Library of Congress announced Friday that it is just weeks away from completing its archive of all public tweets from Twitter’s launch in 2006 through 2010, but there are technology [...]

I think we should definitely be concerned that Twitter is bowing to pressure and allowing for the censorship of tweets in individual foreign countries. Twitter has refined its technology so it can censor messages on a country-by-country basis. The additional flexibility announced on Thursday is likely to raise fears that Twitter’s commitment to free speech [...]

As I noted yesterday, organizers of the SOPA strike got a boost when Wikipedia said they would shut down operations tomorrow, in protest of anti-piracy legislation that could constrain their business. In place of normal content, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said he would put up phone numbers for members of Congress and try to “melt [...]

In remarks aired live on Fox News and CNN shortly after midnight ET (the cable nets become legitimate news networks late on Sunday nights), Barack Obama spoke at a town hall meeting with Chinese students in Shanghai, addressing topics like trade, international relations and Twitter, which he says he has “never used” (this comes as [...]