"Zuckerberg now tells Vargas, "I think I've grown and learned a lot" since those instant messages."

"Tight security restrictions at Thursday's Google (GOOG) shareholder meeting led even the company's much-hyped Google Glass technology to be banned, infuriating a consumer watchdog group who accused the tech giant of hypocrisy."

"Just three months ago, Clapper denied in a congressional hearing that the government was engaged in the mass collection of data on millions of Americans."

"It’s hard to decide what’s most depressing about this. Is it that rich douchebags can buy their way out of anything? That you can fuck up the Earth if you can afford it?"

"I learned via Facebook I was laid off today"

"Removes ads and unwanted sections (configurable), allows downloading and resizing videos, changes the default video quality, expands the description and the video size, can prevent autoplay and autobuffering, etc..."

"I started implementing the logic gates in JS for the heck of it."

Free PDFs of different types of stationery you can print.

"ARC occupies a middle ground between garbage collection and manual memory management."

"We've built a collection of 48 exercises that demonstrate attacks on real-world crypto."

"jrnl is a simple journal application for your command line. Journals are stored as human readable plain text files - you can put them into a Dropbox folder for instant syncing and you can be assured that your journal will still be readable in 2050, when all your fancy iPad journal applications will long be forgotten."

"Several copyright holders including 20th Century Fox and NBC Universal have sent Google takedown requests asking the search engine to take down links to takedown request they themselves sent."

"There was some Twitter Poetry reading here in Brooklyn and there was just no way. To me, Twitter is just some dumbass thing. Not something to be praised, celebrated, or even talked about in person. If you want to stand in front of 25 people and read a tweet about dogs from BugHugs69, that's cool. I just think that's awkward and awful."

"The 'make' manual will tell you about the hundreds of things you can do with a Makefile, but it doesn't give you an example for a good Makefile."

"Almost every line is something I want to print out, frame and then take a shit on."

"Microsoft is offering developers $100 per app for newly published applications submitted to the Windows Phone Store or the Windows Store by June 30th."

"PaintCode is a vector drawing app that generates Objective-C code in real time"

"handles all of the intricacies of iOS audio on your behalf"

"Deploymate helps you identify unavailable, deprecated and obsolete API usage in your Xcode projects"

"Two teams occupy opposite halves of a small swimming pool or field and take turns sending a 'raider' into the other half, in order to win points by tackling members of the opposing team; then the raider tries to return to his own half, holding his breath and chanting the word 'Kabaddi' during the whole raid."

"If it found itself on a system that was connected to the internet, the malware communicated with four command-and-control servers hosted in the U.S., Canada, France and Thailand.

The domains for the servers were: smartclick.org, best-advertising.net, internetadvertising4u.com, and ad-marketing.net. All of the domains are now down or registered to new parties, but during the time the attackers used them, they had the same home page design, which made them appear to belong to an internet advertising firm called Media Suffix. A tag line on the homepage read, 'Deliver What the Mind Can Dream.'"

"A pub landlord trained in martial arts has said he fought off four attackers without dropping his fish and chips."

"an open repository of web crawl data that can be accessed and analyzed by everyone"

"When Apple lost the rights to distribute Anchorman, it was as if I never purchased Anchorman. It does not show up in my purchase history, despite resetting devices. Apple TV has no knowledge of me purchasing the movie."

"Alleman is the second unofficial Heart Attack Grill spokesman to die in as many years."

"I feel no guilt about my love of Captain EO. Yet conversely, I do not regard the film to be camp. The film is simply too dogged in its pursuit of some kind of emotional response for me to turn it off the doorstep by laughing at it. I don't consider myself to be better than Captain EO..."

“I’m done talking to you,” he said, as he moved to position himself directly in front of my face. His expression had gone from brusque to combative. “Did you hear me? I’m done talking to you.”

"SCStringsUtility is a simple OS X Application built for easing the way we deal with localizable strings."

Prebuilt VM images for Windows, Mac and Linux spanning IE6 to 10.

"I thought it was egregiously negligent for AT&T to be publishing a complete target list of iPad 3G owners, and I took a sample of the API output to a journalist at Gawker."

"User reaction, as expected, is a bit incredulous, considering how easy it is to find nudity in other apps, including in all web browsers."

"Wayne Dobson doesn't have your cellphone."

"Instagram has always had the right to use your photos in ads, almost any way it wants. We could have had exact same freakout last week, or a year ago, or the day Instagram launched."

"In this article, designboom takes a look back at Esslinger's designs of the early 80's, where the images document prototypes, concepts and explorations of Apple's computers, laptops and tablets."

"It makes it incredibly easy to connect any data source in the cloud or on your computer to a full-color RGB LED"

"People who are guardians of an article have to defend it over and over, always doing their best to “win”, while the fucks just have to nominate it over and over and win ONCE, and then the article is blown off the face of the earth."

"I half expected a level set in a Dell call center"

"Twitter CEO Dick Costolo has once again promised that Twitter users will, indeed, be able to download a full archive of their tweets in just a matter of weeks."

Whoops.

"Unfortunately, It does not appear that your service addresses an area that our current or future products do not already serve."

"The FBI's request to access Paula Broadwell's personal Gmail account was one of 7,969 similar requests Google received from the U.S. government in the first half of 2012, according to Google and news reports. The company said it complied with the requests, either fully or partially, 90% of the time."

"Convinced that he’ll be killed if he’s taken into custody for questioning, the millionaire antivirus pioneer has gone into hiding somewhere in the Central American nation, where he moved in 2008 to retire."

"The visual deception arm of the Ghost Army was the 603rd Camouflage Engineers. It was equipped with inflatable tanks, cannons, jeeps, trucks, and airplanes that the men would inflate with air compressors, and then camouflage imperfectly so that enemy air reconnaissance could see them."

"I want to vote but my wife won't let me"

"But, of course you don't have enough supplies to fully capture a 7-11 in one go, at which point Halo 4: King of the Hill Fuled [sic] by Mountain Dew prompts you to "reload your supplies." So, I did what any reasonable person would do, and got out of my car, went into the 7-11, and started scavenging for Doritos and Mountain Dew."

"Grandma got on stage and tried to shut the whole event down. That's when staff dragged the old lady off stage."

"MySQL 5.5.3 (released in early 2010) introduced a new encoding called utf8mb4 which maps to proper UTF-8 and thus fully supports Unicode"

"their announcement during the Apple iPad Mini event most of the tech world was watching makes it seem like Zynga was trying to minimize the fallout of the cuts"

"True to the history of prior Amazon Web Services outages, scores of other services that depend on AWS crashed along with it. Among them Reddit, AirBNB, Pinterest, Foursquare, but also smaller sites like ifttt.com, Foopets.com."

"If the retailer, in this case Amazon, thinks you’re a crook, they will throw you out and take away everything that you bought."

"The police officer looked at the Oregon ID that Pinney had given the bank manager and asked the man if he was seriously trying to pass as the man in the picture. Court documents report Pinney hung his head and said 'I know.'"

"Purchased Digital Content will generally continue to be available to you for download or streaming from the Service, as applicable, but may become unavailable due to potential content provider licensing restrictions and for other reasons, and Amazon will not be liable to you if Purchased Digital Content becomes unavailable for further download or streaming."

"I Like What I See is a Chrome extension to automatically click all "Like" links on Facebook."

“We’re on track to break even in about seven years,” Stewart says. “If sales never slow down.”

"If you switch regions, you can no longer update (or even see) your apps in the App Store."

"sets of elegant, hand made minimalist ringtones and notification tones"

The digital future of smear campaigns. If you post things to the internet and intend to run for public office some day, be afraid. No doubt this is just a taste of things to come.

"World of Warcraft cities were struck by a mysterious plague that killed off hundreds if not thousands of players"

"Zynga's shares plummeted 19% in after-hours trading after the troubled social gaming company cut its financial projections for the year and announced it would write down nearly $100 million from its recent acquisition of OMGPOP, the maker of 'Draw Something'."

"Zynga said Thursday that it would take an impairment charge of between $85 million and $95 million on OMGPOP in the quarter ended Sept. 30, essentially admitting that the social and mobile games maker is worth half of its original purchase price just six months later."

"Motorola Atrix 4G owners will not get the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update the company promised them, according to a newly revised upgrade chart."

"After rapping "fuck these computers..." the rapper started jumping between tables at the store that contained laptop and tablet computers."

"the entire range of Windows Mobile 6.x devices, Palm's webOS Pre and Pixi, RIM's Blackberry 5.x lineup and all hardware running Google's Android 2.0 Eclair are not just unsupported today by those platforms' latest releases, but were in all cases not even supported through the first two years' contract life of those devices."

"They were able to reset the Samsung Galaxy devices just by having the device visit a website."

"We have a clear shot at being the number three platform on the market. We're not just another open platform on the market, we are BlackBerry."

"Dictation understands basic text-related commands such as “all caps,” “new paragraph,” and “new line.”"

"In this tutorial we are going to compile a simple kernel for the ARM Integrator-CP board and boot it."

A tiny embedded Linux system running on the qemu arm emulator, with a DirectFB interface, in 2.1 MB including the kernel

"A nifty collection of resources for Indie Game Developers."

"we found a meaningful number of carrier retail locations which had not sold a single BlackBerry in over a month"

"Deadweight is a CSS coverage tool. Given a set of stylesheets and a set of URLs, it determines which selectors are actually used and reports which can be "safely" deleted."

"This website is here to guide you through the process of developing very basic operating systems on the Raspberry Pi!"

"Don’t answer me such answers, I am a journalist who works for
a newspaper in New York"

Another Mac Mini colocation facility.

"He may not have seen a lion, but he genuinely thought he had, and that is interesting."

"head to the prison yard, smash the ink bottle on a rock and use the makeshift blade to cut a hole in your accordion"

"Officials say 15 men and two women killed as punishment for attending a mixed-sex party with music and dancing"

"I believe that we need a sheriff’s militia to protect Lubbock County, and get all the sheriffs in Texas to start a militia to protect Texas"

"Samsung Electronics shares slumped 7.5 percent on Monday, wiping more than $12 billion off the South Korean giant's market value"

"The jury found that Samsung owes Apple $1.05 billion in damages for willfully infringing on Apple's intellectual property."

"Twitter’s latest API Changes means now we have a large but finite limit on the number of user tokens we can get for Tweetbot for Mac. We’ve been working with Twitter over the last few days to try to work around this limit for the duration of the beta but have been unable to come up with solution that was acceptable to them. Because of this we’ve decided its best for us to pull the alpha."