If you haven't already filed your taxes, you're probably considering TurboTax, the widely used software that makes filing a return easy for our nation of babies and dimwits. Consider an alternative: according to two former high-ranking employees, the company ignored rampant refund theft because it could take a cut.

Chris Brown, an emphatic "fuck you" from God to humanity, involuntarily turtled up on stage when five people were shot during a San Jose nightclub appearance early Sunday morning. Now he's voluntarily turtling up in life by refusing to play any clubs he deems "too hood," TMZ reports.

If you use the internet, you should be opposed to the passage of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA. The bill was blocked last year, because it's a draconian privacy nightmare, but it's back, and feeding on Sony hacker paranoia.

Bitstamp, a European web service that allows users to buy and sell bitcoin in exchange for "real" currencies like dollars or yen, was just taken for $5 million. Nobody knows by exactly whom, or exactly how it was done, and that's a big problem for the "future of money."

A spreadsheet leaked by unidentified hackers and obtained by Gawker shows just how little Sony cared about the privacy of its customers and employees: millions of private records were stored without any encryption.

Sony says the recent breach of its servers and weeklong cyber humiliation is an "unprecedented" strike and an "unparalleled crime." If they're shocked by these events, they've been shocked for almost a year: leaked emails obtained by Gawker show security troubles dating back to February.

Almost everything about this ever-expanding Sony security meltdown is humiliating for Sony. But buried in the latest hacker release is one of the most depressing emails you'll ever read, from a man wondering why more people can't buy his 90s sitcom.

After Sean Hannity canceled Russell Brand's scheduled appearance on his show, Brand showed up to Fox News anyway, to film an episode of his web show The Trews. As he was standing outside the building, laying into Hannity and Bill O'Reilly for perpetuating Islamophobia, he ended up in a confrontation with security—all…

You might recall "Heartbleed," a password-thieving software bug that left hundreds of thousands of computers vulnerable while you pretended to understand and worry. Now we've got another source of esoteric computer dread, and it might be even worse.

In case you didn't see the selfie liked 'round the world, Emma Watson graduated from Brown University, where she started in 2009, on Sunday. At the ceremony, she sat with a friend who was also seen leaving as part of her small entourage.

A Pennsylvania bus driver survived a terrifying encounter with a wild deer that burst through the windshield before frantically jumping around looking for a way out. The driver had some minor cuts on his hands from the broken glass but otherwise just wanted a copy of the security video "before it went viral."

Are you telling me you don't know who I am? That's a sentence that always goes over well. Filled with humility, sympathy for your fellow human, eschewing vanity, beaming with a deep awareness of your small place in the universe. That's everything that sentence captures.

The woman who took this video is accusing the TSA of keeping her off a flight just because an agent didn't like her attitude — and not because anyone thought she was a security risk.

Imagine if you turned on your computer and found your entire digital life was wiped: years of photos, emails, documents—gone. That happened to Wired writer Mat Honan last weekend, when hackers broke into his most important accounts. But it could have probably been prevented if he'd done one thing: Enabled "two-factor…

Kidnappers, take heed — you will need more than a key code to break into new high-tech child care centers, which are turning to biometrics for security.