Lady Gaga's Pro-Gay Marriage Tweets Too Hot for Apple's New Music Service

Apple is notoriously squeamish about gay-themed iPhone apps. This ambivalence seems to have made the jump to Ping, The music social network Apple announced today. In a promo screenshot, they censored Lady Gaga's tweets celebrating the demise of Prop 8. More »

A Turning Point for Digg

Enjoy the fine mess, Matt Williams. Digg's newly announced CEO has the privilege of cleaning up after a redesign that has users up in arms, the social news site scrambling to add back old features, and rival Reddit surging. More »

What Is Facebook's CEO Trying To Hide?

Mark Zuckerberg said society has loosened up about privacy. But the Facebook CEO was talking about his users; now that he's a defendant in a New York lawsuit, Zuckerberg is calling for stronger privacy protections. More »

Google Invents Most Annoying Bug of All Time

Last night Google rolled out a bug that would be comical if it weren't so astounding and grating: Open your Gmail inbox, and old school ragtime music starts playing, and can't be stopped. The solution: Use less Google. More »

4chan on the Hunt for Puppy-Throwing Girl

On Monday, this graphic video of an unknown girl throwing puppies into a river appeared online, much to the consternation of internet-using animal-lovers everywhere. But don't fret: The weirdos and agitators of 4chan's /b/ are hot on the trail. More »

Google's $4 Million Revenge on a Merchant

What happens when a small business owner gets on Google's bad side? In Ryan Abood's case, the answer is, "your business gets crushed and you spend a year and a half in internet Siberia." Do not trifle with The Google. More »

Introducing Wikileakileaks: Your Source for Wikileaks-Related Leaks

Secret-sharing website Wikileaks.org's tagline is "We open governments." But the organization itself is about as open as North Korea. That's why we've launched Wikileakileaks.org: your source for Wikileaks-related secrets, documents and rumors! More »

YouTube Will Ask You To Pay

YouTube, the video brand most closely associated with freak babies, freak kids and cheap pranks, is reportedly poised to charge for its high quality content. Whatever high quality content, that is, the Google video service can drum up. More »

How Digg Got Spanked By Its Own Users

Unhappy with a deal that Digg.com's management cut with major media companies, the social news site's users turned Digg's front page into a de facto advertisement for rival aggregator Reddit today, upvoting scores of Reddit links. More »

TechCrunch Editor Tells Female Entrepreneurs To 'Stop Blaming Men' For Their Problems

You missed a big nasty debate over the weekend about the extremely low number of women entrepreneurs and what's being done to change it. More »

Wikileaks Founder's Molestation Police Report Leaked: His Top-Secret Moves Revealed

The Daily Mail has managed to secure a copy of the police report detailing Julian Assange's alleged molestation of two Swedish women. Inside, we learn that Assange's preferred method of seducing groupies is to feed them cheese. More »

I Can Haz Cheezburger Guy Wants to Buy Reddit

Ben Huh has one of the best names in tech. He also runs the lucrative Cheezburger Network meme factory. Now, he's made a public gambit for Reddit, the popular linkdump currently locked in combat with owner Conde Nast. More »

Reddit Tells Conde Nast to Go to Hell

Incredibly popular Internet linkdump Reddit was informed by its corporate parent, Conde Nast, that it could not sell ads supporting Proposition 19, California's marijuana legalization ballot initiative. So Reddit figured out how to preserve its soul and screw Conde, too. More »

Are Wikileaks Activists Finally Realizing Their Founder Is a Megalomaniac?

Julian Assange's attempt to spin his creepy romancing of two Swedish women into a Pentagon smear campaign was a huge mistake. Now Assange's role as the head of the secret-sharing website WikiLeaks is in doubt. It's about time. More »

Facebook Alternative 'Diaspora' Launches Next Month

Diaspora, the open-source, privacy-minded social network, has great online buzz, thanks to $200,000 in start-up funds raised exclusively through Kickstarter and a dirty nerdy joke they slipped past the Times. Now, a launch date is set: September 15th. [Wired]

Zynga Will Not Stop Vandalizing America's Sidewalks

Online game titan Zynga just saw its advertising firm hit with cleaning bills and fines for gluing fake money to sidewalks in San Francisco to promote the Zynga game "Mafia Wars." Now, they're doing the same thing in NYC. Scofflaws! More »
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How 4chan Brought the Evil British Cat Bin Woman to Justice

This week, the Internet was transfixed by the Evil British Cat Bin Woman, Mary Bale, who was caught on tape throwing a neighbor's cat into a trash can. Guess who tracked her down? The web marauders of 4chan's /b/ board. More »

New Web Service Helps Lazy Parents Spy On Kids' Little League Games

Want to be over-involved in your child's life, but can't spare the time it takes to smother them with attention? A service for you: A company is installing webcams at Little League games, so parents can watch from their phones. More »

Now You Can Call People From Gmail, For Some Reason

Have you ever been staring at your junk clogged email inbox and thought, "I wish I could talk to all these people on the phone?" No? Well, then prepare to be baffled by yet another weird Google invention. More »

Facebook: No One Else Can Be a 'Book'

If you're planning on setting up any kind of online community for your business — and who isn't these days? — know that Facebook has begun suing to protect "the distinctive BOOK portion" of its trademark, starting with Teachbook.com. More »