Gwyneth Paltrow, the taut, kale-filled stomach behind upscale lifestyle brand GOOP, was rejected as an editor for Yahoo Food, the New York Times reports, in an article that also broke the news that Yahoo Food exists.

Yahoo's general counsel said Thursday that the US government tried to force them to give up their user data in 2008 by threatening to fine them $250,000 each day they refused.

With the help of the NSA, British spy agency GCHQ captured and stored webcam images from millions of unsuspecting users, the vast majority of whom were not suspected of any crimes. "Substantial quantities" of the images were sexually explicit, according to the Guardian, which broke the story Thursday.

Usually, you only see the term "private re-homing" on message boards where pet owners seek new caretakers for unwanted animals. But, Reuters reports, there's a far more sinister context for the phrase—on another, scarily similar network of online bulletin boards where desperate parents advertise and abandon children…

As the dust settles on yesterday evening's revelation that the U.S. government has been mining data from most of Silicon Valley's largest companies in a program called "PRISM," one question stands out: How did the NSA get access?

Nick D'Aloisio is 17 years old and lives with his parents in London. He has a girlfriend. He also just made $30 million—most of it in cash—by selling a dubious app to Yahoo!. Bully for Nick. But what Yahoo! doesn't realize is that they just hired a total pain in the ass.

Meet 17-year-old British high schooler Nick D'Aloisio, the Justin Bieber of iPhone app development. He just sold his iPhone app Summly, which he started when he was 15, to Yahoo for $30 million, according to All Things Digital.

Last Friday, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer pissed everyone off when she banned her employees from working remotely. Yahoo's working mothers were particularly disgruntled by this change of policy, especially because they don't think that Mayer understands their needs (even though Mayer is a working mother herself).

When Marissa Mayer took over as CEO of Yahoo, she was tasked with turning around a fading Internet giant. Yesterday, she got rid of one of the best perks of a job in the tech world — working from home. In a bid to promote productivity and collaboration between employees, head of Human Resources Jackie Reses outlined…

Not only is glamourous Google VP Marissa Mayer the new CEO of Yahoo, she's pregnant and expecting a boy in October, reports Fortune. Mayer is married to venture capitalist Zachary Brogue. TechCrunch suggests Mayer may be the first pregnant CEO of a Fortune 500 company ever.

Google VP Marissa Mayer has appeared in Vogue and Glamour; she shut down a good portion of San Francisco in order to install a massive Dale Chihuly glass sculpture in her home, where she hosted legendary ragers. Now, after 13 years at Google, she's been tapped as CEO of drab content chum bucket Yahoo.

Scott Thompson had only been Yahoo's CEO for four months, and now he's out. All because his résumé embellished his college degree.

The internet portal with the most embarrassing name, Yahoo!, has launched a web app for visualizing its most popular headlines for various reader demographics. A recent survey of Yahoo's most popular stories for various age groups turned into a chilling tableau of American anxieties at every juncture of life.

It is rough out there for tech executives. Positively awful, and the better off a plutocrat is, the worse things get. Or at least that's what I gather from some recent headlines in the wealthy business man's newspaper of choice, the Wall Street Journal.

Gigantic internet zombie Yahoo announced it's installed Scott Thompson as CEO, replacing the scary lady who cussed. Thompson was president of noted precious antique destroyer PayPal, isn't big on journalism, and dresses like Mitt Romney's less cool older brother.

In what may be the first case of tragic e-mail spam, a family keeps receiving spam emails from their dead mother's email account. From wtsp.com: