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An interview with Anonymous's wolf advocates, OpBeast
Maturing from their birth in the dungeons of 4chan a scant decade ago, Anonymous has recently become the Internet's most active crusaders. Recently, the hacktivist organization has helped reunite a...
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The "creepshots" nightmare is moving to Facebook
Creepshots are going local. Police in the sleepy Pennsylvania town of Easton are scrambling to figure out who ran a Facebook page called "Exposing Easton," where 1,500 people ogled, "liked," and...
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Body mod legend Shannon Larratt left this final note before he died
Body modification enthusiasts may know better than most people what it's like to be judged on sight for their piercings, tattoos, scars, and other forms of body art. For Shannon Larratt, the founder...
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Oxford students support librarian fired for allowing "Harlem Shake"
An Oxford University librarian has been fired for facilitating the performance of a reenacted "Harlem Shake," but the students involved say the bookworm had nothing to do with the act. Now they're...
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Tiger Woods and Lindsey Vonn make it Facebook official
Tiger Woods and Lindsey Vonn have finally made their not-so-secret relationship official. Like, Facebook official. The future hall-of-fame golfer and philanderer—sorry, Tiger, no one's ever going to...
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Egyptian women fight harassment by outing creeps on Facebook
There's a sexual harassment epidemic in Egypt, and women are turning to a tried-and-true platform for fighting back. The Facebook page Efdah Motaharish—"Expose Harassers"—is growing with viral...
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March Madness video highlights start tonight on Twitter
You won't even need a television to stay on top of this year's March Madness. Twitter is partnering with Turner Broadcasting to share video highlights from all 67 games of the 2013 NCAA men's...
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Man allegedly impersonated his ex to share her nudes on DeviantArt
A man was charged with online impersonation after allegedly creating Twitter and DeviantArt profiles under his ex-girlfriend's name and sharing nude photos of her. After a woman found naked pictures...
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Redditor finds $32,000 worth of Magic cards in a hidden safe (UPDATE)
Thanks to a few Magic: the Gathering–obsessed redditors, one man may be $32,000 richer than he thought. UPDATE: And it might all be an elaborate hoax. On Tuesday, Reddit user Safeisbig hired a...
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Man needs money to get porn site tattoos removed from his face
The man who raised more than $50,000 by tattooing the URLs of porn sites and online casinos onto his face is now trying to raise $4,000 to remove the URLs of those same porn sites and online casinos...
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Tumblr's creepy fascination with Ohio school shooter T.J. Lane
Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris. James Holmes. T.J. Lane. These killers may be infamous for their crimes, but to a large subset of the Internet, they're heroes. And increasingly, it appears, that group...
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How a "big dongle" joke brought out the worst of the Internet
Before a joke about a "big dongle" cost an attendee his job and spurred a misogynist online backlash, last weekend's PyCon event looked like a success. 2,500 attendees had flocked to Santa Clara,...
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Gender divide in sci-fi book blogging getting worse, not better
Harry Potter, Twilight, and The Hunger Games: Three of the biggest titles in sci-fi/fantasy literature, and all three are reliant on largely female fandoms. If mainstream popularity is anything to go...
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TEDxSummerisle sounds real but isn't
In its 29-year history, TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) has shared “ideas worth spreading” through two annual conferences, a robust online archive of TED Talks, and a series of independently...
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Syrian Electronic Army claims @BBCWeather hack
It's cloudy with a chance of system-security failure at the BBC Weather department. You can chalk another high-profile Twitter hack up for the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA): The Bashar al-Assad...
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This Magic: the Gathering collector couldn't fool Reddit
The Reddit user who claimed to have found a treasure trove of Magic: the Gathering cards in a hidden safe was lying for the lulz. Like the safe, he was full of crap. The hoax began on Tuesday when...
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This Bitcoin house sale is not a joke
If you ever dreamed of buying a home in middle-of-nowhere Canada for almost a half-million dollars (or the equivalent in Bitcoins!), now's your chance."Properties like this rarely come on the market...
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One Direction fans don't actually want to kill this cute puppy
One Direction fans have never had any trouble finding plenty of drama, often to the consternation and bafflement of outsiders. This week, though, it's the media fanning the flames of fan drama rather...
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Inside 4chan's plot to get Adria Richards fired
With the #donglegate sagaerupting, it may come as little surprise that 4chan's anarchic /b/ forum got involved. At this weekend's programming conference PyCon, developer evangelist Adria Richards...
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Facebook shocked that a woman runs "I F*cking Love Science"
When the owner of the most popular science page on Facebook revealed her identity the other day, the reaction was sadly predictable. "OMG GIRL," came the crescendo of comments from dumbfounded men...
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