The day’s top picks in social media and technology for 8/8: after Lavabit closure, Silent Circle opts to shut down its encrypted email service; NSA to get rid of 90% of system administrators; Twitter accidentally suspends high profile account; another
The day’s top picks in social media and technology from 8/7: The Many Faces of Reddit, social media blamed for another cyberbullying suicide, school tries social media contract, social media helps find stolen puppy, impact of Manning leaks, The Jester
The day’s top picks in social media and technology for 8/1: hacker Guccifer allegedly posts link to ‘very personal’ emails of Colin Powell’s on Facebook; deadly Facebook feud; Juror guilty of contempt after Facebook post on case; broken-hearted man sells
The day’s top picks in social media and technology for 7/17: Social Media Backlash Over Rolling Stone’s Boston Bomber Cover; LAPD scours social media in relation to string of robberies possibly connected to same group of vandals during anti-Zimmerman protests;
The day’s favorite picks in social media and technology for 7/12: TV Anchor, NTSB Duped By Obviously Fake Asiana Pilot Names; Over-connected: some Americans have used their cell-phones during sex; Twitter’s Sharknado storm; how the US is fighting China in
The day’s top stories in social media and technology for 7/10: Testimony About Wikileaks Focus of Manning Trial as Defense Rests; porn available to kids on Google Play; sex, cheating, dysfunction and social media; Facebook Graph Search; Newsjacking with a
The day’s top stories in social media and technology for 7/2: Edward Snowden’s Father Isn’t Happy With Wikileaks; House members push for FISA court to turn over rulings; boredom drives social media trolls; when labor unions and cable mix; state
The day’s top stories in social media and technology for 6/27: Man Charged with Extortion for 2012 Romney Tax Return Scheme; new Twitter-inspired beer; anti-social media app; Turkey’s attempts at clamping down on social media continue; burglars and social media;
The day’s top stories in social media and technology for 6/25: Snowden’s Encrypted NSA Trove Ready to be Unlocked if Anything Happens to Him; Weiner scandal lingers; catching criminals on social media, “Selfie” may make Oxford dictionary; bomb hoax emails
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The day’s top stories in social media and technology for 6/18: Google challenges government’s gag order on NSA data requests, citing 1st amendment right; social media, pets and privacy; a SWATting in Des Moines; blackmail, hacking and dirty tricks in
The day’s top stories in social media and technology for 6/17: full transcript of Edward Snowden’s Q&A with the public, Turkey working to restrict social media, bloggers in trouble with the law, investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson on her computer being
The day’s top stories in social media and technology for 6/11: secretive team of NSA hackers and spies targets China, social media is full of narcissists, social media forces mainstream media to cover Turkey protests, Julian Assange appealed for secret
The day’s top stories in social media and technology for 6/10: In trial testimony, computer forensic experts tie Bradley Manning to database breach; Edward Snowden mistaken Twitter identity; warnings for teens on social media; fake Piers Morgan tweets Nelson Mandela
The day’s top stories in social media and technology for 6/5: Verizon handing over all call data to NSA, 2 dozen social media users arrested in Turkey, vile Facebook posts of female Marines, Republicans hire Facebook engineer as first CTO,
The day’s top stories in social media and technology for 6/4: ex-hacker Adrian Lamo, who turned in Bradley Manning, testifies at trial; social media’s influence on vandalizing of the nation’s parks; the challenges of teens/tweens and social media; hackers targeting
The day’s top stories in social media and technology for 5/30: Google’s chairman investing millions in consulting firm staffed by Obama’s former data analytics team, blog booby-trapped with malware after Vietnamese blogger arrested, Facebook to launch verified pages, trends in
The day’s top stories in social media and technology for 5/28: Chicago Anarchist Jeremy Hammond Pleads Guilty to Stratfor Hack, Pakistani court orders blasphemy block on social media, man sentenced for internet extortion scheme against University of Pittsburgh, US weapons
The day’s top stories in social media and technology for 5/24: Syrian Electronic Army Hijacks Another News Outlet, the dark side of social media, FTC goes after company for lax security that let hundreds of thousands of credit-card numbers get
The day’s top stories in social media and technology for 5/22: Hacker releases names of South African whistleblowers, cops respond to Israeli blogger’s social media rant, sexting controversy at Indiana school, 10 Reasons To Worry About The Syrian Electronic Army,
The day’s top stories in social media and technology for 5/21: Threats from Anonymous shut down Gitmo’s Wi-Fi, teens using Facebook less, social media is front line during disasters, Twitter toilet prank lands student in trouble, Teen Mom 2 star
The day’s top stories in social media and technology for 5/17: Syrian Electronic Army Hacks Financial Times, social media and soldiers, social media may come back to haunt HS athletes, CA school system blames social media for potential suicides spike,
The day’s top stories in social media and technology for 5/16: Infamous LulzSec Hackers Get Jail Time, viral video star ‘Kai the Hatchet-Wielding Hitchhiker’ arrested in connection with NJ killing, trolls attack Angelina Jolie over mastectomy, social media nabs prostitute
The day’s top stories in social media and technology for 5/15: British LulzSec hackers await sentencing this week, police in China pursue blogger for White House petition, publisher threatens to sue blogger for $1billion, latest coach-student sexting scandal, ZPanel official
The day’s top stories in social media and technology for 5/14 include: an FBI briefing of banks on DDoS attacks shares classified intelligence, an epic social media meltdown, an underground escape for a Bahrain blogger, social media anxieties and creeper
