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Here come the Edward Snowden truthers
Alex Seitz-Wald
Some think he's a CIA plant, others say he's a useful idiot. But they all agree: Something stinks to high heaven!
Ai Weiwei on his incarceration: “They never looked away from me, 24 hours a day”
Mike Doherty
His recent performance with Laurie Anderson dealt with surveillance; Anderson said she admires Edward Snowden
Dan Harmon apologizes for comparing “Community’s” season 4 to rape
Prachi Gupta
The recently reinstated showrunner regrets a long rant he issued on Monday night's "Harmontown"
Charles Saatchi cautioned over assault on wife
Jill Lawless, Raphael Satter
The art collector was photographed choking Nigella Lawson outside a swank London restaurant
TSA agent allegedly tells teenage girl to “cover herself”
Mary Elizabeth Williams
And the girl's dad, Boing Boing editor Mark Frauenfelder, fights back
Now the dead can send Facebook messages too
Marc Ellison
A new app lets users record video messages that are released to friends and family postmortem
Patton Oswalt on “prodigalsam” plagiarism flap: “There’s no wiggle room there”
Daniel D'Addario
Oswalt opens up about the attitudes that hurt comedy -- including those that helped a minister plagiarize jokes
Daniel Ellsberg: Edward Snowden is a patriot
Brad Friedman
The man behind the Pentagon Papers talks NSA, Bradley Manning and whistle-blowers' importance in a new interview
The most ridiculous depictions of the Internet in movies and TV
Daniel D'Addario
From "The Bling Ring" to "Veep" to "House of Cards," a look at the silliest depictions of digital culture
“We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves”: Growing up primate
Laura Miller
Karen Joy Fowler's funny, powerful novel of human-animal relations finds its ideal audiobook narrator
10 ways we wildly underestimate our surveillance state
Steven Rosenfeld
The newest revelations about the NSA are just the tip of the digital iceberg
Facebook rolls out hashtags
Barbara Ortutay
The social network hopes to help users better identify popular topics of discussion
Edward Snowden’s girlfriend probably wasn’t a stripper
Susan Elizabeth Shepard
Her moves don't look like exotic dance -- but ultimately, her job matters less than what she's going through
Snowden whereabouts remain unknown
Christopher Bodeen
The whistle-blower, who's said he wants to avoid the media spotlight, has gone underground
Father of Snowden’s girlfriend: I’m shocked
Brian Witte
Jonathan Mills describes Edward Snowden as "very nice. Shy, and reserved"
The crotch shot revenge
Tracy Clark-Flory
A man sends a woman an unsolicited photo of his penis and she responds by contacting his mother
Google bolsters mapping service, purchases Waze
Michael Liedtke
The $1.03 billion deal was announced Tuesday
How to navigate the Internet around PRISM
Kris Holt
Google and YouTube may be under NSA surveillance, but you can still surf the web without Big Brother watching
Jason Collins and Joe Kennedy march for gay pride in Boston
Prachi Gupta
The athlete was inspired to come out publicly in April in part thanks to the congressman
Twitter comic prodigalsam: I did not plagiarize Patton Oswalt, others
Daniel D'Addario
Sammy Rhodes tells Salon that some of his material might resemble other jokes, but he's "riffing," not ripping off
IRS: “Star Trek” parody video is “embarrassing”
Prachi Gupta
Faris Fink, better known to taxpayers as Spock, told Rep. Issa that the agency regrets making the clip
How one Twitter user got famous by allegedly stealing comedians’ tweets
Daniel D'Addario
A South Carolina minister stole jokes from Twitter's most popular comics -- and got Internet-famous as a result
Obama’s newest non-scandal?
Howard Koplowitz
The use of secret emails simply isn't the unprecedented abuse of power the AP might have you believe
The fat-shaming of school “FitnessGrams”
Mary Elizabeth Williams
If schools want healthy kids, how about letting them have more physical activity instead of incessant test prep?
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