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Last week, popular news and gossip website Gawker announced it had hired an informant at Fox News. The “Fox Mole,” as they called him, would provide “regular dispatches from inside [Fox News Channel],” whose Manhattan headquarters the Mole described as “a truly soul-crushing workplace.” The idea was to shame the cable news giant by airing its dirty laundry in public. Interestingly, much of what the Mole wrote was humorously inoffensive...

After a brief scare, Google claims its new ‘Wallet’ service—an app that turns smart phones into wave-and-go-style payment devices—is once again safe for use. According to the company, a glitch was fixed that allowed for exploitation of Wallet’s pin system—the only authentication measure standing between users and their prepaid funds...

Just how harmful is online piracy? That’s the question put to readers by a recent New York Times piece in which both sides of this contentious issue are given their fair shake. “The fundamental issue,” says James Burger, a lawyer who specializes in intellectual property rights, “is whether or not the sky is falling and the entertainment industry is being decimated by technology.” Such was the subject of contemplation when Congress recently considered...

Recently, I began my last-ever semester of graduate school. Soon, my formal education will be complete; my time in the academy, over. Don’t get me wrong—I’m excited about it; but, being the total, unrepentant geek that I am, I can’t help but be a little sad, too. So, I’ve made the abundantly conscious decision this term to indulge myself academically...