The day’s (and weekend’s) picks in social media and technology from 1/6/2014: Director Michael Bay walks off stage at CES after teleprompter snafu; fake social media clicks big business; middle schoolers sexting; family blames cyberbullying for teen’s suicide; crop circle
The day’s top picks in social media and technology for 12/11: Man arrested for threatening tweet to Florida news anchor; teens party at mansion without permission and get arrested after posting pics of stolen loot on social media; YouTube sends
The day’s top picks in social media and technology for 12/3: When web hoaxes go viral; the dark side of Facebook and what your status updates might say about you; impact of social media trends on teens; Alabama kicker gets
The day’s top picks in social media and technology for 11/19: Healthcare.gov Hacking Threats; this stunt shows what strangers can learn from your social media posts; suspect taunts authorities on Facebook; Wikipedia versus PR firm; family’s week without social media;
The day’s top picks in social media and technology for 11/6: CIO at Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services resigns; Walmart website glitch accidentally slashes prices; social engineering experiment penetrates govt agency; Twitter’s top retweets: there’s a lot of noise
The weekend’s picks in social media and technology for 11/1 – 11/3: Twitter and retractions: it’s still messy out there when news breaks; Obama’s Twitter army; Trucker on Facebook at time of deadly crash; more on the /r/politics controversy; arguing
The day’s top picks in social media and technology for 10/28: Durbin removes erroneous Facebook post about Obama insult; govt health agency is interested in your social media; ID thieves troll Facebook; archive collects Zuckerberg statements on privacy; doctors: limit
The day’s top picks in social media and technology for 10/23: Group of Obama advisers planted false information to try and unmask @NatSecWonk; University TA accidentally emails her nude photos to class; ‘Scandal’ fan blogger allegedly unmasked; distinguishing between social
The day’s top picks in social media and technology for 10/3: 13 alleged members of Anonymous indicted over Operation Payback; inactive Facebook page goes active to warn govt shutdown will make it inactive; texting is causing ‘iPosture’ Epidemic; tweeters are
The day’s top picks in social media and technology for 9/26: Gmail Wiretap Lawsuit to Proceed; mysterious ‘Adorable Care Act’ Twitter account; Hashtag convo in real life; student mentions bomb on social media, gets arrested; arrest in ‘Biggest Cyberattack Ever’;
The day’s top picks in social media and technology for 9/24: Fake waterproof iPhone ads dupe users into dunking their phones; ‘racist and sexist’ text messages land PA school officials in hot water; text stops are a thing in NY
The day’s top picks in social media and technology for 9/18: Wikileaks slams ‘The Fifth Estate’ film, leaks script; Ex-NFL player watches his home get trashed on Twitter; ‘Does The Dog Die?’website spares you from sad movie moments; time-wasting websites;
The day’s top picks in social media and technology for 9/17: angry tweets are most contagious; Grumpy Cat’s endorsement deal; anti-drunk-dialing gadget; Facebook’s suicide prevention resources; Chinese rebels deface government website with taunting desserts; TX man arrested for attempted hacking
The day’s top picks in social media and technology for 9/16: Social media and the Navy Yard shooting; Facebook unblocked, then blocked again, in Iran; bloody teen fight over Snapchat sexting; social media and the Colorado floods; terrorists love Gmail;
The day’s top picks in social media and technology for 9/9: Now Even Your Grandma Can Understand Reddit; Syrian Electronic Army’s social media presence; Snapchat tries to improve its image; Steubenville Hacker Checks Into (and out of) Rehab; hacked road
The day’s top picks in social media and technology for 9/4: Now you can search for tweets as old as Twitter with Topsy; family limits tech use to pre-1987 years; is tech affecting your baby?; disgruntled airline customer wins Twitter;
The day’s top picks in social media and technology for 8/29: Syrian Electronic Army says it may retaliate if US strikes Syria; SEA demands VICE remove article claiming to have identified its alleged leader; school to have students’ social media
The day’s top picks in social media and technology for 8/27: Syrian Electronic Army Hits NY Times, Twitter Through Attack on Domain Registrar; twerk and selfie added to dictionary; NSA parody t-shirt pulled from shop; camp for internet addicts; epic
The day’s top picks in social media and technology for 8/26: Officials focus on two minute window in NASDAQ shutdown probe; GIF Hell; game pokes fun at over-redacting; Reddit’s pay it forward moment; Facebook could affect your credit score; Kate
The day’s top picks in social media and technology for 8/25: This is What Smartphone Overuse Looks Like; another tool to control your lack of online self control; delete yourself from the internet; 96 year old’s love letter gone viral
The day’s top picks in social media and technology for 8/20: legal and technology site Groklaw shuts down over privacy concerns; social media and divorce; blogger burnout; appeals court strikes social media ban for sex offenders; several viral and high
The day’s top picks in social media and technology for 8/18: Backlash over TIME reporter’s tweet suggesting drone strike on Assange; Google patents “pay per gaze” eye tracking tool; NBC hiring “media hacker”; what’s behind Wikileaks’ ‘insurance’ files release?; Stuxnet
The day’s top picks in social media and technology for 8/17: Google blackout’s massive impact on the web; Facebook faux-pas nabs Huntington Beach riot suspect; church choir’s viral video warns Facebook oversharers; terrorists on Twitter; Wikileaks releases insurance file; hacker
The day’s top picks in social media and technology for 8/15: “to catch a cheater”: researcher posed as 40 fake people in honeytrap experiment to study infidelity online; sources say Snowden downloaded NSA docs while working at Dell; How to
The day’s top picks in social media and technology for 8/13: Former NY Yankees outfielder victim of radio hoax, podcast also remained online for hours; female Detroit cops’ bra sizes mistakenly emailed to entire police department; Gmail users should have
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,